Random: There's A New Game On The Japanese Switch eShop That's Definitely NSFW

How... interesting.

I don't think the kiddie image of Nintendo has been relevant since the mid SNES days. Nintendo has always been for everybody. Even...erm...

Reminds me of those really corny dating games that I played on PC as a kid back in the day. I would be all over it if they bothered to localise it. I think dating games are hilarious. It's a criminally underrepresented genre and the overwhelming majority of them are insidiously mediocre. I persevered with the likes of Sprung and Miami Nights on DS back in the day. Sprung had moments of sharp wit, but it was nothing but a text adventure with a LOT of trial and error. Miami Nights was just flat-out bad.

I bought one of those dating games on Switch on a complete whim, and that turned out to be such a massive disappointment. I can handle roleplaying as a girl (beggars can't be choosers with this genre), but trying to pick up smooth talking male prostitutes...? Honestly, what the hell kind of audience were they going for with this?!

Shin Den Ai for Smash!!!

Not realy my thing.maby if its cheesy or creepy enough to be realy funny i give at a go for a good laugh

Time for every "gaming outlet" to make an article about this and turn it into a big deal so they eventually take it down. This is why we can't have nice things.

Oh no, a harmless game that I wouldn't have to play even if it was released in the West. Time to get offended...

These news posts about lewd stuff are getting out of hand.

In the eShop screens she's just doing the same pose Lilac from Freedom Planet does in 90% of promo art for that game.

So what if this contains some racy stuff.
In GEIST you possess a shower nozzle drizzling a naked woman, and that was over twelve years ago. Women's bodies in games can't keep being news.

@Gamer83 Who's getting offended lol?

Can’t wait for certain sites to use this to say games are poisoning kids minds, most likely with Nintendo’s name front and centre.

I’m STILL waiting for King Dedede’s Dating Simulator.

I still don't get Japan when it comes to sex/nudity. On one hand they have no problem sexualising teenagers in media including stuff that is also AIMED AT teenagers. Plus nudity seems to be used for comedic effect a lot even in mainstream media.

On the other hand they still censor all their porn.

NSFW?
This is a nothing, waste of time and space article.

@GrailUK even NES (well, Famicom) had stuff like Digital Devil Monogatari (the root of the whole SMT franchise). Sweet Home, too... frankly, it seems like Nintendo was never too burdened by the "kids only" impressions at home.

And the west... seemed to label any console as such if it had so much as a single Mario game on it. Which didn't stop games like Alone in the Dark or GTA from appearing released and localised on Game Boy Color, though.

@MagicEmperor lol what? That sounds rad.

Echoing the comments above about news articles blowing this up, expecting it to at least be on a list of "top ten oh Japan! games" 🙄

Gotta love those Japanese naming conventions!

This game seems to be called "True Digital Love (What Do You Want?) ～Eri Kitami～"

@MagicEmperor Wait, playing as King DeDeDe or trying to date King DeDeDe?

In either case the phrase "give her the DDD" needs to be included.

Switch version of hunnipop yay

@SmaggTheSmug Trying to date. 😊

@DABYX Such a game does not exist in reality, but my imagination is an ocean that can never remain still. The Dedede Dating Sim, I mean.

Meeting at The White House confirmed!

Nothing better to buy right now on eshop, so might as well get this.

Didn't I just read an article about Nintendo's "quality testing" for eShop games ?

So does she actually get naked? Seems like a waste if she does in other forms of entertainment.

Reminds me of when I heard about certain Dreamcast games...

You see, the problem with this is that the Switch is kind of big. It'd be hard to hold it in one hand while...uh...

I think the hyper-violent games on the eShop are more inappropriate for children than this.

Saw this while browsing the Japanese eshop yesterday. I read Japanese and was reading to my wife what all of it was saying...we were both like "uuummm, ok."
The game was only a few bucks worth of yen if anyone wants to try it.

This is basically a tame gravure book of her. Also, you can "talk" with her, as she has voice clips in the game.

She is a gravure fashion model that shows off some fancy clothes, tiny or small swimsuits/lingerie or fetish outfits. She is also on Instagram with more risque photos. Some are quite artful photos.

...So, review when?

@sillygostly OK, first off. Those are my manhoes and I swore to fight for them, dignity be damned.

Those are called otome and they are aimed for women. As for dating games aka Galge in general, may I kindly point you in the direction of MangaGamer, Jast, Sekai Project and some other english publishers and you'll see they're not underrepresented at all. It's otome that's still underrespresented, not dating games with male protags.

@piichan can't believe people like you with a vast knowledge of this stuff actually really exist.

@gutsack if you go into the vn/galge/otome/eroge communites, there are people there more knowledgeable on the topic than me

Isn't "Japan releases new softcore porn game" about as unexpected and newsworthy as "Nintendo releases new stability update?"

I wouldn't jump to say sex is more liberal in Japan considering all the censorship.

@FinalFrog Not Something For Women. (Straight women that is) people tend to use the term for games with women ment to be attractive.

On a more serious note, it means Not Safe For Work.

@Giygas_95 motion controls bro

@bluemage1989 Hahaha...motion controls indeed.

Grab your Joy-Con and get ready to experience some serious HD Rumble

@NEStalgia While this is the first game I personaly would consider "soft core porn" on Switch (only because she apparently is a gravure idol) updates about news on more games, even mild eroge would be more interesting than posts on as good as every stability update.

But yeah, its slighthly suprising in this case. Would be more suprising if the Switch version of Nekopara will be the uncensored one.

Do you count every ecchi game as soft porn? If so I agree with your argument. Thou I don't really consider them porn.

@Gamer83

Haha exactly.

"Genre: Simulation / Communication / Strategy / Training"

Strategy?.......strategy........

For research...

I need to play this game...for research

@dubber
"Strategy?.......strategy........"

Yeah, like planning when your parents are going out and when they'll be back.

@Giygas_95 That's what table top mode is for.

@Tank207 Yeah, I had that thought too, haha.

I see that Nintendo is revisiting their history...

Cool if you're into that kind of thing.

Prudery is common here at Nintendo Life. Sex is plenty on the internet, it's not like kids haven't seen them. Any curious kid can google sex then go to the images section: there they will witness the things that adults do.

My favourite dating-sim is Sakura Wars on Wii.
Mixed with round-based strategy segments it actually made a full game, was even dual layer.

@Alex18 It is, bought it for 500 yen on Japanese eshop.

Where is the video?

Obviously you guys never seen an Eroge Videogame ....

(cough)gal gun 2 for switch with sexy dlc coming for it as well(cough) which by the way im getting gal gun 2 to support rated m games on the switch.

So, despite no one complaining about the "degeneracy" of this game (much less being on anyone's radar to begin with) it took up to the 7th comment to complain about a hypothetical group of offended people.

And of the 63 comments (including mine), there's been more folks complaining about hypothetical offended groups than there are people actually offended over this game.

The person above isnt wrong in saying "This is why we cant have nice things." Their sentiment might just be pointed at the wrong folks...

Japan really is not more liberal when it comes to sex, not at all. Just different. Put aside your misconceptions please, hentai and porn are not mainstream things. And people might argue what about all the fan service in regular anime, that would be things like panty shots and big boobie girls and the like. Which is quite pervy. But generally it almost never goes beyond that. Living in Japan and watching a lot of Japanese media I can tell you that so much as an actual kiss is rare and usually a big moment. And sex scenes outside of actual porn are all but unheard of. Yet look at Netflix originals, even Marvel shows have a sex scene almost every episode! HBO programs are full of outright sex and leave almost nothing to the imagination. You never see stuff like that in Japanese original programs or anime - outside of dedicated porn.

Where is the part where you kill stuff? This doesn't look fun...

@Heavyarms55 That exactly!
People really don't know a bit about real Japan but are quite fast to ridicule or feel offended by things that aren't common in the first place.
I haven't bought the game so I can't say if there is nudity in it but I highly doubt so. Also as far as I know a gravure idol and an adult model are two different things...
Besides, just my opinion obviously, but I find more disturbing extra violent games than nudity or soft erotica. I rather let my kids see some boobs than a guy decapitating another guy.

When Nintendo Life creates an article/clickbait to cause people to go into a frenzy and everyone just shrugs

@maruse A lot of people tend to forget that things that get reported on often get reported on because they are unusual, not the norm. Personally when it comes to kids I have always felt it is the parent's responsibility, not some company's responsibility, to control what kids see and do. When I was a kid, if I wanted a game my parents would look at it and decided yes or no. I didn't get to own any M rated 17+ games until just that, I was 17. (Of course I still got around that to a degree with friends who owned the games but that was because I wasn't the most honest kid) Also my parents made sure, from an early age, to teach me and remind me that games are games, and reality is reality. Something it seems like a lot of parents these days are too lazy to do.

Its a sexting simulation without nudity or graphic language. You must convince the girl to send you pictures of her cosplaying. Easier (and more rewarding) to play this in real life

Edit: by the way the worst comments are "why is this even news" or "i couldn't care less". If you don't care at all then why even bother posting? just move to next article.

@The__Goomba yeah and they will either forget or not remember that this kind of 'racy' game has existed for a long time. Anyone remember those puzzle games on megadrive (and SNES?) where clearing the screen would reveal some pixelated ladyparts ?
Or Custer's revenge. God, it looks like games have been poisoning the minds of gamers for decades XD

@piichan I think he meant that there aren't that many on the Switch in particular.
Dream Daddy port when?

Absolute garbage

@countzero as far as I understand those things are quite connected. The almost extreme sexual preferences of Japanese began after the government started to censor heavily I once read.

Must feel nice creating articles with vague minimum clickbait titles, that barely even talks about the game itself, rather the actual provocative content.

"We get a feeling this bit of news is going to get a LOT of comments, so we'll let you guys discuss Shin Den Ai (Nani ga Hoshii no?) ～Eri Kitami～ down below..."

Yeah only, 75 and counting, LOL. As if people don't care for minimum information, that only focuses on Japanese liberal taboo LMAO.

@bluesdance ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Not Safe For Society.

I vote Alex Olney does a let's play of this.

Not my cup of tea, but it certainly doesn't offend me in any way. Sex is a part of life after all.

Love and sex is good, violence and murder is bad. The USA as a whole glorifies the latter and is terrified of the former because we're run by Puritans and psychopathic maniacs to this day. To be fair l, though, a lot of societies are somewhat like that. I guess it would be more accurate to say it's a common trait of patriarchal societies.

@Gamer83

So Nintendo releases this, albeit in Japan, yet Sony chickens out on Super Seducer for PSN.

The whole Nintendo is kiddy thing is absolute BS. I wish it would end, but realistically it never will.

Adult games are my bag, baby. There are so few of them and they're always good for a laugh filled night. Zombeer, anyone?

@sillygostly

They are pretty cheesy. XD

@Pod
And Geist was a first-party Nintendo game! The multiplayer was great too

@EVIL-C
Super Seducer didn't look like a great game, but yeah, considering some of the stuff that has gotten through on PSN 'quality control' definitely wasn't the reason that game wasn't allowed. Nintendo has a history of having M-rated games or T-rated games that were probably closer to a light M rating, even on N64 with stuff like Turok, Doom, Resident Evil 2, Hybrid Heaven. Gamecube was supposed to be the home of RE that gen before Capcom backed out, it also had Eternal Darkness, Splinter Cell, Metroid Prime. Wii had the No More Heroes games, MadWorld, House of the Dead and Wii U had Bayonetta. It's always hilarious to me when people act shocked when an 'adult themed' or 'mature content' game hits a Nintendo system because they've been there for a long, long time.

@Gamer83 Even Bombing Bastards was changed to Bombing Busters for the super, ultra, hardest-of-the-hardcore PS4 players.
Nintendo isn't kiddy; the mindset of the trolls who still think it's 1986 are.

@EVIL-C
Yeah, like I put in my other comment, I agree. It's a stigma that's always going to be there though. If it didn't leave during the Gamecube days, when Nintendo was getting nearly everything except Rockstar games, it's not going to leave now.

Hmmm....I may have to look into this....for research purposes.