Vulpis said:
Hmmm. Given that I can't read Japanese and as such am possibly missing a lot presented in the ad...someone care to explain just what is 'creepy' in this game other than maybe people's knee-jerk reactions and the desire to cast *all* Japanese games with girls in them as pedophelia?
From what I can tell from the video, the girls in the game are actively posing for the camera, aware of it and *wanting* to be photographed (as opposed to the player sneaking shots from hiding which would indeed be creepy)--and in fact, the shot at 3:56 suggests that the viewpoint character is *also* a girl, possibly part of a photography club or similar. Keep in mind that the term 'girlfriend' doesn't automatically imply a romantic/sexual relationship--a girl who is a friend is also a 'girlfriend'.
Again, getting an accurate translation of the Japanese might tell a whole different story, but at this point the creepiest thing about this game are the attitudes people are showing about it. :-/
Whats creepy is 40 year old, obese men playing games where they romance blatantly underage school girls.
I'm sorry, i'm not saying fat people are creepy, hell, i could lose some weight, i'm not saying porn is bad, who doesn't like porn?
But this is just all kinds of wrong, dude, i can't find the right words.
Lecherous, creepy, perverted, in a vast vocabulary theres not really much in the way of describing the kind of people who play these games.
There is NOTHING normal about this behaviour, nor companies actively encouraging this kind of behaviour by producing these games.
Things like Rapelay or Wanko are kind of funny because it's odvious they're made by a crazy minority, but when the sexualisation of school girls, especially those like this which accentuate their flat chests, big eyes and their innocence, is encouraged by actual companies, that's just bad.