Otaku common sense > Normal person common sense.

Hey look! America ruined more things from Japan even if it wasn't right!

Just wait till Japan finds out about pirating games from the internet. Rapelay will rise again...

What do you mean they know how to Pirate games?!

Good. There's no reason for that game to exist.

I dunno if it's a poor wording of the original article or what, but my understanding was that the publisher had said that it's out of print, not that they'd stopped production on the game, and that it was now out of print for some time.

It was supposed to be a non-issue because SoftMap had stopped printing the game long ago.

See, for eroge games, they really don't set high expectations for these titles. They know they're not minting the system selling blockbuster that people of all ages crave. I would've been shocked if you'd be able to find ANY eroge game that's more than 6-10 months old on a shelf in Japan. People that want it get it, people that don't, don't. They purposely do small runs for a reason.

Politics and personal feelings aside on this game, I think the developer did the right thing by disassociating themselves from the title, and the publisher won't have any say in it at all. If it's out of print, it's out of print.

All this will serve to do is introduce people who never knew about these games to them. From that I'm sure they'll make some new fans.

Rape game or not I don't feel it's anyone's place to decide wat is or isn't offensive. Wait... what was the person that found this game on amazon and then got pissed off about it even searching for that led them to a game called Rapelay.

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I would get that game off of Pirate Bay, but I like my hentai games to have girls pooping and peeing all over the place.

But millions of otakus won't be worried as they can torrent the game. Poor feminists, can you imagine what would happen if those feminists stumbled upon 4chan?

Epic Fail America!!!

@naim

They really don't. Point me to a prominent movie that glorifies rape.


@Kefka

Yeah, we like to think it is, but it's really not.

This game is about as brutal and shocking as eating cheese pizza.

I rather have people with rape fantasies play this game rather than actually going out to rape somebody. I'm pretty sure the low amount of sexual crimes commited in Japan is because of their fucked up porno.

Oh noes, now that they've taken away the rape simulator, how will the airlines cope with all the people flying to japan to do the real thing? That's how it works right? And if the Germans take away the American made murder simulator's , we'll have world peace and can deny the fact that sometimes you really just want to cap a bitch and be done with it.

First i've heard of this. Better do some more research...and by research I mean DOWNLOADING NOW!

It's ironic that people here are upset about the freedom to make games glorifying sex with someone against their will.

So maybe we all should play the things america is thinking they are good for us?! And banning and bashing everything else. I wonder what Equality Now thinks of GTA IV?

there would probably be no more or less rapes in japan due to the creation of a game like this. So i think it is fine to remove these stupid games from market. I would even give guro pics to feminists, so japan stop making these useless things.

It's no Kazama Mana, that's for sure.

How did everyone get here on earth? They screwed, raped, and got raped. Why try to sugarcoat it with christian brainwashing, and birds and bees crap? I don't care for the game, but its dumb how everyone is suddenly a saint.

"tell me why is more "obscene and disturbing" a game when you rape 3 girl than a game like GTA, Kill Zone and all the other stupid ultraviolent game"

It's the context. In those games you are killing people because they stand in the way of an ultimate goal. In Rapelay you are force to torture people just to bust a nut.

"if people wanted less rape, they should convert to muslim laws. you commit adultery? you either get stoned or whipped. i guarantee you that the rape rate will drop drastically."

Adultery involves a lot more than just rape. Also, Muslim laws involve a lot more horrible bullshit than what you just mentioned.

Stupid puritans. The game's got about as much similarity to rape as almost every other H game out there. If you believe the crap spouted by the OMFG crowd who posted above, you also believe fps games like GTA are murder simulators that teach kids how to kill cops and murder people for fun. In otherwords, absolute bullshit.

Here's another example. Car jacking in GTA involves pressing the triangle button from the safety of your armchair while you pop another beer and watch the tv screen. On the other hand, car jacking in real life involves subverting someone else's will with deadly intent, with consequences involving the authorities, injury, incarceration, and even death. They are not the same thing, Jack Thompson.

Ditto RapeLay. Hell, in the game you don't even stalk/subdue the victim, they're already waiting for the action. In other words at least half the "rape" portion isn't even depicted, it's more like a sex game - a more graphic Leisure Suit Larry if you will. Remember those 1980 text "sex" games with command line parsers? "Take off shirt", "kiss girl", "rub breasts"? Exactly the same thing, but this time with graphics. RapeLay just happens to have an unfortunate background story. If you've played any other H game you'll notice most of them have some form of non-consensual sex. This isn't even new, rofl.

"Flight Simulator" on the other hand IS a simulator. It even claims to be one. And it involves nearly exactly all the idiot lights and gauges that are in the same model aircraft in real life. Play it often enough, and you won't be totally at sea when it comes to the real thing. However, GTA and RapeLay are not "simulators" in this vein. They don't even HAVE "simulator" in their names. No matter how many times you play GTA, it will never teach you to be a proficient carjacker, and no matter how many times you play RapeLay, it will never teach you to be a proficient rapist.

It's just the same old stupid "OMFG THINK OF TEH CHILDRENZ" crowd railing against another easy target. I'm not too worried about the H scene though, like the other guy said the companies doing this stuff know it's a niche market and have limited print runs anyway.

The amount of press this game is getting will surely net it some downloads.