When the Queen says "jump," Jill says "how high?"

April 11, 2008 4:15 PM

Friday Free Game Download: If you were presented with the concept of a lesbian BDSM video game, the first word that leapt to your mind would probably not be "adorable." But that is exactly what Mighty Jill Off is.

It's also a fiendishly frustrating little game, simple and short though it is. There's no T&A, no polygons -- just jumping past spikes, and dying, and jumping past fire, and dying, and dying, and dying . . . Good old-fashioned fun, really.

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posted by Countess Elena (15 comments total)

IF YOU HAVE A JOYPAD, HIT BUTTON 1 OR 2 TO ACTIVATE IT!

So who are these lucky women with two buttons on their joypad?
posted by rosebuddy at 5:43 PM on April 11, 2008

Cool game at first, but then the gameplay got too intentionally difficult for me. I guess that's the point . . . ? When I reached the overhanging ledges where a single almost-random millisecond seems to make all the difference between getting around the overhang and falling back down to the flames below, I quickly lost interest.

I did like the metaphor (assuming it's intentional) of the slave being too enthusiastic for her own good -- that's what gets her punished in the first place, and that's what's played out when she tends to jump too high.
posted by treepour at 6:06 PM on April 11, 2008

25:49 I thought it was pretty fun.
posted by apathy0o0 at 6:20 PM on April 11, 2008

I managed in in 18 minutes, double the par time. I don't particularly see any merit to this game beyond the amusing 'boss battle'.
posted by LSK at 6:26 PM on April 11, 2008

Mighty Bomb Jack? You used Mighty Bomb Jack as starting point!? That game sucked!!
posted by Stonestock Relentless at 6:28 PM on April 11, 2008 [1 favorite]

16:08. Much of the jumping involves pixel precision --particularly the part with pillars. Puh. A useful tip, perhaps, is that Jill can hang from ledges by the very tip of her toes. Like Mega Man. The jump puzzles were pretty enjoyable. I think I realize why I continued playing NES type games well into the age of the polygon: hopes of some cool pixel art at the end. I much enjoyed the art in this one.
posted by Mister Cheese at 6:46 PM on April 11, 2008

Since the game site doesn't say it, and this post doesn't say it, I'll say it: Windows-only.
posted by ardgedee at 6:53 PM on April 11, 2008 [2 favorites]

Not near as sexy as one would hope...
posted by valentinepig at 6:56 PM on April 11, 2008

Windows only.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 7:04 PM on April 11, 2008

I'd hit it.
posted by Balisong at 7:32 PM on April 11, 2008

Reset the clock!
posted by middleclasstool at 8:13 PM on April 11, 2008

Ouch, I wish it had a save game feature. I wanted to pause it while I went to get a snack, and it exited instead. Now I wont have the patience to finish. I don't suppose anyone's posted a cutscene video or runthrough?
posted by BrotherCaine at 12:13 AM on April 12, 2008

Hmm, after playing that game, I feel like I've been whipped.
posted by BrianBoyko at 2:30 AM on April 12, 2008

"Unexpected error occured when running the game."
posted by beerbajay at 10:40 AM on April 12, 2008

The conceptual art for the cutscenes is adorable, but the simplicity of the gameplay design and internal graphics are so abhorrently stunted, I am not encouraged to even download it, much less play it. It's like taking Commander Keen and monochromatically removing from it everything that was remotely fun.

There should be more lesbian masochists in games though. I'm all for that. I mean, didn't we all just assume that deep down Lara Croft was a lesbian masochist? I know I did.
posted by ZachsMind at 11:49 AM on April 12, 2008