By Knarf Black XIV, Former Exotic PornologistI realize that I'm pretty far behind the curve on this story, but it is in such jaw droppingly poor taste that it may have just soured me Japanese culture forever... and I let the whole tentacle porn thing slide.
Currently making headlines as the electronic boogyman de jure for crusading politicians, is the 2006 "rape simulator" PC game RapeLay. Despite the fact that its a few years old, has only unofficial "fan translations" into English, and is almost completely unavailable (outside of torrent sites) here in the states, the folks in charge began jumping all over it when various blogs discovered that it was available on eBay and Amazon marketplace.
This is a piece of software so vile and disturbing that it has made yours truly, a person who saw Irreversible twice, actually agree with the banhappy nanny-staters for once. The player takes control over a creepy-creeper convicted of subway groping (apparently endemic on the crowded cars) who decides to take revenge on his accuser by, you guessed it, raping her entire family. (The ladies at least.)Not having a currently functioning PC, I can't take the game for a test spin, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to anyway. (Being killed seven days later by an enraged technophilic Yūrei is only one of many possible worst case scenarios.) The mere existence of a game has thrown the tattered remains of my faith in humanity on a pile of gas soaked rags, having to play through the interactive sex scenes to be rewarded by the victims' Straw Dogs style orgasms would toss a flaming Molotov cocktail on the pile before setting of a nearby thermonuclear device and snapping the necks of all the charred survivors within a hundred miles.
More info from Slate and Something Awful. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to cry in a fetal position for a while.
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