fun and explicit are not necessrially directly related when it comes to bishoujo games
Snow Drop is my favorite, but the only love scene you see is probably at the end
Xchange was really explicit…but i really didnt like it very much…too ridiculous and i prefer a nice story
i guess Critical Point is a pretty good balance of the two, nice story, and somewhat frequent sex
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Originally posted by Kagami:
Water Closet sounds like it'd be a good bet, but I haven't played it myself so I'm sorta guessing based on the description. (Someone who's played it, join in here. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
Um, depends on what you define as "explicit" since I felt that X-Change was a bit more "explicit" in it's sex then Water Closet was. Water Closet was of course more "explicit" in bodily functions in general since it also showed much in the ways of urination and defecation. Does that make sense?
As for "fun" depends on what you're looking for. Snow Drop is my favorite also, but it's also more of a heavy storyline game which isn't any "fun" for some people. In general, when I talk to friends about PeaPri games, I end up breaking them down this way: X-Change for sex, Snow Drop for storyline, Tokimeki Check-In for variety, Critical Point and Water Closet for theme focus (Sci-Fi/Mystery and Humor/Bathroom stuff respectively.) I know you all probably don't agree with me as to how I classify them but this is my opinion after all, they don't require people to agree with them. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
X-Change was a bit too homoerotic for my tastes (the main character, a guy, turns into a girl and ends up having sex with guys, I think that’s a bit homoerotic in a sense, especially if you’re supposed to put yourself in the main character’s shoes).
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Originally posted by Goobersnotch:
I think that's a bit homoerotic in a sense, especially if you're supposed to put yourself in the main character's shoes.
Well, it may be right in a sense, but some people have argued that if you were changed into a woman for real, your mind would slowy become that of a woman too("The mind adapts after the body", or something like that) (of course, you might just become a very tomboyish woman then [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]), and if you truly became a woman in that way (body and soul), could you still call yourself homosexual, then?
I think all the games I’ve played, with the exception of a few Viper series chapters, were fun. It’s hard to grade any of them with differential degrees of sexual explicitness since they were all fairly story heavy. Here’s my list of great games I’ve played:
Hobibox Europe:
Viper M1: My Mothers and Green Boy chapters
Viper V16: not high on my list, but Imagine was decent
Love Love Show: The best, and one of two Bishoujo puzzle games available in the States
Himeya (C’s Ware):
Amy’s Fantasies: Fun doesn’t begin to describe this game. Laugh out loud funny!
Desire: Very immersive murder mystery and conspiracy.
Divi-Dead: Creepy and difficult supernatural mystery
Gloria: The closest thing we have to a blend between Simulated Life Gaming and dating simulation. Very likeable characters and tons of endings.
Kotobuki: Also a very entertaining Bishoujo puzzle game, one of two available in the states
Maid’s Story: Suffers from bad translation, but good attempt at Simulated Life Gaming
Peach Princess
Tokimeki Check-In!: The second Bishoujo game I’ve played since I started and still no.1 to me, awesome music and adorable characters
Snow Drop: Very sweet romantic fairy tale, I thought Minoru was a tad under developed but all the girls seem excellent with respect to character personalities
X-change: Funny story although seems to be mostly setup for H-scenes, still a favorite of mine just because it’s Crowd and it’s the same character designer from Tokimeki Check-In!
Water Closet: Unusual but very intriguing concept, a college lesson in Water Closets.
Critical Point: Very nice mystery, recreates the feeling of a space station.
JastUSA:
May Club: Lots to love about this, the characters are likeable and the stories are very believable, makes you feel very important to the girls that you feel emotionally engaged to.
Milky House:
Fairy Nights and Legend of Fairies: Visual novels with very cute characters, I wished I could play Mahjong in the game, a slight demerit but not glaring.
Otaku:
Ring Out: ZYX’s only title translated to English, a visual novel with excellent voice acting although hard to believe story
True Love: Blend of RPG and dating simulation, excellent game.
Spectator, you could make that case for the character himself, as he becomes a woman, and starts experiencing sex with men as a woman, he wouldn’t be homosexual. However, the player himself is not changing sex, and so he’s experiencing the sex scene through that character and the feeling is one of homoerotica.
A lot of guys don’t mind a little homoerotica, so I’m not saying it’s bad or anything.
In that case you might as well say that if a girl is playing a bishoujo game that mean she having homoerotic feelings??? I wonder what Kumiko & H-girl would say… ^^; Also what if the game’s main char is a girl? What if it’s a girl x girl game? Does this mean that the guy playing is homoerotic for playing as a girl or playing as a girl who does it with another girl?
(yeeks, 5 replies in a row…I need to get some sleep… ^^;)
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Originally posted by Goobersnotch:
Spectator, you could make that case for the character himself, as he becomes a woman, and starts experiencing sex with men as a woman, he wouldn't be homosexual. However, the player himself is not changing sex, and so he's experiencing the sex scene through that character and the feeling is one of homoerotica.
Well, the player isn't changing sex no. But the palyer's avatar is. The whole point of playing a game through an avatar, is to give us the impression of that we becomes that character, even if it's just for a limited amount of time. so, in a sense, the throught is that we "becomes" Takya for a limited amount of time and during that time you "are" a woman [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]