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Allow me to present some real life, over-the-shoulder, excruciatingly imported and edited on an entirely underpowered machine, demo footage of Duel Love for the Nintendo DS.

At the Tecmo party, Flynn DeMarco of GayGamer and Kotaku took me by the elbow and led me conspiratorially aside.  “Look,” he said, his be-chained wrists arcing gracefully, “I know you’re a complete and total fruit bat.  Florian told me; right after he asked me about my rumpus.  It’s okay.  As long as you stay away from our REAL twinks, we really don’t mind.”  I blushed maraschino, these Gay Gamers knew me too well.  “I thought you might be interested to know about this little bit of stuff I found over at Bandai Namco.”

My piggy eyes lit up.  “Do go on.”  TGS is famed for booth babes of negotiable affection.

“It’s called Duel Love.  It’s basically yaoi Nintendogs.”
“You mean I get my very own gay puppy?!”
“No, idiot, you get to scrub some sweaty cakeboy with a rag.  He doesn’t have nipples, but it’s well worth the cost of admission.”  Flynn waggled his eyebrows, and then his sideburns, and then his beautiful folding fan.  My moustache fluttered in the breeze.
“I never admit to anything,” I replied.  After a moment’s contemplation I added, “Oh snap!”

But Flynn was right.  This boy on two screens, he didn’t have nipples.  And as it turns out, Duel Love is a respectable, if sweaty, addition to the teenager-tweaking lineup started by Doki Doki Majo Shinpan.  The premise, as put forth over at GayGamer:

Bandai Namco's Duel Love is the heart warming story of a young transfer student (female) who simply can't get enough of those shirtless adolescent boys [well, what of it?]. We will watch her as she is introduced to a secret "fight club" after school battle, and help her cheer your favorite fighter on, and maybe help to sop up some sweat off his budding physique after a match. How delightfully PG and not the slightest bit provocative.
UPDATE: Now I realize this post ends abrubtly, perhaps artlessly.  That Gauger, most of you are saying, it's time to put that thing out to pasture.  On a nuclear testing ground. Well, fuck you.  I haven't slept in three days, and all they feed me here is wasabe rice crackers dipped in ponzu sauce.  On the good days, I find toenail clippings in the crevices of the hotel room bidet's pipeworks.  The protein feeds my brain.  This post was generated entirely by toenails, and written in blood on pieces of toilet paper passed under the bathroom door to some faceless transcriber in the main room.  They will not, possibly cannot, respond to my cries and ullulations, perhaps fearing the wrath of Chester.  Fuck you and the lemon you rode in on, Chester.  They tell me I can say "fuck" all I want after the fold.

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14 comments | showing # 1 to 14

Azereki's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/24/2007 08:10
Azereki
Ahahaha, finally I can satisfy my craving for beautiful bishounen boys.
Teta's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/24/2007 08:13
Teta
Yeah yeah rub that rainbow.
hahah
BlindsideDork's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/24/2007 08:28
BlindsideDork
Yeah, is this considered NSFW? Maybe it is more EAW (Embarassed At Work)?
Cowboy TTop's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/24/2007 08:33
Cowboy TTop
Bishie bashi sweaty monkey boy. At least its target audience is excited. Good for BN.

Since Gay Gamer and Kotaku are on it now (oo er), it just makes me wonder, how the mainstream media would paint this one, if it ever escaped japan. While we are fine with it, for those that dig it, how would there be acceptance or controversy?
Azereki's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/24/2007 08:54
Azereki
I will pre-order it immediately if it is ever slated for a North American release.
Bas's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/24/2007 09:49
Bas
Disgusting, like the girl rubbing one.
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/24/2007 10:09
MechaMonkey
Gah, it's like he's just standing there, trying to sweat. And only aliens don't have nipples. This is actually a sci-fi survival horror game.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/24/2007 11:19
Necros
Angry much, Eliza?
ChrisFurniss's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/24/2007 12:09
ChrisFurniss
I love you guys and your strange irrational hatred for Nick Chester. I also feel this seething rage.
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/24/2007 12:21
Nick Chester
But I'm so nice!
CannibalCalvin 's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/24/2007 18:10
CannibalCalvin
If theres any guys who look like Ron or Ted, I'll give it a play.
Oni's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/24/2007 20:37
Oni
Florian and Eliza are right: it doesn't look like sweat, it looks like botfly larvae escaping the warm confines of a cakeboy's body into the cold, harsh wilderness.

Somehow, this makes DDMS a little less weird.

But not much.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/25/2007 04:26
Mxyzptlk
So when are they making the gay puppy game?
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