Type: Game Review
Title: Long Story Game
Link: http://www.longstorygame.com/
Ages: 14 and up
Genre: School, Romance, 1st person
Summary: This LongStory game is a first person player that explores the life and dating habits of a teenage girl you name yourself, who has just returned to her old school after spending the year in Gay Paris.
Critical Evaluation: Although it may seem odd to the casual gamer, this type of virtual world of playing a simple premise (dating in a virtual game), is not that far fetched as other similar games that give you the option of making your own avatar. These types of games put teenagers in control of their own dating habits, which can have absolutely no consequences on your own real life. That is the point of playing games, to have fun, push the limits of appropriateness, and make mistakes in this virtual world.
This is kind of a weird, "smartly written, funny and empathetic story, supported by a dating element that lets you romance boys, girls, or turkeyhawk (someone in costume)" (PC Gamer). It's considered very amusing, and gives players the ability to make mistakes without having to worry about what will happen in real life.
Challenge Issues:
- Game about dating
- Promotes dating and sexual behavior among teenagers.
- Teenagers should be dating in real life not in make-believe land.
- This dating game lets you choose your own dating lifestyle without actual consequences.
- Be familiar with the themes in the material and how they relate to young adults today.
- Stay calm and remember to not be personally offended by their comments or concerns.
- Libraries provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
- Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.
- LISTEN to what they have to say and reiterate our freedom to read and be without censorship.
- All material for young adults are under the review of the branch manager and even further up, the Library Director and even City Council members.
References
PC Gamer Magazine. The best free games of the week. Retrieved from http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/05/10/the-best-free-games-of-the-week-25/
