Friday, September 03, 2004

Space Crusoe

I had a chance to play Pikmin 2 yesterday and I'd like to say: SCREW YOU, ITAGAKI! You couldn't see a brilliant videogame design if it was as big and prominent as the female breasts in your games!

The game is as much fun as before (more so, actually, given that you still have a daily time allowance, but no longer need to deal with a limit of days), but there are so many little things in the game that make you smile... those range from the funny situation our heroes got in, to the way Pikmin react when surprised by being outnumbered in battle (I swear, they move JUST LIKE real confused ants!). It's the kind of game that brings a smile to the face without even trying (you gotta hear the little bastards singing when they march).

Just like in the first one, though, this one deserves a special mention about it's in-game text. In the first one, Olimar wrote a journal that was heavily inspired by Robinson Crusoe. In the sequel, he has to find objects discarded in a garden and market them in planet Hocotate - but seeing as he doesn't understand their real purpose, he comes up with some very funny theories... like the 7 Up bottle top (or the "Quenching Emblem", as he puts it. The written descriptions are simply priceless.

Instead of a link, today I quote something I read that would make my brother proud (thanks, Video-Fenky):

I read it in a press release
...from Panasonic, no less, so it must be true: the percentage of men who pee standing down is skyrocketing.

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"In an investigative report on toilet usage by our company, it was found that a surprisingly large number of people (35 percent of males, 17 percent of females) spend a great deal of time on the toilet reading books or newspapers. It was also discovered that the percentage of men who urinate while sitting down has virtually doubled (15% -> 30%) compared to five years ago. This is believed to be caused by concern over dirtying the area around the toilet.

These results have reminded us of the importance of a comfortable toilet, an area we have always seen as a "relax space". After reanalyzing this comfort factor from a wide variety of angles, we have developed a toilet that creates the ultimate in comfort with its human-engineered seat, the largest in the industry."

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Looking at Panasonic's results more closely, you'll find that the group of Japanese men who're most likely to pee sitting down are married men from the Kansai region currently living in Kyushu or Okinawa. Now we know where all the militant Japanese women live.

1 comments:

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In fact, most of those dates will be bollocks. GAME were always shit at predicting release dates internally.
So much so in fact, that the were a source of much amusement each time we got the release bulletin through :)