OP’s picture was already giving me GameCenterCX vibes and invoking “Shiren The Wanderer” makes me want to dig around my filez to see if I can find that episode (backed up from my VHS when I lived in Japan, naturally 😉 ) . Haven’t had a GameCenterCX session in years but still have super fond memories of it.
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I actually started working on creating new subtitles for that specific episode for a higher quality rip with additional sections and added translations.
As the old version has burned in subs.
But it’s incredibly time intensive work so it’ll take a while to do it all. I’m about half an hour in at this point.
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Yeah, there are a couple of teams working on these. But one of them sadly most their translator recently.
One of the reasons why I wish that I was fluent or even just decent in Japanese and not just at the earliest stages of starting to grasp the language.
I’d love to work on translating interviews and episodes like these…
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Hehe. That’s great! 😂
I love how he gets destroyed over and over again when playing Shiren, yet starts actually enjoying the game despite it being so brutal.
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Ah, Densha de Go!
I really need to sit down and watch that one!
While I’m write this, a package from play Asia is making its way over to me with a train sim on Switch. 😅
Not from the Densha de Go! Series though.
It’s from that one that takes video footage from a full course and then plays it back with controls laid over them. They had several 3DS releases also.
I buy quite a few weird games. 👀
personally, my big score was this game: Otogirisou. it is what was called a "sound novel" at the time, but would be now called a visual novel.
i picked it up for two reasons. first, i'm in love with the box cover artwork. there is something perfectly moody about it - a roughly inked haunted house in the distance, surrounded by briars, which looks like the only shelter during a pummelling rainstorm.
(and this is indeed the plot of the game)
second, it has an incredible soundtrack that was given a full orchestra treatment in the 90s. the album is called "Game Music Concert 2" by Tokyo City Philharmonic.
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