I understand a lot of people won’t like games like Virgin Roster, I don’t know how bad it is as I haven’t received mine yet, and understand that few would have the courage to actually they like this sort of thing. But regardless of how bad it is I would never say they shouldn’t translate games with rape in them and only have really long drawn out romantic ones like Kana just because some of you people don’t like them. If they’re selling well and making them money and there is a demand for them, they have a right to sell them. That’s the great thing about America, the freedom to release stuff like this. If you disallowed all games with all this stuff, we’d never have gotten X Change 1 and 2, 3 sisters story, Tokimeki Check-in!, critical point, and even one of perigee’s favourites Crescendo. They’d either be banned or heavily cut so bad it wouldn’t make any sense. The fact is some of them like Crescendo have good redeeming qualities nice story lines after a rape scene has taken place, and the fact that the girl was raped yet the guy still accepts her after that enhances it immensely. If you want to start restricting and censoring it, where would it end. If you wanted to please everybody who might be offended eventually you’d be having people wanting to be banning them all. When you have a country of people protesting the game Panty Raider where all he does is take pictures of women in their panties because they call that rape??? and a country where a man was able to convince a jury to convict a guy selling adult Manga comics in an adult section of his store because he was able to convince them comics are only for children!!! they could do the same with these games, so you’re damn lucky to be able to get these games at all. The country is full of people who would say every game here is morally repugnant. I don’t like S&M, but I know a lot of people do, so I don’t campaign to have it stopped and restrict other people’s freedom to do so. For you to want to restrict mine or anyone else’s freedom because you don’t like these games is offensive to me.
You have the right not to like these games and the right not to buy these games, but you do not have the right to tell me that I cannot buy them and definitely cannot say that all consumers do and should only like certain types of Bishoujo games that you like. There are likely going to be people who will not buy Kana and those other long drawn out romantic ones you like yet will buy ones like Virgin Roster, and if they only did the kind you like they probably would not be able to afford to make the ones you do like. Saying people should instead buy more copies of Crescendo for themselves because you’d rather see more like that is just stupid. If I could I would buy 1000 copies of each game to keep the industry going and the games coming out at a faster rate, but for most people that’s not practical and games makers do different kinds of games for different tastes.
What they do in some of these games may be morally repugnant, but no more so than the majority of first person shooters where you are killing lots of people extremely graphically. Some of us are able to separate fantasy from reality and are able to enjoy playing these games doing stuff they’d never do in real life and would be disturbed by this in real life. I’d never do most of the stuff in these games in real life, and I doubt anyone who was not already extremely memntally disturbed would either. If you Americans value your freedom as much as you say you do, then do not try to force your will on me.
