- IS RAPEPLAY GAME LEGAL IN THE US MOVIE
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The Yokohama-based games manufacturer Illusion brushed off the campaign. It urged activists to write in protest to the maker and Prime Minister Taro Aso, arguing the game breaches Japan's obligations under the 1985 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
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They certainly don’t want any part of "RapeLay" or forced-sex scenes.New York-based Equality Now launched a campaign this week "against rape simulator games and the normalisation of sexual violence in Japan". But if you’re worried about your kid, if he or she already plays a console, you don’t have to worry they’ll see it there, because the makers of consoles - Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo - won’t even greenlight happy relationship sex games. Clearly some pervs somewhere are playing it on their PCs. Kids very, very likely are not playing it. So what I’m saying is, ban or not for "Rapelay," which sounds pretty awful, don’t confuse its rareness for general gaming at large. After that brief bit of consensual sex, you in "God of War" go on to do hours and hours of non-sexual killing. In "God of War" games, in one scene only, you see some topless women trying to get your attention, then you press some buttons on your hand controller, the viewpoint changes to a side table next to the sex, you hear a few moans, and it’s all over much much quicker than any woman would want, consensually. The one game with concensual sex I can think of, for PlayStation consoles, are "God of War" titles, and in those "God of War" games, you don’t see anything sexual.
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Two of those three game series with consensual sex that I mentioned are not available for those systems. Not one of those systems has ever greenlighted a game with a rape, as far as I know, and I’ve been reviewing games for all five of those platforms since they hit the market years ago.
This includes the Xbox 360, the PS 3, the Wii, the handheld DS and the handheld PSP. Everyone started buying console game systems. Do you see what I’m saying? Game companies just don’t make games like this, except apparently for the maker of "RapeLay" in Japan.
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OK, you say, then what about this "RapeLay?" Well, "RapeLay" is a PC game available from Japan, just as "Faces of Death" was not a mainstream movie that you would ever find at a Blockbuster. The reason I bring this up is that parents and politicians often hear of one thing about one insanely rare video game and wish a pox on the whole house of video games. And those three games were not graphic about it. I can count three (if you count the "God of War" series as one title) where you actually control a male main character in a quest to bed a woman consensually. I can count on one hand the number of those games that included even naked breasts. I have reviewed hundreds upon hundreds of video games in the 2000s.
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So please, parents and politicians, feel free to dog "RapeLay" but leave regular gaming out of it. While "RapeLay" does sound repugnant and beyond, I would like to strongly urge everyone to realize this: "Rapelay" is a very rare - unique in fact - video game, in that games hardly ever deal with soft sexual themes, let alone rape. The game was made by a company that previously made "Battle Raper." "RapeLay" was for some time available for purchase on Amazon, until someone alerted Amazon to what "RapeLay" was, then the site stopped selling it.Ī writer for Slate points out that this game comes not from the United States but from Japan: "It’s an old cliché that the more repressed a society, the more extreme its pornography."īut there is something far more important to consider, I suggest. And frankly, the details don’t take up much ink. I don’t want to go into all the nitty gritty details. " RapeLay" came out three years ago, but is now suddenly getting some press, as a New York politician denounced the game and called for its banning - thus making it more widely known, so don’t be surprised if sales start upticking. I’ve watched bits of non-sexual video of the game to get a feel for it. "RapeLay" is a PC video game where gamers portray a guy in Japan who revenge-rapes a female, who had turned him in for groping her on a subway, and other females in her family.