To start off, the violence is not actually as graphic as the description here seems to suggest. For instance, unlike the previous game Warrior Within, when you fight flesh-and-blood humans, decapitations, cleaving or otherwise dismemberments do not occur. When one executes the moves that would normally cause this to happen, there is instead a small spray of blood and the victim falls to the floor. It should also be noted that after the beginning of this game where most enemies are human, there is practically no blood in this game at all. When non-human enemies are slashed into bits the player observes a very unrealistic splitting of polygons while disolving into a yellow mist.Also, although the prince does start the game off very cynical and revenge-hungry, he is eventually redeemed and that is what the plot in this game centers on. The lesson eventually learned by the character is that a warrior must fight for someone other than himself or he will simply be a monster. In fact, at the end of the game our protagonist finds himself in a confrontation with his evil alter-ego. Violence against the beast eventually proves futile, and in the end the prince wins by turning his back on the dark prince, abstaining from combat. This game has very good morals in it.As far as the actual game goes, it's excellent. The puzzles are interesting, the animation is beautiful, and the fighting system is very smooth.My only gripes about the game are certain extremely frustrating sections where one tends to die over and over again, being forced to repeat rather tedious sections multiple times. It occurs to me that while allowing a child to play this game would not be an unforgivable offense, it would actually be much worse to allow the same child to watch an older person play it, as they will likely be witness to a spray of profanity from the player with the larger vocabulary.