Original Release: D3 Publisher, 2003, PlayStation 2
A ping pong title that is equal parts ping pong and girlie ogling
Love Ping Pong (PS2, D3 Publisher, 2003)
Where to Buy: eBay
How to Emulate: PlayStation 2 Emulation Guide
Review by: C. M0use
Also released as “Pink Pong” in Europe, Love Ping Pong does not deliver a particularly good or advanced game of ping pong. It does offer several different shot types, and each character has a special magical “smash” shot, but all of that is pretty much unnecessary as the CPU is basically braindead and the focus is much more on ogling D3’s usual roster of sexy gals.
“Dramatic Mode” is the heat of the meat, a basic story mode in which you pick Outrun-esque courses of girls to go through. You play this mode as typical sleazy hentai game guy who cooked up a scheme to get girls around his school to strip off when he beats them at ping pong, they only get down as far as bikinis but it’s still a pretty good scheme as they’re all terrible at the game. Successfully defeating each one unlocks a new costume for each girl to wear, which they’ll also demonstrate on the spot.
It’s easy to cruise through the story mode and unlock everything as 90+% of the time the girls can’t handle anything more than a line drive sent directly at them (and even that’s a little questionable). This continues even into the later reaches of each course. The girls only score if/when they build up some super shots, but you still get to luckily return those sometimes so it’s trivial to outpace them in points right from the beginning.
So with the story mode being a formality, you’re left with little else to do save maybe 2-player action if you can find someone not embarrassed to play this with you. The 15 or 20 costumes you unlock can be taken into “View Mode” for the usual PS2-era ogling, but beyond that you’re down to just random matches. The gameplay definitely isn’t strong enough to carry that.
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