Japanese VR Game Wants You to Save the Kitty While Dying a Little Inside

Leave it to Japan to really innovate the VR game industry. This devilishly evil VR game has you strapping in to save a cat sitting at the end of a plank atop a skyscraper. It pretty much puts your love of cats and small furry animals to the test, seeing how far you’d be willing to go to save your own little fuzzy buddy. The game’s part of a VR game showcase called VR ZONE Project i Can, hosted by Namco Bandai.

The video shows some lab coat types watching these poor, no doubt now-emotionally scarred testers slowly die on the inside as they discover a cat meowing helplessly, crying for attention at the end of a long plank, precariously peering over the edge maybe a hundred or so stories up. It takes someone special to strap in and go save the kitty, but it takes someone even more special to stand by and watch with a straight face like these lab coat people do.

You can see from the video that it gets so bad for someone (who saved the kitty!) that he starts to tip over the side of the plank. Someone has to run out and grab him to stop him from falling over because you know, if you die in the game you die for real.

Not really, but still. You’d break immersion at least.

I’m going to put this out there right now: there’s no way in hell I’d ever play this damn game. If you ever put one of those Vives or Rifts on my head and put me into this, I’m going to nope the hell out and cut somebody. Same goes for horror VR games. Hell no. All that being said, you’re damn right I’d save that poor cat. It’s an idiot for getting itself trapped out there in the first place, but here we are.

(via Kotaku)

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