Real world images from Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Pikachu Sushi, a real Yakuza RPG and more in this double issue of The Other Side of Japanese Gaming!
Welcome to a special double edition of ?The Other Side of Japanese Gaming," where I?ll share with you the interesting, funny, and sometimes just plain weird part of the gaming net that rarely makes it into English. Some of the following originate in Japan, while others just trend here. Check them out below, and keep tuning in every other Tuesday for additional doses of Japanese gaming news and culture.
Super Mario World Low Score - 500 points
Now everyone has heard of high scores, whether it was getting one on a machine at your local arcade back in the day or being the top of the online leader boards today. But what about the opposite, beating the game with the lowest score possible? In this video, Nico Nico Douga user Haru@Yotsuba dusts off his copy of Super Mario World to find out.
Using an actual system (and not an emulator), he flies through the Super Famicom game following the shortest path to the end?which amounts to a total of sixteen levels. Along the way he avoids coins, Yoshi tokens, power-ups, and fruit while only killing enemies in those few ways that gain no points. In fact, the only points he receives are from breaking the finish lines at the ends of the levels?and by doing so with only one second remaining, he gains only 50 points. Now if that weren?t difficult enough, he follows the self-imposed rule of no damage, deaths, or restarts and thus completes this in a single playthrough.
Most interesting of all, the video is annotated (in Japanese) with constant explanations of how he is able to avoid gaining points and just how exactly Mario World?s point system works.
In the end, he finishes with a minuscule 500 points. The total run time of the video clocks in at just under 28 minutes, but it is truly worth a watch to see just how complicated it can be to dodge every entity in the game. But the icing on the cake? It?s not Mario he chooses to accomplish this amazing low score run, but the oft-ignored green man himself, Luigi.
Source: Nico Nico DougaMore Japanese people want to buy the PlayStation Vita than the Wii U
With the release of two new game consoles looming on the horizon, Sony and Nintendo are already battling for the minds?and pockets?of the Japanese gaming public. According to an internet-based goo Research survey taken in mid-July of this year, Sony has a clear edge in the hype war as more Japanese plan to buy the new PlayStation Vita than the Wii U.
The survey started with an interesting preliminary question asking what game consoles those surveyed owned. Of the 1,087 surveyed, 687 owned at least one video game console with 62.7% owning some iteration of the DS/3DS. The next most common systems were, unsurprisingly, last generation?s PlayStation 2 (55.7%) and the world-wide, best-selling Nintendo Wii (44.6%). Bringing up the rear were the Xbox360 (3.9%), Xbox (2.8%) and PSP Go (1.5%).
Those 687 console owners were also asked the following questions: ?Do you think you?ll purchase a PlayStation Vita?? and ?Do you think you?ll purchase a Wii U??
Regarding the Vita, 15.7% responded that they want to buy it while 37.6% don?t want to buy it but are still interested. Almost 47% though, have no interest in it whatsoever. For the Wii U, on the other hand, 9.6% are planning to buy, 39.4% are interested, and 50.9% do not plan on getting one.
And what do these survey results mean overall? With approximately half of the 687 console owners indicating they do not plan on buying either the Wii U or the PlayStation Vita, the real battle for both companies is to not only prove how their system is better than their competitor's but also why these new systems are superior to their last generation counterparts.
Source: ?? What Japan Thinksrolling stone dodgers crude oil prices the cars kendall jenner metrolink the help
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.