You rarely see those monster girls up close, but even from a distance, looking at the on cards, it’s not hard to feel a little weirded out. Of course, no amount of great characters can make up for the fact that the game’s titular monsters all look just like prepubescent girls (albeit ones who are absurdly well endowed). I wouldn’t say that Monster Monpiece is an outstanding example of female characterization in gaming, but at the same time, none of the females here are damsels in distress, and that seems like it should count for something. Not only that, it’s one that doesn’t try and hide how addictive it is beneath layers upon layers of arcane rules - always a good thing if you’re a newcomer to the genre (like me), even moreso when you consider that this game in particular isn’t that good at explaining everything (which is ironic, because every time something new gets introduced, it’s alongside pages and pages of text).Įven more surprisingly, it’s got female characters whose relationships get a decent amount of fleshing out (pun not intended), and who aren’t defined by how jiggly they are or how little clothing they wear (in contrast to, say, Conception II, which fully embraced the fact it was a game all about teenagers getting it on). It’s a shockingly addictive card-battle game, where you have to traverse a world infested with monsters, matching your deck against those of your enemies in a quest to prevent the evil Lost from taking over. You can imagine my surprise, then, when I discovered that Monster Monpiece is a whole lot more than just vigourously rubbing pictures of schoolgirls. Based on that alone, I was anticipating a game that was ultra-pervy even by Japanese standards. Or, even more succinctly, I knew it from this GIF, in which…let’s be blunt, since there’s no way to state it other than the obvious: you basically masturbate your Vita. Or from the fact that Idea Factory was holding back parts of the game from North American release for being too sexually suggestive.

To the extent I knew of Monster Monpiece prior to playing it, it was from stories with headlines describing it as the Vita’s most “inappropriate” game.

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