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Level-5 announces LBX Armored Girls (PC/mobile), drops pretense of dignity
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TransTrender
Gold Member
Hmm. Two disgusting turns of events for me in one thread. I remember the Japanese elementary kids liking Medabots when working at a youth center and I thought it was pretty neat. Now it's degenerate shit.
Thanks internet.
Tbh also don't get how it being a spin-off of a kids' show is a point but also not a point.
That's what is getting to me.
Sure, the game looks like it is going to try and sell on uninspired smut. That isn't a trend in gaming I like. I don't mind racy content in my games--it is inherently problematic and should be approached with your mind somewhat on, but it is also something there should be room to enjoy. But I don't like it being this 'desperate' and 'shallow,' so to speak. I'm making an assumption with the latter, but I think it is a fair one
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Perhaps that is just my taste in how I like sexual content delivered to me. I like it in a gameplay/narrative package that I can respect and with similarly 'respectable' art design.
But...beyond this, we're talking launching the next major commercial product in a kids' series on a stire front that kids have easy access to as a 'sexy' game of any stripe that turns the robots into these girls...Jesus.
Sure, kids' cartoons regularly slip in sexual imagery and fan-service. That's...well questionable too. (It is perhaps sexuality propaganda). But even if it weren't questionable that's not this. This is turning a kids' thing into full-on soft-core porno. Not inserting soft-core sexual imagery here and there.
I don't see how this is a non-issue.
That's what is getting to me.
Sure, the game looks like it is going to try and sell on uninspired smut. That isn't a trend in gaming I like. I don't mind racy content in my games--it is inherently problematic and should be approached with your mind somewhat on, but it is also something there should be room to enjoy. But I don't like it being this 'desperate' and 'shallow,' so to speak. I'm making an assumption with the latter, but I think it is a fair one
.Perhaps that is just my taste in how I like sexual content delivered to me. I like it in a gameplay/narrative package that I can respect and with similarly 'respectable' art design.
But...beyond this, we're talking launching the next major commercial product in a kids' series on a stire front that kids have easy access to as a 'sexy' game of any stripe that turns the robots into these girls...Jesus.
Sure, kids' cartoons regularly slip in sexual imagery and fan-service. That's...well questionable too. (It is perhaps sexuality propaganda). But even if it weren't questionable that's not this. This is turning a kids' thing into full-on soft-core porno. Not inserting soft-core sexual imagery here and there.
I don't see how this is a non-issue.
The Medabots thread is amazing.
The first images of the game were fairly benign, so you had people arguing this was actually an attempt to market Medabots to young girls and not a skeevy otaku thing.
And then the images of the clothes being blown off hit.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Mind you I'm not against fanservice games existing, since I enjoy the existence of Tokyo After School Summoners and Grimoire of Zero for uh... reasons, just stuff like turning a series not known for it into one.
poodaddy
Member
Will do.
What? No. They'll keep on pushing more and more cross media franchises until one sticks. They also have a new Inazuma Eleven coming out.
This game is what happens during the in-betweens. When they're transitioning from one potential new high value franchise to the next.
Yokai Watch is dying and Snack World is off to an abysmal start.
Battlechili
Banned
English translation when
Jacethemindtaker
Neo Member
Well...that's just disappointing. I liked Danball Senki as a series.
However if you come anywhere near Yokai or - heaven forbid - Inazuma with that shit there, will, be, war.
However if you come anywhere near Yokai or - heaven forbid - Inazuma with that shit there, will, be, war.
Chuck Norris
Banned
I didn't realise 11 year old girls were such perverts
Have you SEEN those transformation sequences? Scandalous!
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
NintendosBooger
Member
I remember you.
You're the guy who went on for pages and pages then days and days explaining why Samus Aran shouldn't be Black.
Sound like the ideal person to instruct us on how to properly allocate our time and concerns.
TheEndOfItAll
Neo Member
Armored "girls". Jesus.
Lostconfused
Member
http://tamashii.jp/item_brand/armorgirlsproject/?lmode=en&wovn=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_Arms_Girl
http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/MS_Girl
Years late to an ongoing trend.
Also the character designs kinda suck tbh.
mikezilla2
Member
sigh
i want games from level 5 that i both can play and Care about not this
give me Dark cloud 3 god damn it !
there most recent RPG efforts were kind of a flop for me ....
i want games from level 5 that i both can play and Care about not this
give me Dark cloud 3 god damn it !
there most recent RPG efforts were kind of a flop for me ....
Galactic Specter
Member
I think we know how Nintendo can bring back Custom Robo now
Give up. The Dark Cloud franchise was funded by Sony, which co-own and manage the IP. It doesn't seem Sony has an interest in bringing back a 13 years old franchise that didn't sell too well to begin with.
Thanks. <3
Iva Demilcol
Member
He, somebody knows what happened to that game?
Awaiting for the Inazuma Eleven game where you undress the goalkeeper every time you score a goal.
RoboGeorgeForeman
Banned
They're little children.
That design is too cute. I'd probably give the game a shot if it wasn't for clothing damage. It's just so unnecessary.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1197675
04./00. [3DS] Medabots Girls Mission: Metabee Ver. / Rokusho Ver. <ACT> (Rocket Company) {2016.03.10} (¥5.800) - 20.142 / NEW
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=719451
08./00. [3DS] Medarot Dual: Kabuto Ver. / Kuwagata Ver. <RPG> (Rocket Company) {2013.11.14} (¥6.090) - 21.454 / NEW
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1163852
13./00. [3DS] Medarot 9: Kabuto Ver. / Kuwagata Ver. <RPG> (Rocket Company) {2015.12.24} (¥6.264) - 27.702 / NEW
And this just got ten times more creepy and unsettling.They're little children.
Iva Demilcol
Member
So it didn't work?
Does that mean I can't expect to get an Inazuma Eleven where I can strip the
male
I am pretty sure I saw an add for a mobile soccer game featuring girls at a Yobadashi store last spring.
Also just the thought process is sad, beyond just the end-product being disturbing.
The idea that children and mecha otaku are simply not enough to support the brand that they need to pander to moe otaku at the expense of (some portion) of the other audiences despite the evidence given above that a similar move has not worked for other, similar games, says a lot about how Level-5 perceives the Japanese market. A market that they play a part in creating.
The idea that children and mecha otaku are simply not enough to support the brand that they need to pander to moe otaku at the expense of (some portion) of the other audiences despite the evidence given above that a similar move has not worked for other, similar games, says a lot about how Level-5 perceives the Japanese market. A market that they play a part in creating.
Seems fine, but the trailer was just anime. What's the gameplay like?
Edit: Oh it's a browser game. Probably a gacha game too, no thanks. If i'm going to suffer a gacha browser game, I'll at most suffer with Granblue Fantasy since it has cuter girls, cuter boys, and a better artstyle all around.
Edit: Oh it's a browser game. Probably a gacha game too, no thanks. If i'm going to suffer a gacha browser game, I'll at most suffer with Granblue Fantasy since it has cuter girls, cuter boys, and a better artstyle all around.
evilromero
Member
Seems like a game tailor-made for the r/the_donald crowd. Fetishizing submissive girls that express adolescent mannerisms but sonehow framed as sexual objects.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
Is level 5 too big for a publisher to buy and set them right? This is like a cry for help.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
:lol
It's not.
Level-5 earned so much with Yo-kai Watch you can't imagine. At a certain point, the IP was much more profitable than Pokémon in Japan. And while they began developing plenty of other projects, and Yo-kai Watch popularity is much smaller, doesn't seem they are in danger.
This game just looks a bad management decision, just to collect some easy licensing fees, but don't forget that they were developing a maid simulator game in 2011.
Any more info on this? Was it released? Was it more a maid raising and training simulator? Like training several maids in a household?
That would be a neat alternative to a Princess Maker game. Maid Maker.
It was released on mobile. The 3DS version turned into Girls RPG: Cinderella Life. Here some information about it.
People tend to forget but at a certain point Level-5 was much more in trouble than how it is now, as they didn't have those earnings from something like Yo-kai Watch and all their games were hugely flopping or underperforming.
Fatal Futanari
Member
Looks alright
I came here for maids, this isn't maids at all!
so do you play as the girls' dad
They're little children.
Major side eye at the people who are okay with this.
You keep your sick ideas to yourself! Lord help us if Nintendo hears.
Claude Augario
Member
I guess fighting to keep the narrative purity of Samus Aran's white skin was a slightly more important issue than natural disasters, global warming, and starving kids.