Slaughtering innocent people in the street or taking enemies that are already dead and playing around with their bodies and picking up their arms and throwing them around and things like that is not what we are trying to do.

We certainly don't take the rating into account at the very beginning. It's a situation of thinking what's best for the game -- what do we want to show, what do we want to express. And then incorporating that and trying to work out the rating issue later.

He stressed out that gameplay won't be compromised in any way, but the technology to adjust violence aspects is there. Some effort will also be invested in Ninja Gaiden 2's new heroine who's yet to be revealed. The new girl isn't anything Rachel, "but she will have large breasts," Okamoto confirmed.