I understand that this is pure male fantasy, but it’s not very realistic and again assumes that all girls are cool with this sort of thing with no digressions of character individualism. Essentially, jealousy is a very foreign concept in these games and the male protagonist never faces any consequences for his philandering ways. On a related note, in most cases the female characters don’t seem overly bothered by the male protagonist giving it away left and right, they’re just disappointed that he hasn’t slept with them yet (which inevitably doesn’t last long).
My perspective on this may seem weird to some, but it’s something that bothers me because it feels like it goes against the concept of individualism. Reality doesn’t work that way some people are early-bloomers and others tend to wait until some time after high school, while others don’t believe in premarital sex at all. This has always bothered me because it assumes that all girls, despite their obviously differing personalities, will decide that they are mature enough or ready for sex at exactly the same time. So to clarify, what I mean here is that in all of the routes, the male protagonist will eventually have sex with the often-virgin female, which means that if one were to think of the multiple conquest branches as parallel timelines, each girl would decide to give away their virginity at around the same time. Oh, and most games involve high-school-age characters. The decision made often leads to a deviation in the story, most often in the form of settling on one specific romantic choice, or “conquest” as they’re often sexistly referred to, amongst the multiple girls. As you probably know, visual novels usually consist of several different routes to take based on the choices the player makes when given the opportunity at several intervals during the course of the game. Assumes all girls mature at the same rate – I’m not sure why this bothers me so much, but it has always been one of my biggest pet peeves with eroge. Obviously some people may have differing opinions, and that’s fine, but these are mine:ġ. Some of these could also apply to hentai shows as well. In brief, here are some of my own personal dislikes that I find difficult to endure while playing H-games. Granted, it’s probably a bit unfair to put this under the WTF?!? Japan banner, but given that it’s somewhat related and I’m about to crap all over the eroge format, it seemed only fitting. That’s kind of why I created this blog in the first place (to air grievances, not discuss eroge). That having been said, I have a few problems in general with these sorts of games and I kind of wanted to clear the air and explain why. So sometimes it’s tempting to check out the other story possibilities the multiple routes provide, while also potentially satisfying one’s curiosity as to how all the sex factors in. These are often referred to as harem shows, and they usually end with the protagonist either choosing one specific girl or never settling and keeping the possibilities open for all of the harem candidates. But as you may know, many of the romantic-comedy anime shows out there these days are actually based on preexisting eroges that have been stripped down into one route and with all of the sexual content completely removed. CG stills of sex scenes do very little for me and the cringe-worthy dialogue and narration describing the sexual encounter in detail does even less for me. Personally, I tend to find them a bit tedious and trite in a lot of ways. Researching trivial things is kind of my forte. Truth be told I’m kind of a sucker for an attractive character design and am compelled to discover the character’s origin. To be honest, I don’t play very many eroges or visual novels in general I think I’ve only ever played about five in total, but that’s not to say I’m not overly familiar with them because when you’re inundated in the culture, you tend to pick up on a lot of things. This is more of a warm-up for that review so you can understand my head-space while I was playing it. Look for the review/final impressions in my next post, which should hopefully be up not long after this one. So you can probably see why I’d be hesitant to post something like this in a public forum. For those of you who don’t know, an eroge – sometimes called a hentai game or H-game – is a Japanese video game that features erotic content, most often with anime-style artwork. You see, Daibanchou is an eroge with RPG elements. Against my better judgment, I decided I’d like to write a review on the game Daibanchou: Big Bang Age.
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