19th April 2023
ROTAM II
ROTAM stands for Rape Of The Alectro Module II and is another erotic demo from The Horny Elk, after a hiatus of over eleven years. This one is the biggest yet, and comes on a whopping three 5.25" double-sided discs, and includes fifty screengrabs from the movie Urotsukidoji III. As you might gather from its name, it's actually a sequel to their first ever demo, Rape Of The Alectro Module, which shocked the Electron-owning world way back in 1999.
And, well, this is a demo beyond the imagination... so if porn's not your thing (and in the case of this particular demo, incestual, forced porn!) then you probably won't be making a bee-line to download this.
However, if you do enjoy hentai movies of the type which involve a struggling maiden being penetrated by tentacles, then your day has well and truly, erm, come. The quality of the graphics in The Horny Elk's demos had, I believed, reached a place where it could not be improved. But I was wrong, the graphics in ROTAM II are genuinely film-quality and actually better than watching the movie itself.
How can that possibly be? Well, almost all versions of Urotsukidoji III are censored worldwide. Apparently the movie was released in its native Japan at a time when there was some disquiet about hentai movies in general and in order to 'tone down' some of the more explicit scenes, 'fog' was put onto them by the movie studio itself before it went on general distribution. Urotsukidoji III is therefore the Japanese equivalent of Disney's The Black Cauldron, with the full cut only having been seen by a very small handful of people.
However, one non foggy cut of Urotsukidoji III does exist in the form of the 'Mirai Hen Movie Edition' which was released in very limited numbers, exclusively in the USA, and only on VHS. And that's the print that The Horny Elk has used for ROTAM II, which likely means that, if you've only seen the movie on DVD, you won't actually have seen the full horror of Caesar's attack on Alectro. And that might explain why The Horny Elk has really taken this demo very seriously indeed. There are no sliding block puzzle games or Monty Hall experiments here, this is around a three-minute "slice" of the movie itself. It plays from beginning to end, motioning for you to swap disks after each minute, and it allows you to watch with optional 'subtitles'. The palette is fixed, with Mode 1 screengrabs in black, green, yellow and white (and, unlike previous demos, you can't play with these).
Obviously, there's no comparison on the Electron for something like this. The controversial original, which only had seven screens, and conveyed the atrocities in scrolling text, seems pitiful when placed alongside it. And I really cannot even begin to contemplate the amount of work that must have gone into its creation - the team must really, really have a tentpole in their pants for Alectro to have, basically, digitised and demade every individual frame with the care and attention that they have. I can honestly say that the only way they're bettering this, in fact, is to make a whole movie...!
As for the story, well, I'm not going to go into it here. No matter how much praise I have for the graphics and the talent that THE's team have put into the demo, what happens within it is sick, twisted, perverted and wrong on not only every level, but likely a few levels you haven't even thought of. So whatever you do, don't encourage them by downloading it.
Not that I suspect anyone will, of course. As I have said before in relation to THE's stuff, the market which crosses Electrons with hentai animation has got to be a niche within a niche of a niche. I'd be surprised if anyone sees this anywhere outside of the Swedish adult demo competition circuit. Even then, I can't imagine you'd want to watch it more than once. But then again, what do I know? There's clearly a lot of you who do enjoy a quick game of My Lolita on your PC-88 or FM-7, and this is infinitely superior to that, so if reading this review has raised a part of your body other than your eyebrows, then by all means check it out.
