demi said:
Oh yeah, that's the one.
Naked Shuriken said:
Are we, occidental demons, going to be able to get around in the game without any knowledge of japanese?
You'll need some guidance - I'll help out where I can. Once you've gone through the tutorial (10 screens or so), everything is done by icons rather than text. There's a few training books too, but I'll try to help out where possible. May as well jot the flow down while I remember...
First thing you have to do is choose your dog. Top option is "buy", bottom option is "check out the pet shop's special dogs". You can feel up the dogs with the second option and see which breed you like the look of. Choose the top one to pick your dog. You choose male/female too. If you don't know ♀ is female, ♂ is male.
Second thing you have to do is give it a name. There's a bunch of screens but you don't need to start speaking until the mic icon appears on screen. You record your dog's name three times. After that you just test it by calling it.
Third thing you do is teach your dog how to sit. You'll have the dog sat in front of you and you are told to stroke, from the top of the head, down across the face, quite quickly. When he sits, you can record a command to associate with that.
For both the name, and the commands, after you have recorded the voice part, a text input screen will come up so you can enter the dog's name or command name.
Naked Shuriken said:
They only understand Japanese? I remember hearing that you could teach them to sit/whatever by using other words, so i guess, we could use Sit instead?
Both voice and text can be done in English, don't worry
Smiles and Cries said:
it is suppose to be anyword this was said at the GDC
You can say anything, I think. The software has pretty good speech recognition, but don't push it. I don't think it would work, for example, if you call your puppy Drinky, then ask it to sit down using "brinky" or something.
Smiles and Cries said:
What does the wife think of your Drinky puppy Jonnyram?
Heh, she thinks Drinky is cute
