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Perhaps it would have been naive to assume that Sony’s Fat Princess could have surfaced without stirring controversy, but as the media’s picked up on a few dissenters in the blogosphere, we now have a little issue on our hands.

We’ve covered a bit of the reaction against the game, a strategy title that’s a little bit capture-the-flag — except in this case, the “flag” is a very fat girl, made difficult to move because her captors are tasked with feeding her cake. Reactions have ranged from the constructively mild — Feminist Gamers wonders why fat chicks are considered “cute” and suggests a heavy treasure chest instead — to the bilious.

Shakesville writer Melissa McEwan writes, sarcastically, “I’m positively thrilled to see such unyielding dedication to creating a new generation of fat-hating, heteronormative assholes”, and completed her protest with a photo dubbing herself “The Fat Princess of Shakesville Manor” — and flipping the bird, presumably to Sony.