Ray Huang (jhuang@UCLA.EDU)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:00:55 -0800
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-ID: <199902040906.BAA15450@theta2.ben2.ucla.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 01:00:55 -0800 From: Ray Huang <jhuang@UCLA.EDU> Subject: Re: Sumire gets slamed!
> ACK! I in no way was insinuating that Sakura Taisen was/is a meant to be a
> hentai game! I merely brought up hentai as a way of illustrating the primary
> type of coverage the Japanese Saturn got.
Oh, I'm sorry. I never thought you were insinuating that ST was a
hentai game. Obviously, it's not. I was more trying to clarify that *I
thought* it shouldn't be grouped with so-called "dating" sims (hentai
included). That was all. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
> It just seemed to me that these "puppy love" (not hentai!) dating sims like
> Tokimeki Memorial were primarily geared towards male players, and Sakura
I would agree.
> Taisen struck me as a logical extension of that phenomenon. I can see where
> you're coming from when you say that ST has enough to appeal to the female
> audience though. I'm just not sure whether that was a fluke like I
> suggested, or intentional like you are.
I think it's both. I base my source on some magazine interview or
something I read which said Mr. Ouji (game designer) wanted ST to
have a wider audience appeal. I think it's a fluke that it became so
popular esp. among female fans. My posts are generally to give the
other side of the equation, not to discredit them unless they are
absolutely false. And please don't take that as a negative. I may
again be mis-expressing myself. I often do that.
Ray
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