{"id":6667,"date":"2010-07-09T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ride-of-your-love-plus-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/6667-ride-of-your-love-plus-life","title":{"rendered":"Ride of your (Love Plus +) Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grant Hinds is the presenter for GameState, <\/a>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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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There is very little reason this game should exist. It’s more or less just emotional porn and likely to be just as destructive.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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Grant recently got some celebrity co-op time in with one of South Africa’s loveliest ladies, Genevieve Morton <\/strong><\/p>\n

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