Best Known for the Fanservice/Video Games

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Examples of Best Known for the Fanservice in Video Games include:

  • Final Fantasy:
    • Final Fantasy X-2. The plot? The Guide Dang It 100% Completion? The triumphant return of the Final Fantasy Job System last seen in Final Fantasy Tactics? It's all overshadowed by the girls' Stripperific dresspheres.
    • Even in the original Final Fantasy X you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who can remember the Corrupt Church plot, but can easily remember the fact that Lulu bends over during her Victory Pose and Rikku's first appearance as a proper party member consists of her stripping out of a wetsuit.
    • Final Fantasy VII - Have fun trying to remind a fanboy that Tifa was one of the most emotionally complex and morally interesting members of the main cast, or pointing out the surprisingly subtle foreshadowing of The Reveal concerning her past with Cloud - or, hell, that Aeris and Yuffie were also in the game. Despite her mountains of careful character development or her constant skirting with suffering a breakdown herself, her interesting relationships, or her ability to keep a leg up on most situations, there's just two facts you need to keep abreast of where Tifa's concerned.
    • In Final Fantasy XIII, the 33 cm shoe is on the other foot. Good luck explaining to a fangirl that Snow Villiers isn't the game's main character. Why is that? The length of time spent developing his personality doesn't seem to be a big part of it.
    • And moving beyond XIII, even though we don't know much about Final Fantasy Versus XIII yet, most of the talk about it is fangirls swooning over Noctis. Even the Guys Want Him, though... Others saw the trailer and remember it as that one trailer that tries way, way too hard to be cool.
    • Final Fantasy XII had bunny girl Fran, and some other people. And Princess Redbutt.
    • And take it all the way to 1988 and Final Fantasy II. Firion gets seduced by a lamia queen disguised as the princess. Prior to Dissidia, if you remembered just one thing about II, it was that. Considering that Square Enix themselves play it up, though, you can't really be blamed for it.
    • Final Fantasy XIII-2 has a rather memorable scene of Lightning getting magically stripped nude of her regular outfit and then having it replaced by her new, more fanservicey armor.
  • Why should you play Snatcher? You get to flirt with all the women! It even caters to all the ephebophiles out there! And there's nudity! And something about Communist robots taking over the world with Replicant Snatching, probably.
  • The way some people talk about Mass Effect, you'd think the game is nothing but full-on alien lesbian sex...that never actually happens. As a meta-example, it seems like the only thing the die-hard fans care about is the romances.
  • There are some people who have never even played Star Fox Adventures, yet almost everyone knows about Krystal.
  • Tomb Raider: Lara Croft is best remembered for the programmer goof that gave her a larger bust than she should have had and that's all most remember about her. The fact her series has a plot that revolves around tomb raiding isn't mentioned nearly as much.
  • Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned: Congressman Stubbs' penis. That's it.
  • Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. Shahdee is a minor character who gets dispatched not far into the game, yet thanks to her outfit and introduction sequence, many remember her like she was the focus of the game.
  • Darkstalkers is about a busty, drool-inducing, barely-clothed succubus who is sexier than sex, wanders the earth looking for a good time, and appears in most of Capcom's crossover titles, right?
    • She's the sole Darkstalker in four games: Capcom vs. SNK, Capcom vs. SNK 2, Marvel vs. Capcom, and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. Demitri... the guy the whole franchise was built around, for crying out loud... has one such honor (SVC Chaos). This is not a coincidence.
    • Hey, that's not fair! It's also got a Catgirl, who's motivation is to... um... er... uh... huh.
    • And we also vaguely remember some kind of Chinese undead thingy who has blue cleavage and attacks with... um... dunno.
  • Dragon Quest IV was the first Dragon Quest game to have multiple party members with distinctive personalities, rather than use a predetermined party or a team of Player Mooks. Of all the characters, Ms. Fanservice Maya's artwork is leaps and bounds more voluminous than any other character in the series.
    • Jessica of Dragon Quest VIII, appearing as the only one who can change outfits on maps and puff-puff the enemies into various confusion with her sex appeal abilities.
  • In FEAR 2, Alma rapes you. That's right, YOU! Oh yeah and some other stuff happens.
  • King of Fighters is that fighting game featuring Mai's Gainaxing boobs and ... oh, the rest of the fighters. It's about fighting.
  • In Silent Hill 2, Pyramid Head rapes things. Some say that other things happen.
  • Look up the soundtrack to House of the Dead: OVERKILL sometime. Apparently, the only noteworthy song in the game is the lyrical version of the "Carny" chapter's theme, the focus of which is a guy making love to a decomposing mutant as it's trying to kill him.
  • Ask a Pokémon fan to think of a female character from Pokémon Black and White, and chances are they'll think of Skyla or Elesa first. Suffice to say that neither of them dress the way normal women would dress.
    • Dawn is quite recalled for her short skirt however Leaf's is barely longer.
    • Leaf actually has the same size chest as May, but she's often ignored because she has yet to have a canon appearance within the games and has no anime appearances.
  • Summon Night is most well-known in the west for its Gay Option's and its other fanservices, mostly in the Swordscraft Story series though. It doesn't help that the box of one of the games displays a screen of Pratty saying she kisses girls all the time.
  • Vanillaware's latest title Dragon's Crown seems to be heading this way. Fans are less concerned about the quality of the title (which, granted, is nothing to worry about since Vanillaware's releases are consistently good) and more concerned about how much Fetish Fuel the Sorceress and Amazonian Beauty provide.
  • Dragon Age is that game where you can have a foursome, and there's something about licking a lamppost in winter.
    • Ditto for Jade Empire where you can have a threesome. Oh, and something about a big guy with two axes.
  • Ask most people about Guilty Gear and they'll say "Yeah, I know that game. Isn't it that fighting game with the boy who dresses up as a girl?" Yep. Guilty Gear is a game with intense fast-paced combat, an interesting Animesque setting and a ridiculously awesome soundtrack, yet it is doomed to be forever remembered as "The Game That Gave Us Bridget".
  • Touhou is about a world of (seemingly-underaged) super-powered magical action girls. Who have interesting relationships with each others. Which gives way to tons of cute fanarts and awesome music. "Shoot em ups"? What's a "shoot em ups"? [1]
  • Whacked; Be honest, if you ever played this, you likely used Lucy 90% of the time, at least.
  • Senran Kagura is a game where the fighters - all of them female - are buxom, scantily clan ninjas with the goal of defeating their opponents by blasting their clothes off in hilarious ways. There's a plot, yes, and the characters have backstories and motives (often complex ones) but that's not the reason anyone plays the game.
  • Monster Girl Quest and similar games. There's a plot and a solid objective, but it's doubtful anyone would play it if the numerous female-on-male rape scenes were removed.
  • Tera Online has been stated to be a dress-up game where the models get to fight monsters. It's got character customization up the yin-yang with an Excuse Plot.
  • Ape Escape was at one point one of Sony's more popular first party series. Now, it's largely remembered for the fact that the third game is a third-person platformer starring a young Idol Singer in tight spats, to the point the series actual main character is forgotten outside of an appearance in a notoriously poor crossover fighter.
  • Resident Evil; be honest, if you're a male heterosexual and played the original game, you did not choose to play as Chris over Jill.
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  1. ↑ Unlike other examples on this page, the creator does lament that it's not best known as a shoot em up. Bummer.
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