{"id":5755,"date":"2019-11-13T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playlab.uta.fi\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2019-11-13T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:30:52","slug":"i-love-you-colonel-sanders-a-finger-lickin-good-dating-simulator-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/i-love-you-colonel-sanders-a-finger-lickin-good-dating-simulator-review\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin\u2019 Good Dating Simulator Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Capitalism has reached its peak. As corporations struggle to get that sweet\u00a0<\/span>sweet<\/span>\u00a0brand relatability, the results have gotten truly absurd. For example, here\u2019s a review for KFC\u2019s visual novel styled dating simulator.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Credit where credit is due. I must admire how the character artist managed to turn a wrinkly old man in a white suit into a<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>fairly good-looking<\/span>\u00a0anime guy. Also, the soundtrack was surprisingly enjoyable, especially in the more sentimental scenes. Otherwise the game doesn\u2019t have much to offer.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The plot isn\u2019t that important but just to summarize your character is a bright culinary student who tries to seduce the\u00a0<\/span>class\u2019 valedictorian<\/span>, Colonel Sanders. Along with your stereotypical cast of tropes as your best friends and foes you compete in cooking challenges which are supervised by professor Sprinkles, who is a talking corgi. The choices you make in the game affect the endings, of which there are multiple.\u00a0<\/span>Choices are made by picking one of the presented dialogue options.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst part of the game was that the advertising was so blatant that\u00a0<\/span>it<\/span>\u00a0broke immersion. Yes, I am aware that the game was itself an advertisement but seen as I am reviewing it as a game it\u2019s something that can\u2019t be ignored. For example, every food that is complemented and praised in the game is an item from KFC\u2019s menu. It wouldn\u2019t even let you cook squid<\/span>, and though it\u2019s understandable, it could\u2019ve at least let you fail at cooking it.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Furthermore, Colonel Sanders spends more time talking about\u00a0<\/span>his future\u00a0<\/span>restaurants than anything else. Though the game is marketed as a dating simulator there\u2019s very minimal dating involved. It\u2019s just a big tease baiting you to play until the end. Even in the\u00a0<\/span>\u201c<\/span>bad ending<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0Colonel Sanders says he\u2019ll be your partner in life but not in business, which is supposed to be a bad thing. I doubt that anyone played this game wanting to start an enterprise of fast food restaurants. Of course, we all\u00a0<\/span>k<\/span>new<\/span>\u00a0that it wouldn\u2019t be very hot and steamy, but this was just needlessly tame and lazy.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The game had some lag, but nothing too major, considering I was playing on a few years old MacBook. It did bring some difficulty to the cooking challenges<\/span>\u00a0where i<\/span>f you didn\u2019t choose the correct answer to a question before the timer ran out, it negatively affected your progress. I ended up getting the \u201cbad ending\u201d<\/span>\u00a0because of it.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As I am writing this review Wendy\u2019s has just released their own game, a tabletop RPG called\u00a0<\/span>Feast of <\/span>Legends.<\/span> Boasting an impressive 97-page rulebook it has promise to rise well above this piece of mediocrity I\u2019ve played. But if it\u2019s similar in quality to this one we must all pray that these sort of advergames won\u2019t become a trend. <\/span>Again<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Would I recommend this as a game? No, if you have literally anything else to do. The game is available for free on Steam, so you could just check it out for the meme. As an advertisement though, I\u2019d say it was highly effective as I live in a country where there isn\u2019t even a KFC restaurant around and I can name at least five items from their menu. They got us good.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Release\u00a0<\/span>date<\/span>: 24.9.2019<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Developer<\/span>:\u00a0<\/span>Psyop<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Publisher: KFC<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Genres<\/span>: c<\/span>asual,<\/span> indie, s<\/span>imulation<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Platforms<\/span>: Windows, Mac OS X<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PEGI:\u00a0<\/span>–<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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