Interesting. It seems to be one of those live action dating sim games where hot actresses play your secretary or childhood best friend or whatever and you click through dialog options in an attempt to marry them at the end.
Except the theme of this one isn’t to marry your favourite girl but to get revenge on a group of relationship swindlers. It doesn’t say what they mean by “revenge” but it seems like a game directed at incels.
Sixth Tone is not a “no name magazine”, it’s the English language publication of one of the largest online news publications in Shanghai.
Its a contender for best English language publication in China, and a good source of investigative (well, as much as you can get in the PRC now 财新 has been nutuered) journalism. It still gets to do more critical stories when they’re small scale and frame it as a problem government will find a way to solve.
The game is believed to have been made in the wake of the suicide of gaming influencer Pangmao, or “Fat Cat.” The incident sparked significant online debate about “gold diggers” upon his death in April 2024.
How on earth does someone make a full game in 1.5 months
Released for $4.60. below average game cost they said. This makes me wonder… What do games cost on release most places?
I seem to remember $40 PS2/Dreamcast era $50 PS3/360 era, $60 PS4/5/Xbox S/S era. And now people are saying $80 for next gen. Sorry I know I dropped a lot of consoles, but was that pretty standard everywhere?
Yeah, 8 minutes into this, and I can already tell this narrative is extremely sexist. Anyone can be a gold digger in the hyper capitalist nation that is China, that also includes males who prey on innocent women trying to make ends meet for their loved ones.
Capitalism is fraud in of itself, so I’m not sure that’s a true claim for praise.
I watched this whole thing, the story is vastly better than I expected. I’ll be starting part 2 tomorrow. Trust me it doesn’t go where you think it does.
From my understanding both revolve around using other people to get money, but a gold digger dose it in person, might even go as far as marriage and life insurance clames. Where as a catfish dose it online, to be able to maintain the fake persona.
So they are similar but there are some differences.
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