Thread: Yet another new game by nutaku: Duel Squad!

Any active guild in need of new people that are active every day? 'Cuz it doesn't seem that likely for my current one to hit 500k, seeing as I somehow ended up as the only one active in it...

While I like the setting and the combat system - as well as skills - the character art, character flavor text, and H-scenes leave a lot to be desired. The art tends to not change much, the flavor text is rather generic and uninformative, but the H-scenes... I'm not sure I've encountered more than one that I actually liked. A rather disturbing number of them have the viewpoint character do things the girl tells him not to do, repeatedly, and several go into outright rape in various forms. Frankly, it's worn out its welcome and is getting tiresome. Kinda makes me worry about the protagonist...

Meh, the rapiness in this one is pretty tame really. Compared to the stuff that's on DMM, Nutaku has almost no rape in their games, to say nothing of the more hardcore things that happen in the popular things like Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena. Not that surprising though, seeing as the credit system is holding them by their balls. I mean ffs, can't even have loli content or tentacles in their games... that's hilarious beyond words...

Also worrisome, because a pretty decent part of the fanbase for these types of games is interested in the kind of content that Nutaku can't use. Which means plenty of spending people will just take their business to the Japanese site, translations or no translations...

My concern isn't with the presence of the rape (even if its comparative subtlety makes it the more insidious), it's the fact that it all seems lumped into one game with girls I'd really rather have consensual relations with, made worse by the fact that I don't know how many other Nutaku games have the cute monster girl thing going on...

I admit that I haven't paid full attention to ALL of the scenes... but, unless I'm mistaken, most of the rape-iness comes with the girls that are, for the most part, enemies, and it's part of the process of turning them to the 'good' side. Y'know, hentai logic. Even with the good girls, the rape-iness seems more like a thing to give THEM an excuse to fuck like they actually want too... because Japanese cultural differences, Hentai logic, and women not being supposed to actually want sex. There are exceptions, like Dai Toren being an open slut... but the girls don't really seem to mind all that much. Then there's examples like Morrigan who's quote sums up a lot about the game's logic "Even if you're rough, I know you care. From now on I will be your toy."

As for cute monster-girls... Lord of Valkyria had them, but, that one got shut-down because people were losing more and more interest in it. I don't know of any others, but I haven't played every Nutaku game out there. Quiz of Valkyria might have them, but I may be mistaken. Anything else, I don't know.

Dragon Providence has a lot of monstergirls, too. More so than either Valkyrie game.

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I admit that I haven't paid full attention to ALL of the scenes... but, unless I'm mistaken, most of the rape-iness comes with the girls that are, for the most part, enemies, and it's part of the process of turning them to the 'good' side. Y'know, hentai logic. Even with the good girls, the rape-iness seems more like a thing to give THEM an excuse to fuck like they actually want too... because Japanese cultural differences, Hentai logic, and women not being supposed to actually want sex. There are exceptions, like Dai Toren being an open slut... but the girls don't really seem to mind all that much. Then there's examples like Morrigan who's quote sums up a lot about the game's logic "Even if you're rough, I know you care. From now on I will be your toy."

As for cute monster-girls... Lord of Valkyria had them, but, that one got shut-down because people were losing more and more interest in it. I don't know of any others, but I haven't played every Nutaku game out there. Quiz of Valkyria might have them, but I may be mistaken. Anything else, I don't know.

Ah, hentai logic. Yeah, the girls who just say, "Don't touch there, it feels good!" can be assumed to really want that. And yeah, I recall that being a part of Japanese culture. In fact, I believe The Tale of Genji, said to be the world's first novel and written by a woman no less, has a similar scene that might be interpreted as rape, but reading between the lines and with a bit of knowledge of the culture you realize that the lady's refusal is pretty much being proper.

That said, they kinda make me uncomfortable since I imagine that's a spectacularly bad thing to do, at least in the West, and I tend to wonder, "Are there people who see this and think that's okay?"

Anyways, I thank you and Skulkraken for the game info, I've been meaning to check DP out.

Welp, I'm starting to think that Duel Squad is not particularly popular, seeing as it's been quite a while since anyone said anything about it in here. Not to mention that no one said anything about these last few events for good or ill. Granted, I suppose it's not that surprising, given the content, and the fact that there's not that much to do. Not to mention that event rewards are rather poor...

On the one hand, that hopefully means less whales. On the other hand, it might just go the way of Lord of Valkyrie, which would suck ass...

I suppose I'll have to wait and see a little while longer.

Duel Squad is still more popular than Angelic Saga, Girls Kingdom, Hellfire Girls (JP), and Quiz of Valkyrie, according to the game rankings.

Given how popular its sister game, Dragon Tactics, is...I don't think Duel Squad is going to die out as long as collab events continue to happen every now and then.

And Duel Squad is officially closing on the 28th of July, along with DT:M, it would seem.