

A sex game without pretensions what more could you want? Alright, I admit the premise could've been less controversial - but I'm tired of wimpy-ass high school kid protagonists who has all the girls flinging themselves on him.Īlso, there is very little violence, aside from the initial forgettable story sequences. There's no S&M, no hitting the girls, no torturing them or cutting them up. In fact the protagonist himself can get killed if you do it wrong, isn't karma great? The girls themselves only protest fairly mildly before succumbing to your attentions, not unlike the majority of other h-games. If the mere subject of rape makes this game taboo, what does that say for other h-games? If you believe other games are all nice lovey-dovey couples having clean fun, I have another beachfront property to sell to you.

Borderline non-consensuality pervades this genre, get over it. The only peeve I have with the game is with the iffy camera controls, and the shoddy fan translation - oh, I bought my own copy, I understand Japanese pretty good, I was just wondering what the Scene made of this. Don't let the ignorant reviews stop your enjoyment of this offering from Illusion. I'll eleberate on this later, perhaps, but you should all know early on in this that the review is not going anywhere. I'm burnt out on the subject on the moment, but I'll be happy to get back to it after I have this RotW out of the way. The infamous RapeLay is back in the news, thanks to a breathless report by CNN warning that the game had “gone viral” after being pulled from store shelves around the world. It’s all bullshit, of course the game is four years old, it was never on store shelves anywhere but Japan and this whole OMG RAPELAY controversy flared up and blew over more than a year ago anyway. This, as some folks like to say, is old news. But dated or not, when a story is plastered across CNN’s front page it’s bound to attract attention, and so it was that I got an email a few days ago asking if I’d be interested in taking part in a discussion on the topic, opposing a ban on the game. I have no idea how I got dragged into this. I’m no expert on eroge games, Japanese culture, rape, censorship or anything else related to the game.

Still, it seemed simple enough at first blush: Censorship is bad, therefore I’m opposed, it’s Miller time. How the hell am I supposed to oppose that? But then I made the mistake of thinking about it for a minute and it occurred to me that I was being asked to speak out against a ban on a game that was entirely about raping women. Defending the existence of games like RapeLay without defending the games themselves is a bit of a balancing act. But is a ban really the approach we want to take? After all, I don’t want to be “the guy who likes rape games.” Like most Western gamers, I think they’re abhorrent. I’m not even sure how this proposed ban would work.
