@dowingba: Nah, I think it'd just be labeled as perverted. However, if it was called "Imagine: having a girlfriend" or "Bewbz" then it'd be perverted shovelware.

everybest

@kitsuneconundrum: Is Party Babyz coming to the DS too?! Dammit now I have to smash two systems into little bits?!?

dowingba

@dowingba: this or party babyz, take your pick

kitsuneconundrum

her body is missing I do mean the stomach?

zkotaku

@kitsuneconundrum: Yet if all of these types of games were coming here we'd all be up in arms about the shovelware being forced upon us.

dowingba

Her Butt and Boobs look a bit too big for those little legs to carry.

Tilimorf

Luckily it's on the DS, so they can't charge you for DLC. "Want her to remove her top? 500 MS Points."

MasterNinja

so like everything else, its more awesome in japan

kitsuneconundrum

@icepick314: Good one, Professor Layton! I think she's laying on top of a hidden puzzle, We should flip her over and get to the bottom of this.

everybest

Do you get to peel off the dead skin afterwards?! Please!?!

dowingba

you're supposed to untie the strings or you'll have that bikini tan line....

icepick314

I could see the appeal. When you are bored at the beach you can lounge and tan while you play this game and tan there. Or whatever. I'm Spanish I tan in the dark, so whatever.

lol Japan?

Netnavi

Yes.... Sun.... Tan.... O_O

King of Fun UK

Seems like they're selling the good games in Japan and giving us the crap! Get it together EA!

Mobus

I would definitely buy this sun tanning game for the purpose of videogame research. *cough*

Ravel

So basically its a paint a girl in a bikini brown/tannish kind of game?

axiom

@MattB: In the UK you can buy both, but I don't think they're great sellers by any stretch of the imagination.

Rotmm

And to think they are removing penis monsters from the Sporepedia. How unfair is that!

ArgentAngel

@Tilimorf: LOOK AT HER TINY ARMS GOD DAMN.

CHunterX

@icepick314: Thread is full of win.

DaFox

Madden and NBA Live have always seemed to be niche American games to me. Does the rest of the world play them? I don't even recall when I last saw either on a store shelf here in New Zealand. Makes sense though as we don't even get those sports on TV here.

MattB

@Tilimorf:

I agree about the boobs, but I have to say that to me the ass-to-legs ratio seems fairly accurate.

zoemgs2

@icepick314: haha I though you said "unite the strings"

icegoat

@Kloud: Unfortunately so. Just like Gears and all those other generic shooters. However, a holiday pack could mean rainbow bikinis and sexy elf costumes.

everybest

@axiom: Sadly, this game will suffer from it's bland, muddy color pallet.

Kloud

@MasterNinja: You're telling me you don't want any Holiday Outfit Packs? Some of us would like to add a little replay value, ya know!

Kloud

@icepick314: Let me introduce you to a game called "Sexy Beach 3."

Kloud

@CHunterX: It's probably meant to be in perspective even though the blanket isn't.

everybest

Further cementing my beliefs that Japan isn't meerly a country, but some odd, alternate bizzaro world with alien concepts of "Fun"

Acebuckeye13

Japan gets all the best games!

Rybo5000

Hm...any way to switch this EA with Japan EA?

Mister_CrazyGuy

DO WANT JAPANESE EA IN USA

TalesOfFan

if they were really trying to take the market by storm they'd buy out the big hitters, or at least start with 'saving' ailing devs (like the recently revived Neko Neko soft). What little art they show doesn't look very good, and the people that buy these kinds of software certainly are not going to fall for this unless they got something really special under their sleeve.

Just for reference, "Kumatanchi" which Bash wrote about recently has hardly even shipped to stores unless they had preorders. And that's for something with huge name recognition (at least on the internet).

muu

Retyping -
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You people are always complaining about Japan's odd tastes. Wasn't it you "yanks" that have forever fucked-up their heads by bombarding them with nukes ?.

And yet you complain.
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Where the hell did that "are" come from ?.

KREEPYKRAWLLY

You are people are always complaining about Japan's odd tastes. Wasn't it you "yanks" that have forever fucked-up their heads by bombarding them with nukes ?.

And yet you complain.

KREEPYKRAWLLY

'EAもやる時はやるんだね。' Heh.

@mlubczyk: Haven't played the game, but reading comments from others who have gives me the impression that no, it is not very good. There are lots of fantastic games on DS but personally I wouldn't expect this to be one of them either...

quen

@Ravel: Gesundheit.

Striker5005

Still looks like a piece a shit. I can't it being any good like most of the DS library, Japanese, Western or otherwise.

Has anybody actually played that Witch Touching game? Any impressions? Because I just can't imagine being any good.

mlubczyk

@dowingba: No.

You rub the lotion on her skin or else you'll get the hose again.

Gaff

Ah yes, Doki Poi-poi Suntan-o Electionu - been looking forward to this for a while.

Arcturian

japan makes some of the best games, but they got alot of weird games too. most of the games in the nintendo wii are shovelware. they r not even fit enough to be called a game.

xmido

@KREEPYKRAWLLY: You have a valid point there.

If someone dropped two fricking bombs with the power of two miniature suns to vaporise billions of people and forever screw up the social mentality of a culture.

I mean what are we to compalain that the people have turned out to be sexually liberal, creatively free and generally loopy bat-shit funny? huh? HUH?

seriously. We haven't a high moral horse to stand on. so we should just accept the sun tanning of little girls on a DS and nod our heads sympathetically and smile while we try not to project our guilt on them...

they look SO happy.

:)

Onizuka-GTO

If someone ever goes to war with Japan I believe that boob-shaped land mines would be very effective.

KindaGamey

@KindaGamey:

That would only work if there were two mines next to each other

SaanZ

This is the proof that Japan is superior.

Mayu-mayu

@Ravel:

That game looks way too tame! If you want to do research, you need to go to their PC Game stores. >:3

ssh83

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Except replace Rome with "Japan", and 'do as the Romans do' with "make with the nudey girl touchy games". ;)

Tenth

@mlubczyk:
*raises hand* guilty...

It's terrible. Boring, cookie-cutter visual novel with a teaspoon of point&click adventure game. I gave it a few weeks, but only ever surfed through endless dialog, and really meaningless inane stuff at that. I was hoping the fighter legends SNK would have a bit more innovation or even humor...

And what's worse, I just saw a trailer for KOF where the SNK logo screen went "doki doki... doki~" (The games is "Dokidoki majo shinpan."

fuchikoma

Damn... it is with a mix of regret and optimism that I have to say EA is doing it RIGHT. If MS went down this alley a bit further they could really make the 360 meaningful (but I don't know about long term "Tales of..." effects already...)

But yeah... that's exactly the kind of simple entry-level game to make a good impression on a skeptical Japanese audience IMO; and if it doesn't do well, no one will be surprised or underwhelmed.

fuchikoma

Roast Duck anyone?

Pudgey

@Netnavi: I know Americans have an obsession with tanning, but Japan? I don't think I've seen a Japanese person and though "Yep, they went tanning."

Going to school I can pick out like 13487 people that do >.<

mfwahwah

@everybest: Wow. Best comment I've seen in a while.

Ganji

it seems that the EA mathematicians have stumbled across the Japan+DS+Ero=money formula. Good for them

labrats5

@icepick314: Good point.

Ansem

Perhaps one of the reasons that EA doesn't do well in Japan is because they refuse to translate the majority of their games?

Tiger Woods and thew new madden both came to Japan complete in all their English glory. For a golf game, not too bad, but for American Football, which almost no Japanese people know the rules of? Inexcusable.

Probably why they got rankings of 4-5 in Famitsu

ハリセンボン

Those are some extreme sideboobs. I wonder if her body is actually touching the towel, or if she's balancing herself on top of them?

em

EA Japan?

Shouldn't that be a 4 year old?

Defoliantonthemoneytree

to bad america is.... um.. prude???

ShogunAssassinX