By Kieron Gillen on September 10th, 2010 at 10:00 am.
I started the day over at Five Players where Emily extols her love for free-to-play Pokemon-esque MMO Monster Forest. Specifically, Monster Forest’s adverts. They’re really quite the thing. “This is the closest you’ll ever come to a fusion between professional video games advertisement and a long monologue introducing porn,” says Emily, “It’s the kind of video that wasn’t even recorded in a studio. It just manifested itself like that video in The Ring. In seven days H.R. Pufnstuf is going to crawl out of your laptop and force himself upon you in a tight, lingering hug.” Go read what else she has to say. Some of the videos and my editorial notes follow…
My particular favourite bit is where 5:02 she informs you that you can have “Human pets”, which sets a whole quite disturbing lifestyle S&M undertone to the whole thing.
This is the one Emily linked to, and has a whole lot more of Angelbear…
I want to know what Angelbear is doing to that Teapot at the end. I think it’s wrong.
You can follow Kanny’s blogging here, where her current interest is doing POV photos at foodstuffs. And… I just had the enormously scary experience of having a video playing in one of my tabs,and me being incapable of finding which one, leading me for one horrific moment to consider it was playing inside my head and I would have GM Kanny chirping at me for the rest of my days.
I need to stop playing Amnesia before bed.
And I thought Amnesia was scary.
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Let me be the first to say… “VAT?”
What’s up? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCIF6JF1O5U)
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My brains just squirted out of my pupils.
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I think I speak for everyone when I say, “I want a human pet”
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I understand there are certain niche clubs and forms gentleman’s literature that might go some way to giving you what you desire.
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Most excellent. Fnar Fnar Fnar!
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Uh, thanks, but all the japanese cuteness I can bear I already got from Recettear. If I watch these videos my head will surely explode in a huge burst of fluffy clouds and rainbows.
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Take a look. I think it’s not right.
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Somehow, I am jealous of this strange angel-bear creature.
That is not right.
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It puts the pet in the bucket…
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is it bad that I want to write everything in engrish now?
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wut?
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On a less horrified note, if anyone is looking for a Pokemon-ish MMO, you’d probably be better off with Shin Megami Tensei Online.
http://megaten.aeriagames.com/
Post-apocalyptic setting, and rather than summoning cute electric mice, you’re summoning demons, lovecraftian horrors, incarnations of deities and obscure creatures of myth and lore from around the world.
It’s not great, but it’s pretty good for a free-to-play game.
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What the frak.
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simultaneously aroused and horrified.
that bear freaks me out
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She really shouldn’t talk about ‘furry sleeves’, i zoned out completely for a moment…
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hahaha
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Those videos made my face go permanently :3
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Mine was frozen into ^_^
help! ^_^
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She can have me as pet, I approves.
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It can’t just be me who’s a little unnerved by the sexually aggressive pointing finger in the tutorial.
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wow that is one fat ass moogle
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all the sugary cuteness of this game gave him diabeetus
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Well, I won’t be sleeping for the next year.
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There was ads for this aaaaaall over Singapore, but they seemed to be pimping the “star” Kanny Theng more than the actual game. Kanny is a Singaporean celebrity known for her D-cups and being in some kind of weird J-Pop/high-class call girl outfit called “The D-Cup Girls”. I know all this off the top of my head because I’m a culture vulture and not because I spent several days stalking her across the city.
Oh, there’s actually a game too!
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Perhaps most frightening is the fact that this is not the most frightening thing to come out of Singapore…
Seriously, go read William Gibsons impressions of Singapore! George Orwell couldn’t have done it better himself!
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Hm.
Hmmm…
*ponders.*
So, here’s an interesting thought: Is this perhaps the most transparent instance of human characters being shoehorned into something just so that people have a point of familiarity to latch onto? Considering that the pets can equip items, and that they fight the battles, it seems like the ‘trainers’ are just vanity pets that follow the actual focus of the game around.
Really, all you’d need to do is switch the walking order so that the player takes control of the ‘pet’ to make that obvious. It’s fascinating, really.
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I thought it was just an attempt at the pokemon vibe.
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Is Angelbeea minion or archfiend to Horace?
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