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The Rance series itself is one of the most well established RPG and story in the industry. It presents a surprising amount of themes and details that you wouldn't expect from an eroge, but at the same time only an eroge can really portray (depictions of rape, brutal deaths etc). At the very least, I don't think a gangbang-to-death H-scene will ever make it in live action in any form, unless you dabble in illegal stuff.This and Sengoku Rance (and the other two similar Alice Soft games) are the only games I felt that way about through Rance was more due to the gameplay while this one is through the story.
In fact, I'm kinda surprised how modern entertainment are constantly dialing back on the maturity scale. It's almost like they pretend that we're all children who are easily susceptible to outside influence, and not mature, responsible adults who can swallow a controversial topic, digest it and take something positive away from it. For example, you may think that there's nothing you can possibly learn from an extended rape scene. But if you believe that, why do you think you can learn from an extended scene of violence, gore and death, which are considered "exciting" in the current climate? Should you be excited/having fun watching a body being shot, mutilated, or cut into several pieces? The logical answer is no, but that's a legitimate selling point for many games, especially horror games such as Dead by Daylight or Killing Floor. Do you see an increase in violent crimes where the bodies are severely mutilated? I'd argue no because the correlation doesn't exist. If it does, it applies to an extremely small percentage of people only. Our norm will be very different otherwise.
Just because you play a violent game doesn't mean you're going to turn into a violent killer. Just because you watch rape porn doesn't make you a rapist. Hence, adult games should always have adult themes and trust its audience to be able to handle them maturely. It's your choice to shy away from them or not, but to impose the same restriction on others and indirectly cultivate an increasingly childish audience is ridiculous. We can separate between virtual and reality, stop taking away our choices and coddle us like goddamn babies.
It gets even more annoying when people suggest changing historical literature and records because they contain/promote unhealthy themes, but I've already ranted too much so I'll stop here.