Super Robot Wars: Original Generation: The Inspector: There's a lot of fanservice moments, including a scene where Excellen gets brainwashed similar to what happened to Lamia in the ODE Incident of OG Gaiden along with a variety of other fun stuff like Ending Credits featuring the female cast in bathing suits as well as one with Elzam and Zengar. The Rapiecage piloted by Ouka is also significantly different, being a bondage getup. The BD ups the ante with full uncensored nudity
Super Robot Wars V: The game pushes the limit of the rating of the game as it is the first to receive a CERO C due to the fact one of the new series debuted is Cross Ange, the scenes where Ange is stripped is obviously censored with bars of light of course. The TAC point system also yields opportunity to have some fanservice as you unlock higher tiers you are presented to a nude image of Nine (Of course being an android means she has Barbie Doll Anatomy).
Demonbane is what happens when you do this sort of thing to the Cthulhu Mythos! To be fair, it still portrays most of what it borrowed as creepy as its source, and lots of stuff is still freaky and decidedly non sexy (Dagon and the Deep Ones come to mind). However, by the same token, no less than Nyarlathotep gets hit with this trope, and you wouldn't believe howsexy the result is.
Breath of Fire 6 seems to be this for the series. While it was partial to the occasional Fanservice, and the main games would always have a Mr. and Ms. Fanservice in the party by the end of the game, 5 uses a more generic anime style with everyone (even the protagonist, should the player chose to do so) showing much more skin than previous installments.
The Soul Series is a rather famous example of this trope in action. When the first game Soul Edge (Soul Blade in the west) launched, there were only three female fighters and apart from Taki wearing a very form-fitting spandex there wasn't a whole lot of fanservice. Then, with each subsequent game, starting from Soulcalibur, there was an increase in sex appeal as more females were added, most notably Ivy who serves as the sex symbol of the series, while the pre-existing women got biggest breasts and curvier, shapelier bodies with skimpier outfits to match. It reached a sort of critical mass with Soulcalibur IV where just about every female fighter provided fanservice in some way apart from Hilde. This was toned down in Soulcalibur V where Ivy got a more modest outfit while most of the women were replaced with less-endowed successors, but this didn't take at all. All subsequent marketing has been based around Sex Sells as a result. In fact, Soulcalibur VI may even outdo IV; most of the classic ladies return even more fanservicey than before, and the game even adds 2B from NieR: Automata as a Guest Fighter for good measure. It's full of convenient wind, Clothing Damage is in full effect, Male Gaze is practically everywhere and let's not forget that players can take part in the fun with the Character Customization feature.
The fan-made modules A Dance with Rogues and The Bastard of Kosigan are Darker and Edgier and Hotter And Sexier than the main Neverwinter Nights stories. The official expansion Hordes of the Underdark is a tamer example, but is still this to the base game. The romance subquests in the base game never went any further than Ship Tease, and aside from a handful of NPCs like dryads and a nymph, females were pretty conservative, though some of the female portraits prominently showed off cleavage. The expansion elaborated on romance subquests to full declarations of love and endings implying you end up together, a potential path in those subquests involve two females discussing "sharing" you, fairies, succubi, and other Cute Monster Girl enemies are more common, and a confrontation with the Big Bad has her trying to sexually seduce you.
Mass Effect 2 was much Hotter and Sexier than the first game, which had nothing beyond Space Clothes and one rather tame sex scene near the end. The second game had Asari walking around with a Navel-Deep Neckline, female party members dressed in ridiculously skintight clothing (and in one case nothing but tattoos and strategically placed straps from the waist up), prison rape in backstories, etc. Oddly, the actual sex scenes ended up being tamer than those in the previous game, with only Jacob and Miranda showing any skin before the Sexy Discretion Shot.
Mass Effect 3 inverts the trope in both ways as the previous game: your squadmates now wear more conservative clothing this time around (the former squadmate who wore nothing but tattoos from the waist up included), and mentions of sex outside of romance subplots take a back seat to trying to save the galaxy. On the other hand, the sex scenes are even more risque than the first game, showing much more skin than before.
The Citadel DLC for Mass Effect 3 goes even further than the main game. In addition to featuring new scenes with all of the Love Interest characters, most of which are sexually charged, there's the party scene. It contains such scenes as a detailed breakdown of Samantha Traynor's sexual fantasies about EDI's voice, Tali's secret desire for a threesome, your Love Interest drunkenly propositioning you in front of the entire party, and, for an unromanced female Shepard, the possibility of some pretty weird one-night stands.
Mass Effect: Andromeda, following the lead of Dragon Age: Inquisition, moves fully into R-rated territory with certain sex scenes (Jaal, Cora, and Peebee) and, unlike previous games, allows Ryder to have sex with some characters without entering into a committed relationship.
In the first game, sex was present in the game-verse, but the characters didn't wear it on their sleeves, and even though you had sexy party members, they looked moderately normal aside from Morrigan's default (and changeable) gear. Come the sequel, many of the women have ample bosoms, Everyone Is Bi, half the dialogue of one of your companions consists of sex jokes, and there is a far greater emphasis on the romance side-quests. On the other hand, two of the female party members (Merrill and Aveline) are not overly sexualized; Merrill has moderately-form-fitting but fully-covering robes and light chainmail, while Aveline wears platemail armor for 90% of the game. But the sex scenes with your romantic partner are more chaste than the original. The characters might kiss and lead each other to bed, but the scene always fades to black before you see anything explicit. Visiting the local brothel is also a much more tame affair.
Isabela is an example on her own. In her appearance in Origins, she wore rather silly armor that might qualify as a one piece swim suit with a leather skirt, though it was not as bad as the typical Chainmail Bikini. Nor was she the only one wearing it. All the female light armor was a leather leotard or two piece. In Dragon Age II, she trades it in for a too-small shirt, underwear, and thigh-high boots.
Dragon Age: Inquisition has fairly modest armor similar to the first game, but it's also got the most focus on the romantic side-plots of any Bioware game to date, and this time has sex scenes that feature frontal female nudity from the waist up.
Final Fantasy IV is no stranger to fanservice, notably the Stripperiffic Rydia and (in the sequel) Porom. However, the PSP remake of the game adds yet more in the form of visible sexual organs to numerous monsters, including asses to the Lamia and Succubus-type enemies and bare breasts to the Leshy, conveniently covered up by the positioning of her arms. Although it's worth pointing out, that these enemies always had these attributes, they just weren't as noticeable in previous releases due to the lower-quality graphics.
FFs I and III are sexless, and II, IV, V and VI include one or two mild humorous sexual moments each. FFVII, liberated from Nintendo's censorship policies, has an elaborate sidequest set in a Red Light District which involves hanging out with transvestites, pretending to be a prostitute, Cloud attempting to sleep with prostitutes, Cloud and Tifa having a heart-to-heart in a BDSM dungeon, and Cloud, Aeris and Tifa threatening to chop, rip or smash a man's penis while interrogating him. There's also a later sidequest which calls back to this. And a Did They or Didn't They? between Cloud and Tifa.
Final Fantasy XII, Penelo is fully covered until the ending sequence and the sequel, Revenant Wings, where Penelo wears a less revealing dancer costume. Vaan may be almost shirtless in both games, but in Final Fantasy Tactics A2, he gets a new getup that makes him look more badass and hotter at the same time. And fans totally agree that Basch looks younger and hotter after he shaved up and had some nice haircut.
Dissidia Final Fantasy does this to several characters thanks to its higher-quality graphics allowing old concept art and low-quality sprites and models to be fully realized in PSP-level graphics. Terra is quite pretty in the face now and her outfits provide an escalation of fanservice, removing her tights to show off her legs, putting her in a leotard with her groin and butt on display, and putting her in a top and skirt that exposes her midriff. The Cloud of Darkness is no longer a Green-Skinned Space Babe, but looks like a normal human wearing nothing but a cape and a few strategically placed areas that cover her nipples and groin, otherwise she's entirely nude and showing off a very shapely body. Ultimecia has a graphical update from her original game, allowing her to show off her fancy red evening gown cut down to below her belly button so she can show off some impressive cleavage. For the female fans, Warrior of Light and Firion have become full Bishōnen with silver hair and muscular builds, Zidane is quite handsome thanks to the more traditional art style, and Kain is simply gorgeous with a head full of long, flowing blonde hair. And that voice...
The cover of the original Final Fantasy VII has Cloud with his big sword slung over his back, staring down the Shinra Building. The cover of Final Fantasy VII Remake recreates the image near exactly, but alters Cloud's pose, the sword position, the lighting and the overall image composition to draw the attention towards Cloud's butt.
Tifa's design in Final Fantasy VII Remake is both this and Tamer and Chaster at the same time. She now wears a sports bra under her classic white top which heavily downplays the Jiggle Physics that the character had long been infamous for, while her skirt is longer and heavier, and she's got biker shorts on underneath it. On the other hand, the graphics upgrade means she is much prettier in the face, and her thigh socks are potentially more suggestive than the shorter ones from her original design.
Final Fantasy XVI is the first mainline numbered Final Fantasy entry to contain several instances of characters having sex, whereas in previous installments it was highly implied at best, here the events are portrayed by characters in mid-coitus and post-coitus, shown to be completely naked, but since it is a Japanese console game with their severe restrictions on showing any form of full nudity there are several camera angle tricks to prevent the naughty bits from being shown. Clive and Jill’s moment pushes the camera angles to its absolute limits though, they are as naked as they can possibly show.
The sixth installment aims to invert this trope, as the developers want players to see the fighters more for their characterization and less for their eye candy. They did, however, decide to throw a bone to their sex-driven fanbase with DLC costumes post-release.
Dead Or Alive also has the Xtreme subseries, which is this compared to the main series. This is especially true with the third game, which can practically be "played" in its entirety just by looking up your favourite girl(s) on YouTube.
Krystal was made exactly for this reason. The results have been very effective to say the least - or, as some say, they distracted from the gameplay and story shortcomings.
Certain fans feared that this is exactly what was going to happen to Metroid's Samus Aran when it was announced that Tecmo and Team Ninja (of Dead or Alive, or "boing" fame) would be making Metroid: Other M. Ironically enough, her presence in this game is actually a lot more tame and modest than her normal appearances out of her armor. (After all, ever since the infamous Samus Is a Girl twist in the original game occurred Samus ended up becoming quite a Ms. Fanservice when she is not in her traditional power armor.)
Before having Ivy and Sophitia (from Soulcalibur) jiggling about the camera whilst destroying each other's clothing, Namco proved they could taken the already-cleavage-familiar Tekken and spin-it-off into Death by Degrees, an action game that puts you in the numerous bullet-deflecting string bikinis of Nina Williams.
In Street Fighter V, despite the early attempts to cut back, or alter, some content that was perceived as too sexual, as the years went by the game still groomed new outfits and new characters that are quite suggestive, SFV is the easily the most sexually charged entry in the franchise compared to its predecessors.
Nikki from Pandemonium! (1996) was an average looking teenage girl in the original game. In the sequel, Pandemonium 2, Nikki is a much older looking woman with longer hair, bigger breasts, and full red lips. This might be a case of She Is All Grown Up if it weren't from the fact that Nikki from the sequel looks like an entirely different character instead of an older version of the same character from the first game. The manual goes as far to lampshade this.
"Nikki is no longer a limpet-eyed young naif. She has grown, blossomed, "leafed-out and sapped" as it were. And as she has sprouted, so have her desires.... and her means to achieve them."
This happened to Judy Nails from the Guitar Hero series. In the first two games, she was a cute, fairly normal alt-rock chick. By the third game, she wore heavy make-up, changed her jeans and plaid for a mini-skirt and belly top, and of course there's also her sudden growth spurt. It bears mentioning that between the second and third games the developers changed from Harmonix (who moved on to make Rock Band) to Neversoft after Red Octane sold the name to Activision.
TERA Online is basically "Lineage II with even nakeder girls."
No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise is the original game with improved graphics and an extra gamemode called Very Sweet Mode added, which has all the female characters from the original game in a lot skimpier outfits. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing depends on which character being depicted, but it should be noted that this applies to literally all of the female characters. Including Speed Buster, a fat, elderly woman.
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle is quite a bit kinkier than its predecessor, with its female bosses catering to all sorts of fetishes: Charlie McDonald's cheerleader underlings, Cloe Walsh, Margaret Moonlight, Alice Twilight, Kimmy Howell...even returning characters Dr. Naomi and Shinobu get hotter! And that's before even mentioning that late in the game, Travis and Sylvia finally do it...
The Dynasty Warriors characters have gotten progressively more attractive with each entry into the series, with the biggest jump occurring between the fifth and sixth installments. And that's not even getting into the increasing Stripperiffic-ness of Diao Chan's outfits. As well as Yuan Shao's sudden change from a middle-aged man to a Silver Fox (with a mustache), Liu Bei reaching Bishōnen levels, Sun Shang Xiang baring her midriff and even the modest, previously armored Yue Ying shows off some of her well-toned legs in some shorts. Inverted with Zhen Ji whose previous Stripperiffic outfit was replaced with a very classy, royal qipao, then reversed when she went back to midriff and fishnets in 7.
The Wii remake of Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly has done this to the protagonists. In the original game, Mio and Mayu are two relatively cute, yet demure teen girls. In the remake, Mio has noticeable cleavage and Mayu's high-collared top has been replaced with one that shows off her chest and collarbones. Their faces have also undergone a revamp to make them more stereotypically attractive.
More boobage and less clothing was the order of the day for all the female characters in Mortal Kombat 9. Mileena even gets an entire fight scene wearing nothing more than a few strategically placed bandages. But it's inverted in Mortal Kombat X, where female characters (most notably Kitana) wear clothes that cover more as the design team strive for outfits that were more realistic while still appealing. Played with for Mileena, who now has a fully functional set of human lips bordered on both ends by her trademark razor-sharp Tarkatan teeth.
Dead Rising 2 takes place in an adult playground and with it comes a lot more innuendo and more perverted moments than in the previous Dead Rising. The comics from IDW take this further since Isabella Keyes suddenly got considerably more buxom and Rebecca Chang whom was already a Ms. Fanservice to begin became even more so since she was showing more cleavage and her bust size is now about as big as Jessica's from the original Dead Rising.
Assassin's Creed II, compared to Altair who is Married to the Job. Ezio's quest for revenge does not stop him from catching a glimpse of the finer things in 15th Century Italy which include lovely courtesans and a couple of flings with girls. However, Ezio also has siblings, parents, and extended family, so it may just be a case of better and deeper storytelling than this trope per se. Alternately, just a representation of the times/locations. Altair represents the monastic mentality and heavy religious tones of the Crusade era, while Ezio represents the love-of-life vitality of Renaissance Italy.
Happened to Noel Vermillion from BlazBlue: her character seems to wind up in more lewd situations as the series goes on and has appeared in a Queen's Blade game book which turns her into a full Ms. Fanservice (which is saying something given how Litchi is already a Ms. Fanservice herself). In general, most of the women in the cast received skimpier outfits in later entries with accompanying art, and new characters tend to start out with fanservicey outfits to begin with.
Tiny Kong goes from being a cute tomboy in Donkey Kong 64 to a teenaged Ms. Fanservice in future games, although her personality remained mostly the same.
The Sims 3 in comparison to the first two games, especially with Late Night. Breast sliders for women, body hair for men, clothing and accessories that resemble fetish wear and with the Create-a-Style tool, everything your Sim wears can be made of leather or rubber.
Micaiah's redesign for Fire Emblem: Awakening. Unlike most examples of this trope, this instance is not so much a redesign as it is simply giving her the uniform of the class she uses as a DLC unit in the game (she's a Dark Mage, and almost Dark Mages of both genders dress that way), just like the rest of the DLC characters like Roy and Lyn, who are depicted in Mercenary and Swordmaster garb, respectively.
Fire Emblem Fates does this for the Dark Mage Class. Dark Mages in previous titles were middle-aged bearded men, the ones here are Bishonen in Sensual Spandex that shows off their perfectly toned abs and they don't seem to be wearing any underwear.
Fire Emblem Heroes is infamous for this. While the original games had a modest amount of fanservice, even characters who were fairly normal-looking in the originals get Adaptational Curves and outfits redrawn to show them off, along with more suggestively-posed artwork (mainly the women, although a few men get buffed up). The game also uses Clothing Damage to indicate low hitpoints, which on the one hand allows it to have G Rated Violence, but on the other, some of the rips and injury poses are rather... strategic. That's not even getting to the fact that many unlockable versions of the characters are them in swimsuits, playboy bunny outfits during Easter Banners, and even winter banners have some characters like Tharja and Hilda wear Christmas themed lingerie and a Sexy Santa Dress respectively.
Fans of Tekken would be familiar with who the Final Boss is in each game: an old martial arts master, Satan, an Eldritch Abomination, a Crystal Dragon Jesus, etc. But then we come to the boss from both of the Tag Tournament spin-offs, Unknown; who looks like a nude Jun Kazama covered in...something. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 in general was this, including swimsuit alts for all characters and an array of versus screen portraits, including some by bishoujo artist Shunya Yamashita. Amongst the characters themselves, compare Miharu Hirano in her original appearance◊ in Tekken 4 to her appearance in this game◊. She certainly had a glow-up.
For the most part, Rift is fairly tame compared to many other fantasy-based games, with relatively few instances of things like the infamous Chainmail Bikini. Some of the higher level armors actually cover MORE skin than the lower level ones, imagine that! Then they came out with the expansion, Storm Legion, and well... Just look at the box art◊.
Possibly the poster children for this trope are Grand Theft Auto IV and its sequel Grand Theft Auto V. Their predecessor, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, was condemned for its sexual content, including a Dummied Out sex mini-game found in some versions. With IV and V the makers responded by cranking the sexual content up to eleven, with full frontal male nudity in one of IV's DLC's cutscenes, topless strippers, interactive lap dances, and realistic-looking sexual encounters with prostitutes, plus an optional series of "booty call" diversions where the whole purpose is to have sex (at least San Andreas required players to engage with their "girlfriends" in various time-consuming activities before serving the girls any "hot coffee"). The moral of the story is: you can get away with just about anything in an M-rated video game just as long as you don't try to hide it or make it a secret.
They've actually done this to Princess Peach, Princess Daisy and later Rosalina in some of the Nintendo sports titles, including Super Mario Strikers and Mario Super Sluggers. In these games, both Princesses sport athletic outfits with short-shorts, and in one case, a crop top. Super Smash Bros. also portrays Peach as more flirty than she usually is, more anatomically realistic and boosts her chest size a bit. The introduction of Motorbikes in Mario Kart games also brought about the introduction of form fittingmotorbike suitsfor the girls. The pinnacle was reached in the Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games series, where the girls were given leotard suits for swimming and gymnastic events, showing off their forms (and legs).
Inverted with Custom's Chip-chan Kick! While the company is infamous for its lineup of H-Games, this Elimination Platformer is hardly any more risque than the average ecchi. This being Chip-chan, she still gets a gratuitous amount of panty shots.
The Animatronics in the Five Nights at Freddy's fangame Five Nights in Anime are all turned into sexy versions of themselves, and their jumpscares involve them pressing their breasts or buttocks against the Nightguard's face.
The 2016 Medabots Girls Mission games star high school girls rather than the younger protagonists common in the series. Many fans mistook it at being aimed at a female demographic until features such as the ability for Clothing Damage were advertised.
Hyrule Warriors is this to the main The Legend of Zelda series. Almost every character has an even more attractive design than in the main series, the main antagonist Cia has a stripperiffic costume with a Navel-Deep Neckline, and Zelda is bustier than in the main games. The Great Fairies are based on their Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask designs, except she loses the brown boots and wears a pair of sheer pants with her original skin-tight leaf bikini. Ruto did get slightly censored though, as she wears an Organic Bra just like she does in Ocarina of Time 3D.
Bombergirl is an arcade spinoff of Bomberman. It initially looks like the same harmless, explosive fun as the main series, only with pretty girls, until the Clothing Damage kicks in.
While Splatoon 2 doesn't go overboard with the Fanservice, the fact that the first Splatoon was mostly free of it makes it stick out more. Specifically, Marina is a Ms. Fanservice with a borderline Stripperiffic outfit, and the single-player campaign involves a brainwashed Callie showing up alongside the Final Boss, dressed in a midriff-baring ensemble complete with suggestive poses. The Octo Expansion also has shades of this, with the newly playable Octolings having pronounced Hartman Hips and running around in tight, midriff-bearing leather.
Code Vein is this to the entire "Soulslike" subgenre. Other games like the Dark Souls series are mostly devoid of fanservice, but this is an anime-influenced game that takes it in absolute stride. Not only do all the female NPCs provide examples of Ms. Fanservice, but the game's character customization for your Virtual Paper Doll is full of sexy options for your pleasure. Some have even called them "combat waifus".
Nasuverse-based video games have veered to this ever since Fate/EXTRA. While Tsukihime and Fate/stay night are visual novels with sex scenes, all of the characters dress modestly, with only Rider dressed somewhat revealingly. (Also Berserker, but he's Gonk and barely sapient, so it's not really fanservice with him.) They were made at a time when visual novels without pornographic elements were outliers, and the obligatory sex scenes are generally considered an Old Shame. Come Fate/EXTRA, and we got Saber Nero with her revealing, transparent dress and Tamamo-no-mae with Impossibly-Low Neckline.
Fate/Grand Order: More than half of the characters are either Hotter And Sexier (especially for their swimsuit iteration) or Stripperiffic (for example, the main heroine wears a skintight, midriff baring battle suit). Of note is the legendary Femme FataleMata Hari, who in real life was noted to have small/modest boobs that she always made sure to cover out of self-consciousness, but in this game, her boobs are humongous and bouncy and she's not afraid to show them off.
Hades is this to Supergiant Games previous titles. In their catalog, romance tends to be a very subdued aspect of any story, with Transistor, a game that is focused on the couple Red and "Mr. Nobody", presenting an extremely chaste romance where the player won't even see them kiss, and other relationships being only ever implied. Hades in counterpart is very much open to romance, with the lead character, Zagreus, being capable of date and have sex with both Thanatos and Meg, and can even date them at the same time. Outside of that, characters have become all-around eye candy, with Ms. Fanservice and Mr. Fanservice characters all around, including the protagonist himself.
Dragon Quest V: Downplayed in the DS remake, where instead of a regular nun's dress with habit, Maria wears a slightly more colorful dress that exposes some cleavage.
The Trails Series becomes increasingly more fanservice-y as the games go on; the Crossbell arc introduces more busty female characters who wear revealing outfits and bikinis, while the Calvard arc introduces strip clubs.
From DoDonPachi Dai Ojou onward, the series had the Elemental Dolls which caters to the idea of plunking 100 yen for a chance of seeing some PG 13 fanservice and Deathsmiles as well. Resurrection had the girls' armor breaking off, revealing their naked elemental doll body before they explode.
, female enemies who moaned and yelled vaguely S&M-related phrases while fighting, and, as the icing on the cake, many of the statues in the game were of (you guessed it) nude women. Plus lots of blood and heavy metal, of course. Interestingly enough, its predecessor Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time got closer to depicting actual sex than the second, although, to be fair, there were bare-breasted statues back in Sands of Time, right from the first level. This is just part of real-world Indian architecture.
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