Well, that was fast. Two weeks after it was initially announced, KFC's game I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator is out on Steam, and you can play it for free. Naturally, that's what I've done.

As someone who's supposed to be eating vegetarian food and definitely not fried chicken, I'm admittedly not the target audience for this game. However, the editors heard I like cooking animes and Fire Emblem: Three Houses, which was apparently enough to qualify me to taste-test this delight. To my surprise, I actually had some fun with it, although most of the enjoyment came from the sheer absurdity of the story - and subsequently wondering what on earth I was doing with my life.

Here's a quick explanation of what's going on here - and it's a lot.

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No, this is neither a joke nor a peek into my personal anime collection: KFC is cooking up an official dating sim in which you can romance Colonel Sanders. It is only Tuesday.

Developed by Psyop, KFC's game is called (brace yourselves): "I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator". If you're familiar with an anime called Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, it's basically that, but only chicken.

Players take the role of a promising student in culinary school, where the goal is to date Colonel Sanders and become his business partner. There are cooking battles, "battle battles", nine characters and "life-changing decisions". It looks like you get taught by a dog, so naturally it's fried' up my street.

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