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Harpooned, an anti-whaling game January 18, 2008 - by Ian Bogost As a statement against and satire of Japanese whaling, three Australians have created Harpooned: Japanese Cetacean Research Simulator. The tongue-in-cheek creator's statement amounts to a sentence: "You play the role of a Japanese scientist performing research on whales around Antarctica." It's probably one that will . Additional coverage at NineMSN. Comment from dmonnens on January 19, 2008
I wonder if that '10%' of people who just didn't get that the game was a damning attack on Japanese whale research are media-illiterate or are simply clueless. The text is clear and you don't even have to play the game to get the idea. I just don't see how this could be taken as anything OTHER than farce, unlike Mega Man vs Polish Immigrant, which requires considerable knowledge of the Mega Man games to clear up some otherwise ambiguous sequences. Of course, people also misread Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" which is 'clearly' satire. As they did the videogame Cannon Fodder, for that matter... I will say the soundtrack for this game is very reminiscent of the work of Rafael Dyll, who scored Last Hope (Dreamcast) and Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer (PC) and the game is pretty well designed as a simple shmup. POST A COMMENT
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