Basic Trope: A pornographic work that has an interesting plot.
- Straight: Kishi Monogatari is an Eroge about a knight in the fantasy world. Through his adventure, the protagonist has sex with a lot of attractive women, but his final goal is to launch a rebellion against the evil king.
- Exaggerated:
- Everything in the plot is sexually-related, from names to motivations of characters.
- The sex scenes are so sparsely placed between everything else that makes it very, very hard to get them, making it seem like they were done just as a cheap way to make the game's runtime longer.
- The sex scenes are considered absolutely terrible even to those who hold rather niche interests but the plot and characterization is considered at same level if not better than any professional non-pornographic work in the genre - even factoring in the Audience-Alienating Premise and sex scenes which would be panned in a community of talentless erotic fanfic writers.
- Downplayed:
- Kishi Monogatari has a few scenes which are borderline pornographic content, but is not an explicit porn — more like on the ecchi side.
- Kishi Monogatari has an Excuse Plot and some minor Character Development, but mostly follows the protagonist's many sexual encounters.
- Kishi Monogatari has some explicit and well-written sex scenes, but they are so few and far between, among dozens of hours of gameplay, that almost nobody plays it for the sex.
- Justified: Our hero needs to have a lot of sexual encounters with various attractive women in order to complete his quest to overthrow the king, from the Hot Witch who gives him an important Plot Coupon, to the tribe of Amazons only too eager to mate with such a fine male specimen in exchange for fighting with him, to the goddess of love and war who grants him her divine blessing, the Hooker with a Heart of Gold who knows how to infiltrate the capital city (and whose clients include important personages and a good few of the guards) and, lastly, the Rebellious Princess and ultimate Love Interest who wants to overthrow her father and marry the knight.
- Inverted:
- Kishi Monogatari is a story which focuses on the plot itself, and despite it having explicit sex scenes, the work is primarily known as a lore-rich adventure story.
- Baishunpu Monogatari is entirely based upon the societal practice of prostitution, fetishes, sexual taboos, and cravings of all levels of society and their treatment inside and outside contrasting. Despite this there isn't so much as cleavage shown let alone a sex scene without violating Show, Don't Tell. It manages to tell a plotless story about sex without it being porn.
- Subverted: In the beginning, the protagonist talks about how he would dethrone the king. Then he proceeds to have sex with every girl he meets, and the king is not remembered anymore.
- Double Subverted: After a good amount of sex scenes, it is revealed that the protagonist's powers are activated by sex and now he's fully ready to go. Then a lot of scenes describe his crusade, as well as his everyday life and interactions with other characters.
- Parodied:
- The protagonist fights with a one-meter long emerald penis. It is constantly reminded that the phallic shape is symbolic and this weapon has a really, really long and heroic past.
- The plot and other non-sexual aspects take over the whole story, and sex is barely even mentioned or implied, yet people still insist on calling it pornography. Perhaps it's a different type of porn.
- Zig Zagged: Some scenes of the game have shallow writing and focus only on sex. Some of them are actually interesting.
- Enforced:
- "You will not sell this if it would be only about sex! Look, our rivals published a eroge with plot and critics acclaimed it!"
- It started as a script for a normal film, but the creators could only get funding from Wet Dream Pictures who turned it into a porn.
- The inclusion of a (however minimal) plot is meant to circumvent the Tropestanian ban on works that depict only sex related scenes.
- Averted:
- Kishi Monogatari is either an ordinary fantasy-themed porn, or has a plot without any explicit content.
- Kishi Monogatari has a badly written, uninteresting plot with no porn.
- Lampshaded: "No, I seriously play it for the plot!"
- Invoked: A Hentai artist and a Light Novel writer decide to create a game with all skills they have.
- Exploited: A group of loyal fans catch some lines from Kishi Monogatari's dialogues and turn them into memes, which help them to intrigue a lot of people, even the ones who do not like porn.
- Defied: "Come on, we need sex, not Purple Prose."
- Discussed: "I only wanted to jerk off and go to sleep, and now I am starting to empathize them!"
- Conversed: "Do they play porn game, or what? I think it has too much plot for a porn."
- Implied: "Play this game! It is really fun!"
- Deconstructed: The protagonist slept with so many girls he stops having fun in process and catches some nasty disease. Then every one of the girls end up hating him for cheating on them with the others.
- Reconstructed: Upon hearing that the previous protagonist failed on his quest, a Battle Couple takes off to finish the work he forgot to do. They have lots of love in progress.
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