Reception
The first game in the series gained notoriety because of its forced sex elements. In 2003, a Something Awful reviewer Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons concluded that Battle Raper "might be the worst Hentai game I've played to date". Battle Raper was included on the GamesRadar's lists of the 7 "most evil" video games in 2007 ("At first, seeing female brawlers beat each others’ clothes off is pretty amusing in a twisted way, but the streaming tears that come when the raping begins quickly kills any quirky humor or titillation to be had with this sick hentai title") and the 12 weirdest fighting games in 2008 ("Humiliation, rape and degradation are wrapped up in one package of shame, that’s not only a shitty fighting game, but a sick idea as well"). The first Battle Raper was also credited to be one of the Japanese adult games that not only resulted in "a widely publicised outcry in the West – which only started years after the fact" but also led to the establishment of the Ethics Organization of Computer Software in 2009.
Reviewing the game's sequel in for Something Awful in 2005, Parsons tongue-in-cheek wrote: "I want to say that I am glad they took the rape out of Battle Raper 2, but sadly, I just can't. If you're going to make a game with rape in the title there needs to be rape in it." In 2010, ScrewAttack ranked it as the fourth most offensive game ever.
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