Onikirimaru
Saikyo Soulja
This is an interesting dilemma. Firstly, if they showed those same pictures and said "Extremely early demo pics of a pet sim, this time with rabbits. You can pet, sing to, blow on, your pet rabbit, and see its reaction in real time" every ninteo fan would immidatly start praising nintendo for its innovation. From what is being proposed, there is really nothing "sick" about the game. Its just like any Nintendogs where you can pet and play with your dog. There would be no nudity and no hint at sexual intercourse. "Winning" the game just makes the bunny fly around. Its just a game where you pet a bunny. Now, lets try and use our imaginations and image that this game is made. Of course, everyone would want to ban this very evil and sexual game, or at least stick a mature rating on it. But why? Its just a game where you pet a bunny. Its not GTA, there are no on screen hoes running around, no boobies floppin around on screen, no drugs and drive bys. Just a bunny. But it still gets banned, what would that say? If we would ban a game about petting a bunny, based on that its kinda of a metaphore of female masturbation, we would be banning the idea that women should know how to sexually stimulate themselves. The game is just a metaphor, nothing actually perverse or sexy happens. Acorrding to the way I understand and rate games, you cant ban or rate games based off of what they kinda hint around at or are metaphors too. It has to be real tangible content. But Im sure if it was released, it would be the subject of criticism and bans and etc anyway.
Its interesting. If this game was developed normally, and no-one ever mentioned that the game's petting mechanic was modeled after the female orgasm and arousal, it would be released normally and probably bought up by everyone with a DS. But since a developer opened her mouth and said her intention with the game, suddenly a game about taking care of and petting a bunny rabbit is the sexiest and most perverse game ever envisioned.