kungfuzap, posts by tag: japanese - LiveJournal (original) (raw)

My mom bought me a bunch of Japanese games. I tried one out today called Happy Kitchen. It's like Cooking Mama, but there's no time limit and you get to customize it more towards the end (what place mat, what dishes, what silverware, etc.). When you start up the game, there's a girl talking about how her dad is coming home from America soon and she promised him she would make him a feast. The only problem is, she hasn't started cooking, nor does she know how. She asks her stuffed bunny if she should just give up and tell her dad that she couldn't make the feast, but rethinks that idea because she's in the third grade and probably shouldn't still talk to stuffed animals. Then she goes to her window and tries wishing on falling stars. After the third falling star, a little light comes towards her. It comes in her room, talks about how it can make the girl's wishes come true, and then zaps the girl's stuffed bunny with a lightning bolt. When the screen goes back to looking at the girl's room, the bunny is now alive, for the little light has basically possessed it. The girl gets freaked out, convinces herself she's dreaming, and goes to sleep. When she wakes up in the morning, she goes downstairs to find a cooking TV show celebrity. The celebrity is there to teach the girl how to cook because that's what the possessed stuffed bunny thought would help the girl.

Now, after reading, tapping a button, reading a bit more, tapping a button again, and some more reading, you get to the actual game. If I wasn't mainly playing this because I want to advance in Japanese, I would be pissed at the game for there being so much reading. I want there to be game-play when I buy a game. So yes, there's a lot of reading, but the parts that are more game-like, are actually rather fun, which makes up for the fact there's SO MUCH READING!!!! I mean, seriously! I spent half an hour just READING!!!

Graphics:
7/10 (Cute, very Japanese-ish, but not much else going for it)

Tutorial:
6/10 (Unlike most tutorials, it's fun, but it's not always specific enough about what it wants you to do)

Game play:
9/10 (Quite fun, love the customization of the way the dishes look at the end. Not too easy, not too hard)

母が 私に 日本語の ビデオーゲームを かってもらたんだ。 今日に 私は しあわせキッチェんを あそびました。 クキングママと にてると おもいますけど、 タイマーが ありません。 はじめの ときに、 女の子は お父さんすぐ かえると 言います。 ごちそうを つけてと 女の子が お父さんに やくそくしたんだ。 けれど、 女の子が おりょりかたを しりません。 女の子が ぬいぐるみの うさぎに 「どうしよう」と きいて、 でもそれへんと 女の子が おもいます。 女の子が まどを あけて、 おほしさまに おねがいします。 あのときに、 へんなあかるいボールが 女の子の へやに はいて、 ぬいぐるみの うさぎを ザップして、 ぬいぐるみに はいてる！

このゲームが いっぱいよむことが あります。 ちょとおいすぎると おもいます。 でも、 ほんとの ゲームは たのしいです。

グラヒく：
7/10

ツトリャル：
6/10

ゲーム：
9/10