Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number has been refused a rating classification from the Australian Classification Board, effectively barring it from sale in Australia. The decision was made over a particular scene that the Board say implies sexual violence.

The report from the board stated that “the computer game is classified RC [Refused Classification] in accordance with the National Classification Code, Computer Games Table, 1. (a) as computer games that ‘depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.'”

The scene in question is one where the player character enters a movie set, shooting dead several men before knocking down a woman before partially undressing and appearing to make thrusting motions over her body while she struggles. This scene was the one that the developers had previously considered revising, as it has caused some controversy previously.

However Devolver Games and Dennaton have since released a statement in which they express disappointment in the Board and accused them of “stretching the facts” to make them fit what they wanted to see; because they state that the thrusting actions described by the Board are “not simply present in the sequence in question”. Within the statement they also clarify that as with the version showed in June of 2013, you are warned before the level that scenes that “allude to sexual violence” are present and you are given the option to skip them. They presented the scene in context with the video below.

While they are not planning to challenge the decision it’s clear that the developers are not happy with it. You can read their full statement here.