...apparently Mario kart and get this......... ANIMAL FREAKING CROSSING!!! Made it into some UK top 50 most violent games of 2012....... >_> I mean, really? I might give them a reason on why making the kart behind me slip with a banana peel might upset some, but ANIMAL CROSSING??? I guess, that somebody got rip off by Tom Nook when buying a Regal Carpet and got furious of the game..... sorry but somehow these morons of The Guardian are just plain sissies......
Apparently any game where some NPC is hurt or killed by the player fits the bill. So according to them, 90% of all games are violent and we should just stick to playing Cooking Mama for the mental safety of our children.
But wait...Cooking Mama uses realistic pots, frying pans, and FIRE! It's VIOLENT!
You gotta admit, Animal Crossing IS pretty damn gory.
Yeah, they don't show it, but you KNOW people have to be breaking legs left and right in all of those pitfalls. Bees sting you in the eyes. friends and neighbors being hit by axes and nets in the neck and head respectively.
And let's not forget the mass murdering of countless gift-box wielding balloons that are simply trying to migrate for the season!
Oh! I almost forgot those poor trees! Constantly mugged for their hard-earned bells (money for those of you who are unfamiliar with the series .. you shake a tree and money falls out. See? Money DOES grow on trees; especially if you plant it with a golden shovel)!