I’ve touched on RedDeer Games, or Red Deer.Games, before, namely in the Midnight Works article. But I’m going to rag on them specifically because they’ve perfected a method of crapping up the eShop, especially the version of Switch. You see, on the Switch eShop, a bundle of game and DLC is counted as a new game. Nintendo has done a decent job of filtering them out of the Web eShop, but the Switch eShop is the Wild West. SwitchStars has done a video on them where he says, at the time of the video release, that RedDeer Games is most prolific publisher on the eShop, constituting 3% of the total games released. I believe it.

The most insidious thing about the practice is that the bundles are the exact same packages repackaged over and over again. The Complete and Definitive versions of Hentai Golf above are the exact same bundles, but counted as a new game. RedDeer Games really has no shame, though if you think about it, there’s a logic here. If you keep releasing the same game over and over, it keeps it at the top of the heap and never sinks into gaming slush pile, never to be seen again.

RedDeer Games isn’t alone

But if you thought RedDeer was alone in this, you’d be wrong. Baltoro is also notorious for this, among others. Though in Baltoro’s defense, the games they keep releasing tend to be of a higher quality often than RedDeer Game’s stock, and generally released at a slower rate.

Nintendo needs to fix the Switch eShop, it is damn near unusable at this point, and the bundles are a huge portion of the reason why. But here’s the thing, they wouldn’t be doing this if it did not work, Still, like all the other scams, asset flips and AI generated garbage, this stuff clogs up the eShop, and pushes the worthwhile indie games off the page. Its gotten so bad I have to rely on Keymailer to find worthwhile games to review, unless I stumble on something like Epyx Rogue. RedDeer Games and the others won’t stop unless Nintendo changes the eShop, but at this point, I wouldn’t hold my breath. Probably it’ll only change when the Switch 2 comes out.

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There should be a regulation on the books, that if a game is released in the United States with the words “Hentai” in the title, there should be sex and/or nudity in it or it is false advertising. Hentai Dating Stories Brazil is a case a point. No nudity as it is rated T. Probably implied sex at best. Unlike Retro Mystery Club, which was Japanese people writing about Japan, this game is Eastern Europeans writing a story about a Japanese guy going to Brazil to chase a girl. They have probably neither been to Japan nor Brazil. It reads like what a foreigner would know about Brazil off a google search. It name drops the food(see below), Carnival and Samba in the first ten minutes. Whether or not it takes ten minutes depends on how well you get through the sliding tile puzzles. The game shows the mixing up, and you can endlessly press B to reset. This means you just press B until get a favorable mix up, and backtrack.

Hentai Dating Stories Brazil is honestly boring, the Japanese guy is your typical wood plank hentai-hero, and the Tainara is what a foreigner imagines a Brazilian woman to be like. Now, I have never been to Brazil, but I am a writer, this is not how you write an interesting 3D dimensional character you want to get involved in. Also, the world building is inconsistent:

The sign above should read: bem-vindo à nossa casa, or something else in Brazilian Portuguese. In short, Hentai Dating Stories Brazil will get a Garbage Verdict with a two back-end score. I am sure there are more coming and I bet they’ll be equally terrible. For example, I’m sure in the theoretical upcoming Australian edition, it’ll be a woman who talks like Steve Irwin, has a kangaroo as a pet, and eats Vegemite Sandwiches. God help us!

Overall: Hentai Dating Stories Brazil is what you get when you have foreigners writing about a place they’ve never been to. Also it is crap!

Verdict: Garbage

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