Danny Cowan, Press ([info]sardius_) wrote,
@ 2007-08-03 01:48:00
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Kokoro Scan
Okay, normally I don't like to go "hey guys look at this video I found on the internet" but this particular thing is totally amazing in a Chu Chu Rocket commercial kind of way, and I thought I'd jump on it before the internet gets ahold of it and ruins it forever.

So far popular reaction seems to be evenly divided between "THIS = EPIC WIN FTW" and "LOL WHAT DRUGS WERE THEY ON," which is really about the best you can expect. I genuinely like this, though, and I feel bad knowing that one day I'll grow to hate it because of the things that people do.

There's no way whatever the hell game this is can live up to that trailer, either. Just like Chu Chu Rocket!

You're...you're not going to watch it, are you? Oh well.

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[info]specific_chris
2007-08-03 07:11 am UTC (link)
I'm definitely of the first opinion. That video is great!

IF YOU FIND AN MP3 OF IT PLEASE LET ME KNOW KTHX

Also yes Japan is crazy, but somehow it didn't weird me out as much as it should have. Huh! Maybe I'm too jaded by Woody Woodpecker for intentionally weird things to affect me anymore. That's it!

GET IN QUICK

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[info]sardius_
2007-08-03 07:19 am UTC (link)
Stolen from the Parish board. Thanks Parish board! (for one mp3 and months and months of whiny nerds)

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[info]specific_chris
2007-08-03 09:25 pm UTC (link)
Awesome! Wow that MP3 is super-compressed, oh well, it must be some kind of home-made thing.

I might have to add this to the picking-up-people-from-the-airport playlist!

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[info]kouaidou
2007-08-03 07:29 am UTC (link)
I'm not convinced this is a game. It sounds more like one of those funky daily life assistant softwares that the Japanese like so much.

That was fun, but it's really too long to become truly viral.

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[info]kouaidou
2007-08-03 07:35 am UTC (link)
Yes, checking the website out, it seems to be primarily a daily life assistant thing. The software uses the microphone and is apparently able to sense the anger/excitement/love connection/other emotions in a person's voice, and you mostly use it to try to "read" yourself or other people. There are also some voice-based minigames built in (try to sound angrier to increase your attack power against a thoughtless litterbug, etc) but they seem to be a secondary function.

It sounds kind of cute, but I wonder if it would even work for an English speaker...

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[info]vegaltasendai
2007-08-04 12:00 am UTC (link)
Hey, you're KouAidou from HGM!

Not that I should be surprised, I guess... Sardius writes there, after all...

-Adam

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[info]kouaidou
2007-08-04 03:07 am UTC (link)
Yep, that's me!

Well that confirms my greatest fear, that people who know more Japanese than I do are reading my articles, raising disapproving eyebrows...

(I can see it in your avatar... he's judging me.)

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[info]jessicabyvot
2008-07-11 05:11 pm UTC (link)
She is changing so rapidly now, it's like watching one of those movies where they use time-lapsed photography to show clouds moving across the sky or something.

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[info]shihtzu
2007-08-03 07:34 am UTC (link)
Well, if your product is going to be a dumb gimmick, distracting consumers with a catchy song and trippy video is probably the best way to go.

According to the lyrics, it's a tool that reads emotions from voices. The live-action people are all wondering what their wives or boyfriends or bosses or employees or favorite anime characters are really thinking, and then the singing voice tells them that Kokoro Scan can read their feelings from their voice, rendering them emotionally naked (that's what all the zoom-ins on naked people is for). Then the lady at the end wants to know what her cat and bird and piranha are thinking and the narrator goes "TOO BAD" and then she's all "Then what the hell can I learn?" and the narrator says "ABOUT YOURSELF". Then the bear rocks out again, symbolizing rocking out.

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[info]shihtzu
2007-08-03 07:59 am UTC (link)
Also, as far as stupid-cute game-promotion songs go, it doesn't hold a candle to Futari no Moji-pittan.

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[info]vegaltasendai
2007-08-03 08:14 pm UTC (link)
Then the lady at the end wants to know what her cat and bird and piranha are thinking and the narrator goes "TOO BAD" and then she's all "Then what the hell can I learn?" and the narrator says "ABOUT YOURSELF".

That was my favorite part. :-)

-Adam

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[info]jen_aside
2007-08-03 07:53 am UTC (link)
That's awfully long for a Japanese trailer, isn't it? More like a Japanese telly episode...

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[info]arnoldrimmer83
2007-08-03 08:00 am UTC (link)
Ended up watching this on Youtube, since for some reason Gametrailers says I'm missing a plugin for Media Player, and I really don't feel like searching right now.

That is actually a pretty nice and catchy song. Too bad its for a gimmicky piece of software though. Fairly skeptical to how well this thing will work. As for weirding me out, it made me think of the bear from Clerks the animated series more than anything else.

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[info]masterhibb
2007-08-03 04:00 pm UTC (link)
Who is wailing? OH NO, BEAR IS WAILING, HOW CAN THIS BE?!

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2007-08-03 08:26 am UTC (link)
Gametrailers.com???

No way.

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[info]saiyajin71
2007-08-03 09:19 am UTC (link)
Too long. The omg novelty wore off after about 10 seconds... and I got sick of listening to the song repeat itself infinitely, adding nothing new what-so-ever to the song progression after about 1 1/2 minutes. So... I shuttled through, saw the silly things the bear was doing... and hit close.

I think living in this ridiculous country has really caused things like this to stop being funny.

Chu Chu Rocket was so good because it was short, sweet, and wtf... is this even a game? This is long, boring, a bit irritating, and definitely not a game.

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[info]drakee
2007-08-03 05:34 pm UTC (link)
UHHHH! OH GOD THAT TRAILER WAS SO BOOORRING AND POINTLESS RITE?!

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[info]satsu
2007-08-03 01:42 pm UTC (link)
So far popular reaction seems to be evenly divided between "THIS = EPIC WIN FTW" and "LOL WHAT DRUGS WERE THEY ON," which is really about the best you can expect.

I think you missed "LOL THE JAPANESE ARE CRAAAAAAAAAZY CRAZY JAPAN CRAZY COUNTRY CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY INSANE nips".

I love the trailer too, by the way. \o/

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[info]vegaltasendai
2007-08-03 08:12 pm UTC (link)
I think you missed "LOL THE JAPANESE ARE CRAAAAAAAAAZY CRAZY JAPAN CRAZY COUNTRY CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY INSANE nips".

Yup. Had that at work the other day. Someone found some weird 罰ゲーム video on YouTube, and immediately, the "Man, those Japanese game shows are CRAZY! Those Japanese are CRAZY!" quotes started popping out.

But I'm too lazy/tired of correcting people anymore, so I didn't say anything.

-Adam

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[info]vegaltasendai
2007-08-03 08:12 pm UTC (link)
Oh, catchy song and trailer, by the way.

-Adam

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[info]thatbox
2007-08-03 02:35 pm UTC (link)
The entire six minutes was worth it for the bear's solo.

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[info]masterhibb
2007-08-03 04:11 pm UTC (link)
Aside: I still parse "FTW" as "Fhut the wuck?"

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[info]smeg_
2007-08-03 06:13 pm UTC (link)
For my part, I always read "fuck the world". FTW was fuck the world first.

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[info]drakee
2007-08-03 05:35 pm UTC (link)
LOL WHAT DRUGS WERE THEY ON

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[info]jewey
2007-08-03 07:44 pm UTC (link)
HAHA MAN THOSE JAPANESE ARE SO WACKY
LIKE HAVE YOU SEEN THIS DS GAME WHERE YOU CAN TOUCH LITTLE GIRLS AND RAPE THEIR TIGHT HOLES??? HAHA HOW DOES THIS STUFF GET THROUGH MAN

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[info]jewey
2007-08-03 07:45 pm UTC (link)
i do actually like the video too

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[info]smartblue
2007-08-03 07:47 pm UTC (link)

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[info]thatbox
2007-08-03 09:42 pm UTC (link)
That's exactly what I'm talking about!

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[info]fandomgreen
2007-08-03 08:28 pm UTC (link)
I think I sense *chan's vile hand in the trailer already.

Not to say that it wasn't fun, though

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[info]phunkyeyelids
2007-08-03 09:29 pm UTC (link)
I tried to watch it but my computer hates videos.

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[info]solidbox
2007-08-03 09:32 pm UTC (link)
While watching the trailer I was imagining that it should be for a dating game where you play a bear popping a wheelie on a bicycle while trying to bring a dude and a lady together.

You're right, the actual game could never live up to my imagination.

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[info]richter_belmont
2007-08-05 04:14 am UTC (link)
It's funny how he's playing an acoustic guitar, but it totally sounds electric!

I like to think that the bear rocks SO HARDCORE that he IS the amp.

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[info]smeg_
2007-08-05 01:24 pm UTC (link)
Clearly he's got wireless running into an off-screen PA.

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