Focus On You Gameplay VR

Developed and published by Korean Developer Smilegate Entertainment, Focus on You is a VR experience based around friendship and photography. The VR experience is available on SteamVR, Oculus Store and the Japanese Playstation Store for Playstation VR. You play as a senior high student who meets the cute looking Han Yua in a chance encounter which leads to a blossoming friendship.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Is this for teens or adults? Good graphics but something creepy about it.

I think young Japanese males and females need to get back into socializing. There would be less of a need for this type of game. Same for incels everywhere else.

[Knushwood Butt]

This is Korean, but whatever.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Doesn't matter. Same applies.

[CrimsonWing69]

You sound like my dad trying to understand the appeal of video games and then telling me to quit playing video games when I was a teen.

Maybe there’s ugly people who can’t get a girl and this is their escapism. It’s not harming anyone so give it a rest.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Excuse for pedophilia.

Okay buddy.

[ShockUltraslash]

These games teach people how to socialize and be civil compassionate human beings.

Violent shooters are causing mass murder and violence everywhere.

[isarai]

First half yeah, but last bit no.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Real socializing teaches people how to socialize. You don't need to play a teenager in a game to learn it.

[Knushwood Butt]

^

It's not like they are mutually exclusive.

[rainslacker]

I spent most of my life being pretty anti-social. I still am in many cases. I still get anxious around people I don't know. People could say I come online to escape real social activity. But, over the years, being more active online in forums has helped me feel more comfortable socializing with others, as I've found I can have a voice and express an opinion and not be worried about how people feel about it or how it may affect my life in general.

Online interactivity can be good or bad, but nothing is ever as simple as compartmentalizing people into very narrow stereotypes about why they may be doing whatever it is they're doing. I'll play all sorts of games because I enjoy them for different reasons. I got that summer lesson that Bandai made because a friend gave it to me. It's more a "creepy dating sim" than this game is. I looked it over, and it looks like an interesting experience. Doesn't mean I'm playing it because I'm desperate for a date.

But, games can teach you how to socialize just as well as watching some TV show. Young kids watch all sorts of shows that teach them how to socialize. Games are no different, they're just interactive. Learning to socialize is not from just doing one thing. How one socializes is based on experiences, and applying those experiences in one's own life, coupled with what they wish to achieve from said socialization. Games, or TV can provide those experiences just as readily as a in life interpersonal interaction, but those experiences will be more limited.

[rainslacker]

It's a dating sim focusing more on friendship than romance. Saying that if people were more social they'd have less need for these kinds of games is like saying people who play the Sims are anti-social.

Things like this are escapism, like any other game. For some, they may serve as a replacement, but it's a really broad generalization to assume anyone who plays them is just unable to socialize. Japanese people in general tend to be pretty social, but there is also social constructs bound by honor which make up how people interact with one another, so it's not always as free as they may like.

Now that the Japanese stuff is out of the way, this is a Korean game, and while I'm not overly familiar with Korean culture, I'm sure it shares many similarities with other asian cultures which have similar social constructs.