Legal Niches

Target Protein Instead of Animals in Tofu Hunter

By pete_gallagher

On behalf of Adult Swim Games, developer This Is Pop has created a 'green' hunting game that substitutes a tasteless food made from coagulated soy milk as a target instead of typical living wildlife.

Tofu Hunter lets users blast away at such non-indigenous species such as Tofu Dogs, Tofu Bucks and Trophy Tofu (complete with sear marks). Players must avoid Tofu Does and are awarded bonus time for shooting Soy Milk containers.

Even with a lack of real animals the game manages to impart a realistic feel, so much so, in fact, that a few commenters on a PETA blog post about the game indicated that it made them uncomfortable to play.  '… honestly it is so close to animal hunting in every way that I found myself sick to my stomach. I didn't find it different than the deer hunting games at all, except that the target was white and square,' wrote a user named Barb.
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 05, 2010 (boomark / email).