Welcome to HaiTaku, Kotaku’s latest lunchtime guessing game! I write a Haiku and you try and guess what game I’m writing about!
(Thanks go to Thistler for the idea!)
Alright, let’s get this going…
I awake, stranded.
The boys keep throwing the ball
A familiar song.
I’ve made this one easy, mainly because this is a new type of guessing game and I have no way of parsing how easy or difficult this might be! Good luck everyone!
This is HaiTaku. We write Haikus about old video games and leave it you to guess what game we’re talking about. If you want to submit a Haiku feel free. Sent it here!
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34 responses to “The Daily HaiTaku”
Ico
Final Fantasy X?
Would’ve been my guess too…
I agree. Sounds like Final Fantasy X to me…………
Link’s Awakening
Totally this.
Yeah, I agree, that was my first thought.
I was totally thinking that
If I should respond
In Haiku form, how many
Ways to say The Dig?
Look, no matter what
If you find some glowing pills
Just don’t eat them please.
I just want to check:
You mean any more pills, right?
Any more found pills…?
Okay, stop it now.
Give your last to the fossil.
Look, it is awake!
If lunch cannot start
with Biker Mice from The Dig
All hope will be lost.
I hope you will consider my idea for a once a week SingTaku Mark!
I am definitely considering it 🙂
To make it difficult, go full Scottish.
BagpipeTaku?
Sing lines from text adventures.
“How appropriaaaaaaate, you fight like a cooooooooooooooooow!”
Not technically a text adventure but close enough
A Monkey Island musical would be pretty amazing.
I think we’re off-topic completely at this point, but still. Amazing.
I TOTALLY can burst into ‘doot do-deet doot, do-deet-doot, do-deet-doot’ rendition of original Monkey Island tunes, and friends and family will join in.
This really should be done, any singers on kotaku? I’m imagining a round robin sing off with several scruffy pirates vs guybrush doing an operatic version of insult swordfighting.
I still think we should have gone for Charade-taku
Wild stab in the dark, Lost in Blue?
Looking skyward now
kicking the throttle harder
Biker Mice from Mars
Definitely Final Fantasy X.
Monty on the run
For a twist, I hope he uses an actual haiku or death poem from Shogun Total War… Death now my master; cold as stone upon the field; I fall like blossom.
Kingdom Hearts II.
Pokemon Black/white … You wake up stranded in a moving truck, you throw balls at everything and everyone knows the evolution music
Kingdom Hearts!
I think it’s already been guessed, but I so want this to be an insightful and philosophical analysis of Pong.
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball?
I can’t help but think Earthbound (Ness and his psychic blue ball always get me) — and the lo and behold, it’s even in an article today!