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Goosebumps: The Game
Platform: Nintendo 3DS
Rating Category: Everyone 10+ Rating Symbol
Content Descriptors: Fantasy Violence
Rating Summary: This is a puzzle game in which players help a teenager solve a mystery. From a first-person perspective, players explore different environments, interact with characters, and solve a series of puzzles to progress the storyline. A handful of sequences depict a creature lunging towards the player's screen; dialogue and text reference violence in detail, adding to the dark tone (e.g., “Your vision blurs as the plant creature's vines tighten around your neck'; “A shudder wracks through your body and you start to feel heavy'; '[H]e recoils violently as it hits his face. Smoke rises from the wounds...').
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Snoopy's Grand Adventure
Platform: Nintendo 3DS
Rating Category: Everyone Rating Symbol
Content Descriptors: Mild Cartoon Violence
Rating Summary: This is a side-scrolling platformer in which players control Snoopy as he explores environments, collects coins/jellybeans, and interacts with other Peanuts characters. Players can jump on enemies' heads to stun them and engage in boss-like battles (e.g., hurling baseballs at a flying mask; running from a giant). One level depicts Snoopy flying a plane and shooting “cartoony” projectiles at targets and aircraft.
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Just Dance Disney Party 2
Platform: Wii U, Xbox 360
Rating Category: Everyone Rating Symbol
Content Descriptors: No Descriptors
Rating Summary: This is a rhythm-and-dance simulation game in which players perform choreographed routines of Disney franchise songs. Players follow the movements of on-screen characters and score points by accurately moving their bodies in time to the music and scrolling indicators.
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Terraria
Platform: Nintendo 3DS
Rating Category: Teen Rating Symbol
Content Descriptors: Blood and Gore, Cartoon Violence, Use of Alcohol
Other:
Includes online features that may expose players to unrated user-generated content (Nintendo 3DS)
Rating Summary: This is a side-scrolling adventure game in which players explore various terrain while crafting objects and battling foes. As players search and mine for materials they encounter “cartoony” animals and fantasy creatures (e.g., zombies, bats, slimes, flying eyeballs). Players use swords, axes, and bows to kill enemies that sometimes burst into small pieces/fragments. Text sometimes describes the manner in which characters die: “[Player] was brutally dissected by explosives”; “...entrails were ripped out…”; “...eviscerated…” During the course of the game, players can craft power-up/enhancement items that include kegs and ale; as players consume ale their status sometimes reads “tipsy.”
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Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash
Platform: Nintendo 3DS
Rating Category: Everyone Rating Symbol
Content Descriptors: Mild Cartoon Violence
Rating Summary: This is a platformer game in which players help a tiny robot stop invading aliens. As players traverse side-scrolling levels, they use a power cord to solve puzzles, collect coins, and defeat enemy robots. Enemies generally break apart amid colorful flashes of light when defeated. Boss battles against giant robots and enemy ships depict more protracted combat with brief explosions.