隷従人妻エージェント紫苑 ～潜入捜査官vs洗脳操作姦～
Developer: DWARFSOFT (Independent/Doujin Circle)
Release Date: 2023/10/27 (Japan)
Platform(s): PC (Windows)
Director: okomeman
Writer: Hirowo Tatsumi
Artist: Kuga Mayuri
Language: Japanese
Voice Acting: Fully voiced female characters
Censorship: Mosaic
Content: 25 sex scenes, 317 CG (incl. variations)
Price: ¥1800 (aprox. $12 USD)
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Introduction
Orcsoft/Dwarfsoft has always been a competent doujin circle delivering some nukige of excellent quality over the years, but their forays into mind control have always been timid at best. With the exception of Saimin Eyedrops, which I'll admit to not have played yet, other Orcsoft games with mind control elements have them in the background. Shikijou Kyoudan (released in the West as My Life as a Cult Leader) is excellent, but the hypnotic drug used acts more like an aphrodisiac than anything else (it does have hypnotic/suggestive effects), and the main focus is elsewhere. Still recommended and I'll probably talk about that game here someday. But a game focused on brainwashing was not something I'd expect of the company, so I went into this game with curiosity, but not very high expectations.
And I'll just say right out of the gate that I was wrong to doubt them. Reijuu Hitozuma Agent Shion not only goes all in with telling its advertised "mind control revenge story", but it also utilizes a mix of mind control and sexual training as a catalyst to mold and transform the heroine in different ways in each route very well. Most mind-control themed eroge that come out nowadays are either kinetic (only one route), or have a good and evil route, one where the girl is degraded into a sex slave and one where she remains the same personality-wise but loves the protagonist now. This game does things a bit differently. In each of the game's 3 main endings, heroine Shion will have developed a distinct personality as a result of the different brainwashing regimens she was put through in each route. That's a good use of a route split and not something you see every day in the genre.
That said, I should also make clear not all routes focus exclusively on mind control. The protagonist uses a mix of brainwashing and sexual training, and some routes will lean more towards the latter.
But before going into spoilers, I want to give a general outlook of the story's premise and what erotic and fetish content can be expected. The next session will not contain any spoilers beyond those included in the marketing campaign of the game or roughly the first 1 and a half hours of play.
Story Overview
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| The same dream, over and over... |
Nose Shigeyuki is a middle-aged man who works a dead-end job at a convenience store. He used to be a pretty smart kid and even made it to college, but at some point, his life went wrong and now he's there. He doesn't dwell much on the past. Nose has a recurring dream about him controlling a beautiful woman with black hair using a hypnosis app, and forcing her to give him a blowjob. It's always the same dream, always the same woman. He knows hypnosis stuff is all bollocks - he majored in psychology after all -, but the dreams still bother him. Especially when he has those while dozing off in the middle of work and accidentally jizzing in his pants. While thinking about how to deal with the sticky situation, to his surprise, the woman from his dreams suddenly enters the store along with a guy who, from their conversation, he figures is her husband. They're just shopping like normal. On impulse, he decides to tail them.
During the pursuit, Nose notices tailing people comes as second nature to him, which is weird since he's never done it before. The woman, who's called Shion, suddenly says to her husband that she forgot to buy something and needs to go back to get it, and that he should go ahead and get the bath ready. Nose follows her and notices her entering an alley. Half-certain that this is a trap, but compelled to find out what the hell is going on, he follows, and starts hearing a loud buzzing on his head, before being confronted by Shion, who says he's "starting to recover his memories". He demands to know what's going on, but she says he'll forget soon enough. Then suddenly, he's back in the usual dream. Not knowing what's real or not, he subjugates Shion as usual... Until he's woken up. Shion's husband rushed into the alley and broke Shion's concentration. A busty girl in a school uniform told him Shion was dragged to an alley by a suspicious guy and he came running to help. Said mysterious girl then shouts to Nose to run, and he runs. He runs for miles, unable to control his legs. Being in a trance state, his body reacted to the command.
After he calms down, the girl shows up and introduces herself as Karin, his loyal sex slave. She also explains that Nose is the developer of a hypnosis app, and a notorious "mind control criminal". He has a hard time believing any of that, but can't just ignore the stuff that just happened. According to Shion, mind control technology has existed for years but is kept under wraps by the government, with criminals who use it being dealt with by a special task force, of which Shion is the top agent. Nose was caught one year ago, and had his memories erased before being placed under surveillance. Karin had been looking for him ever since. Shion has a mysterious power that allows her to not only resist most mind control technology but also to put people into hypnotic trances through eye contact. Her husband doesn't know of her life as an agent, which is why she stopped when Karin brought him into the alley.
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| Seeing footage of Karin's rape and brainwashing while the real article jerks you off would convince anyone |
H-Content
Aside from the blowjob delusions at the beginning, the first half of the game features exclusively sex with Karin. While she is a bombshell in her own right, this may come as a disappointment or feel slightly annoying for people who want to get into the "mind control revenge" part faster, or who are just more into Shion's look and aggressive personality. The sex scenes are good and the storyline that goes between them is necessary to establish Nose getting a footing back into developing and distributing his technology while Karin acts as his helpful assistant. These scenes are mostly vanilla with only some breast kneading and light spanking to spice it up. And since Karin is already a fully brainwashed slave, there's also no mind-control content in this part. But don't worry, the game is about to kick into high gear from now on.
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| With a secretary like this, it's impressive Nose ever got any work done. |
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| Most of the brainwashing is done through apps and implants, but we do get one scene with a mind control helmet |
At the midpoint of the game, Shion is captured. Given the nature of the story, I don't think this counts as a spoiler. Nose and Karin take her to a secluded location to start her training. Her resistance to mind control and her powers come from implants in her eyes, and the means and time available to try to circumvent that will depend on the route. I will go into more detail in the spoiler section. But for the rest of the game, the content gets more hardcore.
Nose doesn't only want to brainwash Shion into a sex slave, he wants revenge for the one year she took from his life. So from now on we get a lot of BDSM and rape content, with pillory, handcuffed/chained sex, extensive use of sex toys, as well as mental manipulation, both of the mind control variety (particularly common sense alteration and orgasm triggers) and of the gaslighting and emotional manipulation varieties.
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| No matter the route, Shion's training is intense. |
All in all the game has good variety, with each route having its own focus - in simple terms, as far as the h-scene content goes, one is the anal route, the other is the cosplay route, and the secret route is the threesome one. All three have a pregnant ending, but I'll go into more detail about the endings and the mind control element (which I haven't talked about much because, due to being invisible, done by EM waves and implants and whatnot, only really comes through in the narrative) on the spoiler section. So without further ado, let's get into that.
