The Battle Raper (バトルレイパー) series is a set of highly-controversial eroge (erotic) fighting games developed by Illusion between 2002 and 2005.
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| Battle Raper | |
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| Developer(s) | Illusion |
| Publisher(s) | Illusion |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release date(s) | April 19, 2002 |
| Genre(s) | Eroge and versus fighting game |
| Mode(s) | Single player / 2 players |
| Media/distribution | DVD-ROM |
| Battle Raper II: The Game | |
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| Developer(s) | Illusion |
| Publisher(s) | Illusion |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release date(s) | April 22, 2005 |
| Genre(s) | Eroge and versus fighting game |
| Mode(s) | Single player / 2 players |
| Media/distribution | DVD-ROM |
| System requirements
1.0GHz CPU, 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended), 8x CD-ROM, 32 MB DirectX 9-compatible video card, DirectSound-compatible soundcard, 256 MB of RAM, DVD-ROM, 32 MB video card |
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Battle Raper II (or Battle Raper II ～THE GAME～) (バトルレイパー2) is a the second game in the series, released in 2005.
In Battle Raper II, players are able to knock female opponents' clothing off. In combat every character has unlimited guard, a move that can not be blocked, and a super move.
As opposed to the first Battle Raper, the sequel actually does not feature rape. Once a fight against a female character is won, the game enters a special mode where the unconscious woman lies on the ground in front of the player who now has to heal her wounds. The Replay mode allows the player to have (consensual) sex with any female characters that finished the storyline with.
The game also features a variety of alternative clothing items and weapons for all the characters that can be used to edit their models.
The story line has no relations to the original Battle Raper and is set in the year "20XX". In the Story mode the player gets to choose one of the female characters to accompany the player's character, a young treasure hunter swordsman named Yuuki, while he travels the island, fighting undead monsters and other female characters (his competitors), and to have sex with her in the end.
The first game in the series gained notoriety because of its forced sex elements. In 2003, a Something Awful reviewer Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons concluded that Battle Raper "might be the worst Hentai game I've played to date".[1] Battle Raper was included on the GamesRadar's lists of the 7 "most evil" video games in 2007 ("At first, seeing female brawlers beat each others’ clothes off is pretty amusing in a twisted way, but the streaming tears that come when the raping begins quickly kills any quirky humor or titillation to be had with this sick hentai title") and the 12 weirdest fighting games in 2008 ("Humiliation, rape and degradation are wrapped up in one package of shame, that’s not only a shitty fighting game, but a sick idea as well").[2][3] The first Battle Raper was also credited to be one of the Japanese adult games that not only resulted in "a widely publicised outcry in the West – which only started years after the fact" but also led to the establishment of the Ethics Organization of Computer Software in 2009.[4]
Reviewing the game's sequel in for Something Awful in 2005, Parsons tongue-in-cheek wrote: "I want to say that I am glad they took the rape out of "Battle Raper 2," but sadly, I just can't. If you're going to make a game with rape in the title there needs to be rape in it."[5]