Re: Petition For Sakura 3
aka senshi (senshi@IHUG.COM.AU)
Thu, 2 Sep 1999 01:18:07 +1000
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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 01:18:07 +1000
From: "Chou or CC (aka senshi)" <senshi@IHUG.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Petition For Sakura 3
Yana wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chou or CC (aka senshi)
> Date: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 10:16 AM
>
> >
> >The inhereted problem with ST, IMO, isn't so much about the language barrier,
> but
> >the GENRE of the game. Yes, it's an RPG/adventure/strategy, but one of the
> main
> >focus of the game is the love simulation section, which is a genre that even in
> >Japan that people cannot accept, let alone in America, for this sole reason is
> >already limiting the game to a niche market. I would dare say that the mere
> >thought of trying to win love from a virtual personality would make the average
> >Joe think three times before they would even look INTO the game, let alone
> >purchasing it. Think about it, people that idolize Lara Croft are regarded as
> >computer geeks with no life (generally speaking), now you're trying to convince
> >people to play virtual dating?
>
> Hey why not? If people can fall for a flacky polygon girl
> like Lara Croft then I'm sure there will be people who'll
> go wild over the ST girls. But no one will know until
> it's finally been truly tried out. Who knows, the very
> people who go for Lara might go for Sakura. Of
> course Sakura doesn't have polygon breasts and
> short shorts but she sure looks cute, something I sure
> can't say about Lara.
>
> Yasu
The reason, IMO, is the sex appeal. People seems to dig those 3 sizes that Lara
have (I'm not one of them BTW), I think fans of Lara most of the time has got eyes
fixed on to her breast and bust than any other place.
ST characters on the other hand don't have this "sell point" (argh, I don't even
want to use this word).
And when people can bash Sailormoon characters for having big eyes and small month
and wierd hair colour (while not seeing the same physical flaws in their own design
works *sign*), the ST characters might get labelled as "those wierd japanimation
girls" and be dismissed, worst comes to worst, since ST has got Japanese animation
style printed all over it, people might even think it's violent or sexually
explicit, (hey wait a sec, I think I just flushed my argument down the drain, isn't
that what sold the other video games?!).
Well, anyway, maybe I'm just being overly pessimistic (or optimistic? since we don't
even know if ST is coming out in english at all), but that's my take.
Later
Chou