06.14.06
Going back to reality
Here I was thinking all interesting (of course, to me) news has gone dry, when I’ve managed to dig up a few. So before I go back to my lovely DSLite (Ice Blue one :)) and the Mana game…
No mention of price or exact date, but DQ Monsters Joker is set for a 2006 release for the DS. For the GC, Donkey Kong Barrel Jet Race will be released on 10th August for approx. £24, and Super Paper Mario on 3rd August for approx. £29. The latter game will have an ‘unusual twist’ – indicate with your Touch pen to reveal a 3D landscape… oh, and Bowser, for once will be on your side.
Between 3rd July and 31st August, Sakura Taisen stamps will be available from post offices across Japan, as a 10th anniversary commemoration. Just be warned that it can only be pre-ordered, and will cost £15.75 (+ £2.50 p&p), and will only be mailed early October.
Whilst browsing on the Famitsu site, I also came across this blog on WoW, as experienced by one of their staff. Read the entirety with some amusement. He mentions how a simple ‘Hi’ won’t open an invite to a group… duh! If some character I have no recollection of ever meeting comes up to me and says that, I’d be thinking whether he wants a group, or if he’s there to beg for some hard-earned cash or worse. This guy (fairly ok at English – he mentions having lived in the US a while back) also has a few other entries, and in a way, it made me realise how sheltered a Japanese life can be. It was the comments he made and this overriding need he described to make people like him. Sure, you need to be polite online (in Japan, politeness is highly valued, so even if one wants to be rude, it’s done in a backstabbing way), but not so that you stand around for 40mins waiting for your sole party member who’s swimming around far below your standing point of a cliff edge! Jeez… get a grip.
Talking of getting a grip… Japanophiles. I’m happy that they want to learn my mother tongue and culture. They like our games, our animes, kimonos, sushi… etc. Thanks for taking an interest. But could they please stop adding ‘chan’/’san’ to everyone’s names? That’s far from cool… in fact it’s downright creepy. Personal fantasies of geisha, I’d rather not know, but to be enamoured by that culture and deciding that’s what Japan is… please take that elsewhere. (I’m fairly sure if a person was interested enough in Japan’s culture, they’d have read up on its history too, to find that geisha was hardly romantic or tragic in a tearful female way, supported by Mills and Boons novels.)
Mills and Boon said,
June 14, 2006 at 1:00 pm
I’m sad now :’(