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![Such games won praise from progressive critics for their defiance of generic expectations and their accommodation of a broader spectrum of bodies, identities, and desires than traditional dating sims. But some long-term fans of the genre were less impressed. [Chinese-Indonesian] blogger Kastel has argued that North American developers’ attempts to parody or critique dating sims were too often taking aim at an ‘imagined dating sims that has never existed’. For them, there was something condescending at best and ‘racist’ at worst about American developers simultaneously poking fun at and purporting to ‘solve’ a genre pioneered by Japanese developers. And if it was one thing for indie studios to riff on what American players imagined dating sims to be, it was quite another for brands to do the same as part of marketing stunts—as Kentucky Fried Chicken had done with I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator, which reimagines the mascot as a dishy bishonen (or ‘beautiful young man’).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xjboovwanuieofcu5x4v4d2x/bafkreicxw7lbfngzt4djm6nhj4foeo3m5cvwjei3xwcfhpys5clwrona34)
