Sogna
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Sogna (Italian for "It Dreams") is a now defunct Hentai/Bishoujo company from Japan. Originally created in the early 90's, Sogna became well known for appealing, simple and well animated Hentai games that have received a moderate cult following.
Each game would generally feature young, Japanese girls, who in way or another, found themselves either kidnapped or attacked by monsters, cyborgs, aliens or just men or women lacking in moral fibre. Whilst some games would have 2 or 3 different game paths available to the character, neither of these were particuarly hard to obtain, and the games are considered more like animated slideshows, than real Bishoujo games.
The company went bankrupt sometime around the year 2000.
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[edit] Games
The most famous and well known games created by Sogna are the infamous Viper series. Each game is named after a Viper car model and in same cases, so are the characters within each game. For instance, the most famous character from the series, Carrerra, gets her name from the Porsche 911 Carrera ("carrera" is Spanish for "race").
The titles are as follows, in ornder of release:
Some titles are difficult to gather information on, whilst others are still readily available on the Internet
- Viper-V6
- Viper V8
- Viper V10
- Viper GTS
- Viper V12
- Viper V16
- Viper BTR
- Viper CTR
- Viper F40
- Viper M1
- Viper Island Vol.1-6
- Viper F50
- Viper GTB
- Viper Paradice/Viper Langerie Black, Purple and Red.
- Viper GT1
- Typing Viper
- Viper M5
- Viper RSR
- Viper M3 3.2
- Viper V6R
- Viper V8R
Most games can be found easily on the internet thanks to sites like Hongfire and 4Chan, and a few of the more recent titles are available on premium Hentai sites.
[edit] Viper V6
The first game in the Viper series and also of the "V" sub-series, which seems to be characterized by its presence early in the overall series and for having mutltiple different stories under a single title. In this case there are three games in one. In "Afternoon", a girl named Mutsumi wins a beauty contest, but another contestant named Kazuyo challenges the decision, going to extreme lengths to prove she's sexier. In "The Devil Came" a young man named Ogawa tries to summon a demon to strike against those who've wronged him, but instead winds up with Carerra. He changes his mind and has her pleasure him as much as his body can handle. In "Double Impact", private investigators Miho and Kumi are hired for an undercover job that they ultimately fail, resulting in them both getting captured and raped. But at the end their client reveals it was all a trick to get some convincing actors for a movie, and Miho gladly accepts the money in spite of the experience. "Afternoon" and "Double Impact" are both completely linear stories without branches or choices for the player, while "The Devil Came" has a decent amount of interaction that allow various different outcomes. Ogawa is often given the choice to quit having sex early, which results in Carerra frightfully harvesting his soul, and a Game Over for the player. Other choices allow for certain sex scenes to be played over again, for varying lengths of time. Like other early installments of the V series, there is also a "Music Mode" allowing the player to listen to the various midis played in the game, a "BGV Mode" which shows a non-stop playthrough of each episode after completing it, and a "P-Chan Corner" which gives information about Sogna and the Viper series through an interview with P-Chan.
[edit] Viper V8
Contains three stories. In "Damon's Night" a parody RPG-style gameplay leads into the main characters' failure and torment and the hands of a Daemon king and his Succubus servant. In "Friday the 18th", teens camping in the woods are soon terrorized by a hockey-mask wearing lunatic named J-Son that chooses to rape his female victims rather than kill them. In "Alien War", a human soldier named Sylvia is defeated by the forces of Antora and is captured and raped. However Sylvia notices the Antorans are not at all familiar with the true pleasures of human sexuality, and after inviting to teach them, she eventually marries the Antoran General and brings peace to the two warring planets. Like V6, V8 also included a Music Mode, a BGV Mode, and a P-Chan Corner.
[edit] Viper V10
Contains three stories. "Children's Play", "Northern Lights", and "Rear Under".
[edit] Viper V12
Contains three stories. "Future Investigator Bravan", "Angel Dust", and "Magical Gambler Totocal Chomi".
[edit] Viper V16
Features two stories, Rise and Imagine. In Rise, the main character is a waitress called Akira. Akira and two of her friends, Saki and Karin, are working in the restaurant Anne Mitters when they are visited by bizarre subterranean rock monsters and their tall, white-haired, bishounen leader. The three girls are kept in a strange cell, where they will be used for 'reproduction.' The player's choices determine the paths the girls take attempting to escape, resulting in several alternate endings. In Imagine, the main character is a student in a 2-year vocational school. He goes to school and encounters three lovely girls, each in a different room. One girl yearns to become a voice actress, another is majoring in music, and the third is unsure of what future she seeks. Depending on the choices the player makes in this story, he can hook up with any or all of the three girls.
[edit] Viper Paradice
- In Viper Paradice, the four lovely players roll dice and move across a complex map, picking up various cards which give benefits or take them away as they go. The goal is to assemble a complete set of "movie cards" which allow you to watch all the hentai movies in the game. Danger lurks at every turn.
- Featuring the four lovely characters of Asuka (of Viper CTR fame), Carrera (from the famous Viper GTS), Mika (from Viper M1 "My Mothers") and Akira (from the ViperV16 Rise), you choose which character you want to play as. Up to four girls can play against each other, and each player can be controlled either by human players or the computer. In the case of playing with multiple humans, you can choose different control methods for each player (mouse or keyboard).
- The three "Gokuraku Viper Lanjerie" games that follow (Red, Violet, and Black) are based on Paradice, but with added and extened scenes, as well as new characters and cards. "Gokuraku" is Japanese for "paradise", note that the spelling of "Paradice" is otherwise intentional due to the board game theme of the sub-series.
[edit] Viper BTR
This game differs from the usual Viper series heavy-animation, little interaction formula. You play a girl with the power to turn into a magical gambler. You fight enemies in several mahjongg matches, and there is a slight Adventure element as well.
[edit] Fanbase
The Viper series has accumulated a rather large fan base on the internet. Some of the more popular titles include Viper RSR, Viper GTB and Viper M3. Unsurprisingly the more recent titles have attracted more praise than the older titles, however, Viper V6 still stands as one of the most well-loved and -received of all the games.
[edit] Spinoff Titles
In 2002, an Hentai Anime was created by Studio G-1 Neo. Released as 3 episodes with 30 minutes running time for each. The series followed the series most famous protagonist, Carrera as she accidentally fell in love with a human.
| “ | Carrera is a female demon whose job is to create a wish granting contract with a human being in exchange for their soul. Along with her partners/rivals Mercedes and Rati, they carry out this job for the benefit of the demon world. When Carrera is summoned by the nerdy Ogawa, she finds him to be more interesting than her previous cilents and develops a crush. Mercedes tries to get involved with Ogawa also to compete with Carrera. However, the female angels are upset by this disturbance and are willing to purify the demons with their precious "holy water" to save Ogawa's soul. | ” |
The OAV was well-received due to its humorous content and explicit and well animated sex scenes. There is currently no sequel announced, nor planned.
There was also a Viper Typing game which was also released. But due to its obscure gameplay, in comparison to the other titles, it was not well-received.
[edit] Non-Viper Games
While Viper is Sogna's leading series, there are other titles garnering recognition as well. The Animahjong series, which shortly preceded the Viper series, was Sogna's first series of bishoujo games. One more non-Viper title was produced in the middle of Sogna's lifespan called "Galactic Guardian Guynaroc R" which was a brief story set in space with an all-female space station crew who are attacked by powerful aliens. The story is mostly linear, with one ending, and a bonus "miniature" movie which retells the story of the game with a more comedic theme and super deformed characters.
[edit] External links
Warning: Links contain Adult content.
- Sogna's site via the Internet Archive
- Hyperguy's Website: Possibly the only English Fan site currently still being actively updated.
- HachCeGe A list of all the Viper games with screenshots of each title.
- Sogna company page at GameFAQs - has limited information on some of the Viper titles.
- PC98 Images Download some of the older titles from this Emulation website.
- Tokugawa Corp. Screenshots from a whole range of old PC98 bishoujo games, the Viper series included.
