In the sequence of game play footage titled Midnight Animal, the protagonist character bursts into what appears to be a movie set and explicitly kills 4 people, who collapse to the floor in a pool of copious blood, often accompanied by blood splatter. In a report on the decision, the Australian Classification Board website cites a National Classification Code rule barring classification for games that 'depict, express, or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence, or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency, and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults.'Ī more detailed report obtained by Kotaku Australia goes into much greater detail on at least one scene that led to the rating refusal (warning, graphic descriptions of sexual violence in the excerpt below): The Australian Classification board has officially refused classification for Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, effectively barring the upcoming downloadable release from being sold in the country in its current form, thanks to what the board describes as the 'visual depiction of implied sexual violence.'
