Sony's Happiness Controller Game Elevates The Joy

Thanks to GamePro for its preview of Sony's forthcoming Japanese PlayStation 2 game, Happiness Controller. The preview explains: "The goal of Happiness Controller is to make 100 people that you control happy", and details: "Some of the types of people you need to make happy include... Happily married businessman, whose company is about to go bankrupt... A child whose father is a slob, and whose mother comes home late at night drunk... Bar club hostess, who gets paid to listen to rich Japanese businessmen talk." However, the preview ends: "Given the very Japanese nature of the 100 characters, if a North American release is planned it would likely have different characters."

Comments

Bad Translation?

[fmaxwell]

Is "Happiness Controller" is what you get when you translate "joystick" into Japanese and then back into English?

Re:What the hell is wrong with those people?

[fatgraham]

Yeah, I prefer "e-company" "i-company" "company-corp" "companysoft" "company dot com"

them crazy asians!