Rape PC game is legal in Japan

[jiro]

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i remember reading this article few months ago

found the old article here: Rape video game pulled from amazon - The Inquirer.

Rapelay - the Japanese rape simulation game made by Japanese firm Illusion (which doesn't market or sell its games outside of Japan). a game in which players first stalk and then violently rape women.

complaints where filed, few months later - court dismissed the case, saying this is completely legal in japan..
source - Japanese dismiss rape game complaint - The Inquirer

People who had played the game posted reviews in which they described the graphic, vicious, violent *** scenes and the 'tears glistening in the young girl's eyes' as she's being raped. When her attacker is finished, the victim apparently cries and begs to die.

The game purportedly starts out with the main player 'stalking' a woman through an underground station before violently raping her. The next objective is to rape the woman's two daughters, presented by the game as 'virgin schoolgirls'.

But players bored of chasing just three victims are apparently able to switch on 'freeform mode' where they go on a rape rampage, attacking any woman they see and even allowing other male characters to join in.

Players can also impregnate their victims – who become more and more visibly pregnant with every subsequent rape – but are warned to force the girl to abort or the woman can extract revenge by pushing the player under a train if she gives birth.

it's really wierd. Taboo for us but not in japan?

although, same can be said in GTA. you pay *** for the hooker then kill her afterwards if you want to. ^_^

or am i just being "not liberated"?

update: June 09,2009
Japanese software regulator bans rape "games"
A Japanese software industry body has decided to ban computer games in which players simulate sexual violence against females, a spokesman said.
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The group has no real legal teeth to stop games being made, but it will discourage retailers from flogging them. µ

[rodsky]

I think I have most (if not all) of Illusion's games. The last time I checked, I never raped anyone in real life.

-RODION

[supernoob]

oh my... wala na, na daot ngyud cla

[fern-pewee]

grabe jud kau ni nga game da....i enhance mn ang fantasies sa laki mao daghan ma rape...

[7DMM]

game for perverts and other degenerates

[SORBETES]

hahaha. kuyawa sad ani oie. idol gyud naku ning mga hapon dah!

[kamikaze_007]

..hahahaha..i only knew that japan legalized porno games..but not to the extent of having a rape game...

..i hope it wont go rape and kill game..hehehe...

..uwagan na gyud mga taw karon..hahaha..that includes me..hehehehe

[sercor::jhumzki]

na out na ni na game? basin naay leak?

[rig]

ug moabot ni sa pinas daghan moduwa ani

[mannyamador]

I think this is too much. Although some study is still needed. I suspect that this may desensitize people to the horror and injustice of rape. It may lead some borderline cases to actualize their gamer experiences in real life. War games involve a big moral obstacle and little physical gratification for gamers to actualize their game combat, but actualizing sexual fantasies involves real s**ual gratification. The danger of going over the line seems far more real with *** games than in war games.