Column: Welcome to the GameSetWatch Comic - 'Welcome to the Love and Berry'
May 28, 2008 4:00 PM |
['Welcome to the GameSetWatch Comic' is, once again, a weekly comic by Jonathan "Persona" Kim about the continuing adventures of our society, cultural postdialectic theory, and video games.]
Aha, this time Persona brings us an adorable little tale based on Love & Berry, "... a cross between an arcade game and collectible card game from Sega, targeted toward girls usually between ages six and twelve years." Make them 'dress up & dance', folks. (Also Sega, parody is permissible under one of those Amendments, so please Hammer, don't hurt us!)
[Jonathan "Persona" Kim is a character animation student at the California Institute of the Arts. When not playing horribly addictive card games where you dress up little girls, he continues the Mecha Fetus revolution on the Mecha Fetus Visublog.]
Categories: Comic: The GameSetWatch Comic
6 Comments
Much like the capitalist/anticapitalist duality present in the cartoon of the "other" collectible card game, Yu-Gi-Oh, Love & Berry is a work which mocks the economic system that it supports. At first glance, this makes the work seem conflicted, but on the whole it is really just preparing the child player for adulthood, with its palette of grays rather than clear black and white delineations. The obvious key to "winning" the game is by spending more money, collecting more fashion accessories and being more intimate with the inner calculations, but the true game is the metagame--where the child learns to evaluate increasing price versus increasing amounts of fun, challenging them to find their optimal price for fun received. It prepares them to make adult capitalist decisions by mocking the "money buys happiness" social imperative, in other words.
On a more concerning note, Insertcredit.com reported earlier this year that the game gives the girls' ages in "Fashion Magic Years." How long is a Fashion Magic Year compared to one of our years? Obviously, this is an attempt to appeal to two audiences. Young girls will see the "Fashion Magic Years" and see the heroines as being near their own age, while adult red-blooded men such as myself will try to guess how long a Fashion Magic Year would have to be such that 14 in Fashion Magic Years would be the age of consent in their locality. Thus, millions of men are now wishing that perhaps the Love & Berry are a member of a humanoid, fashion-conscious subterrean society on Mars. Or at least just Love. Screw that skank Berry.
TOLLMASTER | May 28, 2008 7:04 PM
I likes it when it happens to me.
TOLESMOTER | May 28, 2008 7:36 PM
LOVE IT
mathew | May 28, 2008 9:19 PM
Hoho, GoNintendo posted the comic too.
http://gonintendo.com/?p=44534
Persona | May 29, 2008 1:24 AM
girls gots boobies on.
brandon | May 29, 2008 8:11 PM
i like your draw,i like love and berry so much..
abel | June 24, 2009 8:14 AM