Monster Monpiece will be always remembered solely for the rubbing, in fact most of the marketing and the press was focused on that, making people think that the player passes most of the time looking at and rubbing lewd pictures... Well it's wrong.
Even if i was aware of the fanservice i played it with open mind and for the first hour or so this is more or less what the game shows:
and so on.
As you can see there are:
-cute colorful graphics with a delicate feminine style(very different from Senran Kagura style for example)
-girls of many kind all full dressed
-no fanservice at all
to all of this add that level 1 cards are not offensive at all(IIRC) and characters seems to be taken from Sailor Moon or similar anime(the fearful main character with potential, the intelligent scholar one, the confident one etc)
I dunno you but to me it looked like a game for girls(that can appeal to male gamers too like Atelier games and Sorcery Saga).
I already discussed this on the PSN thread and people said that Sailor Moon and Atelier games are appreciated by boys so they are not aimed to girls but imo this is wrong, i don't see why something aimed for girls if good and probably with some features(fights?) cannot be appreciated by boys(and vice-versa)
Anyway all was more or less good when at a certain point, after an hour i think, when 2 main characters open themselves, confiding each other fears and consequently strengthening their friendship here appearing a penis looking animal and the rub minigame!
I dunno you but it felt totally out of place! Not only that, but it felt completely AGAINST all the rest!
It feels like the game has 2 conflicting souls, a feminine and good one that's basically the whole game and the perverted one that is the rubbing minigame and the half naked cards, like if someone decided that the game as is was not appealing enough so decided to add fanservice.
My opinion of the game is that story and characters are simple and plain but the gameplay is good, too bad for the rubbing.
The rubbing is not something you do often or for long, add that "upgrading" cards is not always good, sometimes some stats go up but others go down, so you need to be cautious, especially if you have only one copy of a card, it's really sad that the entire game is being overshadowed by a stupid minigame you do rarely.
The gameplay flow is a sequence of event and map with waypoints, each one can have an enemy, a bonus(item, money, card, pack etc), nothing or a city(where usually there's a story event), and obviously fights.
Cards have a color(red, green, blue, yellow), a specie(bird, dragon, fairy etc) and a type(warrior, archer, healer, buffer), and some cards have abilities and effects.
If you summon consecutively cards of the same color there are various bonus, even big, two cards of the same specie can be fused, archer can shot at distance, buffers upgrade the attack of the forward card while the healer heal the forward card HP etc.
The game may not be Magic the Gathering but has its own depth and fun.
Imo it's a honest game that would have been received very differently without the rubbing minigame, it's currently on sale on the EU PSN, if fanservice is not a big problem for you think about it!
EDIT:
Just some little clarifications:
-the lewdness is entirely in the rubbing minigame and the level 2 and 3 card, it's totally absent elsewhere
-events, dialogues, character design etc are chaste and pure, i would say asexual, i'm not exaggerating! As you can see character designs are not sexualized or vulgar, events and dialogs are all about friendship and stopping the enemy, there's no love, sex, boys, ridiculous events or those almost omnipresent jokes about breast sizes(well at least until chapter 5)
-i don't know how to explain this, but characters are not waifu-able or at least that was not the purpose(= to appeal to boys) imo, i don't think that people would debate on who is the best waifu.
These are some of the reasons why i think that the whole game and the lewd minigame are two completely separate things that don't blend well at all.
Even if i was aware of the fanservice i played it with open mind and for the first hour or so this is more or less what the game shows:
and so on.
As you can see there are:
-cute colorful graphics with a delicate feminine style(very different from Senran Kagura style for example)
-girls of many kind all full dressed
-no fanservice at all
to all of this add that level 1 cards are not offensive at all(IIRC) and characters seems to be taken from Sailor Moon or similar anime(the fearful main character with potential, the intelligent scholar one, the confident one etc)
I dunno you but to me it looked like a game for girls(that can appeal to male gamers too like Atelier games and Sorcery Saga).
I already discussed this on the PSN thread and people said that Sailor Moon and Atelier games are appreciated by boys so they are not aimed to girls but imo this is wrong, i don't see why something aimed for girls if good and probably with some features(fights?) cannot be appreciated by boys(and vice-versa)
Anyway all was more or less good when at a certain point, after an hour i think, when 2 main characters open themselves, confiding each other fears and consequently strengthening their friendship here appearing a penis looking animal and the rub minigame!
I dunno you but it felt totally out of place! Not only that, but it felt completely AGAINST all the rest!
It feels like the game has 2 conflicting souls, a feminine and good one that's basically the whole game and the perverted one that is the rubbing minigame and the half naked cards, like if someone decided that the game as is was not appealing enough so decided to add fanservice.
My opinion of the game is that story and characters are simple and plain but the gameplay is good, too bad for the rubbing.
The rubbing is not something you do often or for long, add that "upgrading" cards is not always good, sometimes some stats go up but others go down, so you need to be cautious, especially if you have only one copy of a card, it's really sad that the entire game is being overshadowed by a stupid minigame you do rarely.
The gameplay flow is a sequence of event and map with waypoints, each one can have an enemy, a bonus(item, money, card, pack etc), nothing or a city(where usually there's a story event), and obviously fights.
Cards have a color(red, green, blue, yellow), a specie(bird, dragon, fairy etc) and a type(warrior, archer, healer, buffer), and some cards have abilities and effects.
If you summon consecutively cards of the same color there are various bonus, even big, two cards of the same specie can be fused, archer can shot at distance, buffers upgrade the attack of the forward card while the healer heal the forward card HP etc.
The game may not be Magic the Gathering but has its own depth and fun.
Imo it's a honest game that would have been received very differently without the rubbing minigame, it's currently on sale on the EU PSN, if fanservice is not a big problem for you think about it!
EDIT:
Just some little clarifications:
-the lewdness is entirely in the rubbing minigame and the level 2 and 3 card, it's totally absent elsewhere
-events, dialogues, character design etc are chaste and pure, i would say asexual, i'm not exaggerating! As you can see character designs are not sexualized or vulgar, events and dialogs are all about friendship and stopping the enemy, there's no love, sex, boys, ridiculous events or those almost omnipresent jokes about breast sizes(well at least until chapter 5)
-i don't know how to explain this, but characters are not waifu-able or at least that was not the purpose(= to appeal to boys) imo, i don't think that people would debate on who is the best waifu.
These are some of the reasons why i think that the whole game and the lewd minigame are two completely separate things that don't blend well at all.
