Anyone who’s seen me talk about Water Closet before already knows that I don’t have that high of hopes for this title. Indeed it, and X-Change but that is one I plan on getting eventually anyway, are the only titles, nay merchandise since I’ve purchased the cards and wall scroll, that I haven’t purchased from our wonderful host Peach Princess.
This isn’t Peach Princess’ fault because they simply want to appeal to every demographic that exists. Well…I went and looked at the downloads and well my opinion has changed a little…but just a little.
The opening movie was a little weird, looking more like a promotional video for a bathroom utilities store than the video for a game. Toilets of all kinds flashing across the screen, then we meet our heroines, or patients depending upon your outlook, and then some more toilets and urinals. Kind of off-setting and really didn’t help my impression much.
Then I listened to two of the onani tracks. Appropriately enough, considering the theme of the game, I listened to tracks # 1 and 2.
Well…jeez perhaps that I can only understand a minute amount of spoken Japanese helped to hamper my “enjoyment” of these…but I still think that wouldn’t have helped considering the sound effects.
All the Gods in Heaven and Earth…most of the sound effects would sound more at home in a horror film than a track about women masturbating and then, presumably, playing with each other. When I heard some of the louder and longer effects I didn’t picture women playing, I saw a group of hungry undead descending upon a pour soul, crushing and tearing their ribcage apart like a brittle eggshell, and then feasting upon the innards. The sound organs make when they’re torn from the abdomen, the membrane holding them together ripping and the wet, vaccumy noise as they’re pulled away from wet inner walls. Gruesome yes…but I really could not associate the sounds I heard with anything else but something as gruesome as what I described. Perhaps it’s just me and my love of horror/gore/splatter but when I hear noises like I did that’s the first thing that came to my mind.
The second track had a sound effect near the end that also reminded me of something in a book I’m currently reading that has some rather unusual examples of alien parasitization. Before one alien arrives a man is sitting on the toilet and the people outside here thick, wet tearing noises like a diarrhetic fart. But I don’t think I’m too far off the mark because I think that’s exactly what that sound represented. Anyway…
Well what changed my opinion you asked? “It’s still sounding pretty negative so far, WraithFox. You baka.” I’m sure you’re thinking and indeed it has been…well what changed my opinion a little was the humor. Yes there is indeed some humor here…though perhaps I missed out on some of the less obvious jokes because I cannot understand Japanese but some of the more blatant jokes and weird-funny things I understood. Like the last few seconds of Track 1 where a little girl/young woman (sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference with their voices) comes in upon the scene and just screams. Track 2 had a brief spanking scene which sounded funny, and at the end some guy knocking on the door and wanting in.
So yes I believe Kumiko-chan when she says there’s humor in this, but is the humor worth going through the rest to see? Well I don’t know. Depends on how well you like humor and what kind of humor you enjoy. I’m beginning to look at this game as a kind of John Waters or Herschell Gordon Lewis does bishoujo game (Probably more John Waters than HGL).
So maybe I will look at WC just to see how much of what Kumiko said is true and how many of my impressions are correct. It’s all experimentation of course. If I don’t like the game I could always sell it on E-Bay.
Your Gore/Horror/Splatter Fiend, WraithFox