![]() At last, we would find out exactly what was underneath Yuko’s armor.Įven fans who were salivating at the thought of hot lesbian play between the franchise’s heroines were quickly turned off by Valis X’s more “diverse” sexual escapades – utterly unpleasant scenarios that embodied Westerners’ worst held stereotypes of depraved Japanese hentai anime. Eants took the familiar stories and recast them as episodic porn, replacing the originals’ platforming action with all-new sexy action. Welcome to the world of eroge – erotic Japanese games that are best described as illustrated text adventures, but with voice acting and choices like “Put it in,” replacing the usual “North, South, East, West.” Yes, this is what happened to Valis. Eants’s vision for a new Valis was, well… just take a look. Telenet’s fortunes, however, then took a strange series of turns, and in 2006, the company opted to earn some extra money by licensing its dormant properties to a smaller Japanese business called Eants – with Valis among them. Awareness via emulation and a boom in anime popularity kept Valis in the hearts and minds of fans long after the games stopped getting made. Valis doesn’t hold up well by today’s standards, but the franchise managed to earn a following at the time, largely because it didn’t try to disguise or alter its anime-inspired roots… beyond the hilariously re-drawn Western box art, of course. Created by a Japanese company called Telenet in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, this series of action/adventure games follows a schoolgirl named Yuko as she’s transported to the fantasy world of Vecanti, given a sword plus (minimal) armor and pitted against monstrous beings, sometimes with additional (female) friends fighting at her side. Never heard of Valis? We’re not surprised.
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