It has a few decent ideas, the art design is solid and the combat is enjoyable enough, but there is nothing here that stands out beyond its obvious lewdness with the dialogue, story and characters all failing to make the most out of what could have been a thematically interesting approach towards sexuality and taboo in video games.Īs it stands, this is a serviceable but otherwise forgettable JRPG which falls back on titillation to provide the sense of wow that is otherwise lacking from the core gameplay.ĭespite the core concept of you having to guide these girls through hell in a loosely themed tale of redemption (but you know, with whips and chains and stuff), Criminal Girls actually falls back on rather traditional JRPG tropes relatively quickly. Outside of its somewhat unique torture mechanics, this is a relatively run of the mill dungeon crawler. It’s not that Criminal Girls: Invite Only is a particularly bad game or anything, it’s just not a particularly great one either. If none of that bothers you, well, you might want to give it a miss anyway. Simply put, if the thought of scantily clad girls, S&M and generally questionable sexual overtones make you in any way uncomfortable, you should totally give this game a miss.
Personally, I think it’s too silly to be taken seriously, but when a notable part of the gameplay is poking and rubbing (read: torturing) scantily clad and evocatively poised girls in an attempt to “motivate” them into battle, it’s hard to argue with those that do feel more than a little offended by it all. The fact of the matter is, regardless of the quality of the more traditional aspects of the experience, many will be unable to see past some of its murkier and more morally questionable design choices. This odd mix of traditional dungeon crawling JRPG gameplay, surprisingly progressive mechanics and a whole lot of incredibly questionable S&M-style kinky torture makes for a game that is both difficult to pigeonhole and even harder to judge. Perverted? Innocent fun? Repetetive? Boring? Imaginative? Criminal Girls: Invite Only might well be many of these things to some and even all to others.
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