Some searching through some obscure japanese sites let me stumble across this little gem of a game, Obscene Guild -Katayoku no Datenshi- A mind control focused "training" game with excelent graphics, full voice acting and a large variety of girls to take control of. The gameplay is more complicated than most Eroge visual novels, and revolves around balancing the amount of control you put the girls through in order to force them to obey you while you wear their willpower enough for them to eventually obey your orders willingly. Its a fine line, too little MC used means they might fight back against your orders, lowering the effectiveness of your hold on them and regaining some of their willpower back, and too much mind control can break their mind giving you an instant game over. On the whole I found the game to be quite enjoyable as i'm a fan of both instaneously zapping girls and forcing them to agree to something and to extended brainwashing where her likes and dislikes are molded to suit her controler, and this game combined both quite well.
However despite its near perfect appeal to fans of the MC fetish the game is not without flaws. Firstly the girls tend to be screamers, wither its screaming for help when you're just controling their bodies, or screaming in extasy when under deeper levels of control I found myself muting my computer for many of the scenes. Secondly, the gameplay can become repeptious, In order to increase their affection for you, you wind up repeating lower difficulty sexual acts multiple times even after the higher tier ones are unlocked to get them to the point where they will enjoy the higher difficulty ones. Third is the apparent lack (at least on the version i downloaded) of any gallery or scene replay even after getting one or more endings besides the game over from breaking one of the girls minds. My final gripe with the program is its apparent incompatiblity with AGTH leaving the game very difficult for anyone who cannot read japanese.
My final anylisis is this is a great game for anyone who enjoys body control, hypnosis or brainwashing dispite some small annoyances. Those wishing to purchase the game legally may find the 115$ pricetag to be a bit extreme, but for the pirates its well worth the 1G of harddrive space. This game easily ranks up among my favorte MC-H games and is definately worth at least investigating.
Sounds pretty cool to me! I'm having trouble running it, though. I've been trying to run it on my Mac under Wine. It seems to install ok, but all I get when I try running it after the company logo and the warning is a blown-up picture of what looks like two buttons that read “Exit Game”. Has this ever happened to you, or do you think it’s a problem with running it under wine? (I'll try a real windows installation if I have to, but it's faster this way.) Also, any similar games that you could recommend?
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