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Blood and Gore: GamerDad found a few instances of cartoony blood and violence in the mini-games. Crude Humor: GamerDad found several instances of potty humor and other crude wackiness in the mini-games, but it's all similar to what you'd find on The Simpsons Mild Language: GamerDad found words like ﾑdamn' and ﾑhell' in the game text. Also, the abbreviation for Work Time Fun is WTF, a popular Internet abbreviation for ﾑWhat The F___?" Suggestive Themes: GamerDad found that some of the mini-games include women, busty, cartoony, or otherwise, in mild suggestive poses or activity. Use of Alcohol: GamerDad found that some of the text and mini-games make references to bars and drinking alcoholic beverages. Violence: GamerDad found several instances of shooting, chopping, and stabbing in the mini-games. In Work Time Fun for the Sony PlayStation Portable, get paid to play games. Well, sort of. Work Time Fun is a collection of wacky mini-games similar to what's found in Nintendo's popular Wario Ware series. Play short arcade style challenges to earn a meager paycheck. The better you perform in the selected game, the more money you earn. Use your cash at vending machines to buy useless trinkets and more mini-games. Also, you can unlock silly tools to turn your PSP into a ramen timer, flashlight, restaurant bill splitter, and more. The mini-games, as well as the whole package, have a quirky, tongue-in-cheek humor about them. In one game, sort photo realistic baby chicks by gender, and if you come across a ghost chick with a halo, send it to heaven. In another, you must chop pieces of wood as quickly as they are handed to you, but don't push the button to chop whenever you are handed a cute and cuddly critter. You don't want to know what will happen to it! Some mini-games aren't much of a game at all, but a clever joke on the player instead, parodying real life mundane tasks. In Pendemonium, endlessly put caps on pens in a factory and pick up golf balls until the end of time in Caddy Quest. Some mini-games are better than others and everyone will probably have a few favorites. Graphics are varied for each mini game. Some are 3-D and photorealistic, some are cartoony, and some look no better than an Atari 2600 game. Play control is easy and simple and each game has instructions on how to play. Some may not like the simplistic nature of the games or the fact that you unlock things randomly. But for those with a quirky sense of humor and a PSP, Work Time Fun makes working time fun!  
Even though Work Time Fun is nothing but simple and funny mini-games, because of the humor and tone this game is best for teen gamers and older. Some of the mini-games do have blood in them. For instance, in the Lumberjack game, if you accidentally chop a cute little critter instead of a piece of wood, they'll fly into two bloody halves. Other mini-games have violent acts, too, but they're not bloody and most of the violent mini-games aren't very realistic looking anyway.
The game is also full of more adult appropriate humor. From the text describing each trinket you get to some of the potty humor and alcohol use in the mini-games, Work Time Fun's gags are more on par with TV shows like The Simpsons meant for older viewers. Some of the mini-games have suggestive themes, too. In one game, the background shows a chorus line of busty anime babes, and in another you must guess the phone number of a lady in a bar. Some of the text also has mild language like ﾑdamn' and ﾑhell.' And the abbreviation for Work Time Fun is WTF, a popular Internet phrase that is short for "What The F_____?" The game's motif is that you are supposed to be in Hell endlessly doing menial jobs for cash, so strict religious families may be a little uncomfortable with that. But even though Work Time Fun is full of adult gags, the humor is more Japanese in nature. And while Japanese style humor can be crude sometimes, it's also usually silly and campy in ways. And that's the best way to describe Work Time Fun. If you're OK with your older gamer kid watching TV shows like The Simpsons, then Work Time Fun should be OK, too. Comments? Chat about it in our forums! Format For Printing | Tell A Friend | Digg | Slashdot | del.icio.us | Buy This Game Home > Review Archive > Video Games > Results: Work Time Fun |
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