Parent's Guide: Time and Eternity - Age rating, mature content and difficulty

Time and Eternity is a Japanese-style role-playing game in which a groom gets murdered by assassins during his royal wedding ceremony. Not too chuffed with the turn of events, his sweet and innocent wife-to-be transforms into her angry tomboy alter-ego and proceeds to mow down all the roughnecks, but still she can't save you. So she does the only logical thing and travels back time to before the wedding took place, in the hope of preventing the whole grisly affair - and somehow you get transported too, except you end up inside her pet dragon's body instead. Pretty weird - but a lot of fun too.

While the game is aimed at a more adult audience, it's still simple enough to pick up and play. With the game being a mixture of running around towns and cities, talking to their crazy residents, and engaging in random real-time battles with foes who ambush you as you're wandering around, there's nothing too challenging here, at least from a difficulty perspective. Battles can be completed by simple button mashing, with your handy dragon friend automatically healing you when your health becomes low, whilst the game's map points out all the important landmarks and quest destinations for you.

Time and Eternity is definitely one for teens and above. 'Playing' as the ardent groom whose main concern seems to be getting into his wife-to-be's pants, dialogue is often filled with innuendos, while his many attempts at joining the ladies at bath time end with him passing out from excitement (therefore making the screen go black) before anything actually happens. As you grow closer to your fiancee(s), you can also unlock a dozen or so pictures with sneaky peaks at underwear, cunningly placed beams of light and helplessly-tangled-in-vines scenes that aren't particularly risqué - they merely hint at things at worst, and no 'naughty bits' are on show. In all honesty, it's probably best thought of as a tamer version of something like American Pie.

Being a role-playing game, battles are a big part of Time and Eternity - and with battles comes some degree of violence, although it's by no means bad. There's no guts or gore - only a vague red mist that appears to be more of a sparkly sword animation than blood, while enemies simply disappear into purple sparkly dust when defeated. There's also the odd swear word thrown in, but it's not wall to wall bad language either - we remember an utterance of crap at one point, but that's about it.

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Format Reviewed: Playstation 3