Once you do, you will have the opportunity to invite them over to your place where you play a slightly different match three game and you are shown a nude image before you collect their panties (no really, you get their panties as an actual in game item). The dates are fairly entertaining match three puzzles and the goal is to clear at least four of these puzzles. The gameplay is based around talking to one of twelve girls where you either ask them basic facts about themselves or are quizzed on those facts, you buy them gifts, food, or booze, or you go on a date with them. The idea that dating is literally a game and the objective is to score is literally what pickup artists believe. Yes it’s not exactly high concept and it is based around the patriarchal idea of sex as a reward. The main premise of HuniePop is that you are a loser who has never been laid, and a love fairy named Kyu is here to teach you how to pick up chicks and get into their panties. I may have high standards for pornographic media but I am no prude I’m quite the opposite in fact. There are certainly a number of problematic implications present in this game that I can and will rail on (would not be the only type of railing that this game inspires), but one can chalk this game’s success up to the fact that it knows the medium well. HuniePop is well aware of what it is trying to be, and thus it knows to play to its strengths. I briefly talked about a certain principal in media back when I reviewed Meltys Quest that I like to call “willing suspension of morality.” The key difference is that I brought it up in Meltys Quest to explain precisely why I don’t think it applies and why the “problematic” aspects were detrimental to the game as a whole despite the ever present excuse of “it’s a porn game.” HuniePop is lowest common denominator trash, but it’s self aware lowest common denominator trash. Does HuniePop serve as an example of a game that takes advantage of the medium? The small niche of erotic games does often inspire those who genuinely seek to use the medium to its advantage and create unique experiences. The only pornographic medium I consume aside from still illustrations are eroge, a genre that by its very nature requires more substance than “character A and character B fuck” to be worth playing. I do not support the porn industry due to the way that it takes what is supposed to be an intimate act and instead exploits women (and some men) for the purpose of profit, but that can be blamed more on the failings of patriarchy and capitalism rather than on the medium itself.Īdditionally, I don’t even watch much porn to begin with. This results in most feminists assuming that all pornography is inherently demeaning and misogynist regardless of context and thus that anyone who views it only considers women to be objects. I consider myself a feminist not because I hate all pornography or erotic fiction, but rather because I view it as a valid form of artistic expression that has been perverted by toxic masculine values. Also I’m a feminist yet we usually despise the objectification of women. Unfortunately I often make the mistake of assuming that I will like every one of these types of games despite the fact that there have definitely been some that leave a lotto be desired. I’ve always had a soft spot for perverted weeb games so this game was naturally a given. HuniePop was a game that appealed to me for quite some time on the simple basis of it being a dating sim that actually became well known.
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