Sexual themes ????

[clement.nerma]

Just a question : Why the trailer indicates "Sexual themes" about Tales of Symphonia ? I don't understand. What's the exact signification of this term ? (I didn't found it on google -_-).
I found this terms sounds strange for Tales of Symphonia, don't you think ?

[Leonia]

There's an optional hot springs scene in Symphonia. (Maybe not so optional if you're trying to get 100% completion.)

There's also Zelos who tries to flirt with every woman he comes across.

[MightyKombat]

And Sheena for her boobs I guess. And her alt outfits. Especially her swimsuit and her PS2 biker outfit.

[clement.nerma]

@DarthNocturnal What do you mean ? I know this game can't contain "sexual content" as Steam says, but I don't understand the differences between "sexual themes" and "sexual content" ?

[DarthNocturnal]

Hot springs... springs of water that are geothermally heated. Usually used for bathing in, especially in Japan.

According to ESRB's own description guide, "Sexual Themes" is "References to sex or sexuality". The things listed by the above users would easily fit into that category.

Here's the link if you want to read up on ratings and descriptions for the ESRB.
https://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.aspx

[Great Duck]

As the esrb description states, "Sexual Themes" refers to deliberately provacative content (a few skimpy outfits) or sexual references and humor (mostly Zelos, but a few other scenes besides). If its not direct , it falls under "themes".

[clement.nerma]

Understood. Thanks guys !

[AceMan#1]

I played this game when I was 14 and the sexual themes were nothing and did not even stun me for a second nor did Zelos cause I actually thought he was anoying as hell and acted like a stuck up prince that thought he was so awsome when he is infact not cause he even worse than Kratos in combat with his wierd zig zaggy sword slashing that makes him stupid to fight with in combat. Compared to some ps3 games You don't even see hardly any skin on this game. It also shows way less human pixel skin than tales of zestiria

[AceMan#1]

Take Luke for example from tales of the abbys and then add in the fact that Zelos is not blind to the world since he is no replica and is a normal smart human being and that =s Zelos a big fact freak.

[philondez]

There's a scene where there's a task that requires a "pure maiden." They decide to send Colette but they don't want to send her alone. Sheena gets mad and says "What makes you think I'm not qualified?!" Genis and Lloyd ask what they mean by "qualified?" then Lloyd asks why Raine can't go, her response is "Because I'm an adult."

[Rinsler]

You also can't forget about the Jiggle Physics that Sheena and Raine have...excluding Colette and Preseiya becasue there are none for those two.

[Aurumai]

I should note that a few different skits come to mind.

One was called "Curiosity of the unknown" or something like that. In this one, Sheena rants about how Zelos tried taking a loot at her in the shower.

Another one you get in the Temple of Darkness where Zelos is telling Lloyd why it would be so great to have the ability to make it dark, explaining that you could mess with girls and "No one would ever know who it was".

The only other one I can think of is in the Meltokio Sewers when you get the special Sorcerer's Ring power and Zels gives almost the same reasons as he did in the Temple of Darkness.

Zelos is certainly a pervert. :P I'm almost surprised they didn't have him talk BDSM about the Sorcerer's Ring power in the Temple of Lightning or something.

[Mr. Manual]

Originally posted by Leonia:

There's an optional hot springs scene in Symphonia. (Maybe not so optional if you're trying to get 100% completion.)

There's also Zelos who tries to flirt with every woman he comes across.

And they give you items and money too

[Aurumai]

Oh, an no one's mentioned the scene where Zelos explains to Colette why he'd use the Meltokio Sewers as a secret passage after dark when the city gates would be closed.