[Kwpolska]

While the Japanese organisation might only watch videos, other rating boards do play the games:

https://usk.de/en/home/age-classification-for-games-and-apps...

https://gamesratingauthority.org.uk/RatingBoard/ratings-proc... (which provides PEGI ratings for 12+ games)

[fenomas]

> other rating boards do play the games...

...to check whether the video they watched was representative, sure. Not in full, or to view "all dialogue and content".