Criminal Girls AKA The Girl Spanking RPG

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Disgaea developer Nippon Ichi's games have never exactly been normal, what with the exploding penguins and all. It's looking to top itself in the weird department with an upcoming PSP "girl punishing" RPG called Criminal Girls revealed in this week's issue of Dengeki PlayStation that tasks players to rehabilitate women prisoners with spankings.

Sound a little too normal for a Nippon Ichi game? Don't worry, it gets weirder. The prisoners are actually the seven deadly sins and imprisoned in hell. The player is a prison guard that must teach the seven deadly women proper behavior so they can be released back to Earth.

The best way to teach a sin a lesson is to smack her in the behind, of course. Sins revealed thus far are Kisaragi (greed), Arisu (pride), and Tomoe (gluttony?). Players must punish them with the aforementioned spankings, but also by locking them up. For good behavior, you can even give them healing massages.

Criminal Girls will make good use of mosiac pixel censorship, so it's not exactly going to be a porn game. It just has a silly idea as a premise that makes it seem that way. Nippon Ichi doesn't always hit every release out of the park, but this one sounds weird enough to work somehow, if not a little perverted. It'll be released in Japan on November 18.

Source: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/102589-Nippon-Ichi-Developing-Girl-Spanking-RPG

UPDATE: More screenshots on Dengeki.

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Nippon Ichi cancels three games. Nippon Ichi announced three titles, which were in development as of last year, have been canceled.



After evaluating the quality of the titles and current market conditions, Nippon Ichi decided to cease further development. Canceling these games cost Nippon Ichi 21 million yen ($244,000), which was posted as a one time special loss for the company.



No names were given so it seems like the canceled games were unannounced titles.

See also here.

EDIT: Also from here: The company also will not be developing any new titles for the foreseeable future, until it reexamines the Japanese market. Ouch...