Japan's latest...

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/03...omo_video/

It's the PSP "walk around Akihabara stripping people (mostly looking like school-age kids, going by the video) because some are evil vampires pretending to be people who you can only kill by removing their clothing and exposing them to sunlight" game! Isn't Japan awesome...

:S

[Great Rumbler]

Looks like the best game ever.

[Dark Jaguar]

....What? This sounds... really messed up... I really doubt Sony would actually liscense this, think of the legal trouble they'd get into.

[etoven]

It looks like they blur out the "dirty pillows".. Damn! Even if they don't they can give a M rating or even AO.. Take god of war III for example Cratos is knee deep in succulent breast candy the entire game, and no one got sued and it's only M rated. And if it gets a AO rating it's true most repeatable stores like Walmart won't carry it as a matter of policy, but if people want to knock one off bad enough they will still be able to find it some places.

EDIT: I meant god of war III

[A Black Falcon]

....What? This sounds... really messed up... I really doubt Sony would actually liscense this, think of the legal trouble they'd get into.

What do you mean? Legal trouble? How so? It's a game, sure the concept is very ... Japan ... but no, that's not exactly likely.

I agree that it's a messed up concept though, which is why I posted it... where does Japan come up with these things...

[Great Rumbler]

The DS had a game where you touch witches, so...yeah.

Also there was a DS game where you tortured girls to make them learn how to fight better.

[A Black Falcon]

(for the latter game) They were prisoners though, that made it all okay!

The DS had a game where you touch witches, so...yeah.

Yeah, but in this game you kill them (vampires here), instead of just exposing them. You're right about the similar concept though.

[Dark Jaguar]

What do you mean it's "very Japan"? You're trying to say Japan's all perverts or something? I thought you were one of the more enlightened ones here. Anyway, I'm saying the game is about stripping underage girls (unless we're intended to think this is a summer school for the slower students).

[Great Rumbler]

They're not schoolgirls, they're vampires. You have to strip off their clothes to expose their skin to the sun, thus defeating them and their evil plans.

[Dark Jaguar]

Riiiight....

[A Black Falcon]

That's the game's excuse, but I sort of agree that it's a somewhat bad excuse to have a game where you kill things which appear to be highschoolers. I agree it's a little disturbing, even if they aren't actually human but vampires.

What do you mean it's "very Japan"? You're trying to say Japan's all perverts or something?

There is a huge market for such games there, you know... "All", though? Of course not. Only a relatively small group play such games.

Anyway, I'm saying the game is about stripping underage girls (unless we're intended to think this is a summer school for the slower students).

Japanese computer hentai (drawn porn) games often go way farther than that. Console games have more restrictions, though, so you get games with the sex removed, stuff like this, etc.


... I'd say that overall part of the issue is that Japan is more sexist than the West and is kind of messed up (why in the world is so much hentai about rape, for instance? And so many quite underage girls... it's not real so they can make it if they want (I do not think things like that should be banned as long as it's just drawings and doesn't involve anything real), I more wonder about why there's so much of a market for it...), and part of the issue (for us) is that the US is much more prudish about sex. Some of America's views on that have rubbed off on Japan over the past 150 years, they're quite different from how they were before then on the issue, but there still are significant differences. Europe's more accepting of sexuality than the US, but I think it's safe to guess that they're just as disturbed as the US is by the pervasive sexism in the stuff.

For an example of htat, see these recent reviews of the recent PS3 RPG Hyperdimension Neptunia, a game where the characters are all human representations of videogame companies. You play as Neptune, representing Sega (and the canceled Genesis-32X hybrid Sega Neptune system, I presume), other party members represent Sony, Nintendo, etc. All characters are female of course. The game's from Compile Heart, who apparently aren't very well liked in terms of quality, but some of the reaction in the Western press (the game was just recently released here) wasn't about that...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-0...nia-review
http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/choujige...eview.html


In Japan they have no problem with the sexism of course (I really wish Japan would deal with its gender issues sometime, but no signs of that happening sadly), but some conservatives do have a problem with otaku, so they're (or the mayor of Toyko, in particular, but with how huge Tokyo is that has a big national impact) currently targeting mangas that they thing aren't appropriate for all audiences.
http://www.japanprobe.com/2010/12/12/tok...ime-manga/

[Dark Jaguar]

....Forget I asked....

(How the hell does he know about all this anyway...)

[A Black Falcon]

You asked...

[Dark Jaguar]

You didn't forget at all! That's okay, because I didn't really read any of that, and I'm not touching any of those links with a 10 foot clown pole.