Looks to me like a customised background. They are images of the girl playing the game. Sorry, but it looks like if you want boobs in the game you are going to have customise it to add them yourself. It doesn't look to me like they are just there automatically.
It's kind of strange how gaming is so saturated with cleavage as it is, yet somehow its inclusion in Super Monkey Ball is enough to confuse and terrify.
When you're playing with your balls, you tend to be overly sensitive, and easily confused and terrified as a result, of course.
The can make a game with tits, but won't even consider making Streets of Rage 4 ... I hope Sega does go under now!!
I love how western nerds are so quick to get on their high horses and label Japan as a country of perverts when every country in the world has its own perversions. The US has a thriving porn industry, Fleshlights, Realdolls and so on, but the Japanese are pervy for adding boobs into a game? (Never seen that before!)
The Japanese are just a lot more straightforward about it. I guess it must be the puritanical Christian culture of the west (sex = sin?) that makes them behave this way?
The Japanese have this insanity AND all the crazy shit we do. They're doubling down.
(And then you add moe and hentai and you're into a whole other realm of craziness.)
And while we have porn games, they're not getting TV commercials.
I for one, would love to see a japanese themed blog pointing out what they think are american pervisions (in english, i'm not bilingual, amerrrricuuua.)
I think we can get on our high horse when it comes to moe, though. It's one thing to have a game that panders by including gravure models or hostesses, it's another to see that a lot of artists have decided to take inspiration from the song, "Hot Child in the City."
Honestly, I was kind of expecting this. When they show the girl monkey with a pair of double d's, then I'll be disturbed.
If any major game company was going to finally go insane like this, chances were high it was going to be Sega.
Holy crap, that's one of the girls from Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl, one of the weirdest Japanese movies I've ever seen.
Trust me, a VGvsFG level would be more disturbing than one with just boobs.
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If you click that Gamma Squad link, there is an even crazier commercial from Sega / Sony which is just the model rolling around on a ball playing a PSVita. Stay classy, Sony and Sega.
Okay... so you can load your pics to the background... I know console gamers aren't used to being being allowed off rails even a little, but really... it's kind of sad.
Between this and Yakuza, it seems like Sega is helping to supplement the income of many gravure models and hostesses. I'm surprised they don't just come out with a "Model Maker" game that includes real ladies, rather than just moe designs.
In other news, I just ran out & purchased a PS Vita.
...Mainly for Gravity Rush, mind you. But tits do help.
This appears to be a failure on multiple levels, IMO.
I mean, based on the commercial, the tits are barely visible and covered by bikini. They thus distract the player from the intended purpose of the game (running a monkey in a plastic ball through a maze?) while offering next to nothing in the way of actual titillation. They make the game "adult" enough to draw ire, but not "adult" enough to provide any actual interest by those who would want their ball-encapsulated monkey gaming experience enhanced with Japanese sexuality.
And the tit-shaped speedbumps are just plain disturbing by normal standards, though of course, kindergarten-level by Japanese standards.
So, yeah.
So with the Vita touchscreen interface, does that mean you can use ANY balls to control the ball traveling over the boobs on screen? Just curious...
Super... monkey... ball... tits.Monkey tits ball superSuper tits ball monkeyTits ball monkey superBall tits super monkey
I'm beginning to think that there's no way to arrange those words so that they reduce either their insanity or the awesome weirdness of it.
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