The Australian ratings board is insane (Atelier)

[ShaolinHandLock]

I read this last night, and I still can't get my head around it.

aussie-gamer.com/news/yet-another-baffling-r18-classification-in-australia/#/vanilla/discussion/embed/?vanilla_discussion_id=0

To put it in perspective, PG was the original rating. PG is the second lowest rating here, and it is used for a lot of kids movies and family movies and very light stuff overall. R is the highest rating, it's 18+.

Now there are 5 ratings for video games here, now that R has been added:

G (everyone), PG (everyone but with light stuff, light violence etc), M (more violence and swearing allowed, but not gory violence and only moderate swearing), MA (gory violence and strong swearing, strong sexual themes are also allowed) and finally, R (high impact gory violence, high impact swearing, basically the most graphic stuff is put under this rating).

Now, how in the hell does a game go from being a kid friendly PG, all the way up to an adults only R?!? It makes no damned sense whatsoever.

Madness.

[The Sam]

Oh Classification Board, will you ever do anything correct?

Perhaps they should watch this to get a better understanding?

[Harry The Arrow was Wrong!]

I could kinda see it getting an M rating with the whole sexual/lesbian undertone and the mild innuendoes (it's rated PEGI 12 in Europe) but an R rating is just baffling.