Thursday, September 15, 2011

Rebuild of Evangelion: Sound Impact

Kotaku has a post about a new Evangelion game. It seems to be a sound game...but after watching the video I have no idea what the fuck is happening.

Here's the trailer for the game:



Can someone who speaks moonspeak translate it, please?

It seems to be clips of the series as backdrops to...i guess circles and lines that indicate a need to click...and maybe points are involved. It seems like another installment in the tradition of the Evangelion Pachinko game theme: Evangelion Games that have nothing to do with piloting mechs or being suicidal teens who masturbate over topless co-workers.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. In fact, I'm brewing a rant about the virtue of Eva games that are not about those themes.

Even if you don't give a shit about Evangelion, which indicates that you have no soul, the comments on the Kotaku post are worth a read. It starts with an instantiation of the rare and elusive "this series is stupid because it contains clichés and I am completely oblivious to the fact that those clichés only exist because this series invented them" post. Those conversations are always fun.

2 comments:

AppleTreesRTall said...

Yeah, I'm a moonspeaker, but I'm in no way an "Eva" speaker... ^^;;

I think there are 6 variations of sound rhythm games you can play. There are more videos on IGN that show gameplay.

So yeah, the translation I can pick up... a "sound" is approaching mankind...what's happening in this 3rd/"3nd" impact is even more disastrous than the 2nd impact... the symphony that connects all people.. putting all their bets on this final battle. Sorry that's so vague, I even showed this to my Japanese friend and she said it was hard to explain (and she didn't know eva either). But basically just very dramatic narration! And music terminology to justify the game, yay! I'll get Adam to check this out and see what he says, considering he knows Eva-speak.

Also, wtf is going on here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzYL1zxd4Ig&feature=related

_J_ said...

The video you linked is actually kinda funny, as it's a sequence of fan-service scenes.

Your vague translation makes sense. Replacing "angel attack" with "sound attack" isn't the most retarded notion ever. The "symphony that connects all people" can be a version of the human instrumentality project, wherein all the distinct particular humans are brought together into one whole of...Jell-O.

It's interesting that they'd make a pseudo-combat game for Eva that is a rhythm game, though. That's an odd hybrid. But I assume it's easier to code a rhythm game over video clips than it is to code an actual mech combat game.