![]() Laidley noted, however, that many Japanese games still have ample amounts of extremely graphic violence.Īlthough RapeLay is part of a fringe industry, it does exemplify the greater amount of sexual content in mainstream Japanese video and computer games than in Western games. “Western games, whether violent or not, always try to be realistic, while many Japanese try to be more artistic, often throwing reality to the wind.” Japanese games tend to depict less realistic violence but trade it for more disturbing images and perverse themes,” Laidley said in an e-mail to the Daily. With Western games, like Gears of War, you get very realistic, detailed deaths. “Having played a lot of Japanese games, they are less violent than Western games when it comes to realism. ![]() Junior Ron Laidley believes that the difference between the violence in Japanese and American games is a matter of realism. The Japanese game MadWorld, hailed as “blood-soaked action for the Wii” by its publisher Sega, was recently released in the United States, but has not yet come to Japanese stores. One weapon frequently used is a chainsaw bayonet, which can cut enemies clean in half.Įven extremely violent games developed in Japan might not see the light of day in their country of origin. In Gears of War 2, enemies often explode when shot with powerful weapons, which often results in blood and gore spraying the camera. ![]() Although the highly violent action game Gears of War 2 sold 1.4 million copies on its first day on American store shelves, Microsoft chose to not release the game in Japan. A article noted that eroge games are “usually sold alongside glossy comics, figurines, and animated smut in shops that cater to a common fetish for animated women they don’t share shelf space with Super Mario and Halo.”Īlthough many would find the sexual violence in RapeLay repulsive, the gory violence present in Western games is likewise not very acceptable in Japan. The games are more part of the pornography industry than the video game industry at large. RapeLay is part of a genre of games in Japan known as eroge, or hentai. However, one can find a download of a translated version of the game in seconds on. ![]() ![]() A recent call by New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to ban a Japanese computer game in which players stalk and rape women on subways is drawing attention to cultural differences between the United States and Japan as exhibited in computer and video games.Īs several Web sites, such as and point out, efforts to ban the game are largely moot, as the game, RapeLay, is not available from American retailers and is not listed on or. ![]()
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