One of the many reasons I love Kickstarter is that people with little more than a good pitch and a solid idea can make their dream a reality. If you like the idea, throw a couple bucks in to help out. Kickstarter’s aren’t always successful but more and more games are finding their way onto the website. Games ranging from epic fantasy role playing games centered around stout dwarves to dating sims set in North Korea.
Go! Go! Democratic Republic of Korea! Is the third project from DEVGRU-P, the second being its other dating sim about Tanks. A game received very positively on Steam and even drew the attention of notable members of the community who threw in their two cents on the idea.
More anti-feminist filth from game industry. Tank-dating simulators objectify tanks, reducing them to sexual objects pic.twitter.com/G3PV1SOfrA
— Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) March 15, 2016
In the game, the year is 2016, America is back in Afghanistan, and you, soldier, are about to get a well deserved vacation. What better way to spend it than with some of your Korean Army pen-pals, Jeong and Eunji? “Pyongyang” is just a suburb of Seoul, right?
I was lucky enough to be able to get into contact with the people behind the project and ask them a few questions about the project. Quite obviously the first one on my mind was why North Korea? Steam has its fair share of strange dating sims (the pigeon one, being the first to come to mind) but still, why?
“We have wanted to parody Go! Go! Nippon for awhile, I was told. I found it silly how the main character in that game was fluent in Japanese (one of the most challenging languages on Earth) and yet didn’t know basic things about the country. It seemed so nonsensical, the only thing crazier could be going to North Korea and not knowing it was a crazy dictatorship.”
The game has already drawn quite a bit of attention on its Steam page, with one poster declaring boldly that ‘this game is a meme now’ along quite a few people posting comments in Korean ranging from (supposed) endorsements from Kim Jong-Un himself to strings of vulgarity. The game currently has 17 days until funding ends, and its raised little over 3,000 of the 4,000 USD requested. I asked if they thought they had enough time, and DEVGRU-P gave a very confident yes. Yeah, we have no worries about getting funded, our last game was funded at nearly 300%. But we like to keep everything pretty “hush-hush” and surprise people when the game comes out. Visual Novels aren’t as interactive as some other genres, so their easier to spoil.
So sit back, relax and wait for the day to come when you can power up the ol’computer and take a virtual tour through Best Korea. Maybe throw a few bucks their way. I know I intend to.
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