Maiden Love Revolution – Lose weight and get the guy?
There is a new PS2 game that is apparently doing very well in Japan – Maiden Love Revolution. In the game, you play an former beauty queen is who is now overweight, but strives to get back to her ‘former self.’ Throught calorie counting and exercise, she can get back to her former weight. In doing so, she is rewarded with a boyfried.
Good golly! I tend to like simulation games, and I don’t tend to be terribly politically correct, but this one just has me aghast. Maybe the reviews are condensing the plot to it’s most banal elements, and the game has some remediation qualities. Maybe. But from the screenshots, that looks unlikely:
It also seems odd that they’ve used the Dance Dance Revolution nomenclature. DDR players have actually reported losing weight as they play. And that makes DDR more of a sport than anything. Did the Maiden Love guys have to fork over some cash to leverage that title?
My daughter isn’t playing this one, and I can’t promise to review it. A terse review and some screenshots can be seen over at Wired: Win a Date With Shallow Hayato.
