And if, for some reason you're stuck without a Windows-compatible PC, you can pick from a choice of interactive DVDs, which all play in a regular DVD player. There's also a wide range of play mechanics, from simple dating games, where you've got to impress the girls enough to get them into compromising positions, to choose-your-own adventure style flowchart games, where you simply have to make choices at key moments to propel the sexual narrative along. According to Wikipedia, Hentai is a Japanese word that can mean 'change of shape', 'abnormality' or 'metamorphosis'. Certainly more than the odd cross-dresser in Guilty Gear, or Dead or Alive's bikini babes. Picking titles at random demonstrates pretty clearly that even this limited selection of hentai games caters to the broadest extremes of sexual proclivity: there's transexuality (Yin-Yang - X-Change Alternative) gothic horror (Animamundi - Dark Alchemist) historical romance (Enzai - Falsely Accused) human sacrifice (Bible Black: The Game) submission (Absolute Obedience - Zettai Fukuju Meirei) mild incest (Hitomi - My Stepsister) and much, much more. There are currently some 50-odd titles available in translation at the moment. Further confirmation is provided by the selection of games on offer - a selection that also provides some pretty startling insights into the genre. A brief warning that the pages ahead contain 'Nudity', 'Strong sexual content' and 'Explicit pictures' confirm that we're in the right place. The first part of our research took us to Play-Asia's selection of Hentai Games. Now, Play-Asia is making them easily available to us European lot.īut should we actually care? Is there any more to this heady blend of anime, videogames and porn than antique game mechanics and mildly titillating drawings? Eurogamer decided to find out. In recent years, companies such as Peach Princess and JAST USA have been making English-language eroge (as it's also known) available to American gamers. Of course I am! I'm sitting at my computer, aren't I? I'm reading a newsletter about import games, aren't I? Well then, the email went on, why not check out some newly available English-translated Japanese Adult Dating Games? Why not indeed? Up until now, if you wanted to feed your Hentai videogame fix you'd have to brush up on your kanji and search out seedy game stores in the side streets of Akihabara. What a brilliant sales pitch: "Feeling lonely and bored?" asked the email newsletter.
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