Hentai Parody: Tentacle Slayer - A New Twist on Lewd Switch Games

Welcome back my weebs and otakus, it's Otakunofuji with another lewd Switch game. Today we're talking about Hentai Parody: Tentacle Slayer and it's terrible, as expected, but also surprisingly clever, too, which means it's ultimately still worth a look.

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In case giving it the subtitle Hentai Parody didn't make it clear, Hentai Parody: Tentacle Slayer is meant as a tongue in cheek parody of the other terrible hentai games available on Switch. It's made by Big Way Games, who has also made a lot of those other terrible hentai games, by the way, so it's simultaneously refreshing, but also kind of a slap in the face, to see them poking fun at themselves for pumping out cynical terrible crap. It's also sort of poking fun at folks like me who have criticized the terrible hentai games on Switch with a bit of "Ha ha, what are you going to do about this one? It's the worst one of all!" attitude that, weirdly, actually makes it more appealing to me. The eShop page even goes so far to specifically state that it isn't an image puzzle game, so they clearly knew exactly what they wanted to say with this release.

So what actually is Tentacle Slayer? It's a game about tentacle monsters molesting a bunch of quote-unquote "innocent" catgirls who are actually super into the tentacles. It isn't super explicit, but you know what's going on. And it's pretty funny, really. The cherry on top is that the tentacles are reciting haiku poems while they're doing their tentacle-ing, and it's all so ridiculous that you can't help but love it.

Unfortunately, the gameplay, and I use that term loosely, is almost exclusively quick-time-events where you push a button or wiggle the analog stick or do whatever flashes up on screen. The girls lose a layer of clothing or their facial expression changes after each round of QTEs and you continue until they're nearly nude and, err, having a good time with the tentacles - but, again, it's all just implied and not shown. 

So it isn't much of a game, really. You can get through all of the scenes pretty quickly if you really set your mind to it. The girls all look pretty good, too. It's probably A.I., but it isn't as egregiously obviously terrible as a lot of the stuff we've been seeing lately. So, I dunno, I don't mind that much if it is or isn't.

The key to why I think Tentacle Slayer is still worth checking out is the fact that it's only $3. It's like 20-minutes of bad haikus and catgirls, but at least it isn't another stupid fucking image puzzle game, so it really isn't too bad for three bucks. I really do dig the fact that they're poking fun at their other games and at the whole "hentai" genre on Switch itself, which makes it worth a look just for how ballsy it is.