Bandai Namco Game ‘Summer Lesson’ Gains Hate For ‘Inappropriate’ Trailer; Katsuhiro Harada Claimed It To Be A Marketing Plot

After revealing "Summer Lesson" to the public last year, Katsuhiro Harada, who created the virtual reality game, is still all set and still excited for his upcoming game even though it garnered a lot of negativity from his American fans due to the "inappropriateness" of the content of the video.

"It wasn't a surprise at all. I've gone to the States quite a bit, so I kind of know what to expect."

The video trailer of the "Summer Lesson" game simulates a school girl being tutored by the gamer in a secluded room wearing a school girl outfit using a virtual reality simulator. Watch the video below of Bandai Namco's "Summer Lesson."

In a report by Polygon, some American fans reacted with how the game was presented making it look really inappropriate.

"She is a fantasy for some, and it's for all the wrong reasons," wrote Ron Duwell said on TechnoBuffalo. "Virtual reality might be different, but in actual reality, she doesn't just giggle this off and let you continue teaching her in a secluded bedroom. She screams, runs to get her parents and they file all the proper charges against you."

Harada, meanwhile, defended his game and said that the attention that his creation made with his West fans was just the right attention he needed for the game to get noticed as part of his marketing ploy for the game.

"If you saw the video, a lot of the camera angles weren't presented as the game actually plays. They were a little bit more tailored just for that video, to evoke people's imaginations. So I kind of planned that there would be a response like that from the West because I wanted that attention from the media."

He also expressed how the West and his Japanese followers would take the game in a different manner, claiming that "Summer Lesson" may differ based on the countries culture or norm.

"It's quite interesting that you mention this, because I feel recently many Japanese people are actually more surprised by Western games," he says. "For example, one game I like a lot, Payday 2, has four people trying to plan a bank robbery, which, to your average Japanese citizen, is crazy to have this kind of crime simulator. Or even just your average war game where your goal is to shoot your enemy in the head to defeat them as quickly as possible. It's something your average Japanese citizen is shocked by."

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