The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), which is responsible for rating games in the US and Canada, has rated Sonic Lost World an Everyone 10+ (E 10+) not just because it contains mild animated violence (referred as Mild Cartoon Violence by the ESRB), but also mild language.
The offensive language phrases used in the game are:
In the cutscenes (movies), the phrases are:
- ‘You’re going home in a box,’
- ‘I’m going to skin you alive,’
- ‘I long for death’s cold embrace.’
During gameplay, the phrases are:
- “I’ll get fat from eating your black hearts,”
- “One second you’re contemplating genocide,”
- “As long as I can still strangle a Zeti, my hands are fine.”
