Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24299835-20150220105227/@comment-24658561-20150906090345

I mean real swearing just added to appeal to a mature audience. I still don't get why "damn" and "hell" are counted as swearing, this is just ridiculous and makes the game seem more childish.

Short: If swearing is added just to make a movie/game/show seem more mature, it will make it more childish. But if nothing even close to swearing is used, you end up with My little Poki: Friendship is Magic, I mean, PMD4: Gates to Infinity. This game is so scared of being mature that it doesn't even use the word "defeating" instead of "killing", it uses (if I'm translating it correctly) "shellac". And it's a bit of a difference if you say:

"If you don't get out of my way, you won't leave this place alive!" (PMD2)

or

"We gonna shellac u becuz u are in da way!" (PMD4)

No swearing in both of them, but the latter sounds stupid. I think the movie shouldn't be afraid to use some "bad words", but it shouldn't use them just to appeal to a mature audience because that never ever works.