But there’s a difference between Dream Daddy , Hatoful Boyfriend and the freshly announced Shinobi Refle , a dating sim where you can use the Nintendo Switch’s haptic feedback controllers to massage a virtual high-school girl.

Localization controversy has plagued studios like Atlus and XSEED Games in the not-so-distant past as the distributors endeavored to bring Japanese titles to western audiences.

If the age of consent and obscenity laws in Japan are much stricter than in the United States , then why are we seeing Asuka, a 16-year-old Senran Kagura character, asking for an inner-thigh massage ?

While Asuka may play an important role in the main Senran Kagura Games, her existence in Shinobi Refle appears to be only as a vessel for the player to touch and physically manipulate.

Source: Perfectly Nintendo/YouTube Games that highlight the hypersexualization of teenage girls, complete with distractingly bad breast physics, shouldn’t get a pass because they’re made by a different culture.