At a Glance:Top-down shooters have been with us since the first days of the video-arcade, when players thrilled to the intense and realistic action of space combat simulators like "Space Invaders". The genre gradually evolved into games like 1942 and Raptor for the PC; scrolling backgrounds and swarms of enemies that shoot five billion projectiles in a spray across the screen. Finally the top-down shooter genre bursts onto the Hentai Game scene with the bizarre title "Sentimental Shooting". In the game you fly over terrain that just happens to be a fully clothed girl while engaging a wide variety of enemy aircraft. Taking a page from the book of Red Faction, "Sentimental Shooting" allows you to destroy the background terrain (read: clothing) revealing a shell-pocked landscape (read: naked girl).

Language: English

Sexual Content: Mosaic censoring of the crotch terrain features.

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Well at least she seems to be enjoying it, I'm certainly not.

Game Plot: Since this game has no plot exposition I have had to fill in a few gaps in the story by using my incredible deductive reasoning skills. Before I began my detective work I had to go through a list of the facts I knew about the game's story.

Fact: You are flying an aircraft of some sort and fighting against various enemy aircraft.
Fact: All aerial combat takes place in the immediate vicinity of a woman.
Fact: Your ship is either very tiny or the women are gigantic.
Fact: When you shoot all of a woman's clothing off she immediately dresses in skimpy lingerie and summons a boss aircraft to protect the lingerie from being shot off by your aircraft.
Fact: Women can't move, they are completely sessile.
I believe that your ship is in fact small rather then the women being gigantic, to support this I have the evidence that all of the items around the women are also much larger than your aircraft. The concept is that you are one of two alien species that have landed on earth, the first is a massive, yet peace loving, galactic empire. The second species is very rogue-like and seeks to cause as much trouble as possible for the other aliens. They also have only three ships in their fleet.

When the two species came to earth they immediately engaged in a power struggle over the world's most valuable resource: women's clothing. The imperial aliens managed to lay claim to all of the women's clothing throughout Japan. Realizing that the clothing would never be theirs, the rogue aliens decided that if they can't have it, no one will, and set out on a terrorist jihad to destroy all women's clothing in Japan. Of course there would be hundreds of thousands of these battles fought over every woman no matter what her appearance, but for the purposes of creating an exciting game the developers have limited themselves to the battles of strategic importance.

Hey! Pass me some bullets because Jesus fuck there aren't enough on the screen yet.Gameplay: The game plays very similarly to any top-down shooter. There are easily identifiable types of enemy ships that shoot various patterns of differently-sized glowing spheres. The terrain you fly over (women) can also be attacked and targeting boxes will appear over key alien empire clothing strong points, along with a hit meter that shows how much "clothing energy" each location has remaining. Once you have completed your fly-over the game determines whether or not you shot off enough clothing and can advance to the next stage. The game makes it extra fun because you have to shoot 100% of the girl's clothing off to advance.

During the first sortie over a woman you shoot off everything but her underwear. When you come back for a second run she has mysteriously changed her clothing or position and now you have to shoot off her undergarments. This second time through instead of huge swarms of enemy ships that each shoot 50 glowing balls at you a second you get to face one giant enemy ship that shoots 5000 glowing balls a second.

"Sentimental Shooting" also includes the vaguest trace of a strategic element. In between stages you get to select what part of Japan you are going to fight your next battle in. As nearly as I could determine this is completely irrelevant because all of the women are available from the start and you don't actually unlock anything by beating their stage other than the ability to take a screenshot of them naked. By screenshot I mean the game exports a huge bitmap of the naked girl and if you want to do a "fly over" again you have to beat her stage from the start.

Target Lock! Prepare to launch missile at panty-clad ass, on my mark! FIRE!

Difficulty: The first two or three times I played the game I have to admit to enjoying it. The concept is amusing but the huge number of projectiles and enemies coupled with the "start from scratch" when you lose made me get sick of "Sentimental Shooting" in about five minutes. The game is hard, and the fact that every stage is shooting to see breasts and blurred vagina makes it somehow infinitely more tedious than a game like Raptor where you're flying over mountains one stage and a forest the next.

Defining Moment: I think the whole game is basically one big defining moment for how fucked up these games can get without even being overly perverse. However, when I was playing "Sentimental Shooting" it took a while for this concept to sink in. The moment at which it finally did was when I was playing the second stage of the third girl. The stage opened with me shooting her socks off and as I traveled up her legs while simultaneously battling the boss, I was treated to a view of her panty-clad crotch. The image of my ship thrusting violently towards her groin while the boss tried desperately to ward me off was only made more comically disturbing when targeting boxes began to spring up on her panties.

Final Thoughts: "Sentimental Shooting" is definitely unique even for a Hentai Game. The concept of shooting clothing off a young anime girl seems somehow comfortingly Westernized to me, like those "erotic" Tetris and Breakout games that slowly reveal a picture of a naked girl. The difference here is decidedly Japanese. Instead of being rewarded for good gaming skills with a naked picture, the nudity itself becomes part of the gameplay, with a girl reclining passively while a battle rages over her wardrobe and gradually reveals her naked body. It is another example of Hentai Games using violence, this time fairly inoffensive violence, in conjunction with sexual imagery. It's sort of like the difference between having a stripper pop out of a cake and eating raw Sushi off a naked woman at a crazy Japanese Sushi bar. One is a straightforward and somewhat comical sexual surprise and the other is a bizarre fetish fraught with an undercurrent of repressed sexuality and cultural feelings of inferiority. At the end of the day, rather than worry about the sexual domination themes in Hentai games and the culture that gave birth to their popularity, I am content to get laser power ups to fend off attacking ships while I fire my forward lasers at bra straps.

Graphics:- 8
Gameplay:- 7
Story:- 10
Sexual Deviance:- 3
Fun:- 3
Overall:- 31

Each category in the rating system is based out of a possible -10 score (-10 being the worst). The overall score is based out of a possible -50 score (-50 being the worst).

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Hentai Games are by and large a unique perversion of the Japanese, although many of them have been translated to English for the enjoyment of equally perverse Americans and possibly the British and Australians. The games generally involve trying to have sex with poorly drawn cartoon women by using incoherently shitty pick up lines or violence. We have created this section in an effort to catalogue these high quality games. Some of the pages may not be safe to read at work although we have attempted to censor the really bad stuff (all of it).

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