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.
For starters, you’re a young cooking student who’s enrolled at a prestigious culinary school, which famously has three-day semesters. That’s a pretty tight turnaround to romance Colonel Sanders – a talented but aloof fellow student – who has lofty aspirations of starting a huge fried chicken chain. That’ll never catch on.