Eroge Failure – Sengoku Hime
- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Nov 20, 2008 12:23 JST
- Tags: CG, Comparison, Eroge, Image Gallery, Marketing, Sengoku Jidai
A just released eroge, 戦極姫 / Sengoku Hime, is attracting much attention, almost all of it scathing, for the incredibly dire quality of its art and production values, far lower even than most doujin games.
Many are wondering just what the developers are thinking marketing this at nearly ¥10,000 alongside premium titles.
You may like to take a closer look at the risible artwork, visible below:
It seems as though several different styles of art, all inept, have been sloppily piled together…
It looks as if it has some simplistic strategy parts aping the likes of Sengoku Ransu or even Nobunaga no Yabou. Gameplay and features throughout are said to be as bad as the art suggests.
Their official samples try to avoid the worst of it, but even there they fail:
Unusable? Though probably someone is going to say they think it’s great…
You can see what appears to be the main artist’s homepage, and of course that of the game itself.
In case you were wondering, the name is a pun on goku meaning both “extreme” and “country” based on different characters with identical readings – you will of course recall the Sengoku Jidai, Japan’s major civil war period. A pun on the same level as the game, we might think.
What were they thinking?


































































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holy shit... now that's some fail.
Two of the male characters seem to resemble Gackt, which disturbs the hell out of me.
Other than a few pictures with bad proportions, I fail to see what is wrong with this game. Yes, the graphics don't quite match up and the moe moe girls can seem jarring when alongside more realistic character designs.
While I might download the HCG, I would never pay for something like this. Most of these games are horrible to begin with, hopelessly primitive gameplay and static graphics do not excite the senses, but the HCG is good for a fap or two.
sounds like they're attempting to remake UnderwaterRayromano with less tails and ears... but failed -__-
I thought this was a flash game, when I saw the first image XD
This kinda reminds me of a CD-i Zelda game xD
Oh, wow. There are professional illustrators whose work is even more epic than ZUN's.
Nuclear landmines ftw!
Anatomy muhfugga!
Do you learn it?!
I kinda liked 16, but that was the only one =/
Lol still better than Umineko. and i like umineko.
i think this is the reason.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/11/20/the-tragedy-of-hiromu-minato/
the tragedy lady seems to be one or this game's illustrator. so sorry..the stalker should sentenced to death.
Apart from art ... inconsistency ;)
It ever amazes me, why do the japanese folks *keep* on tolerating that censorship. Change or remove that bloody, ancient #175 for crying out loud... *sigh*
This game looks like it has over a dozen artists doing character art.
Of course, I have to say most eroges I've seen have more skillfully done art than this, but most of these still aren't that bad, imo.
Oh god, It's like those breasts are going to beat me to death, terrible proportions
the game is particular hard to complete, different characters different storyline, example yishohiro's storyine needs u to conquer whole of japan, not jus defeating nobunaga only, u had to fight all the way till u defeat masamune which her area is at sedan and most north of the map(which she will automaticly conquer by herself while u yourself starts at the most south) while kenshin's storyline jus require you to conquer half of japan after defeating a certain clan, there is also a freemode where u can chose watever warlord your choice but no eroge sence included and the conditions are also different, i chose masamune and i jus hav to conquer nearly quater of the map
artwork wise it is not that good, especialy the PSP versions where they hav different artworks even though the same pose and many sence are missing
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-images-vii/sengokuhime-19.jpg
wait a minute, isn't she cecille from luminous arc wtf o.o
The page gave me an error, don't know why both messages showed, sry for double post >_>
Wow, this causes very conflicting emotions. I love eroges with actual gameplay, which causes me to want this game, yet at the same time, I've now seen the art, which causes me to not want the game.
Fail. But some were not bad...
The main artist's work on his page are pretty good in its own way. But imo its not a drawing style suitable for eroge games. Most noticible is the colouring style he uses... Its rather flat and it seems hes more used to oekaki palletes etc.
What fails most is how different the contributing artists' styles are... There must be like 5 or 6 different artists judging from the character drawing styles i see here... Its like they're all from a different game or something. Its like..Imagine if you're watching "Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu", and Yuki looked like shes drawn by the Clannad artist, while Kyon looks like hes drawn by the Samurai Champloo artist.
Wow, this is the first time I ran to a official game with anything below impressive art. And to make it even worst, it's a mix of high and low standard.
Man, I hope this doesn't become a trend.
I would say that a couple of oppai pictures seem to have the breasts pasted on from a different drawing.
The breasts sizes need some balancing out. Some just exploding and some are just...bleh(take a look at the first picture). The girl in the third picture looks like she has an extra bald spot lol? What the heck is that supposed to be?
I believe someone is standing behind her.
Some pics are not completely bad... but yep, FAIL.
I wouldn't pay that much for a reasonably good title, much less a game with tons of awful artwork with the worst proportions I've ever seen in a eroge.
Honestly looks like par for the course as far as the h-games I've played are concerned.
Then again, I throw away the word 'standard' the few times I ever started any of them up.
Some of the art stands on it's own...sort of, although I wouldn't pay for a few pictures, the gameplay looks intriguing, I have a thing for games that offer something unique, but of course, if I wanted a tactical strategy based eroge, I have Koihime Musou, or Daibanchou, all in all, would play if offered, but not willing to cough up money for it.
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The battle sim part of the game looks like it might be interesting...as does the blonde giving the foot job :)~ Not saying I'd drop a hundred bucks on it though...
Some are not bad, actually, but omg the boobs...
It looks like they mish-mashed two artist's work together. So some is subpar, some is...normal.
And, omfg, Orange-kun (sengokuhime-48)?
It's not *dreadful* - I've seen plenty of doujin games that were a thousand times worse art-wise. But it definitely doesn't look up to the standard of a full-price title. At a price of ¥1800 instead it would do just fine....
Hmm...It all depends on the story and gameplay on my part. At least the images are not that badly done.
The breasts are some of the most terrible I've ever seen. -_-
I don't think the "bad" comes from the pitures, but rather how inconsistent pictures are. Its as if they got randoms to submit artwork (like how Famitsu shows off readers art) and they just used them.
Like the sentiments stated before, I'd have a hard time linking the various pics to a single game (or three) if you did not tell me so.
I guess this is what they mean by trying something "different" ? :3