You Can’t Escape From This Erotic Dragon Quest Homage

@Archaotic: Who would ever do that...

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@TacoBomber: Put Bruce Willis in it and I'm sold.

@gold163 (° д° ):

Not only you're missing the pun, but you're missing the whole point: Japanese do NOT speak English.

@spannu: Oh God.

@MattB: I really do find it insane that just for using one companies character likeness in america can lead to a million dollar lawsuit. Of course that's only unless you intend to parody it, and althought that brings out some good work the best work is when new minds are allowed to take the character traits they've seen inside a character and change the events of the story, or spin off an entirely new side story from it. I might be the only one, but I feel american comic book scene could benefit from this adopting this free rights.

Rynetx

@Dangeresque the Observer:

Or, Rape + Play.

drag

@Thorax:

Dead inside.... Just like real porn.

Xiandel

@bass28:

I'm going to follow up your game with a multiplayer party game called Rape Band!

Now to figure out the custom controllers...

bluecat2095

@Dangeresque the Observer: wait, if were talking rapelay, i thought that game didnt portray the main character as a "hero" of any kind, given the 2 bad endings.

@Archaotic: ...or like the makers of the Harry Potter movies trying to handwave their actors saying "They're young school kids".

@Dangeresque the Observer: I read it the other way around. They women are the heroes and the player (i.e. the bad guy) can't escape from them.

@Rynetx: Yes, the whole doujin* scene in Japan is seen as very beneficial to the industry. Most companies happily overlook small-scale copyright violations like this as a way of growing the fanbase and encouraging new blood into the industry. There's also a lot of goodwill that comes from it. I personally wish this model was more popular in the rest of the world.

* roughly translates to a circle of people sharing a common interest.

@Sooku: Yeah it's not too surprising. There's a lot of good comments being overlooked and plenty of inane ramblings from stars or being promoted by them. If it keeps up like this I'm personally going to leave in the near future.

A bit suprised tht Kotaku mentioned how the game characters are inspired by DQ yet overlooks that Yuusha kara wa nigerarenai copies the FF games with the title design. Characters in purple to blue outlines is clearly a copy of the F.fantasy titles.

doomsaber

They didn't need to do much to the soldier to make her erotic parody.

kajillion

Sigh.. the thing that pissed me off most was the fact the Rapelay had been downloadable for ages, then a popular clueless scene release news website posted a release for Rapelay (even though the release was incredibly old), and a bunch of other scene sites followed suite. And thus it trickled into the media's attention, and here we are today.

Kakkoister

@gold163 (° д° ): You think the name is bad? You should try reading the fanmade English transla... Almost got me to admit to playing it!

... fuck.

MDevonB

I was image Googling searching for Dragon Quest and about 60% of the images was hentai.

billysan

Day one.

Gundragon

@Thorax: That's why I'm making a game named Rape Hero: Smash *its :P

@gold163 (° д° ): Rapelay = Replay. That's the wit inherent. It's supposed to have really good replay value... I suppose because rape never gets old? But yeah, I thought it was a bad title too.

@Dangeresque the Observer:
If you look at the character profiles and the logo of the game, it looks like the main character is the demon lord, and the "heroes" are the girls.

This could either go very well or very, very badly.

@Sooku: I took two years of Japanese in college... and I'm pretty sure it's not a play on words. Then again, only two years. "Escape" wasn't really covered.

I know not all their games are rape centered, but come on... that title. Again, why would you need to escape from the hero of a hentai game, unless he was trying to rape you? Just deductive reasoning.

You know you've made it when Illusion makes a porn game version of one of your more fondly remembered products.

And yet, they still haven't made a game with women that don't creep me the fuck out. Look in their eyes...they're dead inside.

@Sooku: I agree...not liking this new comment system.

spectralpulse

Haha! And I'm just playing DQVIII right now, in Baccarat's tavern... :P

@Rynetx: It saddens me that a brilliantly thought out comment like this is hidden because of the new commenting system.

Sooku

@gold163 (° д° ): That's just what you wanted to read. Wanting to see some erogame on SE lovin' you sicko you.

chronomasakari

@Dangeresque the Observer: It doesn't say anywhere that the main character is a rapist. Just because they made Rapelay doesn't mean all their games are rape centered.

Besides, I'm pretty sure the title is a Japanese play on words. I think. Maybe.

Sooku

@TacoBomber:Id buy that only for the name.

@gold163 (° д° ):

Well I seriously doubt the people who buy rape simulators are worried about what they're called.

ctorrans

@ricardofreitas: Rape Cannon Extreme 2: Hymen Breaker Apocalypse

TacoBomber

@spannu: oooh, I get it:O or at least I think I do:p Still crap though.

ricardofreitas

@Solertia: Oh god yes.

spannu

@gold163 (° д° ): Well it makes sense, they did invent a rape game:/ From there to coming up with a uninspired name is just.. natural? At least "normal" porno usually has some pretty funny names, but I guess you can't really make a name funny with the word rape in it.

ricardofreitas

@gold163 (° д° ): It was bad, but I think you're missing the puns.

spannu

A little side note, it's not really frowned apone for companies and people to use art inspired by or directly ripped form other companies games/anime or general media. They don't normally copyright every single aspect of their products, some times none at all. This is how doujin got very popular among japanese teenagers and adults, without the limitations of the publisher fans are able to display their favorate characters in any act. This is acutally how hentai games became very popular, small software companies stole characters and made them into graphic novel type games. Illusions background of games range from everything, fighting games, simulations, dressup, to full doujin software. Hard to say, but if i had to guess from their last release it's probably 2-3 years in the making. I'm sort of disappointed in the fact that rape simulators have been banned in japan, not because I advocate it but because it sort of throws a wrench in their freedoms. Rape is a vile act, but so is murder and we play hundreds of games a year in which we are allowed to kill, torture or brutally murder several people at once. Art is art, once we as people realize if we don't like it we don't need to play it, the sooner we'll grow the hell up.

Rynetx

@OnimousDante: Fast? Dragon Quest III has been out for over 20 years already. If I have to say anything, it's "well, about damn time!" >:O

Also, I accidentally read "knocking off other companies" as "knocking up other companies". @_@

@Brian Ashcraft: They are, but the title sure sounds like it's meant to appeal to rape fans.

"You can't escape from the hero"? Really? That's like the mangaka/developers that try to handwave their characters being lolicon by saying they're "10,000 year old demons".

Does anybody else think that the name, "Rapelay" is a horrible, horrible name? Not only because of the tastelessness of its subject matter, but because it's just a really, really bad name? I mean, the dev thought process must have been like this:

Let's pretend I'm making a puzzle game. It's about puzzles, so I want "puzzle" to be in there somehow. Now all I have to do is add a couple letters onto the end of it or something. "Puzzlay".

God that's such a dumb name.

@Brian Ashcraft: Well there's only one way to find out... Time to take one for the team Mr. Ashcraft!

Mad-Hobo

Small side note... you shouldn't have to escape the goddamn hero. That's why he's a HERO, not a RAPIST.

You disappoint me, Japan. Rape is bad enough without you portraiting the rapist as a good guy.

@Archaotic: Pretty sure this is rape-free as erotic games with rape them are prohibited.

Do want.

Nick Mangiaracina

@Archaotic: Don't get started on thinking about those cute widdle Slimes... in a rape game.

Now I have THOUGHT of everything... @_@;

That... was pretty damn fast lol

A Dragon Quest-inspired rape sim...now I have seen everything.

I say let them rip 'em off. I highly doubt this will cut into the profit of DQ 9.

Oh god no.

Solertia

@chronomasakari: LMAO nice

I'm not sure what these women are going to be doing taking the subway, but I am glad at least two of them are wearing pants.

@Dangeresque the Observer: Yes... can't escape the hero sounds like he's a child molester... which, I'm guessing, he is. I'm wondering if there wasn't a better use of the developers' time than this somewhere in the world.

@Rynetx: Well said. Just because I don't like it doesn't mean it should be illegal. It will forever remain weird and disturbing, but that's no basis for law.

That last one's pretty scary

HalcyonX12