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The Imperial Gatekeeper

Gapers Please: A good idea, wasted

It's Papers Please with more extensive cavity searches. It's easy to play, and it can be played with one hand, but your other hand probably won't be busy too often. The original Papers Please captured the boredom of a day job and Gatekeeper does the same. All of your customers(?) are stiff paper dolls with minimal animation, and the paper dolls aren't drawn that great in the first place. This could have been a hot idea. Papers Please forced you to choose between your integrity and your family's health. This could have been a game where you choose between morality and exploiting your position of power over desperate sexy women. Instead it's a game where you choose between one more boring identical squeeze fest (while the clock is ticking) and getting a good enough score to move the plot along. It's just not that sexy and the awkwardly drawn women aren't that tempting, and the repetition of the character models makes it get stale fast. There are only a few types of immigrants for you to examine and they wasted a few of these designs on guys. It would have been nice if you could choose what genders you'd like to strip search from the beginning. If you only like women, the constant onslaught of dudes will be an annoyance. The game is a little bit titillating at first when you're wondering just how kinky it will get, but it all gets old fast. You might say a sexy version of Papers Please was a bad idea from the start, but they could have saved it with more animation, better artwork, a wider variety of girls, and a bigger arsenal of what you could do with the ones who tickle your fancy. This game sold me on a very hot premise and for the most part it gave me nothing but boredom.