Horror Games and Bad Parenting
I let the girls watch me play Clock Tower 3 ($5 on ebay) a bit yesterday. I
don't mind a moderate amount of violence in the girls diet; I'm appalled by
parents who shun the classic Looney Tunes cartoons because they're not
politically correct. But I do try not to freak them out too
much.When a ghastly cut scene
surprised me, I was sure I had stepped well beyond the freak out limit. But
Lyra Meadow seemed unbothered by the grisly scene she had just seen. Since a
bad guy had just beat a little girl to death with a hammer (yes, I know, I'm a
bad parent), I was curious about why this didn't bother her. So I
asked.She laughed. "It's so fake.
When he hit her with the hammer, blood started spurting from her head -- and
hammers aren't sharp!"I am
such
a bad parent.
Filed Mon - January 24, 2005, 02:52 PM in
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