Dating Sims : Exactly what John Ashcroft thinks The Interweb is
We see vaguely Hentai themed Flash based dating sims are exploding at the moment. Largely due to the mainstream mentions of Orgasm Girl. We can’t quite decide if this is a healthy move or not. On the one hand, the people who are into these sims are at least working up to a real date-like experience with a real live girl, but on the other hand, well, the people into these are working up to a real date-like experience with a real live girl. Frankly, we fear for the girls. There’s always kind of a rape unertone going on which really becomes unworkable once you leave college
Wanting to grok the trend, we tested out two. The first being Franks’ Adventure. We admit we never really knew what we were doing, which gives it that extra layer of reality. We ended up in some sort of harsh suburb that had tanks, gangstas, casinos, helicopters, cute 14 year old girls selling self-made porn for cocaine, and hoards of giant wasps. Basically it was Miami, only with tanks.
The goal in Franks’ Adventure is ultimately to get enough cute 14 year old girls to sell you their self made porn so you can re-sell it to Boobs Illustrated magazine. Once you get through frank’s adventure, there is Frank’s Adventure II, which we have yet to test out. Eviendelty our pimp hand was weak.
The other we tried, and decidedly more Japanese in tone, is LOVE HINA, a sim date rpg.
Slightly more sophisticated, you’re a student or something and you try to pick up on girls, or possibly kick their teeth in. We never worked that one out really, as we were too busy getting our teeth kicked in by girls. Features some amusing Engrish, which is always a plus.
These two are just the tip of the sexually frustrated iceberg, Newsgrounds offers a tidy list of these things, all just enough to kill a lunch hour dead.