Housewife Superstar: home-ec minigames
This looks totally strange, and totally endearing. Insert Credit's Brandon Sheffield found this poster at GDC, for a DS game called Housewife Superstar, developed by Studio Nocturne. It looks like a minigame collection, but based on the idea of becoming the perfect (stereotypical) housewife. There are games about things like embroidery, flower arranging, knitting, and dressing up.
The non-serious tone keeps this from being completely insulting, and the art style, which is kind of a stylized 1960s anime (a little like Mr. Driller color-wise, but not as severe), looks really nice. We have no idea when or where Studio Nocturne plans to release this, but we hope it is somewhere close and sometime soon.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
andyr @ Mar 6th 2007 2:16PM
Nice spot! Its easy to have a knee jerk reaction to games that play to established stereotypes. But, provided there's a decent game behind the clever angle, I'm happy to get stuck in. I'm sure I'll learn a thing or two.
They are of course, leaving room for a sequel: "HouseHusband - Superbloke", or even "HouseGuest - Superstay". *wink*
JimmyJames @ Mar 6th 2007 4:14PM
Now here's a game girls can finally sink their teeth into.