128: Super Chick Sisters

[Girlysprite]

I am more interested to see where serious ad games will go from here. After all, the popularity of the game and the reactions to it might change the ways future ad games might be made.

I haven't played the game, but I have seen and read enough to know that I don't want to eat at KFC (or any chain fast food joint for that matter). I think the PETA should not try to say 'KFC is evil' but just show what people are putting into their mouths, which is -apart from animal suffering- bad stuff.

 

[Lampdevil]

"And while Bogost's critique may have merit, it's hard to picture anybody wanting to play a chicken-slaughtering simulator."

You can't seriously mean that. AT LEAST all the people who like Postal would play it, and at least half of the fps fanbase would at least want to try it. Oh, and every fan of the Mortal Kombat series.

Yeah, but that wouldn't feed in to the kind of attention that PETA is hoping to get. They want to catch the eyeballs of the "Ohnoes, the poor little chickens!" crowd, as opposed to the stereotypical "hurr hurr look at that chicken boil" segment of the gaming population. It wouldn't come across as a demonstration of how horrible chicken treatment is, it'd look like a glorification of nasty de-beaking processes.

I'm not for PETA, so I'm not for this game. It's clever of them to ride the coattails of things that came long before, and if it at least gets people thinking about animal rights issues, hey. Whatever.

 

[Pixelantes Anonymous]

Where do I start? For one, they're painting an old man who's been dead for more than 25 years as a mechanized, bespectacled mad-man. I guess nothing is sacred anymore.

Well, if PETA is right, that old man and everything he represents is responsible for animal cruelty on a massive scale. Hardly a reason to be respectful to someone, even if that someone has been dead for some time now.

In any case for all purposes he is not dead. KFC is using his likeness in their brand marketing every day. I'd say using his likeness to criticize KFC's business practices is fair game.

Now, I wouldn't really know whether or not PETA is correct about their claims, and I don't really care one way or another, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Flunk]

I don't really care about the political message, but Pita's ham-fisted attempts to scare people are laughable at best (I enjoyed their cooking mama spoof, except the tofu cooking part which was totally disgusting).

The game is kinda neat and the graphics are good but the control is pretty imprecise to the point where it's frustrating. Hit boxes are also a little too big so sometimes you die even though you never touched the monster.

P.S. If I were Nintendo I would probably sue over this, in a Japanese court.

 

[murphy7801]

hmm animal rights protesters arnt as extreme hear in the uk

 

[The_Echo]

Why does this game play like an ice level on a regular Mario game?
EDIT: They had Mario visiting Dr. Mario for his arm. What?