In the usual RPG way, you traverse (top down) a variety of dungeons, having random encounters which trigger turn-based combat. The gameplay becomes monotonous quite quickly, and considering there’s a lot of grinding needed for the later bosses, this becomes a problem. Well, that’s sadly not the case with CG:IO. Fun grinding (usually in a non sexual way), complex battle and crafting system, and more. Leaving that aside, however, the story is a bit on the weak side for a Japanese RPG, but character development is surprisingly deep and fun.Īh, the meat of a JPRG: the gameplay. After a while, you simply become impervious to their graphical poses, and the whole thing with the lashing and such becomes just another part of the game, the novelty of it all having evaporated quite quickly. Sounds too good to be true? It is: the censorship with the “pink mist” covering the girls is pretty bad (specially at first), as is the absence of the original audio in these sections. The motivational method? A mixture of lashing, electric shocks and other BDSM delicacies. The girls are stubborn, however, and this is where the game gets kinky: you need to “motivate” them for them to “obey you” (basically develop moves that are used in battle). I was specially fond of Alice, who is a sort of book-reading, medium-weirdo. While the story itself does not evolve much during gameplay, the character development is certainly there and you grow fond of the girls. As I’m not a big fan of preemptive justice trials in real life, I was glad to find that I was part of a reform program that would allow the girls to escape their sentences in hell and return to the world of the living, providing they succeeded at overcoming some trials set out for them. You play as the guardian of girls who have died and gone to hell because they were eventually going to become sinners. And while it is a good game, it isn’t without its faults. It all seemed great, even after the announcement of some censorship having taken place for the Western release.
After playing Hyperdimension Neptunia Re birt1 and liking it, I was all kinds of excited by the upcoming release of Criminal Girls: Invite Only, as it promised deep JRPG gaming with a nod to the kinky inner Marcos. Happily, it also means that I can admit to being somewhat kinky without it being (too) weird. I’m 34 years old, which sadly means I have to do my taxes.
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