Asobu Tights

Genre: Match-3 Puzzle

Players: 1

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Review:

Asobu Tights, also known as Asobu Tights Puzzle Lesson, is a Match-3 Puzzle game based on the web anime series Miru Tights, with the shapes players are matching being colored heads of the series’ characters, and with the game’s menus adorned with art of those characters. On that note, while Asobu Tights does not appear to have any actual nudity, the fetishy way that characters are depicted in the game, and the way players unlock fetishy artwork of the characters, clearly marks this as an “ecchi” game.

To this game’s credit, the anime-style artwork is really beautiful, with nicely-designed and well-detailed characters, with this art backed by upbeat but annoyingly repetitive music. In addition to the art throughout the game, players also unlock access to full episodes of the short-form show itself, though unfortunately these episodes are presented only in Japanese language with no subtitles, so you’re better off just watching the freely available series on YouTube. Even worse, the inclusion of these episodes bloats this game to over 5GB of space on your Nintendo Switch, and I doubt this game would come to a fraction of that size without them.

The fetishy nature of the artwork is also an odd fit for this game – it’s pervy enough to make this an embarrassing game to play in front of others, but not revealing enough to be truly compelling in its own right, especially when we all have access to a wealth of sexy art that’s freely available online.

When it comes to the gameplay itself… yeah, this is just Bejeweled. It doesn’t bring any new gameplay ideas to the age-old Puzzle game formula, it doesn’t do anything especially well, and in fact the controls are pretty clunky. In other words, this is a sub-par take on a Puzzle game that’s already kinda’ mediocre.

Yet for this, the game is priced at $21? That’s just absurd, especially when the only other feature this game has to its credit, the anime, is *also* freely-available online.

In short, while individual elements of Asobu Tights are appealing, none make this game worth seeking out. The Match-3 Puzzle gameplay is bland, unoriginal, and clunky, the game’s theming is just pervy enough to be awkward but not much more than that, and the best parts of the presentation are freely available online without suffering through this game for them. Add to this a price that is an outright insult and this is simply a game not worth bothering with.

tl;dr – Asobu Tights is a Match-3 Puzzle game with pervy anime art based on a web series, and nothing this game does makes it worth spending money on – the gameplay is a poor-man’s take on Bejeweled, the unlockable videos make the file size too big despite that they’re freely available on YouTube, and the ecchi elements make this game creepy and awkward without going far enough to make it enticing, with all of this in a package that’s priced at an insulting $21. Don’t buy this game – save your money and either watch the YouTube series or play another bad puzzle game instead.

Grade: D

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