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Cutey Fatty: Slimming Sim or Diet Riot?
September 6th 2002, 04:26 CEST by m0nty One of the more interesting games shown at the recent ECTS show was Cutey Fatty from Korean developer Wecom, a "scrolling shooter" which hearkens back to the halcyon days of the C64 when game concepts were refreshingly ridiculous. There is a girl names 'Cutey Fatty' weighs over 100kg but she really wants to be a super model. So she has to lose weight fighting her favourite foods around the town. Her enemies are hamburgers, chocolate cookies and ice creams and so on. She should defeat the enemies and lose weights with getting vegetables and fruits in every stage. While the game playing, the scale is indicating her real time weights and she can lose weight more easily with intensive exercises if she finds secret door. And Toto her pretty dog helps to defeat the enemies. C&VG previewed it rather sheepishly, including some screenshots but misspelling the dev firm's name as Wacom (perhaps confusing them with the tablet manufacturers). There are precious few other articles about it available on the Web. The CEO of Wecom is a lad by the name of Kim WonHyuk, and a splash screen from Hexus Gaming gives a taste of the anime-inspired artwork. Wecom's only other gaming credit that I can find is an arcade conversion of the game Her Knights from the Korean handheld gaming machine Gamepark GP32, mentioned in passing here. This gives a hint of the heritage of Wecom in the GP32 market, further discussed on the front page of Hexus, a GBA-type device featuring cutesy anime girl-oriented titles like Princess Maker and dating sim Therapy. There is no questioning the silliness of the premise of this game, but gaming is full of titles with stupid starting ideas. A monkey in a ball, I mean really. Two plumbers saving a princess, how gauche. There are many games which, while absurd on the outside, are carefully abstracted from real life psychological events: it could be argued that RPGs are thinly veiled allegories for a teenager's rite of passage, for instance. Is Cutey Fatty an inconsequential piece of frippery, or do feminists have to mount their high horses to defend the sisterhood against negative body imagery? Eating ice-creams and other sweet foods was the object in many platformers like Bubble Bobble, so is it such a crime to turn that cliche on its head? Do game developers have to resort to such obvious emotional manipulation to reach that all-important teen female demographic? Is this another beachhead made by Asian developers in their quest to make the world safe for hentai? What are the supar sekrit codes to unlock the bonus tenacle rape level? |
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i'm not looking forward to next wednesday, either, come to think of it. By this time tomorrow we can be doing BODY SHOTS off HOOKERS in some MEXICAN HELLHOLE
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People like Jerry Lewis. You learn something new everyday. "Good health" is merely the slowest rate at which one can die.
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Wednesday will be a great day to not watch TV. |
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Too bad the Jerry Lewis Telethon isn't on Wednesday. Who is driving car?! Oh my god, bear is driving car! How can that be?
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Or... is it?! [/sarcasm]
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The GP32 is neat in theory but since virtually nobody owns one (outside of Korea anyway) you might as well develop games for the Gameboy Advance if you're into small-device game development. You'll find a lot more people with downloadable memory carts for the GBA (primarily used for pirating, though useful as a development/testing tool for people who don't have real devkits) than you will find GB32 owners to play your game. |
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Everything derives from this. "It's pretty common for pussies, dumbasses, and their families to blame their problems on vague influences like the media and society. The truth is, fuck you."
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GOT YOU! Who is driving?! Oh my god, bear is driving! How can that be?
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Greg, it's not as convincing when you don't have the skull for the O. "Thus the fridge contains the possibilities of no beers and some beers existing in simultaneous superposition!"
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Caryn, charmap.exe didn't have a suitable equivalent. ® may have been the closest. Who is driving?! Oh my god, bear is driving! How can that be?
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If you ask me, that's an incredibly unfortunate oversight. "Thus the fridge contains the possibilities of no beers and some beers existing in simultaneous superposition!"
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the skull does make all the difference, apparently. By this time tomorrow we can be doing BODY SHOTS off HOOKERS in some MEXICAN HELLHOLE
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Cripes, the pixels are huge! Get it away! [/sarcasm]
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Are those big pixels you got in your pocket, or are you just happy to... er... Wait, nevermind. |
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Unless you've seen the PMS episode, you have no right to an opinion. Classic in t.v. history. i'm not looking forward to next wednesday, either, come to think of it. I am, 28 years ago on that date jjohnsens mom had the cutest little baby ever. I am trying to catch up to Ergo's Dvd collection.
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Two, two, TWO sentences in one! [/sarcasm]
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jjohnsen: So where's the GIF of your sister then? Who is driving?! Oh my god, bear is driving! How can that be?
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Ehm... Might be some motivation. iamelectro
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So if video games can convince girls that they have to lose weight and emulate supermodel good looks, does that mean that it can teach boys that they have to get a gun from their grandfather's arsenal and dish out some old skool justice? Oh, I remember my father telling me that a couple years ago, he had Jerry Lewis' grandson in his first grade class. Weird, eh? "And I'm working under cover for The Man." - They Might Be Giants
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So how about that game with the big funky controller for the XBOX? Steel Battalion? iamelectro
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Super Mecha Steel Cutey Fatty Battalion? -Jon
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I think it takes less ethical and mental collapse to convince something they're chubby than it does to convince someone they're the hand of god. [/sarcasm]
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The one with the huge controller. I saw this 30 minute japanese show that featured Tekki, and showed how it played and whatnot. iamelectro
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Of course, we can all take a lesson from Bob. iamelectro
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Bob! bago, you wouldn't happen to have a video of that show, would you? I want that game. So there.
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I do. It's 94 megs, and it's at work. Email me and I shall upload to a server of your choice. iamelectro
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The GP32's d-pad is awful. It feels like it'll snap off the first chance it gets. The best way to create an award winning game is to write the acceptance speech first.
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