Is Love Plus Better Than Love?
a Bakery in Tokyo had a line stretched across all waiting in line to buy a cake for Christmas, but its not nearly the type of cake you and I would imagine. Christmas is Japan is more of a "Party" holiday, times to spend with your love and friends and eat cake!
Ironically this type of cake was part of a promotion for Konami's Nintendo DS game, Love Plus. These cakes featured characters from the game and were sold in only 3 different bakeries in Tokyo. Even more ironically as of to why these poeple wanted these cakes for Christmas is, there is proud history in Japan in which folks take pictures of Christmas cake in front of a computer screen displaying some sort of dating sim.
Love Plus, by Kanomi was released last September. It is unlike Kanomi's other game, its a dating type game that in the end leaves you with the following question "You've got the girl, so now what are you going to do?" This game allows the player to "talk, Caress, and send emails" via the DS touch screen and mic. I have never heard of this game before but after reading this article makes me a little skeptical about it.
I found the following statement a little disturbing haha, "As columnist Tim Rogers pointed out, there was a stink about male players getting "too" in to Love Plus. This certainly could have been a publicity stunt. Konami even polled 500 Japanese men if they wanted to fall in love with a video game character. (Sixty-four percent said "yes"!) Likewise, the one about the guy who "married" a Love Plus character was a publicity stunt or performance art or both."
Konami is releasing a new game called Love Plus+ (Plus) and running a campaign to try and collect names so the Love Plus girls will have a larger vocabulary to draw from. Its basically saying we all want as humans someone to love us and not feel alone and be with and that this game gives us just that. I again however find this very strange and disturbing, but I have not ever played the game so I can not really make a decision about it until I fully have experienced it and seen for myself what the game really is.
I have definitely never heard of this before. It's kind of crazy how into games people can get! Especially the fact about 64% of men wanted to fall in love with a video game character. I know that my boyfriend loves Call of Duty until the end of time but I wouldn't necessarily say he would be apart of the 64%. I'm not surprised by the publicity stunts, there's a publicity stunt for everything.
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