News: We-Key Pedophilia

December 07, 2008, 12:54 AM

by brandon, via 5pb -
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Very confusing company 5pb (publisher? Music label? Distro? Marketing?) is releasing a dating sim on the 360 called Chaos; Head Noah. The PC original was simply Chaos; Head, and was developed by Nitro+. The first thing you'll notice is that it's got a nice bit of text on the top page. "If you are god, and the delusion becomes reality. About what kind of the noids you get?" Good question. paranoids maybe. The game is a standard visual novel, but allows players to choose "stable" or "unstable" delusions that influence results - sometimes in the way you see to the left. Read more about the game here.

More interesting than the game itself is the fact that game references popular websites, but changes up the names, as often happens with products in anime and whatnot. So you've got @chan instead of 2chan, Taboo! instead of Yahoo!, and instead of Wikipedia, you've got We-Key Pedophilia. It's amazing what can be gotten away with when your mainstream media is so different from Western media. If an American company even mentioned pedophilia as a joke in some marketing push, it'd be all over for them. The lesson: Try not to write official things that will end up in the public eye in languages you don't understand.