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

I don't think I'd enjoy this

[DarkkOne]

But I'm sure alot of the sims players probably would... And dammit, we need to support strange japanese games when/if the make it to the US. Because there's some damn good ones that have come out and NOT made it to the US on the assumption "we wouldn't get it."

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!