In one of those instantly quotable quotes that’s just waiting for a tabloid cover controversy, Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi has defended the studio’s decision to remove decapitations and limb dismemberment from the game, saying – perhaps somewhat more disturbingly – that they’re trying instead to show “what it’s like to actually kill someone with a sword”.

Hey, at least it’s educational. Kind of.

“For Ninja Gaiden 3, we wanted to focus on the act of cutting someone down, and what it’s like to actually kill someone with a sword. Once you start lopping off limbs, your enemy goes from being a living thing that you’re killing to just a thing,” he told VG247.

“When you’re actually cutting into a person, and you feel them getting scared, and the blood is spraying right on you, you hear their dying breaths in your ear — that’s the kind of visceral violence we’re going for in Ninja Gaiden 3.”

The game’s due out sometime around the start of next year.

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