Recent Ecchi Releases and Notable Future Titles

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This is 100% about ecchi games. Right now the only h games I’m actively looking forward to are Rance 9, Apostle’s psuedo sequel, and SEQUEL kludge which is getting translated. Beyond those I don’t pay enough attention nor are things announced far enough in advance for me to really get hyped or talk about. As for VN’s, the Akatsuki no Goei fan thing is probably the biggest thing I’m looking forward to.

Anyway, ecchi stuff. A lot of recent releases and announcements have made me want to at least highlight a few standout titles if only so I don’t forget about them.

Senran x Neptunia– Really the biggest reason I wanted to do this post, the Senran x Neptunia crossover game came out. It is PS4 exclusive around the world and I just don’t get why. Let’s say PC sales are that bad that it’s not worth porting. Ok, but the Switch install base is worth more then the Sony one at this point, did none of their fans move over? Did Nintendo do something? Or is this some Tencent/Sony contract thing?

My ideal situation would be that the current release is similar to Labyrinth Life, where they edged everything off for the sake of getting on Sony and contract and intend to do the real version of the game next year for Switch and PC. It would make some sense at least to me, as I don’t think Sony’s every version needs to be the same cutdown thing extends to rereleases with expanded content. If it doesn’t get ported I’ll just likely never touch the game. What’s the point in Senran’s revival if it has none of the content that made the series what it is? There has been muttering thanks to the 10 year anniversary thing Marvelous put out that there might be more Senran coming, another point in favor of my theory but likely will be another mobile game designed for China or just another anime series.

Mary Skelter Finale– Released for Switch and PS4, with the PS4 version being just better. I’ll still play on Switch when I get around to it. They toned down some of the more over the top class designs, threw out purification(though one of the dlcs adds the pictures in, don’t know if you can rub them or not), and generally made it less lewd, not that Skelter had a lot of lewd in the first place. I think Skelter forms are still them basically naked though.

One of the free dlcs is a beach date with your final heroine, acting as the romantic catharsis and happy end to the whole series. So of course, bikini shot which means I’ll at least play it for that. The happy ending and bikinis. Stopping at two would feel weird.

Project Eve– Made by the dev team behind Destiny Child, considered one of the lewdest mobile games that got onto iPhone and the App store. Inspired by Bayonetta and Nier Automata, I’m sure based on that you can guess what kind of game this. Jiggle for ass and chest, multiple outfits and some actual next gen looking gameplay and graphics this looks amazing. So long as Sony doesn’t stomp their foot at something we can expect a solid game with an actual pretty girl releasing on probably the two power consoles and PC.

Bayonetta 3– The trailer from TGS didn’t evoke a lot of positivity from me with Bayo not losing any clothes at all in her animations. One of the big wigs had a tweet that does inspire some confidence that this will still be the fanservice sexy game it should be.

Demon Gaze Extra- A December release. Port of a Vita dungeon crawler that for some reason lacked a cg gallery despite having lewd cgs. No word on adding a gallery in, but making a gallery on PC would be way easier, but this is only on Switch and PS4. This is part of the reason I suspect PC releases are not turning very good profit for niche companies in Japan, as they seem to just skip out on that version more and more often.

Blue Reflection: Second Light– So I finally looked up the first game, and my god does it fit this site a lot. The sequel likely sanded a lot down because of current year but if some of the demo screenshots are any indication it’s still be worth a play for the girl’s butts at least, if a weird black void doesn’t come into existence within the next two weeks. Releases in the west in November and hopefully when it releases in Japan there’s some spark of fanservice in it. Its rating does not inspire confidence.

Konami also had a thing at the Tokyo Game Show that was bathing magical girls, but Konami doesn’t bring their fanservice stuff to the west. It turns out they actually have a decent number of them though. I feel like there should be more but I can’t think of much else. I just don;t know how to feel about the current state of 17+ gaming… 18+ is doing amazing though.

Flying Ace of the Monmusu Park

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H Scene Count- 12 girls

Created by Apple Rooftop, translated by DlSite

Length- 2-3 hours if you can just beat the game

RPG Maker MV, monster girls, no male domination, schmup.

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Super Mamono Sisters

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H Scene Count- 15~ enemies with some having two positions/scenes

Created by Shirofumi-ya, translated by DLSite

Length- 2 hours or so

Happy cosplay/monster girl/class change/spooky month everyone! Complete honesty, I downloaded this like a day before October and on the third realized it was October and should be looking for monster girl or cosplay stuff. As for horror, not happening, I already played my horror game for the year. Next year maybe I’ll actually prep for sexy October.

Anyway, platformer with pixel monster girl sex. You play as Shota with sword and run and cut your way through 5 stages.

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[Ecchi]Ar Nosurge ~Ode of an Unborn Star~

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Ar Nosurge is the current final game in the Exa_Pico line of RPG’s, which is made up of Ar Tonelico 1-3 and the Nosurge games. I’m going to talk broadly about Ar Tonelico for a bit before getting into the review, since I am going to be referencing Ar Tonelico a decent amount. Note, this is going to be a long post, there’s a lot to talk about.

Ar Tonelico is a special set of RPG’s. Starting on the PS2 and ending on the PS3, they are some of the first RPG’s to insert entire visual novels into them, and I’m not talking about the little short social link kind of thing. They have entire side modes dedicated to just the relationship between the hero and the girl and both the good and bad sides of really the girl in general. From someone with some psychology interest, it’s actually really cool and there’s a lot to read into in each game about what everything means and how they chose to show different traits and issues someone can have, even things they would never admit to.

Then there’s the music, which has to be good since Song Magic is how combat works. Ar Tonelico is one of a small list of game’s I love the music from even though it sounds like nothing else I listen to. They created their own language and made some truly epic arrangements. It helps that the hymmnos play at very big plot moments which only adds to the grandness of them. So both in combat music is good and the big plot moments get some great stuff.

This is a friend skill, which all get full cutscenes. This is the only lewd one, and it’s kinda amazing.

Last of course is how adult some of it is. There’s the innuendos of course. The above bit of stuff about visual novels is part of a mechanic called diving, which is often likened to sex in world. It is necessary for Reivyateils(I think that’s the spelling) to have a partner dive into them to craft stronger song magic. It’s basically as intimate as sex and as important as therapy. The actual VN bits are called Cosmospheres, which is what I’m going to refer to Ar Nosurges as because Gemnimetrics is less cool sounding and harder to spell for some reason. They are not exactly the same thing, but the core concept is the same.

There’s other stuff to that is adult focused, though visually not incredibly adult. There’s a big cosplay focus, as along with song magic you unlock costumes for the Revyateils which boost there stats. It’s to me, a tasteful RPG series that is honest and doesn’t hide lewd stuff out of shame nor does it avoid talking about it. It’s an important part of relationships after all and the series would lose out if it hid all of it.

Finally there’s the talk topics and crafting storylines. Basically there’s a lot of side content that just has characters talk about things other then the imminent threat that more RPGs from that era needed. It gives the characters more time to show who they are and offers takes on events from the story from both sides without stopping the actual story scene to have everyone explain their thoughts, or offers really silly world building. Then there’s the extra’s menu, which for a PS2 set of games was better then most Vn’s. Music player, talk topics replayer, art gallery, the entire Cosmoshperes for replay, costume viewer(I think) and more. Of course it is also this series the killed my completionist side for like 7 years… but I’ll get into that when that game comes up.

Okay, so I played the Vita version of this game. It includes all the dlc, which includes more talk scenes with swimsuits, some extra costumes, an extra cosmosphere, and one that apparently adds jiggle to a character model. Beyond that, the only other version available in English, PS3, apparently still has some major bugs on it to this day, main of which is the costume menu is just broke which kills some rewards late game and a clear game bonus. At some point I will play that version if the more recent releases are not brought to the English market. Note that the Steam release is a no either way, as it has been censored do to demands by Steam. To many lewd loli’s.

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Seed of the Dead 2: Sweet Home

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H Scene Count- Animations only, so kinda hard to count. I think it’s like 4 per heroine and like 6~ for the unique zombies + 12 for NTR things.

Created by Team Krama

Length- A single play through is around 8 hours. The grind for everything else adds around that back.

Unity made sequel to a Unity shooter I played years ago. Looks better, has more side stuff, and I guess is the better game.

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Naive Girl Illvina

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H Scene Count- ~50

Created by Okra Marine, translated by Bazeeng

Length- 2 hours for the story, another 2-3 for just porn.

RPG Maker MV game with little gameplay and a lot of h scenes. Story is a mystery type.

This is a good example of a game where the tags don’t really do it justice. You see things like rape/NTR and such, but in practice a majority of the scenes are light hearted silly things because of how the protagonist is. She even purifies some of her partners because of how good she is. The dark content is in there, it’s just a very small part of the package.

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[Ecchi]PhotoLife – Rina Journey

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I’m going to start with by pointing out how this is a good example of how weird Steam can be with placing things. This game is essentially a set of pictures of its busty focus girl, but she does nothing lewd and is never naked. Beyond some skimpy outfits, nothing about this game screams adult only, mature required, shove it onto the adult half of Steam, but that’s where it is. Apparently the creator tried to get it on the normal side of Steam 10 times and was never told what made it get stuck on the adult side. There are far lewder games with much higher sexual focus on the non adult side, but this got stuck “pretending” to be a porn game when its not.

The game has a download button, the watermark comes with it. Also, this is Rina. Big on top, thick on bottom.

Anyway, a very cheap puzzle game with a unique focus from what I’ve seen. I beat it in about an hour and a half.

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Fall in Labyrinth

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H Scene Count- 98, though a lot of them are variations. I’ll explain in the h scene section.

Created by Jukkaku Games, translated by Otaku Plan

Length- 10-15 hours to see the whole thing

RPGMaker VXAce turn based dungeon crawler. Has a slave theme. Girls are entirely voiced, which is nice.

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Review Scores for Ecchi

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I wanted to explain the scale I’m using for the ecchi games scores, as it probably looks like I hate all the games I play based on the amount of 5 and below I give them. Scores are always going to be subjective and highly influenced by when you play something and whats happening in your life at the time, so honestly I find scores to be more a suggestion then some fact of game quality.

Note that 1 and 10’s are basically never going to happen. Perfect games don’t exist, and a 1 is either unplayable or nonexistent. So in a way I’m using an 8 point scale, which is still better then most reviewer sites pretending to have a 10 point scale and actually having maybe 5 scores they actually give. Or the 10.0 scale which gives them 100 numbers to use and they still only use like 30 of them.

Gameplay Score

This is the hardest one to judge honestly. My tastes in games isn’t consistent. I can love one soul crushing RPG then hate the next. Love one really solid platformer and find the next kinda boring. Find a mechanically broken game great fun but a mechanically solid one a snore. So the scores are based solely on how much I enjoyed the game by the time I beat it.

I do tend to think of how highly a game is rated and try to be fair, but I recognize that I like trash games pretty often while hating what many consider “good”. As a reviewer(I hate calling myself that), all I think is really important is being honest about my skill level and how I felt the game was in terms of enjoyment and fairness.

Story Score

Most ecchi games have throwaway stories, its just a fact. Actually most video games have problems delivering stories so this isn’t unique to ecchi. I mostly score a lot of them on if they have anything to say or on how well the comedy is handled. I don’t have any real rules for the scoring. Honestly if a game is just funny or tries to make me think or gets to me emotionally then I’ll score it higher. Note that I don’t care if the sexy is part of the plot or not. If characters need to grope each other for power, I won’t lower the story score for that so long as the plot uses it consistently, though it also won’t score more points. Sexy stuff is just part of the package for telling a story and I do think sex and silly sexual antics can be just as part of telling a good story as anything else. It all comes down to the quality of including it and not messing up themes.

Ecchi Score

Scoring ecchi is the easiest thing, since I can just look at how much and how it’s used to decide the score. Which means even if a game doesn’t do it for me fetish wise, I can still score it mostly objectively. Note that when I refer to ecchi I mostly mean how sexual something is, usually for the purpose of getting sexually excited. Sex jokes do not equal a higher score and boring sexual stuff, even a lot, might still get scored low.

Basically the more there is the higher the score. Just some models and some camera angles is a low score and barely belongs here. Some fetishy outfits can help, but will likely still end with a low score. The more cgs and outfits and use of ecchi during gameplay bumps the score up until you get to things like Peach Beach Splash and Queen’s Blade where basically every reward is ecchi or something to let you get to more ecchi content. So Ryza is on the low end while something like Criminal Girls gets a middling score and of course Peach Beach Splash is about as high on lewd as it can get. Agarest is a good example of a game with plenty attempts at ecchi but fails the delivery every time so it gets a low score despite having a decent amount. Moero Chronicle also has a high amount of attempted lewd content that just fails to deliver do to presentation or pose choices.