In PlayStation Vita game Monster Monpiece, players increase the powers of collectible cards by vigorously rubbing pictures of young women until their clothes come off. This suggestive, borderline pornographic stroking mechanic is doing much more than revealing cartoon skin — it's obfuscating the highly entertaining…
According to a Japanese magazine leak, the first Compile Heart "niche" (with non niche talent) JRPG is called Fairy Fencer F. Noted!
Galapagos RPG, a new "niche" Japanese game brand, teased its first project.
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Screw the West! This new role-playing brand certainly does not explicitly say that, but you have to admire a tagline that says it's aiming at a specific type of player in Japan. A niche within niche!
Holy Sorcery Story is a Japanese role-playing game about making a legendary curry. Yes, curry. That's awesome.
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It's called Monster Monpiece, and it's a card-based game. That's fine and all until you realize that it's from Compile Heart, the folks behind Hyperdimension Neptunia. Oh, and that you have to stroke your PS Vita to play it.
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Last year Aksys Games gave many Western gamers their first encounter with character pillow covers and breast mouse pads with Record of Agarest War. Unfortunately the game packed with these goodies wasn't particularly good. Second time's the charm, right?
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On July 29, PS3 title Hyperdimension Neptunia was released in Japan. Late last week, Record of Agarest War 2 hit Japan. Hey, wait a sec... There's something familiar, and it's not just the game covers.
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Some cosplayers make their own costumes. Some buy them. The price range for costumes can go from affordable to totally not.
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A video game about the game industry? That could be pretty boring. Inside baseball. Zzzzzz. It would need something to sexy it up!
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The North American trailer for Compile Heart's breeding RPG Record of Agarest War knows its audience, and with blurred nudity and a borderline money shot, grabs them by the...well it isn't the throat.
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Aksys Games has launched a placeholder website for Record of Agarest War, the "soul breeding" Japanese strategy RPG that is completely distracting me with its teaser image. What were we talking about again?
