Parent's Guide: Blade Kitten: Episode 1 - Age rating, mature content and difficulty

With a massive emphasis on exploration, Blade Kitten is a fun way for children to learn to explore, and question their surroundings. With several hidden areas in each level, there's plenty of problem solving, and observational based challenges for children and adults alike to overcome, if they want to find all of the collectibles.

Simply by playing the game, Blade Kitten will test a child's intuition, by providing an interesting, stimulating environment, full of challenges, and puzzles for them to overcome - even if most of them are simply "activate the switch, fan switches off" style puzzles. Many times, you'll spot a treasure chest, or other collectible, with no obvious way to get to it - it's up to you or your child to explore the area, and figure out what you need to do to access it.

While you'll spend the majority of the game attacking the game's enemies with your magical hovering sword, there's nothing in the way of gore in Blade Kitten. While you may be swiping at the enemies, you'll never actually make proper contact with them, with no blood, guts or gore. That said, there is one particular move that parents should be aware of.

If you hold B, you can use your sword to draw people nearer to you. It does this by flying towards them, and for all intents and purposes, jabbing into their chest, before sliding them towards you. There's no blood, and no blood curdling screams either, so this isn't violent enough to take it up into the next category - all you get is a noise of metal on metal - but it's something parents should keep in mind that may make the game unsuitable for younger children.

Disappointingly, Blade Kitten has no multiplayer - which is something it would have benefited greatly from. Instead, the only way this could be played along with a child is with you offering advice, and pointing them in the right direction when they get stuck.

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Format Reviewed: Xbox 360