I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator is a dating sim developed by Psyop. A parody of conventional dating sims, the primary objective of the player is to develop a romantic relationship with a fictionalized version of KFC's founder Colonel Sanders, portrayed as an attractive classmate at a cooking school. The release of the game follows the reintroduction of Colonel Sanders into KFC's marketing campaigns in 2015, and is part of the company's strategy to make the Colonel a "part of pop culture", reimagining the historical figure for modern times. The game successfully received public attention due to the "can-you-believe-it" premise both before and after the game's release. The game takes place over a three-day semester at the fictional University of Cooking School: Academy for Learning, where the player character is studying to become a chef. The player is presented with dialog choices that present opportunities to win Sanders' favor, as well as interactions with the other characters in the story, including the player's best friend Miriam, rivals Aeshleigh and Van Van the Man Man, Sprinkles/Professor Dog, and other students Pop, Clank the robot, and the nameless Student.
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A single playthrough takes about an hour, not including replaying different story line branches. I Love You, Colonel Sanders! In her review for Kotaku, Gita Jackson criticized the game's lack of emotional depth and over-reliance on "zaniness", comparing it unfavorably to other "goofy" dating sims like Hatoful Boyfriend and Nameless. Nicole Carpenter of Polygon reviewed the game in the context of KFC's apparent marketing strategy to distance the Colonel Sanders mascot from the actual person. She criticized it as "less of a game and more of a marketing stunt", with very little actual interactivity, and felt that it contributed to a trend of disrespect for the dating sim genre within the video game community. The art was praised by Jenny Zhang of Eater, comparing it favorably to Ouran High School Host Club. American podcasters Jim Cornette and Brian Last find this their favorite anime simulation dating video game. The review-aggregator website Metacritic gave the game an aggregate score of 50/100 based on critic reviews. Jackson, Gita (2019-09-24). "I Love You, Colonel Sanders!: The Kotaku Review". Webb, Kevin (2019-09-26). "I played KFC's bizarre Colonel Sanders dating game so you don't have to". Needleman, Sarah E. (2019-09-24). "KFC Spices Up the Colonel With Dating Game, Drawing Horror and Delight". The Wall Street Journal. Phelan, Matthew (2019-09-12). "What Colonel Sanders Looks for in a Lover, and Other Things We Learned About KFC's New Dating Simulator". Nguyen, Terry (2019-10-01). "How KFC's dating simulator game gets players to fall in love with its brand". Zhang, Jenny G. (2019-09-24). "I Spent Three Hours Getting Colonel Sanders to Fall in Love With Me on KFC's New Dating Video Game".
Pulisic began his professional career at German club Borussia Dortmund, where he progressed quickly through the team's youth academy, featuring in only 15 youth games. He featured sparingly in his first season at the club, but his involvement increased dramatically in the following campaign, where he was a mainstay in the Dortmund team that won the 2016-17 DFB-Pokal. In January 2019, Pulisic moved to Chelsea in a transfer worth $73 million (£57.6 million), making him the most expensive North American player of all time, and began playing for the club in the 2019-20 season. At 21 years old he became the youngest Chelsea player to score a hat-trick. With Chelsea he won the 2020-21 UEFA Champions League, 2021 UEFA Super Cup and 2021 FIFA Club World Cup, becoming the youngest Chelsea player and first American to score in the Champions League semi-finals and the first American to play in the Champions League final.
Pulisic played for the United States at under-15 and under-17 levels, 211.45.131.206 before making his senior national team debut in March 2016 at age 17. He is the youngest player ever to captain the United States national team in the modern era. He helped the U.S. 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup and won the inaugural 2019-20 CONCACAF Nations League. Individually, he has won a U.S. Soccer Young Male Athlete of the Year award and three U.S. Soccer Male Athlete of the Year awards. His parents, Kelley and Mark Pulisic, both played collegiate soccer at George Mason University and his father also played professional indoor soccer for the Harrisburg Heat in the 1990s and later became a coach at both youth and sex professional levels. Growing up, his soccer idol was Luís Figo. While his mother was on a teacher exchange in England through the Fulbright Program, Pulisic lived for a year in Tackley, Oxfordshire.
At age seven, he began playing for the youth team of Brackley Town. When his father was general manager of indoor club Detroit Ignition in the mid-2000s, Pulisic lived in Michigan and played for Michigan Rush. While in Michigan, he attended Workman Elementary School. After the family returned to the Hershey area, Pulisic grew up playing for local U.S. Soccer Development Academy club PA Classics and occasionally training with local professional club Harrisburg City Islanders, now known as Penn FC, during his teen years. In the summer of 2010, he went on a five-day trial at Chelsea's Cobham base. On Dec. 13, 2013, he played opposite Brazil at a U17 tournament in Florida. He scored a goal in a 4-1 win. He has stated that this day was a significant milestone for him and the date "12/13/2013" is now tattooed on his arm. Pulisic moved to Germany before his 16th birthday. He became eligible on the premise that his grandfather was Croatian, therefore he could get a European passport and play starting at age 16 rather than 18. He initially had issues getting the passport, but it eventually panned out.