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Found the English version out for demo today, and gave it a go. Just so we're clear, almost all of this game has been remade for the U.S. version. In an odd stroke, the English version actually makes less sense than the Japanese... in this one, a crack team of agents go out and sing to help people in need. How exactly their singing helps, and why a team of agents is doing this, who knows.
There were two songs in the demo. In the first, a teenage girl wants to go out with this football player, but she can't work up the nerve to ask him. She invites him over, so that she can, but right as she is about to, somebody she babysits for shows up and drops her kids off. As the kids cause chaos in the house, the guy says that either she calms the kids down or he'l leaving. The story is then about calming down the kids. Song was "Walkie Talkie Man."
Second is about a dog that goes out on a walk with his seven year old master. As the kid plays basketball, the dog falls asleep, but doesn't realize that he's sleeping in the back of a truck. He wakes up 40 miles from home, and has to survive heading back, overcoming hunger, and protecting a cute poodle from a rough group of dogs. The song was "Highway Star."
They've really put a lot of work into the English version, and I'm certainly going to pick it up. However, it just doesn't feel the same as the Japanese version, and everything is going to depend on how the song selection turns out.
Found the English version out for demo today, and gave it a go. Just so we're clear, almost all of this game has been remade for the U.S. version. In an odd stroke, the English version actually makes less sense than the Japanese... in this one, a crack team of agents go out and sing to help people in need. How exactly their singing helps, and why a team of agents is doing this, who knows.
There were two songs in the demo. In the first, a teenage girl wants to go out with this football player, but she can't work up the nerve to ask him. She invites him over, so that she can, but right as she is about to, somebody she babysits for shows up and drops her kids off. As the kids cause chaos in the house, the guy says that either she calms the kids down or he'l leaving. The story is then about calming down the kids. Song was "Walkie Talkie Man."
Second is about a dog that goes out on a walk with his seven year old master. As the kid plays basketball, the dog falls asleep, but doesn't realize that he's sleeping in the back of a truck. He wakes up 40 miles from home, and has to survive heading back, overcoming hunger, and protecting a cute poodle from a rough group of dogs. The song was "Highway Star."
They've really put a lot of work into the English version, and I'm certainly going to pick it up. However, it just doesn't feel the same as the Japanese version, and everything is going to depend on how the song selection turns out.
