Hey, this may seem comically Johnny-come-lately, but:
I just finished “Chain”;
I really dug on it;
I’m wanting more.
Has anyone who’s played the untranslated ecchi-games seen anything like it? What I mean is, a game with a cool storyline and for once a different scenario than “Unsuspecting horn-dog gets dumped inexplicably into a situation in which he’s surrounded by impossibly gorgeous and oversexed women and his only objective in life is to jump each of them ASAP.” Not to knock the virtues of lust, mind you, but it was great to have an engaging story to follow and the private detective thing is perfectly suited for ecchi games, IMO. (Obvious downside of Chain was its lack of a branching plot or anything like a challenging puzzle, therfore limited interaction - but it was great anyway.)
Has anybody seen anything similar - or heard anything about a sequel from Zyx?
I wasn’t even bothered by the the rape scenes much, since the ones committing them were definitely the Bad Guys and the game didn’t force you to play the role of any of them. However, I still tire of the moronic convention of the rape victim always ending up getting turned on and orgasmic by roughly mid-assault. Do the guys who write this stuff seriously believe anyone buys into that bullsh*t?
I’m now turning my attentions to Kango Shicyauzo and experiencing a major concept-clash: Bounced out of a serious detective yarn into a Trabulance candy store! Sheesh! I will cope, of course - and the background art in KS is phenomenal. Some of them look like photographic quality - too bad the characters aren’t done in the same style. But then we’d be getting out of the classic manga/anime style I suppose.
Just consider this a “Dear Santa” type request that some future localizations be picked that have good stories to go along with all the other stuff we love about bishoujo games.
[This message has been edited by ZaphodB.Goode (edited 11-07-2004).]