Kiss You Through The PS2 Chu-Lips

Thanks to GamePro for covering the news that Natsume have picked up the U.S. distribution rights for the Japanese PlayStation 2 RPG adventure Chu-lip. According to the article about this 'unique' title, "As a young boy who's just moved into the town of Tsurukame, you must build up your street cred in a quest to impress the woman of your dreams - the thing is, and the story behind this is a little complicated, you must do this by kissing as many of the town's inhabitants as possible." The aim of this very bizarre game is apparently to "work out the daily schedule of each townsperson (or towns-creature), and what he or she wants from you in exchange for a kiss."

Comments

The very first FP!!! =)

[ZosX]

Ok, I guess it doesn't count much on games.slashdot.org, but still. FP niggaz! Anyways, how does natsume expect to really sell this game in America? Super wierd japanese games usually don't do very well on this side of the Pacific. Though I really wish Vib Ribbon would have made it over, as well as probably 100s of other games. I mean, who in the states is gonna think this game is cool other than maybe perhaps the weird japanese game fanboy cult? Nevertheless, this is a good trend that seems to be on the rise. Companies make games with translation in mind, a small handful of people translate the game, and everyone wins. So what if the game only sells 50,000 copies here in the States. That surely would at least pay a couple of people to translate it and make some profit for Natsume. I'd really like to see this continue. I think that dating games would probably do pretty well here, with the possible exception of games featuring heads in plant pots. (something tells me that isn't the only pot that was going around) Just some thoughts and FP my biznitches! zosX

Re:The very first FP!!! =)

[ZosX]

Hey......why the troll? This was the only post that contained more than 3 lines so far and actually had some valid points..... Some people with higher scores said far less and certainly sounded less intelligent. Plus I mentioned Vib Ribbon, don't I even get a cookie? :)

Re:The very first FP!!! =)

[Anonymous Coward]

Not sure, but I'd try laying off the swearing and bragging about FP. :P

Re:The very first FP!!! =)

[Associate]

If you had left out the FP and niggaz nonsense, you might have actually had a chance. You only have yourself to blame.

Kiss everyone in town?....

[jsse]

I'm not sure if I'd like to have a kiss from one of those....

Ummm WTF?

[Anonymous Coward]

And what about this (if you have flash larger version here)?

I guess they were trying to make this game appeal to the S&M demographic.

It looks like...

[Floydian123]

they found what geeky gamers wanted most (hot chicks) which they could not get in real life (hot chicks)

Virtual happiness :D

I have one thing to say.

[chendo]

WTF?!

I mean, if they had sexier looking chicks, maybe, but that is just horribly wrong :o

Educational

[Associate]

This will teach kids how to stalk the women of their dreams.

old controllers

[!3ren]

...and you thought your old Nes controllers got crufty after a bit of use.
Just wait till these spend a bit of time beneath the sofa.

"Hmm...ow, pointy! Eww, slimy. Oh, moving! Ah-ha!
Ohhh, twenty dollars...I wanted a peanut! " -homer

Re:old controllers

[Wog]

I work at a used video game store.

You have no idea how nasty most of the equipment you use gets under bright light.

I'm about to go to work and put these on our "no-buy" list.

*shivers*

I can see it now.

[Dammerung]

Anyone wanna bet that future rape crimes are going to be blamed on this?

Penny Arcade

[Mechanik]

Given Gabe's love of Viewtiful Joe, I can't wait to see the inevitable comic devoted to this game...

And he probably will import it too. I mean shit, he imported that stupid goddamned "Umbrella Thieves" game...

Mechanik

Re:Penny Arcade

[Anonymous Coward]

Umbrella thieves? Ummm... dude, Zettai Zetsumei Toshi is about an earthquake.

Re:Penny Arcade

[Mechanik]

Well, if you actually read the appropriate Penny Arcade news post, you'd know the following:

We received several translations of the title "Zettai Zetsumei Toshi," which means something along the lines of "the umbrella thieves." This actually kind of creeped me out - I thought it was sort of goofy to focus on losing our umbrella the way we did, but then I like fifteen people tell me that somebody taking your umbrella is practically a Goddamn epidemic in Tokyo. What's more, it's a cascading effect, so when somebody takes your umbrella, you just go take Bob-san's, and then Bob-San takes somebody else-san's umbrella, and now we're in this sorry state where proper preservation from the elements is concerned.


Mechanik

Wasn't this already done?

[weeboo0104]

In the Leisure Suit Larry series of games? OK, granted you didn't just kiss the other people in the game but still...

Re:Wasn't this already done?

[The Evil Couch]

a better example would be the many sim dating games that have been made in Flash. you can find a hell of a lot of them on newgrounds. I think they've got an entire catagory for them. I'd post a more exact link, but I'm behind my work's firewall at the moment.

Chulips?

[caquillo]

Just so long as this thing doesn't let the Jovians into my house...

I wish more Japanese titles would come over here

[HomeGroove]

I'm glad to see quirky games like these make their way over here and I wish more would. Fresh Games brought over Mr. Mosquito and Mad Maestro a while back (wonder if they'll bring Mr. Mosquito 2 over?). I'm not sure how well they did, but they retailed for around 20 bucks. I'm willing to plop down 20 bucks on a quirky Japanese title.

Someone is bound to say, "Get a Japanese PS2." Well, I can't read Japanese so I prefer the conversions.

just like Majora's Mask?

[the_greywolf]

Majora's Mask had a mini-quest that was very similar - you went around helping people, but had to do it by their schedule. it's weird.

Too easy of a game...

[zoobaby]

What "she wants from you in exchange for a kiss."

Money!

Ummm, I'll pass

[August_zero]

Sing together now!

We're on the rooooad to hentai!

Something is very wrong...

[36526542DD]

I'm sorry, but first anime and now this... there is something very wrong going on over there...

Kiss Quest

[AutumnLeaf]

Looks like someone played the kiss-quest on ragnarok and decided to make a game out of it?