It actually dates from a bit after Evony and its infamous adverts, with increasingly naked ladies fronting a truly tedious build-em-up game, but it is from the era where damn near every gaming webpage was typically surrounded with adverts for games like Wartune ("MALE GAMERS ONLY! ONCE YOU'RE INSIDE YOUR FRIENDS WON'T BE SEEING MUCH OF YOU!" "You Deserve An Orgy Today!" "Your Body Is My Party Let's Get Started") or Pirates: Tides Of Fortune ("Banned in 12 Countries!") or. It is though pretty much the only MMO of its era to stand behind its sexy adverts and be the game it promised to be. It's not a game I've ever had any interest in playing for more than a couple of hours, driven entirely by morbid curiosity.
But at least even-handed about it, I guess.Īnd yet, here's the thing. Even the two sides that you can choose to join are basically the Republic of T and Hegemony of A, represented by two Arkana facing different directions with big transparent or absent panels to show off the goodies. So, does that mean that the characters in this game have never, ever been able to take their pants off? Dear god that must smell fouler than any noxious alien goo. The one thing the game won't let you do is strip entirely naked and run around, because - seriously - that's an item it sells in the shop.
#Scarlet blade game bike upgrade
You start the game running around in little more than a leotard with an incredibly painful wedgie, and the first armour upgrade you get? Gloves. Every character class is some kind of fetish, like the Lolicon healer and the self-descriptive Whipper. And to think we once laughed at Firiona Vie for always forgetting her coat. Yes, it's Scarlet Blade, or to give it its other names, Everbreast, World of Phwoarcraft, Some Tail In The Desert, Asheron's Bootycall, Meridian 69, The Secretion World, Waifu, AIKA Virgin Online, Pirates Of The Burning Crotch and Virginity Of The Avatar: Forsaken Virtues. If they succeed, they'll gain a place in the new world along with humanity, and perhaps even be allowed to wear shirts. Scarlet Blade though is more like Richard Garriott's failed Tabula Rasa, only bouncier, being set in a post-apocalyptic world where aliens have trashed everything and only super-powerful, mostly female clones called Arkana can go out and save the day.
In case you don't know, it's the Western version of a game called Queen's Blade - which I thought was based on the anime, but looking around it appears not. Truly, the end of an era, and by that I mean of course, not.ĭespite this, I thought I'd at least take a couple of minutes to play devil's advocate for the silly thing, and ponder its place in MMO history.
#Scarlet blade game bike Patch
Essentially, and by publisher Aeria's own admission, it just isn't worth updating any more, a botched patch has meant a lack of updates, and ultimately players have been asked to go find new adventure and shinier boobs elsewhere. It's one of the most famous MMOs that pretty much nobody will admit to having played, which shuts down this month with rather less bang than whimper. Scarlet Blade is pretty much proof that while sex doesn't necessarily sell, it certainly gets attention.
If you can't be famous, you can at least be infamous.
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