You’ll collect monster girls as you progress through the game, then battle them against various opponents using a tactical combat system that combines elements of card games and turn-based strategy. Unlike the latter two games, which are ecchi dungeon crawlers, Monster Monpiece is more of a collectible card game. Sadly only available in digital form in the west - so grab it before Sony shuts down the Vita storefront once and for all, since they’ve already removed it from the Web - Monster Monpiece is the first title in Compile Heart’s Genkai Tokki series, which subsequently gave us the rather fabulous ecchi titles Moero Chronicle and Moero Crystal. It’s a really nice way of making you feel involved with the party of playable characters - and the game as a whole is both enjoyable to play and a lot more thought-provoking than you might expect at first glance. But as you develop your relationships with them, they’ll become more and more willing to listen to your suggestions - and even come up with some ideas of their own. The trust concept extends to the mechanics, too at the outset of the game, none of the girls trust you at all, so it’s very difficult to make them do what you want in battle. The game as a whole is strongly themed around the concept of trust, so the use of sequences inspired by BDSM is a masterstroke - because there are few ways of being intimate with another person that require more trust than BDSM. The ecchi content primarily comes in the form of the “motivation” sequences, in which you participate in a number of light BDSM-themed minigames in order to develop your bond with the girls and unlock their abilities. As you might expect from such a setup, Criminal Girls ends up dealing with some surprisingly heavy themes in its latter hours, so be prepared for some emotional revelations as you get to know these girls. The reason for this is that their “delinquency” has an explanation - and in many cases, it wasn’t their fault. (On top of that, when you beat the game, you can look at all the lewd images without anything being obscured - along with a bunch of bonus ones, too!)įor the unfamiliar, Criminal Girls: Invite Only casts you in the role of a caretaker in Hell, and you have been tasked with attempting to rehabilitate a number of delinquents who are being given a second chance at life. And, in fact, in context the pink mist only serves to make some of those scenes look more lewd at times by temporarily obscuring certain details and leaving things to the imagination. While Criminal Girls: Invite Only saw some controversy from certain quarters due to the notorious “pink mist” being added in the western localisation, this is still a solid, enjoyable RPG with some unusual mechanics and some quality lewd content. Now, if only they’d localise that damn sequel… Criminal Girls: Invite Only This is ecchi gaming done right, and should be part of every Vita owner’s library. The ecchi scenes throughout are fun and have a point to them - they represent both the growing intimacy between the protagonist Fried and the girls in his party, and also provide an interesting means of exploring different in-world cultures and their attitudes towards matters such as romance, sexuality and building a family. There are special events to mark pretty much every possible condition you can think of - from a squad member getting annoyed with you not having her in your active party lineup for a while to another party member being upset that you’re defeating too many enemies she thinks are “cute”. Dungeon Travelers 2 is a mechanically dense dungeon crawler developed by Sting and published by Aquaplus, Atlus and NIS in various territories around the world.ĭon’t be too concerned about the “2” in the title - the game is the spiritual successor to a spin-off of an Aquaplus visual novel called “To Heart 2”, but otherwise has nothing to do with anything that came before, aside from some similarities in aesthetics and character designs.ĭungeon Travelers 2 is an enormous, sprawling game with a wide variety of interesting character classes and party constructions - plus a massive range of character events to discover. For my money, this is not only the best ecchi game on the Vita, it’s the best game on the Vita, full stop.
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