+ Hentai Key Girl 2 + - z0ne +
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+ + OK, this is a fantastic place to start. If you have any history + with these kinds of games, you probably recognise the name Z0ne, + if not this flash itself. This was a 'game' (more of a + controllable animation sequence, really) from Hentaikey, the + premium source of hentai animations online in the 00s and early + 10s. They are, somehow, still kicking, despite rule34 and + similar booru sites eating their lunch. +
++ Z0ne themself is an extremely prolific porn animation creator. + Filtering to them in Flashpoint gives 117 results, and + Z0ne Archive has a blog post + as recent as 2023. If you delve deeper they appear to be + maintaining a fansly for a robot OC that was posted to + yesterday! I'm glad they're still making cool stuff. +
++ Even if this was never your scene, you've probably seen z0ne's + art somewhere or other. They're very good at recreating the + style of official animations, so in many cases their work looks + like it could have come out of the original studio itself. +
++ This particular animation is one of the earliest I could find + for z0ne, predating the introduction of z0netan, their OC/ident. + There's a couple of 2005 animations from them listed on + Flashpoint, and two 'Hentairella' games that don't have a + copyright in them and look to be from when they were just + starting out. +
++ So what's the game like? Well, it's an animation loop of a + titjob, or 'paizuri' if you're cultured, featuring the Hentaikey + mascot girl. +
++ It's not particularly in-depth or even very long, but it does + generate a template that we will see a lot in future games we + cover. First of all, there's the act list - each of these is a + different animation loop of Miss Hentaikey performing the listed + action on a strangely yellow penis. +
++ In the top right is something we will see in many, many + animations and games going forward: the 'pleasure' score, here + listed as a percentage. Strangely enough, this percentage can + actually go negative, seemingly forever, if you sit on the + 'stop' option in the list for long enough. Each act continually + raises the pleasure meter at different rates, with it raising + faster the further south down the list you go. +
++ Hit 100% pleasure and the action list is replaced with + CUM and STOP. They do what you'd expect, + CUM shows a finale animation where Miss Hentaikey gets a + pretty intense facial. Stop just resets the game to 0% pleasure. +
++ And that's about all there is to it! Humble beginnings, but a + degree of gamification that we'll see greatly expanded upon in + future flashes from z0ne and indeed others. +
++ is it particularly titillating? Not for me, in this instance. + There's no foreplay here, and titjobs don't really do it for me. + The juice ain't worth the squeeze on 'em. The art is excellent + though, and the animation is both gorgeous and seamlessly loops, + which is definitely not always the case. +
++ This does start a trend of z0ne games having BANGERS as the + soundtrack, mind. The piece in this is only a short loop (maybe + a minute?) but it's a jazzy funk and honestly it slaps. There + are no credits on this flash outside of the initial z0ne and + hentaikey idents, and trying to Shazam the music proved + fruitless, so all I can conclude is that z0ne composed this + themselves. It rocks. +
++ And there we go! First entry, in the bag. Not the most in-depth + piece of game design here, but we'll get there, promise. We + gotta start with the small stuff first. +
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