You start the game running around in little more than a leotard with an incredibly painful wedgie, and the first armour upgrade you get? Gloves. Every character class is some kind of fetish, like the Lolicon healer and the self-descriptive Whipper. And to think we once laughed at Firiona Vie for always forgetting her coat. Yes, it's Scarlet Blade, or to give it its other names, Everbreast, World of Phwoarcraft, Some Tail In The Desert, Asheron's Bootycall, Meridian 69, The Secretion World, Waifu, AIKA Virgin Online, Pirates Of The Burning Crotch and Virginity Of The Avatar: Forsaken Virtues. If they succeed, they'll gain a place in the new world along with humanity, and perhaps even be allowed to wear shirts. Scarlet Blade though is more like Richard Garriott's failed Tabula Rasa, only bouncier, being set in a post-apocalyptic world where aliens have trashed everything and only super-powerful, mostly female clones called Arkana can go out and save the day.
In case you don't know, it's the Western version of a game called Queen's Blade - which I thought was based on the anime, but looking around it appears not.
Truly, the end of an era, and by that I mean of course, not.ĭespite this, I thought I'd at least take a couple of minutes to play devil's advocate for the silly thing, and ponder its place in MMO history.
#NEW SCARLET BLADE GAME PATCH#
Essentially, and by publisher Aeria's own admission, it just isn't worth updating any more, a botched patch has meant a lack of updates, and ultimately players have been asked to go find new adventure and shinier boobs elsewhere. It's one of the most famous MMOs that pretty much nobody will admit to having played, which shuts down this month with rather less bang than whimper. Scarlet Blade is pretty much proof that while sex doesn't necessarily sell, it certainly gets attention. If you can't be famous, you can at least be infamous.