How do you spice up your chess game so it'll stand out on the overcrowded eShop? If you're Silver Star, the company behind Oshiete Onedari Shogi (or Teach Me Japanese Chess Pretty Please, if you prefer), the answer is to add some lovely ladies in a variety of revealing costumes.
Kotaku reports that this Japanese Switch exclusive not only gives you a good game of chess (or, more accurately, shogi, a Japanese variant), but also includes clips of professional cosplayers and even adult film actress Airi Satou. Her IMDB page isn't particularly impressive, but that's probably because she specialises in a genre that has its own awards ceremony, very much apart from the upcoming Oscars. Ahem.
The game doesn't contain anything explicit, although it's still rated over-17s only. If you're embarrassed at the thought of someone walking in while you're oggling beautiful models in various states of undress, you're in luck! A special 'Mom Showed Up Mode' flips out the bikini-clad ladies for some gruesome cartoon monsters with a quick press of the '-' button.
The game's trailer, which we won't reproduce here for reasons that should be obvious, refers to Satou as "your 2.5-dimensional daughter", which seems odd, to say the least.
Variety is the spice of life, as they say, but while it's great to see the eShop expanding its horizons, this reminds us of the very dull Pure / Electric Love games which cropped up last year. Still, at least you get to play a spot of Shogi with this one, and not just have a one-sided phone call with an idol.
Eager to learn shogi and think this will offer a mean game? Let us know your thoughts on this one...
[source kotaku.com]
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"The game doesn't contain anything explicit"
"The game's trailer, which we won't reproduce here for reasons that should be obvious"
I guess I don't get the obvious reason, do you only show trailers that do contain explicit material? Because that Dead or Alive beach game trailer you did show has about 5x more skin showing, and about 100x more jiggle.
It seems like that one mini game in each Yakuza game I avoid. There’s always one dodgy one, whether it’s scantily-clad anthropomorphic bugs or a gravure studio.
Looks nice, but won't buy it unless it gets a retail release. Have another Shogi game, and even with pretty ladies, 4,1 GB download is a bit much for me.
"Mom Showed Up Mode" mode is a stroke of genius. As long as there isn't any other stroking happening...
okay, but, like, why though?
@DoomTurtle Certain 'poses' go beyond what we're willing to post. The trailer's easy enough to find.
@Charlie_Girl Why not, though? 🤔
do like some shogi.. but probably to much energy to get it via japan and play it without english text... anyone tried the Go game on the switch?
Not interested
Now, tell me more about that Dungeon Monster Chess 2: Retribution...
Laughed hard here
@CurryPowderKeg79 I mean, people can literally find salacious content on the Internet for free, but I guess
All the motivation you need to learn shogi
@DoomTurtle and no problem showing that Mortal Kombat 11 trailer which just made me feel ill
@NintoRich Don’t you know? Gore is perfectly fine, and the female body was constructed by the devil himself.
Strip chess. This is masterful. If every high school thought of this, the chess club would be where the cool kids hung out. YOU HEAR THAT BIFF SHARPTON, VARSITY ALL STAR?! WE'VE GOT FREAKING STRIPPERS IN THE CHESS CLUB!!! WHO'S AWESOME NOW?!
ahem sorry, flashbacks......won't happen again.
Seriously though, this was a shovelware eye roller until I saw the monster mode toggle. It's a game with personality that laughs at itself. That's kind of neat. Still kind of weird and sad, but neat.
Interesting to see how many people who clicked on the article went directly to look up Airi Satou. LOL.
@DoomTurtle ...lol. True. This is pretty softcore. It is almost quaint compared to what people can find on their pocket p@rno machines.....oops I mean smart phones.
Here's the problem the Moral Police like to police our Moral but won't Police their own Moral. Japan and how they see nudity or lack of censorship is what a open social community should be. They can do their own choosing. If not then why are you talking or buying it-that would mean I will be Moral Police for others but not for me so give me the game. Yea that really shows your true colors.
@Anri02 Although, the opposite is pretty much true in Japan.
Day one purchase for me.
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