RapeLay

RapeLay

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Developer(s) Illusion Soft
Publisher(s) Illusion Soft
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release date(s) April 21, 2006
Genre(s) Eroge
Mode(s) Single-player

RapeLay (レイプレイ Reipurei) is a 3D eroge video game made by Illusion, released on April 21, 2006 in Japan. Compared to Illusion's previous games, the main story is shorter, it features an improved 3D engine, as well as it is mainly played through mouse control. The game centers on a male character who stalks and rapes a mother and her two daughters. Three years after its initial release, the game garnered international attention and controversy for its content, and was subsequently banned in several countries.

Gameplay

RapeLay is played from the perspective of a chikan named Masaya Kimura, who stalks and subsequently rapes the Kiryuu family (a mother and her two daughters).

The player can choose from a variety of sexual positions and controls the action by making movements with the mouse or by scrolling the mouse wheel. It features a realistic sexual simulator which allows the player to grope and undress the characters on a crowded train. Later, the player may have forced intercourse with all three females at his leisure. The player has a variety of sexual positions to choose from such as woman on top, forced fellatio (irrumatio), and threesomes. RapeLay also has a nakadashi (internal ejaculation) counter, which carries a danger of pregnancy.

After completing the storyline and "breaking" the females, there are six modes of gameplay:

Plot

Story

In story mode, the player rapes the three females in the order of Manaka, Yuuko, and Aoi. The player starts off in the train station. Upon entering the train, the main character gropes the female the main character is currently in the train with. After the main character finishes raping all three females, the players has the option of free play scenes.[2]

After being caught by Aoi groping a woman on a subway train, Masaya Kimura is arrested by authorities. On the morning of the next day, Manaka and Aoi help their mother Yuuko find a wallet she lost around their home while talking about the incident the previous day. Unknown to them, Kimura secretly listens to their conversation while waiting outside their house. It is revealed at this point that he was released from custody by his father, an influential/important and well known politician. He follows Manaka, the youngest, to the subway and gropes her on the train. After getting off the train, he traps her in a public bathroom and rapes her, taking pictures of her semen-covered naked body with his mobile phone. Kimura instructs Manaka to feign sickness the next day and stay in her room.[2]

Screenshot of Chikan mode, where the player gropes the final victim, Aoi Kiryu, on the subway.

The next day he follows Yuuko, the mother, from her house to the train station where he fondles her on the train. Kimura follows her to the city park. As per his plan, Manaka calls Yuuko on her mobile phone, telling her that she is in the bushes at the park. When Yuuko walks towards the bushes, Kimura ambushes her, ties her up and rapes her in the park. He takes pictures of her semen-covered naked body before handing her over to his gang of henchmen on the side, who detain her for him.[2]

The third day he follows Aoi, the eldest daughter, to the train station and shows her the photo of her tied up mother. Shocked, she can only follow his orders as he gropes her on the train. After getting off the train, she asks Kimura why he is doing this, at which point she remembers he is the groper who was arrested for molesting a woman. Getting in a vehicle, Kimura and his henchmen take Aoi to a hotel owned by his family. He rapes her violently in a mini-suite room and takes photos after withdrawing.[2]

After having his way with Aoi, Yuuko and Manaka are taken into the room via a secret door. With all 3 captured, Kimura reveals his plans to make them his sex slaves. Of course, Yuuko tries to cover for her daughters and pleads with him to take her instead. He considers this and tells Yuuko he might spare her daughters if she can prove her worth. Yuuko gives him a very long blowjob while her two daughters watch. When Kimura seems pleased at her performance, Yuuko thinks she has won her daughters' freedom. Instead, Kimura reveals that he will never change his mind and that they are all there to stay. Yuuko breaks down in the end, Manaka breaks next and finally Aoi as well. The game ends with the ominous title card that as a new day starts the Kiryu family horror has 'only just begun'.[2]

Endings

The game is open-ended and there are two possible outcomes to the game where the main character dies.

Characters

Reception and controversy

Critics of violent game imagery, such as British Member of Parliament Keith Vaz, have cited games involving rape as an example of why video game content needs to be more strictly regulated.[4] RapeLay in particular had come to Vaz's attention in 2009, three years after its initial release, as being one of the rape games purchasable on Amazon.com, despite not being officially distributed nor supported outside of Japan, and he vowed to bring the issue into the British Parliament to prevent the game from being sold. Amazon subsequently removed the game from its website.[5] Equality Now followed up on the game, urging activists to write to Illusion and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso in protest, arguing the game breaches Japan's obligations under the 1985 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.[6] In May 2009, these actions culminated in the restriction of the sale and production of RapeLay by the Ethics Organization of Computer Software (EOCS), an independent Japanese ratings organization for adult games, making the purchase of the game impossible.[7]

The distribution of RapeLay has been banned in Australia due to a campaign run by Women's Forum Australia, under the directorship of Melinda Tankard Reist.[8] Minister for Broadband Stephen Conroy wanted Google Australia to censor search results for downloads of the game, but this did not occur. The game is also the only one to be effectively banned in Argentina.[9][10][11][12] Citing RapeLay as an example, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in his concurring opinion vis-à-vis the case Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association wrote, "It...appears that there is no antisocial theme too base for some in the video-game industry to exploit."[13]

Articles in defence have also been written, many noting that rape is a lesser crime compared to murder, yet there are thousands of legal video games in which the goal is to kill enemies.[14] Illusion's response to the controversy was one of bewilderment and a reiteration that the game passed Japanese laws and is not sold outside Japan.[6] Illusion later removed references to the game from their website and ceased distribution of the game, citing concerns over the impact on the industry.[15]

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "feuerdrache's Compilation RapeLay Walkthru Collection Final 100%". JSEMTS. Archived from the original on April 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
  3. 1 2 "RapeLay Strategy Page (レイプレイ 攻略ページ)" (in Japanese). Illusion Soft. Archived from the original on 2009-04-20. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  4. Arendt, Susan (2008-03-03). "UK Politician Claims Games Feature Virtual Rape". Wired. Retrieved 2008-03-25.
  5. Fennelly, Gary. "Exclusive: Amazon selling rape simulation game". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
  6. 1 2 "Japan software firm shrugs off rape game protests". Yahoo! Tech. Retrieved 2009-05-28. (Archive)
  7. "Party sets up a team to strengthen restriction on sexual violence games (性暴力ゲーム規制強化へ、与党が流通歯止め検討チーム)" (in Japanese). Yomiuri Shimbun. Archived from the original on 2009-05-30. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
  8. Tankard Reist, Melinda, 2009. Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls, p27.
  9. AFP (2010-04-18). "Prohíben el videojuego 'Rapelay' en Argentina por apología de delitos sexuales" (in Spanish). Google News. Archived from the original on April 23, 2010.
  10. Federico Gracia (2010-04-19). "Rapelay: el videojuego en el que hay que violar" (in Spanish). RedUsers.
  11. "Incautan 27 juegos Rapelay cuya venta está prohibida" (in Spanish). NotiExpress. 2010-04-22.
  12. "Videojuego que simula violación fue prohibido en Argentina" (in Spanish). Nacion.cl. 2010-04-19. Archived from the original on December 14, 2012.
  13. Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011)
  14. Thomsen, Mike (2009-05-01). "A Brief History of Videogame Controversy". IGN. Retrieved 2015-01-02.
  15. "Announcement from Illusion (ILLUSIONからのお知らせです)" (in Japanese). Illusion Soft. Archived from the original on 2009-05-29. Retrieved 2012-01-13.

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