"Engrish, schoolgirls, and softcore hentai"

First things first: Pachinko Sexy Reaction is a gambling game that involves frontal nudity of cartoon characters. It was never released stateside for obvious reasons. The game's also entirely in Japanese, and all the girls are drawn in anime style, so this game's definitely not going to appeal to everyone. This game is not for those under the age of 18. Do not play it if you are under 18, do not buy it if you're under 18, and do not download it if you are under 18.

Graphics: 9

In a hentai game, the graphics are what make or break it. Thankfully, this game looks very, very succulent - the animation is best described as ''bouncy.'' The game never strays outside the realm of the soft-core though - it's all topless girls getting dressed.

Since you're going to be looking at five girls, I'll pretty much give you the rundown:

Pink-haired Underage Girl - She's cute, her stage is easy, and she's so nicely enthusiastic.

Blue-haired Tomboy - She does the ''sexy without trying'' thing well. I like how she cheers when you lose. Definitely my favorite of the bunch.

Large-breasted Nymphet - She's so obviously trying too hard.

Small-breasted brunette - Is she twelve? A cross-dresser? Huh? She's weirdly under-endowed. At least her stage is pathetically easy.

Purple-haired freaky girl - Seeing her naked is so not worth the number of quarters her stage is going to steal from you.

As you may have noticed, the goods progressively get worse as you get further into the game. There's less animation towards the end and less art as well. If you're spending money on this you might as well stop once you get to the first boss stage.

Story: 8

You play Panchinko. The girls get naked. Not much going on here - however, there are multiple endings. Which one you get depends on the order you win at the girl's Panchinko machines...

Gameplay: 7

Panchinko is best described as a cross between pinball and slot machines - you get the ball into the right hole, it starts a slot machine, and then if you're lucky you go into ''Fever mode'' and can start breaking the background and racking up enough points to get the girl naked. By means of control, you can shoot a ball, you can ALMOST direct where it's going, and you can tilt the board slightly - and that's it. This isn't a game - it's a skinner box. The key here is that the game's essentially all luck - you can get away with randomly firing balls until the fourth level and about half the time you'll win. But the last two stages make up for that, the fourth by being brilliant (think about it when you get there, there's definitely something being said about relationships on that level) and the fifth by actually requiring strategy.

Overall: 8

For a game that requires no skill or thought it's really addictive, and it does munch those quarters - you'll put 'em in just to prove to those girls that you can, in fact, get them to take their clothes off, whether they like it or not. It's a pretty good game, but it's nothing to tell your mother about.

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 09/20/03