A director of Ninja Gaiden 2 has revealed that he\’d love to keep all the gore involved in Ninja Gaiden 2 so long as the ESRB lets Tecmo. He commented that they are going to have to cross that bridge when they come to it (in terms of ESRB ratings) but the director believes that the violence used in the game isn\’t there just for the fun of it, it is tied into how the game plays and an essential aspect of it.