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Looking pretty desperate, Spinmaster

I recently had the opportunity to play Pimple Pete for the first time. I was previously familiar with the company, but not this specific game/toy. When I received it, my initial reaction was, “yuck.”
I played the game with my husband and 5-year-old son, who helped me set up the game.
Even though my son had fun pulling out the pimples & watching myself and his father get squirted with water, I had many issues with this game. First of all, I found myself feeling conflicted by my son’s questions regarding the game’s subject matter. At 5-years-old, I really didn’t want to make him so body conscious quite yet. Therefore, I told him that I did not know what was wrong with “Pete’s” face.
Secondly, as a Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor, I have a slight aversion to a game that encourages skin picking (Google Skin Picking Disorder for explanation).
Third, and most importantly, a pimple-popping game seems like a desperate attempt to profit off of the current cultural fascination with pimple-popping videos. I say, “desperate” because the demographics of the population to whom these pimple-popping videos are so fascinating is not the same population seeking out games to add to family game night. Even though I don’t have any value-based objections to this product, I am completely turned off by Spinmaster’s obvious attempt to profit off this sort of cultural fad/obsession. The desperation of this product has definitely had a negative effect on my overall impression of this company.
Would I recommend this product?: No. Because it’s — for lack of a more appropriate description — stupid. I can barely stand how stupid it is. I cannot even imagine a better example of exploitative marketing/consumerism.
I received Pimple Pete for free from Family Rated in exchange for my feedback. My review is base solely on my personal experience & was not influenced by any other factors or parties.

Not great

This game is not what it's cracked up to be. When playing the game the water wouldn't shoot out from the nose when you would pull out a zit. When you go to pull out a zit and it activates the water it never did anything except leak from the back of the nozzle. It's a very easy game for the kids to figure out how to do it, but it gets pretty old, pretty quick. It's very repetitive when you start to play it. I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone. I got this game for free to review.