

Koikatsu, meanwhile, is more of a game - assuming you patch Koikatsu Party to put the actual “game” bit back in there. Using the included materials, you can produce a wide variety of different hairstyles, and if you delve into the extensive modding community for both games, the possibilities are pretty much limitless. Each part can be individually coloured if you so desire, or you can automatically coordinate. Once you’ve got the basic model for your character down, you can create their hairstyle using separate parts for the back “body” of the hair, the fringe at the front, side hanging pieces and extensions such as ahoge. At any time, you can choose to view your character clothed or unclothed to see how your settings look “in context”, and a variety of face and pose options also allow you to confirm that the finer details of your creation look exactly how you’d hoped they would.

Pretty much every aspect of both can be customised, and taking the values to the extremes can produce some exceedingly strange results. To create a character in both games, you start from a default figure and then use a variety of sliders to mould both their head and their body to your desired shape. This is one of the most astonishingly in-depth character creators you’ll ever see outside of specialist software like VRoid Studio - in fact, there are a number of areas where both Honey Select Unlimited and Koikatsu are considerably more intuitive and user-friendly than Pixiv’s offering. While both games offer an array of options for sexual encounters, the primary appeal of both games for most players comes in the form of the character creator. In both games, pretty much all sexual encounters are consensual in fact, the only non-consensual ones come when a girl assaults the player character. In Honey Select Unlimited, you find yourself in a mysterious hotel that seems to be full of beautiful women in Koikatsu, you have been transferred to an all-girls’ school by your aunt in the hopes that you will teach the young women there about the ways of romance.

(Interestingly, Battle Raper II actually featured no rape scenes whatsoever, however.)īoth Honey Select Unlimited and Koikatsu have a slightly more wholesome - if obviously unbelievable - setup, however. The most commonly cited example of this is the notorious RapeLay from 2006, in which players take on the role of a pervert with designs on three young women, but they also released a fighting game called Battle Raper in 2002 in which the consequences for characters losing a bout are probably obvious. By the time Honey Select was first released, Illusion had been making this sort of game for a while - though they were mostly known in the west due to the fact that some of their older releases featured a strong focus on non-consensual sex.
