Reminds me of a certain game where you play as one of the brothers grimm who's been brainwashed into thinking he's CS Lewis and you go around raping girls (and one boy).
It's a great game, and it's also an interesting example of an author modifying the source material in a way that made it a better video game adaptation. I think it ended up portraying the themes Ellison intended better than the short story did.
This looks to be 75% off in GOG right now. And, as one GOG reviewer put it, it's apparently 'vastly superior to it's sequel, I Have No Nose and I Must Sneeze.'
I still wish we would've gotten the director's cut of this game in some way since early footage showcases that this would've been a lot darker than what we ended up getting.
Who? I've not heard of any of these people. (I've seen the name f95 before, but don't know who they are.)
F95 is just a forum for porn games. They're considered one of the bigger ones since they also are the only uncucked forum that allows torrent links and other pirate methods posted on the forum. But because of that they also have a huge zoomer userbase.
The Night Trap controversy probably got a boost from its being a Sega CD exclusive for years. Relatively few people had actually played it. Talking heads and politicians could roll footage of the one or two scenes where a girl in her underwear gets dragged around and make up whatever they wanted, when in reality they'd already shown the worst/best part. Almost anyone who sits down and bothers with it ends up disappointed, as it's a soft PG-13 and not even one of the more entertaining games to come out of the FMV fad. otoh, Harvester, Phantasmagoria, and any number of others underpromise and overdeliver on outrageous content.
I don't want the thread derailed into a debate, but those pixels represent something, otherwise we'd feel the same way looking at static on a TV but we don't. Yeah, nobody's getting hurt, but there's still a problem with how it conditions people to think about things, which is why propaganda is a thing in the first place. People can be influenced or their existing desires can be enflamed, it's dumb to deny it.
It also supposedly "plays" poorly, which is horrible for an FMV game because there's not much gameplay to begin with. From what I understand, there's no way to follow the story because you're constantly switching through cameras, meaning everything seems random and out if context to the viewer.
He always was a kidder.
They represent coomer/edgy material. Which won't really damage people unless they buy into a game that they need to work hard to see. Compare with something like 120 Days of Sodom which inspiration and scenes are more extreme than anything here put together.
You can either follow the actors/story or catch the bad guys but you can't really do both. And if you don't catch the bad guys, it's Game Over, so the player is obliged to mostly ignore the plot. The game was originally designed for a never-released VHS-based device that allowed the user to switch between different videos playing at the same time. It's a gimmick without a lot of potential. A laserdisc game could at least branch and switch to any footage at any time, so Night Trap was built around stricter limitations than e.g. Dragon's Lair or other games developed for optical media.
