If none of that bothers you, well, you might want to give it a miss anyway. Simply put, if the thought of scantily clad girls, S&M and generally questionable sexual overtones make you in any way uncomfortable, you should totally give this game a miss. Personally, I think it’s too silly to be taken seriously, but when a notable part of the gameplay is poking and rubbing (read: torturing) scantily clad and evocatively poised girls in an attempt to “motivate” them into battle, it’s hard to argue with those that do feel more than a little offended by it all. The fact of the matter is, regardless of the quality of the more traditional aspects of the experience, many will be unable to see past some of its murkier and more morally questionable design choices. This odd mix of traditional dungeon crawling JRPG gameplay, surprisingly progressive mechanics and a whole lot of incredibly questionable S&M-style kinky torture makes for a game that is both difficult to pigeonhole and even harder to judge.
Perverted? Innocent fun? Repetetive? Boring? Imaginative? Criminal Girls: Invite Only might well be many of these things to some and even all to others.
