No Love Life? Buy a Virtual Girlfriend
Love Plus is a new Japanese dating simulation for the Nintendo DS that requires a fair amount of interaction between you and your simulated date. Including kissing!
After selecting a virtual girlfriend, you are supposed to engage her interest in real time, by taking her out on dates and planning things together. She may be shy at first, sending you mixed signals about your relationship with her. However if you play the game right, the two of you become more intimate.
According to Koh, a married man, he has held the hand of his girlfriend on the touchscreen, as well as kissed her by touching her lips. Science fiction writer William Gibson popularized this idea of a relationship with a virtual girlfriend in his 1996 novel 'Idoru'.
Here's a short trailer for the game in Japanese, but I think you can get the idea.
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Interesting
I wonder if this game will leave players so frustrated that they actually get out of the house and go meet a real girl? :D
All in all I guess it is harmless fun, similar to other popular sim games. Sim-girlfriend will probably be a hit in Japan, not so much here in America.
Japan is always cutting edge when it comes to sexuality.