I petted my first Kinectimal yesterday. I feel dirty.

[J T]

Seriously, that game is creepy. Years of horror movies and survival-horror games have desensitized me to the typical bloody mutant type of horror, but left me fully unprepared for the Kinectimals. On the creepy-to-cute spectrum, the Kinectimals go past cute, around the world, and end up back on the lower end of creepy. Their big bulging eyes and plastered on smiles (like The Joker) are the stuff of nightmares.

These perverse balls of contrived adorableness forced me to touch them and they licked me, leaving their drooly slobber all over my first person view. They put their paws right on the screen and stared a hole through my soul with their big buggy eyes, luring in with a cuteness so saccharine that you know it can't be trusted. I felt them draining my brain juices like zombies as I followed basic commands to jump, put out my hand, and lay down. They treated me like... like... a dog. It's that sort of irony that makes their psychological torture so insidious. What they did was wrong. Especially since I was in a Fred Meyer grocery store. Why would I humiliate myself in public like that? There is only one reason. The Kinectimals are evil and they feed on your soul. Don't let their false cuteness sucker you too. They are the devil in a Sunday dress. Beware.

[Bradtemple87]

Seriously, that game is creepy. Years of horror movies and survival-horror games have desensitized me to the typical bloody mutant type of horror, but left me fully unprepared for the Kinectimals. On the creepy-to-cute spectrum, the Kinectimals go past cute, around the world, and end up back on the lower end of creepy. Their big bulging eyes and plastered on smiles (like The Joker) are the stuff of nightmares.

These perverse balls of contrived adorableness forced me to touch them and they licked me, leaving their drooly slobber all over my first person view. They put their paws right on the screen and stared a hole through my soul with their big buggy eyes, luring in with a cuteness so saccharine that you know it can't be trusted. I felt them draining my brain juices like zombies as I followed basic commands to jump, put out my hand, and lay down. They treated me like... like... a dog. It's that sort of irony that makes their psychological torture so insidious. What they did was wrong. Especially since I was in a Fred Meyer grocery store. Why would I humiliate myself in public like that? There is only one reason. The Kinectimals are evil and they feed on your soul. Don't let their false cuteness sucker you too. They are the devil in a Sunday dress. Beware.

yet you find yourself mesmerized

[dedalusdedalus]

Goddamn. That soulless look in their eyes and those rictus grins--that's just unnerving.

I've seen the tiger Kinectimal on the box art, and it had the same unnerving effect, but I assumed it was just crappy box art. How horrible that the box art did in fact accurately portray the game's look and feel.

[YoshiEgg25]

Those things are creepy as hell.

[BoringSupreez]

Those things are so creepy, I can't believe anyone actually buys this game.

[Ivo]

They DO look creepy to me...

Ivo.

[the7k]

Even as an appreciator of many things cute, I found the Kinetimals to be extremely unnerving upon seeing them. Maybe I just couldn't get past the initial reveal that involved that little girl and her extremely hammy acting, but even looking past that...

Seriously, though - should we be teaching our kids to go out and pet tigers? I don't care if his name is Skittles, the fact of the matter is we see a gigantic cat and he sees dinner.

[Hobie-wan]

So how long before some young child plays this game, then climbs over a zoo railing while their inattentive parents stand around with their thumbs up their asses?

[Balasubbie]

So how long before some young child plays this game, then climbs over a zoo railing while their inattentive parents stand around with their thumbs up their asses?

Natural selection: everybody's a winner.

[Frizz.Meister]

So how long before some young child plays this game, then climbs over a zoo railing while their inattentive parents stand around with their thumbs up their asses?

Natural selection: everybody's a winner.

Except the poor zoo keeper who probably works 18 hour days for little pay and looses his job over it. But then again it would make an awesome story for the pub. "Hey guys, at work today i saw a little girl get eaten alive by a tiger!" Who wouldnt want to listen to THAT stroy.