Short, simple, funny is the best

I understand that people spend their weekend playing computer games to beat up a big boss or fight again and again to get a super sword. This weekend, I did the same. Yes I kept on playing all day long. On the other hand, though, I really hate those games. I didn't stop holding the controller and saying "faaaku you!" to the game :-) in a room exposed to the afternoon sun. Basically, I don't like long, big, serious and complicated games. I feel those games exploit the weakness of my addictive nature and invade my weekend. (I found many people complaining that Arc the Lad was "too long fighting!" in Japan. I know my nature, so I took a step back from gaming. If I get a PS2, I would rather play simeple, short, light, funny game like Katamari Damacy.

Anyway one of such simple, silly game would be "Feel the Magic" for Nintendo DS. When I saw their Japanese HP first, I laughed because it's too silly. But it has good reviews in the U.S. Hmm. Yes, actually it is okay to sweat in order to throw up golden fish. :-) If you don't know this, you can see video here. By the way, Japanese original title is "Kimi no tamenara shineru" = "I can die for you". We call the game "Kimishine" for short. I think the original title, "I Can Die For You" is not bad. Why did they change it? Is "I Can Die For You" something strange?

Yesterday SEGA opened the new version of official game site,"Akachan wa dokokara kuruno?" which means "Where Do Babies Come From?".Yep, it looks silly again.

Comments

[Mari]

Hi there
Hmm I can die for you is so bad...too negative? Hmm I understand. How can I say, for Japanese this sounds very funny. It sounds joke.

[shiro]

ta ta ta ta tada taaa... ta ta ta tada taaa... ta ta ta ta tada taaa...

ka-ta-ma-ri!

wheeeee!!!

[robert]

tokio-kun just bit me。れrウェ栄をrfdl；sdfl；fsぢgjgだmん

[Trejkaz]

That's nothing... "Feel the Magic" is called "Project Rub" in Australia and Europe. So in this case, for some reason we have three different names for a single game. :-)

[Dezumondo]

Hello Mari san,

All my friends are addicted to video game systems, like PS2 and X-Box. I see that they waste all their time, so I will never buy them, because I will get addicted too.

Ja ma ta ne
Dez

[Gwen]

Many people don't appreciate negative statements in their business ... anything to do with Death or Dying is a very negative word.

[クレア (Claire)]

すみませんあの、高校の時は性教育の授業がありませんか。あかちゃんはどこからくるのゲーム・・・びっくりして！

I am with you, Mari-san. I would rather play fun games. Although I wish I had a Japanese PS2 (or the chipset to modify an American one so you can play Japanese or American games) so I could play Tetsuwan no Taiko.

Kimishine has negative connotations in US. It might be romantic if a husband would say to his wife, "I would die for you". But it would probably mean that somebody would need to see a mental health professional if someone else said that to somebody they did not know.

"Feel the Magic" is kind of generic. That doesn't say anything to me about what kind of game it is. It sounds like a Disney World slogan or something.

The Japanese Kimishine site is here. It is not too hard to read, and you don't have to register to look at it.