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Rape video game pulled from Amazon

But only after complaints
Friday, 13 February 2009, 15:41

A SICKENING game in which players first stalk and then violently rape women has been pulled from Amazon.com after being exposed by the Belfast Telegraph.

Rapelay, the Japanese rape simulation game made by Japanese firm Illusion, which doesn't market or sell its games outside of Japan, was being sold by Amazon to UK customers through Amazon Marketplace. Other games made by Illusion include Battle Raper and Artificial Girl, so Amazon must have known what it was dealing with.

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People who had played the game posted reviews in which they described the graphic, vicious, violent sex scenes and the 'tears glistening in the young girl's eyes' as she's being raped. When her attacker is finished, the victim apparently cries and begs to die.

The game purportedly starts out with the main player 'stalking' a woman through an underground station before violently raping her. The next objective is to rape the woman's two daughters, presented by the game as 'virgin schoolgirls'.

But players bored of chasing just three victims are apparently able to switch on 'freeform mode' where they go on a rape rampage, attacking any woman they see and even allowing other male characters to join in.

Players can also impregnate their victims – who become more and more visibly pregnant with every subsequent rape – but are warned to force the girl to abort or the woman can extract revenge by pushing the player under a train if she gives birth.

Graphic descriptions and screenshots of the game are available online, but it physically churns our stomachs to publish them here on the Inq.

Amazon

A product description of the game on the Amazon website reads, "Rapelay is an offshoot of the Illusion series, Interact Play. You, like in previous installments, play as a public nuisance that gets away from captivity and starts scouting for new targets. This time around you find a family of a single mother and her two daughters. You quickly begin your hunt and capture each woman one by one. The gameplay involves an amusing training/disposition system with which to break each respective target to your liking".

Amazon has now withdrawn the game and has suddenly seen fit to deem it 'inappropriate'.

"We determined that we did not want to be selling this particular item," a spokeswoman said.

We wonder how much of that determination happened after the Belfast Telegraph's story. µ


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I hate to say it...

...but its better for people with inclinations to live out their fantasies in a game than in real life.

posted by : DarkElfa, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Sick and sicker

The only thing sicker than this game is to excuse it. The Columbine teenage murderers got their appetite for killing from video games. The game only makes the action more acceptable and more desirable. Boycott any company involved in the production, distribution or marketing of this kind of sickness. Protest to your local authorities and demand laws which prosecute such companies or individuals.

posted by : Trashek, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Real life rape training

@ Darkelfa. Get real. Anybody seeking to play a rape fantasy game has some inclination (unlike most other violent games). Rape is a deeply aggressive and psychologically rooted form of assault. I would argue that people playing this game would only increase any latent desires they have.
I find it unbelievable that Amazon sold this - they need to seriously vet their acquisitions staff. There is no merit in this 'game' whatsoever. But then again, this is from Japan where paedophilia wasn't even criminalised until the last couple of decades.

posted by : DM, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Interesting Difference

Trying to link Columbine with video games is ridiculous. The statistical correlation is absolutely nonexistent. Millions of children worldwide play violent video games, and the number who have committed Columbine-style rampages can be counted on one hand.

However, something is clearly different about a rape game. Violent games do not increase violent tendencies, but will rape games increase rape tendencies? I wonder if anyone has any real (not emotional or value-based) thoughts.

posted by : jubjub, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
amazon did not sell this

@DM:
It was sold on Amazon Marketplace, meaning a third party sold it through the site. Amazon buyers were not involved. Claiming that Amazon chose to sell it is equivalent to claiming that eBay sells the items on its site.

posted by : jubjub, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Catholic School Girl Syndrome

I have to agree with DarkElfa, people have all sorts of weird compulsions, and the ones that suppress them are the ones most likely to act on them. Give people a safe outlet for these compulsions and they'll use them instead.

That's why video games are so popular in the first place - they trigger the same reward centers in the brain as achieving real things.
It's also the reason 'abstinence-only', 'prohibition' and the 'war on drugs' have all failed.

posted by : MW, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Sick and Retarded

Every excuse for this game betrays not only sickness but also major intellectual deficiency. No one can "live" his rapist fantasies in simulation. Rape involves organs which in NO way can be "satisfied" by a game or a computer for that matter. Such games can only leave the gamer high and dry, wanting for the real thing.

I would agree that shooting games are less dangerous, because the experiences of real and game shooting are similar, so there is less "lingering desire" to do it for real. Strong parental control and social stigma may be sufficient in this case.

But anyone who can't see what's wrong with this raping game needs to work on his intellectual development.

posted by : Trashek, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
@Trashek

Trashek - what's your agenda?

posted by : RandomGuy, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Amazon's Complicity

Amazon have to make all third party sellers sign an agreement binding them to sell only what Amazon itself would sell. The third party then should pay fines and lose their right to sell on Amazon. Pulling the game of the shelf in nothing. The third party that sold it should be fined and banned from selling on Amazon. Until this is done, Amazon is as guilty as the actual seller.

posted by : Trashek, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
...

"Rape involves organs which in NO way can be "satisfied" by a game or a computer for that matter."

There are plenty of people who satisfy those organs every day with a computer...

The game sounds retarded, but people who want to prosecute someone for making it are just as retarded.

posted by : WTF, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Theyre insane....

the big question is ...

Why is this legal and it seems socially acceptable in japan?

I just dont get it? On the one hand they have one of the most profound codes of honor of any culture on the planet (bushido)

But on the other hand they have vending machines selling little girl's panties and rape video games.

Then again in another about face its ok to violently simulate a rape but if in japan dont look at a porno of consenting adults or even playboy or you goto jail.

WTF?!?!?

I just dont get it....

posted by : Joey, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Game made by Illusion...

Nothing new here, just another genre they covered in the bishōjo game industry. Their games have a pretty wide audience outside of Japan, communities devoted to modding(ingame items) and translations.

Face it, Japan has more freedom of expression and tolerance than western countries. When it's virtual what is immoral, unethical and 'taboo' are no longer the case, it's a video game.

Plenty of other items only sold in Japan because western countries 'cant handle it'.

posted by : CutTheBollocks, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Hey guess what!?

Heard of this crazy word called empathy!! Now using “empathy” you can somewhat experience what it’s like to be completely at the submission of a violent, self serving mind and you would not find it the tiniest bit acceptable (to say the least).

Cut the shit, let’s face it any one who likes this sort of thing a is a twisted self indulgent little shit who thinks it’s their god given right.

posted by : Alex, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
So long as the Japs can restrain themselves in public, it's okay.

It's like their fascination with the little school girl. Come on these people even have these costumes to turn their granny into a schoolgirl! They have their blue movies in the the manga format as their girls can't get them aroused and they live their lives in videogames and now the internet - even their primeminister wants to pass legislation allowing people, men, to marry their anime girlfriends. This is probably causing their nation to decline.____________________________________________________________________________________
This is one of those years of abuse things. And the results are transparent for people to see... However the solution is simple, there was this channel4 program where osborns fat daughter was in Japan and in one of the episodes, when she was in some bar these were 4 of these businessman in suits tripping over her - probably because they never come across a blonde, white girl before... so it's a rarity. I think they should just open their society or simply exchange around 1000 people with another nation, who like anything Japanese and vice versa. I think their men don't like their women and so on... Japan is the only nation in decline followed by south Korea. By the way, some of you lot must have seen the extent they are willing to go in order to get their girls looking like the anime girls... well, look at the recently developed contact lens and what about the robot nurse with a perfectly develop, even patented hands with human-like skin... Ghost in the shell - this is their ultimate goal also going into videogames would be the equivalent of heaven.

I've said plenty, don't know if it makes sense. Too drunk to proof read. Bye.

posted by : Jon, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Another interesting comparison

What if this game was about targeting black people instead of targeting women? Burning crosses, setting their houses on fire, raping their childern or hanging them from trees..How would you feel then?

I understand the need for freedom of expression and choice, but we should consider what message we send as a society when we condone such things.

posted by : C, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
LOL@Selective Moral Values

"Spare me your moral indignation Sylvie Barak, we brutally kill people every day in video games. We blow their fooking heads off, we watch the blood squirt from every pore in their polygon bodies, we hear their anguished cries of death but it isn't until somebody puts a little sex in the mix that anal retentive censorship Nazis like you cum out to express your supposedly heartfelt indignation? Me thinks ye protest too much but who cares about your payed opinion anyway it's much more distressing that such a game should be censored so quickly in real life as opposed to the imaginary suffering of some polygon characters. Should all movies depicting rape now be censored too? Perhaps we should all use you as our moral compass Sylvie and just not play anything until you deem it appropriate. It sounds like a really stupid game and I probably would've been bored with it the first 10 minutes of play the same way I am with most games these days but I would have liked to have had the chance to see it for myself rather than have to hear this moral outrages dribble secondhand. Hung out."

Copy and paste just because it's the best and most logically complete comment and absolutely crushes everyone's arguments here, including the article's. F*ck your selective moral values.

posted by : LOL@Selective Moral Values , 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Prudes

I know others have said this, but most of us do not bat an eye at the gruesome and violent murder that happens in some M rated games, but you make it about sex and all of a sudden people are having their "stomach churn".

Honestly, it is just a game, we know that games, movies, music, do NOT make otherwise healthy people go out and murder/rape/steal, so get over it. It is not illegal to make a game about rape. Sorry it offends your morals, but we live in a free society and you have to put up with things you find offensive in a free society.

For the record, I have no interest in, nor do I play, and "hentai" games as they are called. I still wouldn't censor them.

posted by : Shahab, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
next from Illusion Studios "Cannibal Pedo one cup"

Arguments on both sides are uhhhh...... interesting. However, if someone wanted to ban "rap" from games, I might be ok with that. Either way that crap is sick, but later tonight I'll be hunting humans down as an orc though. For some reason I think showing my wife a copy of Crysis Warhead might go off better than a copy of this game...
I will say that the motives behind most violent games I play are better than this one. (I tend to not play intrinsically evil guys... hey Orcs are just misunderstood.)

posted by : Bounty, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
+1 to opinion that this is hypocritical

I know there's no voting system for this article, but I'm totally with the people that claim this is hypocritical. Putting immoral activity in video games(or video in general) is either immoral, or it isn't immoral. Personally, as a general rule, I'd say murdering someone is worse than raping them. Though, after about the second or third rape, you probably need to just euthanize them.

Mind you, I don't think pedophilia and rape are necessarily the same thing. Pedophilia is immoral, but equating them to the people that physically attack others is mostly wrong. I say "mostly" because pedophiles tend to have different reasons for doing things, including mental illness, violent tendencies, being molested as a child, etc.. Just because people want to label pedophiles as horrible people doesn't mean they are.

Oh, and for those who are curious about my motives, let's just say alcoholism and sexual addiction are very similar. It's difficult to cure them, but a vigilant attitude can deal with them quite well.

posted by : name withheld as a last minute decision, 13 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Idiots

Hmmm, Selective Moral Values? I grew up playing 'soldiers' - it's what little boys do. I did not grow up playing 'rapist'. I dont play 'Manhunt' for the same reasons i wouldn't play 'Rapelay' - the violence isn't focused on a 'worthwhile' goal. Most FPS games where we kill hundreds of rag dolls are based on the premise, 'dispatch the bad guys to exit level'. This isnt hypocritical.
There is a massive distinction between sexual violence towards unarmed female civilians and what most of you muppets are referring to when we kill hundreds in games where the foes are usually male, usually armed and usually hostile.
Stop trying to be clever with your hopelessly misguided 'ban censorship' bandwagon and take a trip on the reality train. Rape is evil period. Killing your armed foe is not evil, it is an aggressive focussed act of moral judgement based on 'he dies or i die'. Lesson over children. Now fuck off home.

posted by : DM, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Check the rape statistics

If you check the (reported) per-capita rape statistics on Nationmaster.com you will find the US comes in 9th, the UK comes in 13th and Japan comes in 54th with almost a tenth of the the UK's figure.

People talke about the Japanese schoolgirl and other sexual fetishes / products - but who actually has the bigger problem?

posted by : Withheld, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Adults forgetting to act like Adults?

@Trashek, because no one on the planet is 'satisfied' from reading erotic novels, magazines or watching media? I guess the proliferation of online pornography must drive our populous mad with lust. Orgies in the streets indeed.
@Alex, and Illusion is tapping into that market, capitalism is great yes comrade?
@C, this game is about titillation, not hate speech. About this 'message' you speak of? Be sure not to have selective listening.
@DM, it's a game for adults, sold only to adults. Growing up on this? ha. Your stop on this reality train should be at 'common sense'.

posted by : flying off the handle, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
hmmmmm

every country have their own culture. and there are many culture that seem odd in another places and that make cultural gap even worse. im a eastern person and personally loathed western culture in many way. but that doesnt meant that we have to hate every single thing!
and i think there is many game and movie from west that offering basically the same thing... so what are you called that game and movie???

posted by : xirotyu, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
I had no idea

That so many certified armchair psychologists and sociologists read The Inquirer. I'd love to joint this insightful and productive discussion, but I'll just download the game instead. Cheers.

posted by : Saint Ides, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Shitistics

@witheld, After doing a little checking about the predominence of officially UNreported rape/gang rape(freeform mode) in Japan and their apparent complacent attitude towards it I`m not too suprised(now) to hear about Illusion`s Rapelay being sold in Japan.The traditional role of women in Japan has been one of servitude and so this, and other beliefs: Seiichi Ota a lawmaker with the ruling democratic party said,"Gang rape shows the people who do it are still vigorous and thats ok." have hampered social reform of this kind of criminal psycopathology in Japan. It is had to believe though, you could walk into a store and find a copy of Rapelay amongst the first,second and third person shooters.

posted by : Jamez, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
my little opinion

Well, let me say first that all you brits are really worked up over nothing.

After all, IT IS A GOD DAMN videogame.

So who the F cares what they do in it?

Where is all your emotional outpouring for the sex workers, or all the porn stars with prolapsed anus'?

You people who protest this type of expression ARE THE REASON that people commit rape.

The OBVIOUS reason that you are so afraid of this game is because YOU, yes you laddie, would not be able to resist buying it.

Try and open up your pea brain, I know it is mushy in there from all the real violence you've been exposed to, but VIRTUAL REALITY IS NOT REALITY.

No one ever died from getting shot in a multiplayer game of CoD, and no one will ever be raped from rapelay.

Your indignation is indecent. So, please shut up.

This game will be sold and you will die soon. Then the game will be sold in other countries because your children aren't oppressive mind-twats like you.

Just shut up.
I wish the IRA was still crapping on you. - SEE THAT IT IS THE SAME THING AS RAPELAY YOU DUMB CARP! (nothing bad happened)

posted by : American, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
This should not be excused

I'd have to side with DM on this one. Shooter are played to let out anger and to satisfy your general hunting instinct. These are universal feelings and there is nothing wrong with them. If you on the other hand have the urge to rape someone, you shouldn't live it out in a video game, because you're going think it's normal and allowed. If you have that urge you should seek psychiatric help and fast! People with those urge shouldn't feel as if there is a place where they can satisfy themselves without harm but find a shrink ASAP.

posted by : korn, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
RE:Jamez

While it is certainly probable that the number of unreported rapes in Japan is higher than those in the west, it would need to be an incredibly high figure to make up the vast difference between US+UK and Japanese rates. Unreported rapes - both gang and otherwise happen in the UK and US also. Also, your comment regarding the "servitude" of Japanese woman is also somewhat misleading. The typical marriage is much like the UK before the sixties where the man goes to work and the woman stays at home. However, in the case of Japan, the husband generally hands over his entire pay check to his wife who controls the family finances. (However the unfair inequality in the workplace is disgraceful and mean Japan effectively discards 50% of their brightest minds). I would also be wary of quoting Japanese politician - who generally make comments to score political points, irrespective of the truth of the matter.

I am not Japanese, but I have lived in Japan for many years. While I find some aspects of the culture somewhat disturbing to my western mind - I cannot deny that the overall level of safety on the streets something that can only be dreamed of in cities such as London.

posted by : Withheld, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Amazon fails

It's a shame Amazon have done this. Personally, I'm not a fan of censorship, I don't believe it makes for a healthy society - you only have to look at Maoist China or North Korea to see what happens. Personally, I'd love to see this game stacked high on the shelves of every computer game store in the country, floor to ceiling in place of their normal top 40 best sellers chart just for a day, just as a great big middle finger to all the people who think banning this, or GTA IV, or that school bully game, or certain specific types of porn film, actually benefits society in any way. I'll take freedom of speech and freedom of reasonable action any day over your authoritarian way of trying to censor my life. I can make up my own mind about what's right and what's wrong, and if you try to tell me otherwise I shall merely look down upon you with pity.

posted by : Rob, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
I like the picture

It's like Amazon's saying: if you, dear customer, like the "Rapelay" you may consider buying the "Perverted Thomas" or something like that... Sounds good

posted by : Sergey, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
PC, Pretty Close-minded ...

The West is so freakin' uptight about all things related to sex it's ridiculous. In Japan these games are pretty normal. A movie like Cannibal Holocaust is (or was) the second most popular movie ever there, so that ought to tell you someting about the openness of the Japanese.
There's also a game involving bestiality (Oppai Slider 2 maybe?), but ofcourse doing things to virtual living entities is a big no-no regarding sex. I'm sure "Miss" Barak finds killing a child in a video game far less sick than raping one (the youngest girl being raped in RapeLay is about 10).
And she'd be much less shocked when rape happens for real (as it probably does when I'm typing these very words somewhere in the world).

So what if someone creates a rape simulator? If you don't like it, don't go look for it on BitTorrents.
I bet Barak is a homophobic Christian who goes to church every Sunday.
There even was an 8-bit rape game back in the 80s about a cowboy raping an Indian woman. And this WAS available in the West.
Why do you think Illusion doesn't do foreign sales? Because of stuck-up people like so many of you it seems.

Now, how about a game where you have to protect your land against US invading forces? I'd buy that for sure! And popular it would be, oh yes ...

posted by : PetersPumpkin, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Nuke-em

Japaneese Sick Bastards! I Say Muke-em.. Oh wait, we already did...

Hmmm, Nuke-EM AGAIN! And AGAIN.

posted by : BigDave, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Loss of Life and Decency in Finger Pointing Match!

Violance vs. Rape? Since when these are not related?

A computer is a simulator emulating conditions of life we have today, from war to sexual depravity. To some objecting to my choice of words like "depravity" it must be in the dictionary for a reason, right?

It's all nice and dandy to say computers can be used to contain these social scourges, but computers rely on one thing than can send masses spill in the streets with their fantasies. Yes, electric power! You pull the plug, the contained fantasies goes with it, what happens next? With recent delicate power problems and situations a few years back, what will be done to contain the build up of these fantasies under these emergencies? And battery backup doesn't last forever.

There is NO "United Bureau of Logic" on this planet, go figure!

Time and time again each time there's a precedent it gradually turn into a free for all! Erasing border lines and limits is not a solution, Anarchy did fail in the past so why repeat the excersise?

posted by : Phil, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Anything for a buck

Ya gotta love it. Scum sucking pigs will create a vile, POS video game and the sheep will line up to buy it. The underground sales of this vulgar garbage game should skyrocket now... It's no wonder we have such a FUBAR world.

posted by : Ben, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Yeah

"Ya gotta love it. Scum sucking pigs will create a vile, POS video game and the sheep will line up to buy it."
You must be talking about the Fifa and Sims games there mate.

A POS video game 'coz you're too sensitive to digest it huh? Here, have a cookie.
Now, where's that All Women Are Whores movie I wanted to see again tonight?
Nihongo no eiga desu, ofcourse.

posted by : PetersPumpkin, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Time to revisit

Man After hearing about this, I got to go back and play it again. "Western culture" are so funny. Before you all cry out foul, don't look at amazon japan, you will probaly go more mad.

posted by : Ryu, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Jap Rape

Obviously, video game violence doesn't translate into real violence. The real question is: Why do Japanese find it socially acceptable to rape? Historically, it's part of their culture. If you aren't familiar with it look up The Rape of Nanking. Sick $hit.

posted by : HugMeImJapanese, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
@ American

to the American dude praising the IRA in so far as he wished they were shitting all over us again, I have one point you retard,9-11. In 30 yrs the IRA related troubles killed 3000 catholics and protestants across the UK and Northern Ireland. Osama's crew did that in one day In New York. Dont praise terrorism you turd, it'll come back and bite you on your dumb fat american ass.

posted by : DM, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
bloody ell.

LOL@dm..

Friggin hell...this thread has the kind of flamin' and a'cursing that i wouldnt normally associate with the inq..but i guess the topic warrants it,and it makes a pleasant change to charlie-bashing lol.

My two cents anyway...rape does indeed have different cultural connotations,and no doubt this game on the japanese amazon site would sell like hot cakes...and yes...we've all executed in any manner of blood splatteringly-glorious ways coutless nazis/terrorists/civilians/aliens and fxxk knows what else over the yrs of gaming,so none of us can claim the high ground here(apologies to any nintendo afficionados)...B U T...rape(and the intended virtual erotic "pleasure" from it)is,lets face it..only one small step away in terms of the utter inhumanity of paedophilia...would anyone here in their right mind consider that a "gaming right"???

posted by : mrMoo, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
That's nothing.

Coming soon - the Wii version. Comes complete with new WiiSheath remote for fully interactive gameplay.

posted by : El Brute, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Motives for rape

Anyone willing to do the slightest bit of research into the subject matter will find that the motivation to rape has very little to nothing to do with having sex (that is to get satisfaction from the sexual activity). The prevalent motive is to dominate (or subordinate), hurt and to show ultimate disrespect for the victim. It is a HATE crime, not a SEX crime. Do you realize that often rape victims are elderly women? That is because people commit rape, not to have sex, per se, but to victimize the victims. Attractiveness has little to do with it, while however, some rapists claim that they were aggravated by for example what the victim wore, but the point is "aggravated", not "turned on".

This is why I myself find this game worrying and distasteful; I mean people do kill people for multitude of reasons, even when they respect the victim, but rape is different.

I wouldn't like to work with the people who make games like this, that's for sure.

As to whether or not playing the game would result in more or less rape in real life, I'm not sure. If the answer is less, then go for it I say. Not a game for me though.

posted by : Worried, 14 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Lost In Translation

You lot giving it the big one about morals and what is ethically appropriate content in computer games need to just fuck off back to your right-wing fallout shelters and spend some time broadening your horizons beyond your own self-elected senses of morality. Pat yourselves on the back for justifying games that support the death and maiming of hundreds of people YOU have been convinced to believe are evil and wrongdoers, and stomp your feet and light a candle for upholders of justice you big fucking armchair war heroes you. Now take a step back from your own fantasy lands and accept for a second that some cultures in the world are capable of exploring ARTIFICIAL scenarios without necessarily linking them to reality you narrow-minded simpleton arseholes.

posted by : Gilbo, 15 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Hello, I commit acts of onanism while viewing pornographic imagery

Yes, I fiddle with myself, on a weekly basis even.
You may of course discard this comment on the basis of my depravity, but I urge you to read further

As a teenage male I had an uncanny interest in all things sexually arousing, and so I dove into the darkest depths of the cesspool of vice -- the internet. I found Japanese pornography particularly interesting, with my fetish being intercourse with exotic females it seems natural. Such filthy fiction is plentiful in Japan and comes in many forms and flavors: games (mostly "visual novel" adventure-type escapades), pornographic cartoons and comics (surprisingly plentiful) and of course the good old adult video (which I consume to this day).
Oh the stories I could tell... Maybe next time. Anyway, while "consuming" the Japanese "produce" I happened upon a trend most disturbing -- more than 50% of sexual acts in all pornographic media pertain to rape simulation!
There are many games similar to Rapelay (although few so "rich" in interaction) but the language barrier seems to be protecting the western public efficiently enough.
If you want to be through with weeding out the vile, you'll want to ban ALL Japanese pornography, lest you accidentally come in contact with the darker side of Japanese culture. However that won't stop people from pirating this stuff like I do with all my pornography, for I, as an upstanding citizen, do not support the sexual media.

posted by : Autoerotist, 15 February 2009 Complain about this comment
F the Brits and F u

Oh seriously.
Do you think we even care about 9-11 anymore?

The only people who ever gave a crap about 9-11 where the few people involved in it.

If only you knew how many white Americans are rooting for Osama's team.

More than anything, your children hate you.

And, yes... you are a retard if you cannot see that a virtual experience of a bad thing is far less evil than its actual physical counterpart. If there were people constatly complaining about the REAL violence that goes on day in and day out against women, men, and children... in every little corner of this sick planet, well, that would make your criticism of this game far easier to take.

Rape has been around for thousands of years. It has been in our movies and books, our conversations... but now that it is in a video game it is an all our crisis.

Look at your man, telling the world he'd like to nuke Japan again because they made this game....

and you tell me "it'll come back to bite you [me] in the ass." HA!

The only thing that is coming is the eventual decimation of your homeland, and I for one, cannot wait!

Go suck a dick, homeboy.

posted by : American again, 15 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Well i looked for myself and...

It's a pile of dog business! haha. The only reason why they even used the name 'rape' in the title is for this exact purpose. There is a saying, 'any publicity is good publicity' and here is a perfect example. It's a game! And a terrible one at that! If anything its funny how badly made this game is! Gotta love the Japanese culture though no matter how fucked up, It's interesting! People may complain about things like this cause they like to burry there heads in the sand and not believe these things really happen. Everyone lives in a 'bubble' especially in the western world. Britain and America been the worst and i unfortunately live in the UK and see how people care about stupid things day in and day out. Humans make me laugh how we have a wonderful amazing planet to live and just let power mongers rule. Crazy. Parasites!!!

As for the American, You people tend to forget where you come from with your massive 200 year history!!! Its a shame that so many of you over there are so narrow minded because i do know there are good people over there but are tarnished by ignorant idiots. There's more to the world than 50 states and a federal district you know!!! A quick insight to how 'great' you've made yourself in those 200 years, just have a look here:

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Thats if you have a long enough attention span!!!

posted by : Ian, 15 February 2009 Complain about this comment
fair enough

So we came from the loser brit's, french and the rest of the world. Who gives a rat's ass. You aren't my friends. England can suck it.

I don't give a crap about any of this... my attention span just gave out.

Peace, buggers.

posted by : A3, 16 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Two Towers

I heard Charlie did 9/11 to get back at an Nvidia salesman who showed him a graphical demo of his own arse raping. None of this happened but it's a fact nonetheless.
* this message fuelled by class B drugs and 28 straight hours playing Japanese rape games in a big nappy.

posted by : Graeme, 16 February 2009 Complain about this comment
The way i see it.

After reading all of the hate messages, vile language and arguments (which was quite entertaining. If anyone gives a damn, these are my 2 cents.

in normal violent video games we play in fantasy worlds and our enemies can be classified as evil. Whether them is aliens from outer space who kill us for no reason, armies of killer zombies, or just people who happen to be on the wrong side of the no-man's land. In multi-player games we are all there to virtually shoot each other. And all of us accept that we run the risk of getting shot too, we do not kill "innocent victims" except maybe the afks.

rape is different because, it's an attack on an innocent person without justifiable reason. In Ayn Rand ideas, it's expecting another person to live for you sake. In one form it's slavery. Which is why it's wrong, it's taking something that has not been earned or given.

Simulating that is most definitely not for my stomach, but then again i know people for whom doom 3 wasn't for theirs.

will this lead to actual rapes ?
did anyone think that maybe people might try this game out of curiosity (i might) just to see what it'll feel like, and if they are rational beings, it'll make them sick, and they won't want to ever commit rape. How many of you have been turned on after watching a brutal rape scene in a film ? i sure wasn't, yet as a teenager with a free mind i often thought of it and i didn't know what to think.

and to all of those who can't control themselves and give into irrational urges to swear and suggest annihilation through use of atomic weapons. It's not funny. You lose any argument the second you become obscene, and please think sometimes.

posted by : L & R, 16 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Strange and flawed arguments

The comments display a total lack of what's actually going on. Comparing Rapelay with war games and other FPS games is nonsense. Imagine a game where you play a serial killer, where the ONLY goal of the game is to get enjoyment out of torturing and killing innocent victims. Would this game go down well? Obviously not, it's an abhorrent thought to most of us. Yet when a rape game is released people with seedy reasoning defend it. I can only surmise there's a reason behind it. Rape was never about sex, it's about control and enjoyment from the victims anguish and pain, and THAT's why it's so nasty and wrong.

posted by : Scyphe, 16 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Now

all those who have ever killed another human being in a game, take your comments and leave please. You have no right to critizise this game. Murder is a terrible crime and there is no excuse for it. You must be sick to the very core of your being if you play games whose objectives are killing other human beings.

posted by : b, 16 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Surely?

"Where is all your emotional outpouring for the sex workers, or all the porn stars with prolapsed anus'?"

Surely that should be Anii

posted by : Locastus, 16 February 2009 Complain about this comment
@Locastus re:Multiple Arseholes

The correct plural of anus is anuses, whether raped or not.

posted by : Graeme, 17 February 2009 Complain about this comment
By this logic, GTA should be pulled

Rape is no more immoral than murder. So one must ask the question, if you are going to pull a rape game, why on earth wouldn't you also pull a game where you kill innocent people?

posted by : Mark, 17 February 2009 Complain about this comment
You people don't know what you're talking about

You people are arguing with the wrong assumption.

It is NOT a "simulator", it is merely a role-play erotic fantasy with a raping premise.

There's tons of adult video in which the "plot" (if you can call it that) involves unwilling participants. This is just like couples role-playing in the bedroom, are they all criminals then? With pent up urges? That people like your parents needs desperate help?

Like a previous poster said, real criminals are not doing it for the sexual satisfaction but victimization, which is exactly what games of this kind is NOT, this is focused on sex, just like all PORNs are.

You people just eat up the sensationalist claim that the game is some sort of "simulator", and accepted it for a fact.

This is just like saying FPS is a "murder simulator" - preposterous! It is a stylized experience to satisfy people's desire to blow shit up and vent, just like this game is a fantasized sexual role-playing.

Real criminal won't ever get off on this stuff, just like real killers don't satisfy themselves by playing computer games.

P.S No I don't play this kind of game and never played this one either, in case my motive is in doubt.

posted by : Shane, 18 February 2009 Complain about this comment
You people don't even know what you're talking about

I downloaded this game the other day and it sucks. Its not realistic. The guys penis doesn't even achieve penetration. It just stays on the outside. It's bad because its poorly coded XD. Here's the link. Can't wait the comments for this! LOL.
http://www.kaskus.us/showpost.php?p=46930258&postcount=13226.

posted by : The Pwn, 18 February 2009 Complain about this comment
pissed priorities

*laugh* "oh no! rape!"

good thing these games get all the attention instead of the millions upon millions of people starving and tortured daily because a class of commercial elite see it as the most profitable avenue.

Priorities people.

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

posted by : goose, 19 February 2009 Complain about this comment
Why not.

This game surpresses my urge to rape, lol. Common be serious since when did we become such prudes. If you dont like it, dont buy it. If you dont want to see it, dont search for it. As i see it, Porn is a business & Business is good.

posted by : Rape Master, 11 May 2009 Complain about this comment
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OH YES

posted by : Anonymous, 03 September 2009 Complain about this comment
dude...

i loled

posted by : anon, 26 October 2009 Complain about this comment
Thank you, Inquirer !

My sincere thanks to the Inquirer for publishing these news. I knew nothing about this fabulous game prior to reading your article, but now I went ahead and bought myself a copy. I am playing and enjoying it immensively and I can't but recommend it to everyone!

Thank you, Inquirer !!!

posted by : BananaJoe, 26 October 2009 Complain about this comment
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