GAME REVIEW: CRIMINAL GIRLS: INVITE ONLY

Criminal Girls: Invite Only
Type: RPG 
Publisher: NIS America
Developer: Nippon Ichi Software

Platform: PSV
Rating: 18
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes 

For those who thought gaming was purely for the standard male market, this might surprise them. The rise of Japanese style games with characters that cater to those already into anime and manga style have done a similar thing with this one.

This is a stylish RPG where the criminal girls are juvenile delinquents who have been sent to Hell. The players' quest is to find them and guide them to their destination, but be prepared for a lot of squabbling along the way. There are other things to be prepared for, however, cute girls with long and impossibly coloured hair, fancy outfits and perky boobs. I suppose, male or female, you're likely to enjoy it. I first heard about this game in the Metro newspaper and to be honest it looked so tame as the person who wrote the small article had only mentioned the game's premise. Little did I know that this was the sort of game that gets regularly played by older teenage boys everywhere - in Japan! For the reason is obvious if you key the game's name into Google and look at the results - can we say naked girls? No wonder it's invite only.    

The basic premise involves a young man being conned into taking these bad girls through a series of trials to see if they can redeem themselves and absolve their past sins. He has a lot on his hands with them and when he can't get them to do as they are told, he uses many tools to coax them into submission, whips and chains - anyone think of Fifty Shades and they would be on the right track here with the girls getting into some rather unusual and erotic poses.

Verdict: There isn't much of a plot with this game as there would be with others like Halo or Tomb Raider as it's mostly kink for the guys.