Hello, fine people of the world!

From the makers of VR Kanojo, there is now the adult title – Koikatsu Party. Let’s go fanboy angle on this one.

I’m immediately curious if the devs start regurgitating the same horse, or they actually took their gains and opted to do something greater. Typically, once someone gets a success, they spiral into milking the formula until the bone marrow is sucked out of the long-dead corpse of the original success.

Koikatsu Party sells as a Waifu creator. The plot is that aunt May sends you to a majority girls school, so you can overcome your anxiety of talking to them. Normally, I wouldn’t chuckle at that, but that’s how goodwill works. People offer you a respectable game in the past and you tend to filter their banal plot point as a chuckle instead of dull writing.

It doesn’t really look like much until you start to get into it. Certainly, if you put it in a wall of eye candy visual novels covers, it’s probably not the first thing you would go for – given the very casual cover image.

Only once you pass the extremely impressive character creator and you start moving in the actual game do you find out the depth that you are in for.

The girls’ normal movement is prancing around and softly moaning.

When you start class, the girls are all moaning like they either are having difficulty breathing due to heat or are in the early stages of an orgasm, I particularly appreciate the ambiguity 🙂

You know how anime fans get derided on media around the topic of fan service?

Whoever made this game mostl probably thought to themselves: “Fuck that, we’re touching the golden staples of fanservice and good pandering, and none of the detractors would ever matter, because it’s going to be glorious.”

So what is it about? It’s about filling a school with pre-generated, or if you like, custom made waifus that you get to have, let’s say, “various interactions” with. And all in the good kinds of “various”, mind you.

It’s kind of an open-world sandbox, if an open world can be confined in a school.

Only now this one is well done, swarming with waifus, the 3D modeling is not only passable but actually looking well. The Waifus are mostly quality work. Reasonable voice acting is mixed in the formula. And this is just an understatement.

I would guess that Koikatsu Party is a weeb’s version of the Yandere Simulator. Except for the amount of content pack into this dwarfs even major productions of the global game market, and that is where the strength of Koikatsu Party lies, spreads its legs and lovingly embraces you.

It’s only when those ideas are realized through a quality production, do they become viable. The modeling, the extensive dialogue, the environments, the illustrations, the animations. Once you pass a certain threshold of overall value, the game becomes alive and very interesting.

Why is this game good? Naturally, people hate these kinds of productions. Simply because most of them are trashy low-quality demos of pseudo-games.

Koikatsu Party in its core has the same ideas you could find in 5-minute length games on Kongregate or Newgrounds. But instead packed itself with so much, that it dazzles.

What I’m trying to say is that – having the hentai aspect removed would leave – the only people who would be playing it, be 13-year-old girls.

It’s not revolutionary or groundbreaking, what it is — IS, what this kind of game would look like in the dreams of hentai fans, in all the years we’ve wondered what would a more sandbox-like waifu game look like if it veered away from the traditional Japanese linear and narrow rpg mold that anime games have usually taken.

It’s not even complex, it’s just a dating sim not much different from ones you could find in free-to-play games. The difference being – this one actually has the quantity and quality of content needed to really bring it to life.

Aside you developing your relations with each girl, they get horny on their own and can work out their own tensions on their own, not necessarily having to jump you. You could go watch a girl as she takes care of herself in the library, for instance.

There are a variety of individual stories for each of them, and the teachers included. The amount of customization you can put into each one – is just fucking crazy-awesome.

Perhaps the interface could have been more thematic, but at this point, who cares, the game has so many goodies put into it, that you would hardly ever remember an interface exists until you are briefly reminded of it the next time you have to use it 🙂

It’s just adorable, lovely and fun. It is very sexy, for sure. I would respect the developers on the sheer effort even if it didn’t feature a single pinch of sexuality about it. The character creator is one of the most advanced character creators you can find in the general gaming industry, not just the adult space.

It is epic. People on steam like it. It’s selling well, it’s getting good coverage except for the sexually psychotic part of the Western world. As my beloved icon, Brie Larson, would say to regular journalists who would decry it – “It’s not made for you. STFU, no one cares what you think.”

Just beautiful – I was having a slow and boring day and Koikatsu Party is like “Hey, come over here – let me sprinkle some fun and sunshine on you.” But already having accepted the proposition and apparently not being able to respond in good time, it goes on “Before you say anything, how about we add some nice anime titties to that, hmm?”

There is a sexy patch over at their official website – Unfortunately, it respects Japanese censorship – and it has mosaic covering. But from what I’ve heard about how moddable it is, that should be already solved the community and the developers just can’t offer the solution to you directly.

It’s a game simple enough anybody could play. If you are someone who has a waifu pillow, you should totally have this game.

60$ – That is a steal in this case.

It was obvious these people know what they are doing when VR Kanojo took to the stage. Now they have outdone themselves. In an industry of focus group lead bullshit projects – it doesn’t take much innovation or technological excellence to stay true to an idea and pull happiness out of the ether, into reality.

The Greeks who carved Venus de Milo didn’t have much to work with but a large rock and some chisels. Doing great work does not require Hollywood level budgets or laser cutters.

People love it so much, that you can already get such things as Koikatu-Overlay-Mods, for the true god-tier level of tinkering with your waifu’s eye customization for instance. So, fuck Yandere Simulator. This is the Minecraft for waifus. You know, if Minecraft didn’t look like shit, and it bothered to have stories and sexuality.

The obvious trade-off is that the wider range of girls prevents you from really getting invested with the development of a few – the way you would in the narrower story games. Simply because there is such a large variety, tempting you to keep exploring.

A friend of mine, an artist, says – that’s an asset flip! – These kinds of tools existed before.

-Maybe. But, then again the iPhone was an asset flip, too. Apple took a variety of existing tech and compiled it into something people want. If only we could always enjoy such levels of asset flips. It’s like saying my salad is somehow diminished by its ingredients existing separately for some time now.

This is the game that future game developers will download and use a tool to measure things with.

Even the amount of settings is crazy – pages upon pages.

Waiting for a sale is just too long a time to be deprived of it. Be the Zeus of sculpting waifus and bringing them to life – NOW!

Domo arigato gozaimasu!