L.O.L.: Lack of Love
| L.O.L.: Lack of Love | |
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Japanese Dreamcast cover art
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| Developer(s) | Love-de-Lic |
| Publisher(s) | ASCII Entertainment |
| Director(s) | Kenichi Nishi |
| Producer(s) | Hiroshi Suzuki |
| Designer(s) | Keita Etō Hiroaki Ishibashi |
| Writer(s) | Kenichi Nishi |
| Composer(s) |
Ryuichi Sakamoto (music) Hirofumi Taniguchi (sound) |
| Platform(s) | Dreamcast |
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| Genre(s) | Life simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
L.O.L: Lack Of Love, is an evolutionary life simulation game developed by Love-de-Lic and published by ASCII Entertainment for the Sega Dreamcast. The game was released exclusively in Japan on November 2, 2000.
The gameplay of L.O.L.: Lack of Love revolves around the player's control of a single creature placed on an alien planet during robotic terraforming. The player must cause the creature to evolve into a new form by communicating with other living creatures, establishing symbiotic relationships with them, and thus helping them. The game is non-linear, lacking a HUD almost entirely and requiring the player to simply remain alive. This can be done by helping, or eating other creatures, as well as performing various bodily functions including sleeping and urinating.
L.O.L.: Lack of Love is the last in a trio of games developed by Love-de-Lic. It was directed by Kenichi Nishi and produced by Hiroshi Suzuki. The game was designed by Keita Eto and Yoshiro Kimura, the latter of whom had already left Love-de-Lic and began working on other projects with his company Punchline. The musical score for L.O.L.: Lack of Love was created by film composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who was also the game's scenario writer. Nishi and Sakamoto met at Club Eden via a mutual friend and, through a series of e-mails, began discussing James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis. This theory states that the earth's living organisms function in harmony and respond to ecological changes in order for the planet to sustain life. "We should care for other people, life, the environment and nature," Nishi explained about the game's message. "Sakamoto came up with the title. We wanted to question the way in which our lifestyle lacks love."
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