Sooo... they skipped a lot of stages and just went to torturing disposable monkeys. I can't imagine any serious ethical review of the project finding that they did anything in line with requirements.
Like animal testing or not, there are undeniably ways in which it should and should not be performed if it is going to happen.
They recommend a better computer now that they've added more CPU heavy interactions to the game, go figure. How has the minimum changed?