'Super seducer' game that teaches men how to pick up women banned from PlayStation
The game is still available on other platforms, though has received an angry reaction
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Your support makes all the difference.PlayStation has refused to sell a game intended to teach men how to pick up women.
'Super Seducer', a controversial new release, has been criticised for encouraging men to be creepy and disrespectful to women. But it is still available on other platforms, despite being blocked on PlayStation.
Richard La Ruina claims to be a dating and runs a company offering training in pickup artist techniques. The game aims to teach some of those techniques, which vary from things to talk about in conversation to psychological tricks.
Super Seducer was supposed to arrive on PlayStation on Tuesday but isn't available to buy. Sony has confirmed that it won't be selling the game.
The game is still available on Steam, however, meaning that it can be bought for PC and Mac. It is being offered with a discount and under its full title: "Super Seducer: How to Talk to Girls".
It features a range of live-action videos, most of which appear to feature Mr La Ruina, that progress towards moments in which the player is given choices. Those include a number of options in which the play is given the chance to harass the female characters – though the creators of the game claim that it will demonstrate bad choices by showing the character failing.
"Super Seducer is the world’s most realistic seduction simulator," the game's description on Steam reads. "It puts you in everyday scenarios (a coffee shop, the office, a bar) and lets you do practically whatever you want, to see how it plays out with beautiful women."
Its page on that platform is full of terrible reviews. As well as criticising the game for encouraging its players to be creepy or aggressive, others simply refer to it as "boring", with one writing "in Super Seducer I was constantly either annoyed or bored out of my mind by what was going on".
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