Konami’s new dating simulation game "Love Plus" is so realistic that some users' wives are getting the hump. The game allows you to interact with girls in real time, going out on dates and making plans together for the future.
The "Love Plus" Web site has a sample video clip showing a simpering girl asking her boyfriend what he thinks about the idea of her getting a new haircut. But the game isn’t all hearts and flowers, though. You can seriously cheese off your girlfriend with something insensitive like, “I didn’t want to say anything, but you really needed to do something about those split ends.” Some bemused users feel that their digital girlfriends are just too difficult to read. One Amazon reviewer of the game compared the experience of preparing to make his move, by touching his date with the DS stylus, with “playing Minesweeper.”