Narration: Well, here we are at the Tokyo Game show, E3’s Japanese Cousin. Now, we could have shown you all the biggames that you’ll see at E3, but we thought we’d take the proverbial road less traveled.
Narration: It goes without saying that the Japanese are extremely friendly. They also have a great sense of fashion. Not to mention their own unique brand of super heroes.
Narration: This is the “Captain Love” game. It isn’t just an adventure game. It’s a dramatic-hero-adventure genre…game. You make fun have all these conversation with the heroine and other characters. You have fun making conversation and you use that to progress in the game.
Narration: So it’s not your typical hero-thing kind of game. You battle using the conversation you make. And!, There isn’t a single scene of violence.
Narration: Right now, we’re gonna go from a game of polite conversation to one that involves some serious grilling.
Narration: We’ve made a game here with the title “Judge Grilledmeat”. The concept of the game is that you grill the pork and serve it to the guests. The various preferences of the various guests are set like so. For example, The guests have set food preferences so, if one doesn’t like carrots you don’t serve that guest carrots, and you serve all the guests with grilled meat when it’s properly done. That raises their degree of satisfaction, and you complete [“clear”] the game.
Narration: In the event that you O.D. on “Judged Grilledmeat,” you’ll find this next game a big help in the love handle department.
Narration: This is a diet simulation machine. You run by operating this special controller, and the calories appear here. So in this game, one candy is one kilocalorie, and you can see how many kilocalories you’ve used up over the distance you’ve run so far.
Narration: In addition to meat cooking games and games that measure how meaty – or meatless – you are, we discovered one that featured a rather breathtaking controller.
Narration: This is one of our mini-games. As you’re exhaling, vocalizing, into this mike, you’re digging deeper and deeper. If you don’t make it to the Catch-Your-Breath Level before you
run out of air in your lungs, it’s “Game Over.” We have 15 types of games, mini-games, like this. You use the mike, so anybody can play easily. We hope you like it!
Narration: “Gallop Racer” isn’t like conventional horseracing games, where you raise racing horses. Here, the idea is to get the sensation of actually being a jockey. We’ve called on the power of the PS2 hardware, first of all for the graphics, which have gotten far more real.
…I think they’re just about to go into the final corner. At the final corner, you’ve got to use your whip, and make that final sprint.
Narration: Now they’re on the final stretch. They’re using their whips…yeah, this is how you have to compete down the final stretch. And now they’re crossing the finish line. Now here, unfortunately, I lost out; but if you do it right, you can take first place.
Narration: After a full day of focusing on bright lights and flashing video screens, we thought it might be a good idea to have our eyes checked before we left.
