1993 · Port · Giga · Adult · Fighting

Variable Geo

Port

A stripped-down version of Advanced V.G. that removes the Yuka clone, the Hybrids and the Story Mode.

Released: 1993
Platforms: MS-DOS PlayStation PlayStation Portable SNES Sega Saturn TurboGrafx-16 Windows
Genres: Adult Fighting Ninja Visual novel
Developers: Giga
Publishers: —
Modes: Multiplayer
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

About

, is a Japanese 2D fighting game and eroge series developed and published by TGL for consoles and under their Giga brand for home computers. The series focuses on an all-female martial arts competition where participants are required to promote various family restaurants by acting as waitresses when not fighting. G. with a story mode and toned down (or removed) explicit content, more akin to a regular 2D fighter.

G. G. NEO. Alongside the video games, OVA adaptations were also made based on the Variable Geo series.

›Story

The strongest young women in the country hold a tournament, which is sponsored by various restaurant chains, which in turn ask the competing girls to pose as waitresses working in said restaurants, for promotional purposes. The girls of the Jahana group who starred in the previous games return, with the new main protagonist being the young martial artist Yuka Takeuchi, who has been training in a secluded forest area before joining the competition.

Keywords

anime
all-girl fighting roster
female antagonist
nsfw version exists

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Gameplay in the Variable Geo fighting games utilizes a four-button layout (two-button layout in V.G. MAX), with two buttons each for punches and kicks of differing strength and speed. Special moves are initiated by keying in various movements using the control pad or joystick and punctuated with the press of one of the punch or kick buttons.

Later games would add a special meter (identical to the system that was standardized by Super Street Fighter II Turbo) that would fill as the player inflicts or receives damage. Filling the bar would result in a stock of "Energy" being acquired, which could either be used for one of a number of enhanced super special attacks, or saved for later use in the match. Some moves also require more than one Special Stock to be acquired before being able to use them.

Story

Set in a near-future version of Japan, the games tell the story of a martial arts tournament created to determine the country's strongest woman. The tournaments are sponsored by a number of family restaurants, who in exchange for their sponsorship, are given promotion in the form of having a tournament entry work as a waitress. As a result of the popularity of the tournaments, the restaurants experience a boom in patronage.

The winner of the tournament is awarded the title "Virgin Goddess", as well as a large cash prize of ten billion yen, and a house erected anywhere on the planet she should choose. However, when a given waitress is defeated, she will be forced to publicly strip herself of her own clothing (self-fondling and public masturbation may be forced upon the loser, and in the most extreme cases, the loser is raped/gang-raped, either in private or in front of an audience), in order to teach the so-called "true" shame of defeat. In spite of such humiliation, the tournaments often draw many competitors, each placing her pride and her dreams on the line as she battles for the top.

Reception

Writing in Viz Media's online magazine, J-pop, Ted Thomas reviewed Advanced V.G. and recommended that the game is not worth importing. Another review from the same publication for the first OVA noted that the series includes various lesbian characters, along with themes about "DNA manipulation, demonic possession, mind control, and body altering drugs." The review also said that the animation is sparse and said that while they enjoyed the series, it is "full of all the guilty pleasures only anime can provide."

Saturn Fan magazine in Japan gave Advanced V.G. a score of 4.4 out of 10.