Love is... ever so slightly wrong
Spotted via Tiny Cartridge and winner of today's seriously?-most-unlikely-license goes to Zoo Digital and Elephant's forthcoming Love Is... In Bloom expected just after the new year for Wii and DS.
Elephant's site appears to have been crushed from the preponderance of in-bound love, but Zoo says the game will feature (as Tiny Cartridge aptly recalls) the Homer-Simpson-described "two naked eight-year-olds who are married" building "the best Florist shop around, by "preparing the soil and planting seeds to grow magnificent flowers that you can then sell them in your very own Flower shop to earn money and grow a little empire."
We're obviously not the target market here, but I'm also struggling to figure out who is, and only slightly unnerved by the image of even a little empire of the wo/man-children.
Love Is... in Bloom [Zoo Digital, via Tiny Cartridge]
nobodyman
#1 – 8:18 AM December 9, 2008
Um, yeah. That sound that you just heard was Jack Thompson exploding. Something tells me that if this game ever makes it on US soil the government will respond by sending every game developer on earth to Guantanimo.
igpajo
#2 – 11:39 AM December 9, 2008
The ironic thing is that the target audience for this, the fans of the "Love is..." cartoons are the very folks who would gladly pick up a picket sign to protest alongside Jack Thompson to ban videogames with nudity in it.
closetpacifist
#3 – 9:44 PM December 9, 2008
Wow, I really don't know what to think of that comic strip. Thanks for the link Igpajo.
Some of the strips are stuck in old gender molds, some are just incredibly pedestrian, some are downright sad, and some are actually kind of cute. And some /have/ to be double entendres. Or, uh, am I the only one who did a double take when I read "love is letting him coach his own amateur team"?
Anonymous Anonymous
#4 – 5:06 AM December 10, 2008
A nudist florists would be a hit in the real world. So why not? Oh hang on, they're kids. No they're not. Yes they are....And we had all that grief over the Scorpions cover? Sheesh
a_user
#5 – 5:53 PM December 10, 2008
oh c'mon the target market is easy - they're hoping to cash in on the Sara Palin factor.