@spaceinsomniac@dagas: Well, it was really just a tech-demo by Team Tekken, as they tried to learn how to use VR to create an experience that will move the player in a certain way. It's really no different than all the horror games in VR, but rather than trying to scare the player, this is trying to make the player fall in love.
Now, this sounds super weird to us, because we don't really have anything to directly compare it to in western games. The closest thing we have is probably something like Bioware's games. I mean, people don't fall for Garrus in Mass Effect because they find his weird lobster face sexy, but because they spend so much time with him and grow to love his character and personality. While you end up in bed with him in the game, it's not something overtly pornographic and that is exactly what this weird japanese genre of visual novel/dating sims are all about, which you can find for both men and women.
They are games intended to tug at the players heartstrings, not at their junk, and some of them have even done it so successfully that a Japanese man ended up marrying a game character.
Since it's such a foreign concept in Western games, I think a lot of the pushback you see in the media comes from people who either assume that it's porn or think that ogling some virtual boobs up close will cause people to go out and do that in the real world. They are a lot like our parents who didn't want us playing Mortal Kombat, in case we would go out and try to do Animalities in real life, aka. a bunch of LAME-O's.
Summer Lesson is not a pornographic experience, but about the feeling of being next to a beautiful girl and experiencing a different form of presence and that's what I find so fascinating about this product, because nobody else seem to be utilizing VR like this, yet.
The public demo they showed off ended with Harada coming out and throwing you into a volcano (or a pit, but I'd like to imagine that it leads to a volcano). I assume that the retail product will go further and have more options, but it's probably no more sexual than maxing out an Arcana rank with one of the girls in Persona 4.
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