Quote from: Zak S;631060Dull game.

Amazing rorschach test.

You've had a chance to play it?

Quote from: Crabbyapples;631081You've had a chance to play it?

The rorschach test is how people respond to it without playing it.

Quote from: Zak S;631092The rorschach test is how people respond to it without playing it.

So your reaction is to say that it's dull without having played it?

Quote from: jhkim;631099So your reaction is to say that it's dull without having played it?

Zak's saying that the public reaction to the game is more interesting than the game itself, I think.

I went to Soda Pop's site yesterday because apparently they're involved in the Robotech/Macross tactical game and I wanted to see if they had more info about it.
They did not.
So I took a look at all their products. The Dungeon game looked kinda interesting. Expensive, but interesting. I thought Tentacle Bento had some nifty gimmicks. One of my dudes collects simple card games like this, though I don't think he's heard of Tentacle Bento yet. We sometimes play a bunch of different mini games like this if a couple people can't make a game session.
Weird that this thread popped up first on my dashboard today.

Quote from: GrimGent;631105Zak's saying that the public reaction to the game is more interesting than the game itself, I think.

Right, I got that, but it sounds like he's saying that without having played the game - which makes it sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy... or something similar.


Anyone, it sounds like Tentacle Bento is about kidnapping underage girls surrounded by lots of sexual innuendo, which isn't explicitly rape the way that Hentacle is explicitly about rape, but it certainly sounds to me like rape is implied.  

One could try to argue for this as dark humor.  I personally enjoy Cards Against Humanity, for example, which as a "Surprise Sex" card - but I think I would have a problem if they went much further along those lines.  However, Hentacle definitely crosses a line for me that goes way past "not for kids" or "naughty" or "not my cup of tea" - and it isn't because of the nudity and sexual acts.

Quote from: jhkim;631132Anyone, it sounds like Tentacle Bento is about kidnapping underage girls surrounded by lots of sexual innuendo, which isn't explicitly rape the way that Hentacle is explicitly about rape, but it certainly sounds to me like rape is implied.

I'm fairly certain that Tentacle Bento takes place at a private university specifically so that the students wouldn't be considered underage. Alien abductions are, obviously, somewhat different from regular kidnappings. And none of the cards (or any other aspects of the game for that matter) actually deal with what happens after a capture: they set up an opportunity for snatching people away, nothing more.

Y'know I haven't played it.

Maybe it's the greatest card game in history. Point is: how people react to the game's existence, sight unseen, pretty much tells you everything you need to know about them.

Quote from: Zak S;631175Y'know I haven't played it.

Maybe it's the greatest card game in history. Point is: how people react to the game's existence, sight unseen, pretty much tells you everything you need to know about them.

This.

Quote from: Zak S;631175Y'know I haven't played it.

Maybe it's the greatest card game in history. Point is: how people react to the game's existence, sight unseen, pretty much tells you everything you need to know about them.

Yes, I understood you to mean that.  You first reacted to the game's existence, sight unseen, by declaring "dull game".  Now you've apparently changed your mind and said "Maybe it's the greatest card game in history."  

I'm still analyzing that.  Or did you mean that other people's reactions let you know about them, but that we can't know everything about you based on what you say about it sight unseen?  

But seriously, I think the only sensible reaction is to not make judgments without some information.  Making the snap judgment of "dull game" with no information makes no more sense than making a snap judgment of "offensive shit" with no information.

Quote from: jhkim;631212Yes, I understood you to mean that.  You first reacted to the game's existence, sight unseen, by declaring "dull game".  Now you've apparently changed your mind and said "Maybe it's the greatest card game in history."  

I'm still analyzing that.  Or did you mean that other people's reactions let you know about them, but that we can't know everything about you based on what you say about it sight unseen?  

But seriously, I think the only sensible reaction is to not make judgments without some information.  Making the snap judgment of "dull game" with no information makes no more sense than making a snap judgment of "offensive shit" with no information.

I said "dull game" mostly 'cause it just looks dull, but there's no way in hell I'd double down on that or stand behind it or argue for it, 'cause I haven't played it.

It's the doubling down and standing behind it and arguing that tells you stuff--and I've seen alotta people do that with this game.

Quote from: Zak S;631175Y'know I haven't played it.

Maybe it's the greatest card game in history. Point is: how people react to the game's existence, sight unseen, pretty much tells you everything you need to know about them.

really?

There seems to be something rather obvious about the subject matter even if the R word isn't mentioned. Seems a little disingenuous to criticise those that call out the game for the subject matter.

Quote from: Zak S;631175Maybe it's the greatest card game in history.

Nope, it's not. The mechanics seem to ignore some obvious but easily fixable problems that should have come to light during playtesting, the flavour text can be a bit hit-or-miss, and I've certainly noticed complaints about the lack of unique artwork for every student card. No doubt the game would benefit from at least a new printing with incorporated errata for the rules, if not a mini-expansion for additional all-star and character cards because currently there are so few of those, especially in the basic deck, that they don't matter all that much in play.

But on the other hand, it's not terrible either. It just needs more work for improvement.

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;631245There seems to be something rather obvious about the subject matter even if the R word isn't mentioned. Seems a little disingenuous to criticise those that call out the game for the subject matter.

Tentacle Bento is a spoof of tentacle monsters and school girls with cheesecake artwork and mildly naughty jokes. Of course, even that's going to be objectionable to a fair number of people, and there's no arguing over taste. However, what it's not is the "fetish porn rape simulator" or "full-blown hentai game where every card is a different way of raping someone" which some of the game's detractors so readily leaped to condemn. Honestly, even a little research should have made that clear from the start.

QuoteInnuendo abounds in the description quotes (one of the cards portrays a girl on the ladder next to a bookshelf, and the card quote goes "nice beaver, did you recently have it stuffed?" There's a beaver sitting on top of the shelf.

The Zucker Brothers would be charmed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvWfbIe4X_4

Quote from: GrimGent;631248Nope, it's not. The mechanics seem to ignore some obvious but easily fixable problems that should have come to light during playtesting, the flavour text can be a bit hit-or-miss, and I've certainly noticed complaints about the lack of unique artwork for every student card. No doubt the game would benefit from at least a new printing with incorporated errata for the rules, if not a mini-expansion for additional all-star and character cards because currently there are so few of those, especially in the basic deck, that they don't matter all that much in play.

But on the other hand, it's not terrible either. It just needs more work for improvement.


Tentacle Bento is a spoof of tentacle monsters and school girls with cheesecake artwork and mildly naughty jokes. Of course, even that's going to be objectionable to a fair number of people, and there's no arguing over taste. However, what it's not is the "fetish porn rape simulator" or "full-blown hentai game where every card is a different way of raping someone" which some of the game's detractors so readily leaped to condemn. Honestly, even a little research should have made that clear from the start.

That may be true, but the satire looks a little too real...

There's parody and there's parody...and then there's Ricky Gervais.