Too Nice! PETA takes on Cooking Mama

I didn’t know Cooking Mama was sufficiently popular to merit a critical parody, but PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has made a game that emphasizes the more gory aspects of eating animals.

I do think it would be much more powerful if it started by giving players a more personal relation to the animals that they prepare and then made players kill them. (Meet the sweet little turkey … now kill it.)

I speculate that PETA faced the problem that they wanted to convince players that animals are treated cruelly – but on the other hand they did not want to make a game in which players could do just that. A shame really.

5 thoughts on “Too Nice! PETA takes on Cooking Mama”

  2. Jesper, I think you’d do your blog a service by only leaving the link to the game and not embedding it. The music is quite distracting and I doubt visitors to the blog for the next weeks will enjoy constant exposure. Of course, the fault is with the designer for not having the game be silent until it’s interacted with.

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  4. Hi Jesper, I like your blog, I linked it on mine if that’s ok,

    personally I think PETA are sort of missing the point with the turkey as I think it would have more impact to show the cooked turkey looking appetizing as it would seem slightly fairer to both sides of the argument, as showing a gory mess even after cooking makes it feel more like propaganda than genuine concern

    On a not entirely unrelated subject I was informed by my lecturer that you are pretty much the go to guy for new trends in gaming and I wondered what your views on Jrpg’s are, its for my 3rd year dissertation. I study Games Art and Design at NUCA in England, I also work full time for JAGEX as a junior modeller.

    the title of my dissertation is ‘What makes a successful RPG?’

    Matthew Buxton
    http://moonlightr.blogspot.com/

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