I Play Porn Games For The Story // 05.06.2011
By Psycosis 52 Comments
Hey there, and thank you for probably accidently stumbling onto this page. I thought it’d be funny to write myself a blog, and who knows, maybe this will be a thing I do. I did spend far too long making these stupid banners. It’d be a shame if they went to waste.
Here I’ll be talking about videogames, anime, programming and visual novels. So if you want to read about one guy’s incredibly incoherent ramblings on one or more of those topics you’ve come to the right place. If you’re looking for amazing insight into a social life of a person you don’t know then tough luck, I keep my personal life bottled away, like a real man.
So videogames, I’ve played quite a few this week, and I have opinions on them:
Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now
So, the announcement of a new Carmageddon game is quite possibly the most exciting announcement for me personally in a good long time. When I was a more innocent young child, Carmageddon II was one of the games I played with my Dad all the time. So I figured installing it again would be rather entertaining. My only fear was it wouldn’t live up to my memory of it.
It totally does.
I love this game so much, like, unapologetically so. I played it all day for about 3 days before finishing it, a feat I never actually accomplished as a child. Speaking of as a child, I never realised how dirty this game is. I do remember my mum never wanting to see me play this game, and hot damn do I realise why now. It’s also so corny it’s unreal, characters like Su Borg and Sylvester Stallion, also every name I read was followed by a groan due to its sheer stupidity. However, I’m apparently a lot more innocent than I thought! A certain character called Jenny Taylia taught me that, because I didn’t even notice the obvious joke until I cursed her name as loud as I can for killing me in a race, and even then it took me a few seconds to go “...wait a minute.” So yeah, loving this game, and I really REALLY hope the new game is good! And especially that the soundtrack is good. Now, because I’m an amazing upstanding citizen of the world, the soundtrack doesn’t play when I’m playing, so instead I came up with this amazing diverse iTunes playlist for all of my Carmageddon music needs.
I couldn’t find a way to segway into this but I also made this image.
I won’t say the only reason this blog exists is to have some place to put this image, but I also won’t deny it either.
SSX Tricky and SSX 3
So I went over to my partner in crime’s place recently to play a bunch of awesome fighting games and PS2 games. After talking about Carmageddon I decided to bring over the AMAZING car combat game WWE Crush Hour. But besides that; and besides me beating him at every fighting game he owns, we played a bunch of SSX Tricky and SSX 3.
Not really much to talk about here though. I’ve been cautiously looking forward to the new SSX game; I don’t know if it will be better that all the rest.
Saints Row 2 I guess
Played a little Saints Row 2 also, it’s a very stupid game.
I only brought it up because of the new trailer and the whole SPINNING DDT THROUGH A GLASS TABLE.
I was never interested in Saints Row but still that’s pretty sick, yo.
Also every trailer should feature Kanye West, just saying.
Devil on G-String
I played Devil on G-String rather recently, a rather cleverly done title when you think about it. Combining Der Erlkönig, an incredibly pivotal part of the story, with Air on the G String, a pretty dope classical song. But then at the same time yo, G Strings, because porn game.
The game was made by Akabeisoft2, the studio responsible for Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo. I had high hopes because of this, as Himawari no Shoujo in my opinion was an amazing visual novel. It had a great world, great character arcs and best of all plot twists after plot twists after oh no there’s no help for the characters now OH WAIT PLOT TWIST OH GOD. So I was hoping this one would be just as good.
Good thing is it was even better. I don’t want to talk too much about the story beats, because I think it’s really good and if you also want to play porn games for the story then I highly recommend trying to track it down. In the visual novel you play as Kyousuke, the adopted son of a yakusa boss, who is his right hand man in all the wheeling and dealing of the yakusa business. Because this is a visual novel Kyousuke also go to high school and have a lot more female friends than male friends at his beck and call, a group in which conveniently includes Kyousuke’s sister-in-law Kanon, because it’s a visual novel and yo, Japan. Kyousuke receives an e-mail from a sender only known as ‘Maou’, with quotes from Der Erlkönig. As it turns out, this Maou character has a history with Usami, another member of your posse so to speak, and the story revolves around Maou’s plots to torture Usami and Kyousuke’s group of friends.
The story was great, with a cast of interesting characters and, as expected, a bunch of interesting plot twists. Unfortunately the plot twists in this game, as opposed to Himawari no Shoujo, makes some of the earlier stuff in the game a little too coincidental for my liking. The main character Kyousuke suffers from headaches through-out the story, and has no memory of what happens after said headaches. These headaches seem to happen at the worst of times because then Maou suddenly appears and messes everything up. Now if you can connect the dots then you can quite clearly see how the story will end up playing out. Unfortunately, when divulging into the side stories with each of the different heroines, these headaches somehow manage to suddenly stop! And by chance, Maou suddenly has a change of heart and calls off his huge master plan! A small gripe, but a gripe nonetheless, other than that the story is really well thought out and I recommend it for people who like a good story.
Another interesting point is that the majority of the music is redone classical pieces, which fits well with the whole theme of the story, as Kyousuke is a rampant classical music fan. I personally found this to be a great little nod, and on more than one occasion I’d just let the game sit for a bit to admire the remixes. This one was among my favourites:
A really great touch that convinced me to also get the soundtrack for the game, which doesn’t happen all that often.
Vague overview
So I also make bad games. If you don’t know, which is very likely, I have a website that I haven’t updated in almost a year, called Psy City. I’ve got a bunch of flash movies and flash games there that I’ve made over the last 7 or so years. So feel free to check them out and tell me how bad they are.
I am working on a new project, but I haven’t revealed what it is yet. To be fair I don’t think my games deserve any kind of grand announcement but I felt I should not talk about it until I have even a vague idea of when it’s coming out. I’ve been working on the game since September of last year, and I’m really hoping I can get it finished within the next month or so, though that’s provided my awesome composer friend can also finish the soundtrack before then.
I usually post small updates about the game on my twitter account, with the hash tag #supersecretprojectshh, which a few friends of mine stole from me. When I do get around to announcing the game this will be the place I’ll share amusing anecdotes about the world of bad programming, but now is not that time.
And that’s really it! This is the first proper blog I’ve written so feel free to mock me about how terribly written it is. I might make this a weekly thing, provided I can come up with enough things to talk about. But until then, goodbye.
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