I Don't Know: Japan Edition.
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xyzzysqrlSo...
Earlier I was reading about a game called Akiba's Trip. (Or Akiba Strip, if you want.) It's a game where you're a vampire hunter. Well, you WERE a nerdy schlub, walking around Akihabara. Vampires captured you, but in a stunning twist not at all inspired by Kamen Rider, a heroine saved you mid-conversion. You have super-strength and a mild weakness to sunlight, but you can detect vampires now! So you go around hunting and ripping the clothing off vampires so they'll dissolve in the sunlight.
Yes. It's one of those games. And I was prepared to give it no further thought. I mean, it's getting a US release, but surely it won't be a big one...
"This is the biggest voiceover project ever at Xseed. Part of the reason we're doing it is we feel this game can appeal to more of a mainstream audience and just not otakus," said Executive Vice President Ken Berry. "This project would be very easy to just put in English subtitles, but we all feel this game is a lot of fun to play and we want to make it as accessible as possible."
My instant reaction was: "We feel this game where you walk around the Goddamn Fucking Nerd district of Japan and rip clothes off people could be a smash mainstream success, because we are literally fucking insane. We're putting special attention into the main character's weird creepy relationship with his little sister!"
Because of course he has a weird creepy relationship with his little sister. It's one of those games.
And then I read some OTHER news about it, and this struck me as cool: They reached out to the original artist. If you strip the clothing off a female boss in the Japanese version, you get a picture of her in her underwear, because of course you do. For the North American/Europe version, if you rip the clothing off a MALE boss, you get the same cheesecakey sort of image of a GUY lounging around in HIS sexy underwear. The artist was apparently delighted by the idea and "really went all out" and "made them as sexy as the girls in a fascinatingly ridiculous way".
Also you have to play through the game once to do it, but you can change the main character, main villain, the little sister, and literally any character model in the game to literally ANY OTHER character model in the game, once you've unlocked the ability to do this. So you can make the main character's weird creepy relationship with his little sister, instead a weird relationship with a massive bodybuilder who calls him "big bro".
So at this point, my opinion of the game is oscillating between "THIS IS STUPID" and "THIS IS AWESOME" at an incredible rate. It seems to have settled on "THIS IS AWESOMELY STUPID" and I... MAY actually be picking it up when it comes out here. I realize this will make every single one of you think less of me as a person. I also think less of me as a person.
Also announced today by the same translation team: Senran Kagura (a game about ninjas with massive breasts fighting each other), andBakumatsu Rock, a Guitar Hero style game where you play as an Edo-era team of ronin samurai rock musicians out to overthrow the government by rocking out on the guitar so hard your clothing EXPLODES OFF YOUR BODY in a deeply manly fashion and also a shower of glitter. (NEVERMIND, they said they're just filing for trademark on this, not actually translating it.)
Why is clothing always exploding in Japan? What is going on with their fashion industry? Are they sewing with guncotton? I don't know.
I promise, if I buy any of these games, I will not write anything about them.
...
Anyway, I am still resting up. Trying to decide if I wanna do more Metal Saga or just... bugger off and play something else. In the meanwhile I've been playing Dynasty Warriors 5, which is delightfully pandering in the sense that I just beat several hundred ancient chinese warriors to death with a flute. So that feels good.
More later, I suppose.
Earlier I was reading about a game called Akiba's Trip. (Or Akiba Strip, if you want.) It's a game where you're a vampire hunter. Well, you WERE a nerdy schlub, walking around Akihabara. Vampires captured you, but in a stunning twist not at all inspired by Kamen Rider, a heroine saved you mid-conversion. You have super-strength and a mild weakness to sunlight, but you can detect vampires now! So you go around hunting and ripping the clothing off vampires so they'll dissolve in the sunlight.
Yes. It's one of those games. And I was prepared to give it no further thought. I mean, it's getting a US release, but surely it won't be a big one...
"This is the biggest voiceover project ever at Xseed. Part of the reason we're doing it is we feel this game can appeal to more of a mainstream audience and just not otakus," said Executive Vice President Ken Berry. "This project would be very easy to just put in English subtitles, but we all feel this game is a lot of fun to play and we want to make it as accessible as possible."
My instant reaction was: "We feel this game where you walk around the Goddamn Fucking Nerd district of Japan and rip clothes off people could be a smash mainstream success, because we are literally fucking insane. We're putting special attention into the main character's weird creepy relationship with his little sister!"
Because of course he has a weird creepy relationship with his little sister. It's one of those games.
And then I read some OTHER news about it, and this struck me as cool: They reached out to the original artist. If you strip the clothing off a female boss in the Japanese version, you get a picture of her in her underwear, because of course you do. For the North American/Europe version, if you rip the clothing off a MALE boss, you get the same cheesecakey sort of image of a GUY lounging around in HIS sexy underwear. The artist was apparently delighted by the idea and "really went all out" and "made them as sexy as the girls in a fascinatingly ridiculous way".
Also you have to play through the game once to do it, but you can change the main character, main villain, the little sister, and literally any character model in the game to literally ANY OTHER character model in the game, once you've unlocked the ability to do this. So you can make the main character's weird creepy relationship with his little sister, instead a weird relationship with a massive bodybuilder who calls him "big bro".
So at this point, my opinion of the game is oscillating between "THIS IS STUPID" and "THIS IS AWESOME" at an incredible rate. It seems to have settled on "THIS IS AWESOMELY STUPID" and I... MAY actually be picking it up when it comes out here. I realize this will make every single one of you think less of me as a person. I also think less of me as a person.
Also announced today by the same translation team: Senran Kagura (a game about ninjas with massive breasts fighting each other), and
Why is clothing always exploding in Japan? What is going on with their fashion industry? Are they sewing with guncotton? I don't know.
I promise, if I buy any of these games, I will not write anything about them.
...
Anyway, I am still resting up. Trying to decide if I wanna do more Metal Saga or just... bugger off and play something else. In the meanwhile I've been playing Dynasty Warriors 5, which is delightfully pandering in the sense that I just beat several hundred ancient chinese warriors to death with a flute. So that feels good.
More later, I suppose.
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Date: 2014-05-11 02:31 pm (UTC)In the meantime, I'll just leave this link to y-gallery here for anyone who might need a sexy-guy fix ....
*wanders off, trying and failing to look innocent*
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