Sorry, still chuckling. "Your suggestions collected over the years"!!!
Dear Konami,
I am a great fan of your football series "Pro Evolution Soccer". I have bought every installment of the game, even that one where everyone ran like they'd just been bummed by Rocco Siffredi, and that other one where you could press the pass button, put the controller down and make something to eat, pop out to the shop, come home and paint the shed, then return to the PS3 in time to see your player just starting to draw his leg back to kick the ball.
But there's one thing that troubles me about this game. I've noticed that the option exists to play a league season with various teams, in the league where they play in real life. I have to say I am very disappointed by this. Just when I thought you really understood football, you decide to throw THIS into the mix! What was wrong with Master League, where after six months Peter Crouch is playing at left back for Barcelona, Steven Gerrard is the new captain of Manchester United and Cristiano Ronaldo has decided to seek a new challenge at Bolton Wanderers, while a 17-year-old called Alessandro Del Piero (who, by an incredible coincidence, has exactly the same wrinkled face as the 37 year old former Juventus legend Alessandro Del Piero) is just beginning to make a name for himself at mighty Finseeberg. What was wrong with 11 men with massive dog heads versus 11 men riding ostriches, played in one of the castles from Castlevania? How do you expect anyone to take this game seriously when you include the option to play in a major European league? What do you hope to achieve by letting people play multiplayer leagues against friends in their own house?
Not only do I find this so-called "league mode" useless and embarrassing, I don't want anyone else to play it either. I have to say, I feel very strongly about that. So please please please remove it from the game and don't replace it with anything. I think everyone would agree that this will provide
an ever better game experience for your users, and help you a lot in what is currently your losing battle against EA's FIFA series.
yours sincerely,
Mike Spunk
PS I think critics of the series would find it easier to take Master League seriously if, like a real football manager, you were awarded bananas. I direct you to the following passage from Sir Alex Ferguson's "Managing My Life":
I knew I'd arrived in the big time when I got back to my office at Old Trafford and found a bunch of bananas on my desk.
"They're for the players," said my secretary. "They eat them to keep healthy."
But something was puzzling me. The door had been locked, and only I had the key. No one could possibly have been in the room while I'd been away. Where had these bananas come from?
"No one knows," my secretary replied, looking nervously from side to side. "But it happens at every club. A new manager starts here, and he comes back to find these bananas on his desk. It's a bit spooky. But the chairman says we shouldn't ask too many questions, or else one day the bananas might stop appearing. And then the players would have nothing to eat."
"Couldn't they go to Sainsbury's?" I asked. "They sell bananas there."
"No they don't," she said.
I said I was sure that they did.
"No they don't," she said, more firmly this time, picking up her files and leaving the room.
PPS Magic boots would be nice too.
PPPS I am going to send you this letter every year.
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haha just kidding mate. If you're on later I'll give you a game!
