by Stephen DeckAlso available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Windows
Review written by Stephen Deck; originally published 06/01/2021 on Teacher by Day, Gamer by Night
Hentai vs Evil is a game produced by Eastasiasoft that my buddy Josh (@JoshuaMFrench) who works as a project lead for them told me about. It’s a pretty barebones fan service third-person shooter, but there’s some fun to be had in short bursts. Just go in with tempered expectations and don’t expect it to be more than it is.
The basic story of the game (if you can call it that) is that two anime waifus have been kidnapped and imprisoned by zombies, and the remaining anime waifu has to free them. You do this by fighting your way through a bunch of zombies and pig enemies that are totally just low-budget Moblins to find the cage holding said anime waifu. You have to kill twelve reaper enemies before you can unlock the cage, but that’s about all there is to it. There are three levels, and they all play out the same; kill twelve reapers, then go towards the purple column of light to find and unlock the cage. There’s also a survival mode where you just try to survive as long as you can against waves of enemies.
Three levels, three playable waifus, and four weapons to choose from (at least I only found four). You can use a machine gun, a shotgun, a sniper rifle, or a grenade launcher. I personally went with the machine gun or the grenade launcher. I felt that the shotgun was too inaccurate even at close range, and the controls just weren’t precise enough for me to feel comfortable with a sniper rifle. It’s pretty obvious that the game’s low budget as the character models and environments both look really bland, and there’s honestly not much content. There are also some performance hiccups; I hit a few frame rate drops with an especially bad one when I finished a level and all of the enemies still alive instantly died. It is, however, only $10 ($8 if you got it during the launch sale), and it’s a quirky novelty game, so it’s a good meme game if nothing else.
Hentai vs Evil honestly reminds me a lot of The Last of Waifus in that it’s a pretty barebones game that you can fully experience in under an hour and excels most – and exclusively – at being a novelty. Granted, it’s definitely better than that game, but it’s not great. I certainly don’t regret downloading it day one, but it’s also definitely not a game that I’m going to come back to, and as much as I’d love to, it’s not a game that I can really recommend. There’s just not much to it. If you do get it, make sure to get it on sale as it’s just not worth $10, and if you’re going to get it, though, definitely get it on Switch; I don’t know for certain about the Steam release, but I know it’s censored on PS4 and PS5 whereas there’s an option to play with fully exposed titties on Switch. They’re bland low res titties, but still, exposed titties in a game on a Nintendo console is a novelty, right?
