Now while I'm pulling together what seems like a thin comparison between the film and the game, it's this banning that pulls the situation together. So like Rapelay, The Last House on the Left would be stopped from being sold in England, when it would be deemed unfit for distribution, and be caught up as one of the thirty nine films in Britain's "Video Nasties" list. Remember, Rapelay was brought to light when a third party reseller tried selling the game on .uk and the listing was pulled because it was a violation of Amazon's terms. "The Last House on the Left" wasn't going to win an academy award, actually it was going to have something else happen to it, strangely enough, in the place where the Rapelay situation began. The difference is that "The Virgin Spring" won an academy award for best foreign film in 1960. That film was actually a modified version of a 1960 film called "The Virgin Spring". The newly released version of the movie is a toned down version of the original 1972 film, which originally pushed the limits of the MPAA after it stopped enforcing the "Hays Code" to find out exactly what filmmakers could get away without the restrictions which had been in place before. Rapelay also ends (if you let it end) with a revenge scenario for those you torment sexually. "Why were people not this ticked off over 'The Last House on the Left' when it was released last year?" "The Last House on the Left" was released last year and includes a brutal rape scene which sets up the revenge scenario. And if rape is such a big deal, then it leads to this question that was only there because of Bayonetta's sexplotation/grindhouse links being freshly planted in my mind. The question that I wondered is, "Why would kids want to play a game in a language they can't understand when an easier to understand option is available to them?" There's explicit sexual material all over the internet, so why wouldn't they go to something easier to get their hands on and operate if they're going to explore that. "How easy is it for kids to get their hands on this game?", the CNN "reporter" asked. And honestly, I haven't played it either since I'm not going to "steal" a torrent of the game, don't want to purchase the game, and I don't have interest to spend time with the game when better games sit waiting for me to play them. It's the new black sheep, being discussed in lengthy detail by people who probably have never played it. ![]() Rapelay has a catchy name that just rolls off the tongue into the ears of easily terrified people. Months after the original reports on the game, a game that in 2009 was so 2006 to people who peruse Hentai games, it was back in the news again. Shortly after I started playing Bayonetta, a report on CNN brought Rapelay back up again. In the end, Bayonetta's a blast because it's a twitchy action game with nice graphics, interesting visuals, and a story too convoluted to be threatening. ![]() If it wanted to it could shock and horrify, but instead does a nice job of walking the line between having the sexual content and relying on it. It handles it's sexual content with a wink and a nod, and a lollipop planted firmly in cheek. The more I played it, the more I wanted to push through, master the techniques, and try to figure out more of what in the world was going on in the story. It was kinda tongue in cheek, hyper violent, and leeringly sexual but in an endearing sort of way. ![]() ![]() In my list of PS3 games that I own, I put that Bayonetta felt like a 70s Grindhouse/Sexplotation film. I know, what does Bayonetta, which while sexual wouldn't be catagorized as an H-game, have to do with Rapelay which has quickly become, through no fault or ability to profit of it's own, the poster child for the genre? It's a game of "six degrees of seperation" but it ties in tighter than I'd wish it did. Why? Because I'm playing Bayonetta, that's why. So again the whole Rapelay issue was brought up by CNN, and maybe it's what I'm currently playing which is giving me some sort of different perspective on the whole thing.
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