Just as the title doesn’t make sense, neither does the following piece of news. Sony has to recall every single copy of the game Little Big Planet because someone put in two lines from the Qur’an into one of it’s background tracks. Members of the Islamic community have deemed it could be offensive to their religion, and thus would have to be stopped from being released at all costs. We don’t quite know how it’s offensive, but it is, and Sony shit a brick.
How harmful can it be? The game is centered around a character called Sackboy (above), for fuck’s sake. That’s about as offensive as bird watching or playing tennis. Of all the games including sex, violence, sexual violence and violent sex that could have been recalled, it’s a game where you play as a knitted cuddly toy that causes the most stress. The lyrics are even in Malian. If anything, the lyrics are offensive in themselves. Lines include such favourites as ”Every soul shall have the taste of death” and “All that is on earth will perish”. I don’t really think a game for little boys and girls should contain lines like that anyway. Think about the poor Somalian kids.
The irony of it all is the fact that the song writer is a Muslim himself. Unless for some reason all holy books are open source, he should have at least asked for permission. At it’s core, the Islamic community is probably just pissed that they didn’t get any recognition, I mean Ebaumsworld has probably been taking their stuff for years, so no wonder.
It’ll hit them hard in production costs, but this is Sony. Sony could buy the Moon, nuke it and replace it with a giant tit, so replacing all those discs shouldn’t be that bad. But it’ll be a killer for fans, who expected it to be released last Thursday after a few months delay, and now have to wait another couple of weeks to get their mittens on it. There’s nothing a bit of lippy can’t handle.
Just to make this article unneccesarily gay…
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