Editing Interact Play

Interact Play is a 3D sex simulation game developed by Dreams. It was released in 2000,about a year before it's successor  Interact Play VR was released at the time.

Ambitious and darker for it's time compared to other Illusion games around that period, Interact Play is the beginning of the Play series Illusion the company would begin as a series, centered around darker themes such as rape, blackmail, sexual harassment, and other themes that would gradually heighten or dwindle, as controversy around the series' titles would lead to some changes in terms of the game's atmosphere and content.

Gameplay wise, Interact Play places you in the shoes of the protagonist, an ominous office worker by day who has a morbid pleasure of groping women on crowded subway trains, stripping them, and following them off to sexually assault them when they are in secluded locations due to wanting to avoid the player. Each scenario is time based, with the player starting off in a game sequence where they must carefully navigate on a crowded subway train to the girl in question, while avoiding the other unknowing passengers who will initiate a brief interaction with the player for bumping into them whilst navigating to the girl. The player must also carefully only advance when the girl isn't looking your direction, as this will reduce time to be able to finish the groping sequence. Watching the girl and noting the danger prompt on the screen is important so you can carefully get behind her.

Once successful, the player will then enter the next phase where they will begin to grope the girl, where she can be touched in areas such as her chest, buttocks, or her vagina, which the player will then need to move the mouse to rub on it. The player can choose to lick, rub, grab, or even "prank"(basically touching with an object such as an umbrella) the girl to produce different visual reactions and sounds. The player will have to do this to max out her "ecstacy" meter, which will allow an article of clothes to be opened, removed, or pinned up(depends on the girl) when its maxed, as an additional prompt among the other grope options will be able to used as a pin option.

The main difficulty is that the player must be vigilant of the eye symbol that will sometimes briefly(or for longer time periods depending on the story segment and girl) appear, alerting the player that someone on the train is looking near you;when the eyes flash red and when the danger prompt appears, trying to grope the girl will lead to reduced time that carried over from the actual navigation sequence as the passenger noticed you, deducting remaining time that will make finishing the groping successfully much more difficult. The girl will also have 4 CG face icons that will appear when you touch her, with it starting as surprise, pleasure, increased pleasure as her face will look more like she will moan, followed by the final CG picture which has the girl moaning with a danger prompt. If the player continues groping her when the danger prompt appears from the girl, time will be deducted, as it's presumed someone heard or noticed her resistance or reactions, which will also deduct time. As more clothes are removed, the rate that ecstacy will increase will also be somewhat higher in the exposed areas, but in turn, the girl will be more sensitive to groping, making time deduction a greater risk if the player doesn't carefully slow down when her danger face icon appears.

Losing all time will lead to a game over that sends the player back to the screen, forcing them to have to load their last saved file, but this in turn can also be a risk:saving the game at times when navigating to the girl in the current segment is recommended, especially at the start so that way if time is wasted and you don't feel confident enough with the remaining time you're left with when groping is initiated, you can easily go back and restart to use a different path to the girl. Saving with otherwise less than optimal time before or during groping can make it almost impossible to advance without receiving a game over, so it's recommended the player uses the save file system very wisely as its somewhat limited compared to it's successors Interact Play VR and Rapelay.

Once the girl has been maxed out with all of her clothes adjusted, the player will then be able to use a dildo prompt on the girl that will end the stage, and leading to completion, and the story will continue, leading to the girl going to a secluded area in an attempt to escape the player with the player tailing her and forcing himself on her, with the dialogue giving the player different options on how to approach the girl, what they want to touch, etc. This will lead to the actual Interact Play sequence, where the player will then be able to grope, lick, whip(belt icon), or burn with wax via candle wax(candle icon) the girl who is only clad in her underwear at this time. Each option will cause a different reaction from the girl ranging from pain to pleasure. There is no need to worry about being seen by any passerby since the areas are secluded, and the girl will no longer have a time limit tied to the segment. 

Once the scene is done with the girl maxed out in her ecstacy meter, the player can then advance the story as the story dialogue will allow the player to choose vaginal or anal penetration, if they'll grope specific areas such as her breasts, and then finally the player can choose whether to climax with the girl, either inside her or on her face which both result in different CG arts. This same structure is used for all the story segments.


For the actual story, it opens up with  the player himself being arrested. He is a somewhat creepy office worker who begins the game lamenting his excitement of his sexual assaults of the girls, despite the traumatic experience and effect it has on the girls. Prior to arrest(this can be presumed since the game appears to take place before his actual arrest), he wakes up early one morning, en route to work via a subway station with him searching for his first prey, which unfortunately is Ryouko Takaoka. She is a young vocational student who has the personality of an ordinary cute girl, and she wears a sleeveless red dress with medium length brown shaggy layer hair. The player gropes her, with her fleeing to the station toilet bathroom, with the protagonist following her there to her terror. He has his way with her, with him ripping her clothes and groping her before finally raping her, with him then leaving her in a saddened slump alone in the bathroom. The protagonist continues on to his office job which he seems to somewhat enjoy as its easy routine work for him, and he leaves later that night to return home on the same subway train car from earlier, not before stopping at a nearby small store to purchase an item the player can choose, such as a cold drink, etc.

The player then finds his latest prey: Sakura Itoigawa. A part time worker, she wears a pink checkered dress and short twintails, and appears to be underage as she is described as a cute "loli" girl, as well as having the least mature disposition of the girls. After the player gropes her and she flees, he follows her to a family restaurant bathroom, with him scaring her as he gives her a menacing evil expression when she peeks out the bathroom he followed her to. He is able to go in, having his way with her as he leaves her defiled and in tears. The protagonist returns home the next day wondering what he should use for possible prey that day, with him searching his home but being unable to find anything of use. He leaves to the station en route to work again, with him encountering a mature, beautiful woman, who seems poised and confident, much to the disinterested reaction of the player who avoids her to minimize any risks. He then goes on the subway train, the mall of the subway, and even the park to purchase items but doesn't find anyone or anything of interest, but his friend does greet him at the park, who is amusingly waiting for a date who is presumed to have decided not to meet up with him, which the protagonist tries to warn his friend about. Once his friend eventually leaves, he returns to the subway train after a while, and finds a new victim: Sarina Kashiwazaki:an older office lady who is described as an intelligent woman, with a mostly white outfit with a miniskirt, short black hair and a more developed curvy figure. The player much to her surprise gropes her as well, and she flees to a park with no sign of people as she hides behind a tree, visibly lewd due to the player groping her. The protagonist approaches, with her telling him to go elsewhere, but he continues approaching, before finally assaulting her, leaving her alone in the park as she tearfully cries over the incident.

Shortly afterwards, he decides after work to take the bus back some time afterwards, with him then encountering another prey, albeit more unusual than the last 3: Reiko Kisagata. A school training teacher, she is what was considered a "shameful" woman at the time, being openly flirtatious, likely promiscuous prior to their interaction, and being quite provocative as she wears a short leather mini skirt, and a sleeveless crop top that shows off her well developed figure and cut out cleavage, and she has short reddish hair in a boyish style. The protagonist gropes her on the train, although judging by her more flirty and more accepting reactions, she doesn't seem to mind or care that the player is fondling her in particular, appearing to enjoy it either from exhibitionist nature or due to her already promiscuous background, which further adds to the more shameful element of her. Once her and the player leave the bus, she invites the protagonist to a secluded back alley to have sex. Noticing his grin upon her enthusiam, she teasingly wonders if his prior girls(victims unbeknownst to her) were like her or if they were different, alluding to her more open nature. He has vigorous sex with her, and if the player comes inside her, she will leave him alone by himself after their encounter as he is tired and seems to lose consciousness much to her disinterest. However if he chooses to come on her face, she happily accepts it, and even is open to and entertains the idea of having sex again in the future with the protagonist, making her the only woman in the game who had consensual sex with him.

The next morning, the player is once again on the search for new prey, or unbeknownst to him, his final one, as he debates whether to go on the train, park, or bus. He eventually decides on a subway train where he encounters his new prey: Karin Maizuri. The smallest girl in stature out of all the girls thus far, she is a junior college student who wears an elegant light red and white dress, wears glasses, and wears her hair in a half up style with twintails with pink bows, and the rest worn down. She is described as a kind young lady, and judging by her behavior,  much like Sakura she is soft spoken and meek, but somewhat more mature. The player gropes her, and afterwards as the amount of passengers goes down, he does not let her go, holding her tightly until they're alone together. She fearfully apologizes to him and pleads for him to let her go, but he either grabs her hair or covers her mouth as he fondles her further, before finally raping her, leaving her alone on the train in a tearful slumber after her ordeal from fainting.

The following morning, the protagonist awakens, feeling empty as if missing something. He realizes that the reason he preyed upon the women is because he was looking for that something, thus is why he keeps "hunting". Going to the station again that morning, he encounters the same mature woman from before that he avoided, who wears her brown hair pinned up, and wears a red dress and a blue coat. He laments that he avoided her since he didn't want to take risks when he saw her before a few days ago, but now he doesn't, asking her to let him go for some reason while attempting to pass her, but is then abruptly arrested. In his own words, he claims that in taking taking risks, he achieved the ultimate peace. It's revealed that the woman was a plainly clothed police officer on patrol all along who had caught him red handed for his crimes, with him reflecting that his life behind bars would be filled with grey remorse, regret and guilt. Although his crimes were thrilling and peaceful for him in a sense, his selfish self-centered actions ruined the lives of the women he had hurt and raped. Several years have passed since he had been arrested, and he remains still behind bars, and admits that the echoes of the women crying for help and in fear still gave him excitement, rather chillingly acting as his last words of dialogue. 

The story then ends, as the credits show the girls one last time along with unsettling music playing, likely as a way to convey the horrid actions of the protagonist's pursuit of excitement that leads to the girls' horrifying ordeals. The fate of the girls are ultimately uncertain and it is unknown how the arrest was done, although it is likely that the police officer on patrol was either closely watching the protagonist, or that the women(or most of them barring Reiko who very unlikely would have came forward to report the protagonist since her encounter was consensual) had reported him, and the police woman was waiting for the best time to make an arrest, by apprehending him in the location he was most active at.

After the main events of the game take place, the player will unlock an extra menu which allows for them to to view the profiles of all of the girls, which shows their measurements, place of assault, a description of what their outfit is, their occupation, and also a brief description of their personality;their model will also be visible, and it's possible to view their unlocked CG artworks in the mode too, which lets the player also reenact their "interact play" scenarios in the secluded locations they are assaulted in. The first time the player finishes the game, each girl will have a locked final CG art that can be unlocked by going back and restarting the game(or more easily just loading a save file that is after their interact play segments) and finishing the alternate way that was not chosen to ejaculate on or inside the girl, so if Reiko for example is ejaculated inside rather than on her face, the player will have to go back and do the latter for the last CG artwork.

Besides that, the game is not technically open ended as the protagonist is arrested which removes any possibility of him being able to continue any future sexual encounters with the girls. The player however can still go back and replay the game as they see fit.


===Future Series Titles===

Despite the controversial nature of the game in terms of the theme of chikan(groping on crowded train cars in Japan) and rape, future installments of the game were released, with the game having [[Interact Play VR]] as it's sequel, or more accurately as it's successor;this game had 5 brand new unique girls with a different storyline and protagonist, and with improved visuals and animations which were impressive for it's time as the game also allowed the player to actually have sex with the girls this time around, and CG movies were included as well as new CG artwork, and music although some tracks from it's predecessor are reused in different scenarios. It was also the first in the Play series to allow the protagonist to visually appear with the girl during the sex scene. The game was then followed by several other titles with similar plots such as the revenge driven Rapelay, Real Play which had 5 different girls with different scenarios, Premium Play Darkness which involved sex with monsters and demons, and Playclub which involved a family of 3 sisters and their mother entrapped in a secluded mansion. Finally, the series had it's last most recent title called Playhome, which involves a mother and her 2 daughters, as well as an additional girl who is added in via DLC. 

Despite it's controversy, the series was relatively successful enough for Illusion to continue it, but certain elements such as the violence, incest, pregnancy, blackmail, and even underage girls were drastically toned down in later titles to prevent the major controversy that Rapelay had received as it had most of those elements that received widespread criticism in regions such as the US outside of Japan at the time.


===Trivia===

*Unlike future protagonists of the Play series, the protagonist has no real motivation or reason to commit the acts he has done, merely doing it out of excitement. The successor protagonist from Interact Play VR does the acts initially due to excitement that leads into blackmail, while the protagonist from Rapelay does so due to wanting revenge against the eldest daughter, and decides to assault her younger sister and mother after discovering that her father is deceased. 

*Karin is the only girl who had her outfit changed in the final game, as the dress she wears on the main menu screen(although ripped), in her extra mode CG picture, and in the game's opening movie is different from the red dress she wears in the final game. The reason behind this change is unknown, although it's likely due to there already being other girls with sleeveless clothed and to further make her unique as Sakura wears a similar color dress.

*None of the optional dialogue actions result in any consequences in the main story. It's only the final sex options from ejaculating that can result in different dialogue actions and CG images on whether the player chooses to ejaculate inside the girl, or on her face.

*Tears, fear and sadness is a heavy theme in the game as most of the girls show fear when the player follows them off the train, and they all cry when assaulted, with the onlt exception being Reiko.

*Sarina and Reiko are the only girls who have sexual encounters outside. They both are coincidentally the eldest girls in the game, and are the only women who wear skirts, as opposed to the dresses the other girls wear.


*None of the girls are connected in any way, nor do any of them interact or know each other.

*Reiko has the largest bust size out of all the girls, with Sarina being the second most endowed, followed by Ryouko, Karin, and Sakura who is the least endowed out of the girls.

*Karin is the only girl to wear glasses in the game.

*No actual sex in the game actually occurs during the groping or "Interact Play" scenes;it is only during the cutscenes with CG images that sex occurs, albeit only with the images and with the text and dialogue noting the encounters. This is likely due to the limitations at the time, as Interact Play VR which succeeded the game including actual sex(although more primitive and rough for the time). Later Illusion games would refine and start incorporating this element in later games in and outside of the Play series.

*Ryouko, and Sakura are assaulted on the same day, day and night for the latter. Sarina, and Reiko are encountered the following day, and Karin is assaulted the following day.

*Ryouko and Sakura are the only girls to be assaulted in a restroom setting.


*Reiko is the only girl whom leaves the protagonist rather than him leaving the victim as she will leave him if the player chooses to ejaculate inside her. She is also the only woman who happily invited the protagonist for a sex encounter after her groping on the bus.


*The protagonist is almost always clothed, but is naked in his sexual encounter with Sakura, Sarina, and Reiko.

*The game is subject to censoring, which is why the girls are censored in their vaginal areas in CG artwork and why they still wear underwear during their interact play scenes.

*The protagonist unlike the one in Interact Play VR does not appear to blackmail any of the girls, instead merely leaving after he finishes with them, likely under the assumption that they would remain quiet to hide the shame of their assaults. This is most likely the reason he is arrested at the end.

*Reiko is unique as she is the only girl who's initial groping and sexual encounter is consensual, much to the surprise of the protagonist. This is because she is what Japan at the time would have considered the "shameful woman" trope by design, which is a woman who is openly flirtatious, often times promiscuous, and dresses and behaves in a sexually provocative manner which strongly contrasts the ideals of a woman who is pure, reserved, and more like an ideal wife which Japan is noted to favor. As such, her lack of reservation is what would bring shame to her peers or family.

*Karin is the only girl who does not physically leave the area she is groped due to being restrained by the protagonist and being trapped on the train until all of the passengers leave.