Jan 11 2009
Guest Commentary: Eroge: Now with an ACTUAL CONSTRUCTIVE PURPOSE!
Vtr9kvictor is the head of the awesome official Monica Rial fan group and has graciously offered this guest post giving his thoughts on the hit eroge ‘3D Custom Girl’. Be sure to leave a comment and let me know what you think, if this is something that everyone enjoys I might feature more guest posts in the future.
Hi, if you are like me then you are an anime nerd. Some of you may call yourselves “otaku” but the rest of us who are not yet willing to surrender our American citizenship refer to ourselves as “anime nerds”. And if you are like me then you know the shame of the public perception of our hobby and love, ESPECIALLY the shame associated with all things hentai. Glorious hentai. For nowhere else does porn with a good plot and interesting characters come from than Japan!
Chief among this most precious of resources is the “eroge” or erotic game that Japan vomits forth in vast numbers on a near-daily basis. You may know some of the most famous suspects, ‘Bible Black’ is a personal favorite of mine, but ‘Kanon’, ‘Air’, and the vast multitudes of dating sims cannot be underestimated. But to date, none of these games has shown anything useful that can be applied in the real world. Until now.
‘3D Custom Girl’ arrived a few months ago, on the surface a game with very little content, it was essentially a very pretty looking dress-up doll simulator that, once dressed, you could then do shamefully erotic things to your doll (personally I love to just poke the girls and watch them jump, as if in surprise, like it was the first time, no matter how many times you do it!).
Game play literally consists of dressing up a character then clicking on a set number of pre-chosen positions to copulate with her in. That’s it. That’s all there is. Initially I thought to myself “This is the lamest thing you have ever spent 10 hours of your life on over the course of two days – EVER. I have truly sunk to a new low of geekdom.” Yet despite this felling, I could not stop myself from going back, spawning a new, random girl and spending hours upon hours dressing her up. It wasn’t long before I decided to try and make specific anime characters, and soon found web page after web page where people would upload their copies of basically any anime heroine you could ever want (incidentally, my first anime girl was a fairly convincing Urumi Kanzaki in her school uniform). But as the hours I logged on the game continued to increase, I realized that there was something positive, something constructive that could be gleaned from this monument to perverted anime fans everywhere.
How many times has your partner complained that your gifts or suggestions for clothing lacked taste, didn’t match, simply weren’t cute, or most damning of all, they got angry after seeing you talk to the super hot clerk in the lingerie store? For me, it was all the time, the women in my life forever complaining that outfits I liked were not good enough, and why EXACTLY was I talking to that hussy in the lingerie shop?!?! But NO MORE! Because now there is ‘3D Custom Girl’!!!
You can mix and match outfits on a virtual girl to MAKE SURE they match! That they ARE IN FACT CUTE! And no longer will you be exposed to the danger of being seen talking to another woman while asking for advice! Yes! Custom Girl allows us to finally select clothing for our significant others without fear of retribution! And best of all, the Custom Girl NEVER COMPLAINS, she will willingly stand there FOR HOURS as you mix-and-match thousands of garment choices! She will even do little poses for you! Although this often results in her turning to one side or the other, forcing you to rotate the camera to see her front-on, but you have to let that one slide.
And what’s more – she likes it more if you spend more time with her! That’s right, not only will she not complain about just having tried on 107 different colors and styles of school uniform skirts, but also she is really happy that it took 45 minutes! She’d like nothing better than to spend another 45 minutes on tops to match it! And she will tell you this (in Japanese, D’oh!). And friends, marvel at my previous two statements: it took 45 minutes to go through over 100 choices of skirt. In a dressing room, your significant other may take 5 minutes or more just for one. A significant savings in invested time when choosing an outfit! And think of this: never again will you walk into a lingerie shop and blush unwillingly when women look at you funny!
Imagine the fun of going to a women’s wear department and merely having a list of sizes on a sheet of paper in your hand and the knowledge of what color and style the garment you want is! Almost all the hassle of shopping for your mate is gone (except for the inevitable standing in line and listening to the whining kid behind you beg for a toy), and even this can be avoided by shopping online! AND ‘3D Custom Girl’ is a COMPUTER GAME! That means that when you are done selecting an outfit, you are ALREADY in position to get online and buy it! Truly, how could your chosen spouse NOT appreciate the convenience! Or the effort you invest! Look at all the time you spent picking out that outfit – for someone you love! I can feel the love, can you feel the love!?!?
Yes, ‘3D Custom Girl’ is a glorious way to express your love for someone! And for those of you from “the other side of the tracks” there is also a male body type (though all clothing choices are female, I guess for the cross-dresser crowd). ‘3D Custom Girl’ could very well be the road to a whole new level of happiness, understanding, and acceptance in any relationship!



I have to admire the talent and the persistence it takes to find this kind of use for a hentai game.
Now please tell me that suggesting the use of it purely for guys choosing their SOs’ outfits and the tone taken is sarcasm. Otherwise, the rampant stereotyping would completely ruin my opinion of the writer.
…besides, the long part of picking clothing is making sure it fits, anyway (laments the girl who has to spend far longer than necessary looking for interview pants when she wants to get back to her anime, blast it!). I don’t think you can really do that with the model.
@Rayvn: lol Yes, he was kidding… mostly… I think ~_^