I'm not the only one who's noticed this, either. While we can't say for sure what Dungeon Travelers 2's protagonists are aged, many of them sure look disturbingly young. Of course there's one important way that Dungeon Travelers 2 sets itself apart from a game like The Witcher or even something like Dragon's Crown: the age of its subjects. In fact, one of them still owes fans a replacement calendar of guy butts. In one image, a green-haired girl is licking an ice cream cone suggestively.īefore anyone starts in about how people only complain about this stuff when Japanese developers do it: Nah, it's just as bad with Western devs. If there's any doubt left that women in Dungeon Travelers 2 exist only to be stared at, one need only look at the game's freshly-announced pre-order bonus: a 16-month calendar of 'The Ladies of Dungeon Travelers 2.' The example shots from the calendar show the women stretched out, staring out at the viewer with big eyes, wearing loose-fitting clothing or, in some shots, no clothing at all. It is, for all intents and purposes, a porn game, or the closest you can get to a porn game on the PlayStation Vita. Game design shouldn't be a matter of putting Pokémon into the bodies of playmates in order to appeal to gaming's worst instincts. The goal is not to get one of the game's many women to fight alongside you or to forge a deep relationship with them it's to eventually see them naked and probably doing something demeaning. if you do well and progress in the game, you're rewarded with naughty images. If anything, I think there should be more games featuring sex! What distresses me about Dungeon Travelers 2 is the way it treats sexuality - i.e. 'We are very aware of what impact censorship can have on import titles we are confident that the changes we made to the images in Dungeon Travelers 2 were the least invasive possible to still be eligible for a release in the west.' Atlus says these edits were approved by developer Aquaplus and understands exactly why you might be concerned: While it hasn't been confirmed which four images those are, I've seen some suggestions floating around that I honestly don't even want to link to, given their incredible graphic nature.ĭon't worry, though.

These changes, the publisher says, were only to four images in the game. As VG 24/7 reports, Atlus actually had to make 'minor edits' to the game in order to avoid an 'adults only' rating from the ESRB. I envy your innocence, theoretical friend. 'Phil, maybe you're overreacting.' I can hear you saying. As you can see in the trailer below, Dungeon Travelers 2 presents its hand-drawn female leads in various states of undress and, beyond that, in full-on sexual situations. Cool! However, like Conception 2, the main character is a dude, and the women are primarily presented as things for him to interact with they're in the game to be rescued, fought or used in combat rather than acting on their own.Īnd above all else, they're in the game to be ogled. Let's start with the cast: Dungeon Travelers 2 is that rare RPG that mostly stars women. Pretty basic stuff, right? So where does it go wrong? It's a basic dungeon-crawler that seems to have some depth to it in the form of a complicated system of classes and sub-classes, allowing players to build out a unique party of adventurers with their own skills and equipment. And the core gameplay, at a glance, holds true to that first impression. That long, unwieldy title makes this sound like just another Japanese role-playing game, maybe even a good one. Neither of those examples hold a candle to the most recent disappointingly creepy game to be announced in Atlus' line-up: Dungeon Travelers 2: The Royal Library and the Monster Seal. Or there's 2013's Dragon's Crown, a beautifully hand-drawn and relatively deep action-RPG dragged down by its obsession with sexualizing every woman character in the game, playable or not. For example, there was last year's Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars, a role-playing game where the main character creates allies to fight for him by 'classmating' with various, lightly-clothed female co-stars. Atlus is a great company.īut for as many refreshing, charming and obscure Japanese titles as Atlus brings to our shores, every once in a while it tosses out something a bit more disturbing. This ranges from the internally developed Shin Megami Tensei /Persona games to side projects from other developers that it chooses to bring over such as the soon-to-be-released Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains. We wouldn't be able to play dozens of great Japanese games in English without its localization crew.

Atlus, as a North American publisher, is a treasure.

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