Grant Hinds is the presenter for GameState, South Africa, if not the world’s, greatest online TV Show. He won’t have a virtual girlfriend unless she feeds him virtual fruit while wearing an extremely objectifying outfit.
The assumption for most ignorant people is that gamers don’t know how to obtain or keep a girlfriend. Well, in real life that is. It’s a little sad as most of the gamers I know do not conform to that stereotype.
Following this generic, appalling line of thought, Love Plus + was born. It’s a miserable excuse for a game, residing on the DS and made by Konami. Think Pokemon, but with a girlfriend. Yes, a digital woman who you’re developing an artificial relationship with.
There is very little reason this game should exist. It’s more or less just emotional porn and likely to be just as destructive.
Even more bizarre is Konami’s latest offering: The opportunity to go on the date of a lifetime with your Love Plus + virtual girlfriend. The trip costs roughly R4000 and will take you on a journey through Atami in Japan.
It’s a stamp ride which means you’ll be riding a bus through Atami and collecting stamps. And judging by the subject matter of Love Plus +, this is going to be a bus full of adults.
Consequently, this bus will be the grossest place on earth to be at during this stamp ride. Worse than the Piggy Bus in Cape Town after a long Friday afternoon lunch. Let’s hope they keep their hands off their significant others during the trip otherwise this is going to be one messy ride.
Grant recently got some celebrity co-op time in with one of South Africa’s loveliest ladies, Genevieve Morton
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