It's actually pretty funny to realize how many of "these" types of games are popping up on the DS here lately. Who knows, it may not be like "That One Game With The Touching of Witches" but I just find it odd that Nintendo is growing up...In a perverse sort of way.

Its Doki Doki for girls!

Thats funny right there. This game sounds like that Witch touching game but for girls, and maybe some guys :P

The DS is really redefining the blue ocean strategy.
you know, if Doki could combine touching with witch-hunting, no reason they could do a hotel dusk mystery with the touching.
i'm sayin'.

I've got more than one gay friend in town that will be putting down pre-orders for that on play-asia or wherever the hell they can get it asap.

oy gevault.

Only in Japan...

he looks way too healthy to have just been in a fight.....that or he beat the living shit out of his opponent :p

@Witzbold: In which case I hope said "fight club" involves the use of various witchy powers. Or perhaps the reverse?

...Witchy wiping powers?

@zany_ninja: Where they make more money with the DS than any of the systems combined in the US. ;D

Even though thats a stupid joke of mine, I wouldnt be suprised if it wasnt far from the truth. D:

@Zany_Ninja: Unfortunately :(
Of course, there's no way in hell that it would get anything less than an M here, for the content. Might even be AO.

Ha, what an awesome concept for a game!

Awesome! Bring on the sweaty bishounen! :D
Maybe it's better than dokimajo, that game was so boring -_-

The world needs more touching-games!

Do want... well.. Mabey if the guys were just a little better drawn.

LOL these new touch games are so bizzare.

@Yin:
Japan already have too many touching games...

touching in trains, schools, out in street, your mom, your half sister...

Needs nipples to succeed in the western market. Localizers take note.

So...witch touching for girls then. I may consider it, but I'll have to know more about it before I commit the cash.

Creepy X 10

I love how this is smack bang between two jubbly-related posts.

As for the scrubby-game, I'd take Hunk Strip Poker over this any day. At least you get to play a decent game at the same time!

* ears perk up at the sound of Hunk strip poker *

Flynn's gay? As an Xbox fanboy, I must never post on his articles AGAIN!

Okay, that was a bit mean. I'm sure there's got to be ONE Xbot who isn't homophobic.

Perhaps in the American and European versions of this, you can wipe the blood from his wounds as well as the sweat from his body. If No More Heroes has no violence, it makes sense that this fight club sweat wiping game would be toned down too.

"As I turned to leave I suddenly realized the game I had been playing was being shown above my head on a large screen and behind me was a quartet of young Japanese girls giggling into their hands."

LOL!! I couldn't stop laughing through the whole description of this game. Great stuff!

@KAI_

Come on, we were so close to having an entire topic worth of comments without someone being rude about Flynn's sexuality. Honestly the only reason I looked at the comments was to see if the Kotaku fans are better than some of the idiots on other sites and up until your post, they were!

The secret fight club part about it makes it sound cool. I would be duped into buying this game if I didn't know it was about wiping the sweat off of skinny, malnourished high school boys. Instead of wiping the sweat off maybe you should feed him.

If only hot guys would let me wipe sweat off of them in real life. I as a woman demand more games where you rub on men! Who's with me?

I think I now understand how straight people were so creeped out by Doki Doki. I'm gay, and this creeps me out.

@DougKaplan:
if i read that right, Kai's post was more a jab at Xbox fanboys' blatent homophobia, rather than a homophobic comment abt Flynn himself.

but then i could be wrong.

@TheDollHouse:
here here! XD

@TheDollHouse:

I am!

First rule of Fight Club: Don't talk about Fight Club.
Second rule of Fight Club: Wipe sweat off of fighters once the fight is over.
Third rule of Fight Club: Don't talk about Fight Club.

I don't think it's so odd that the boys in the game are as skinny as they are. Two reasons:

1.) This game is aimed at young teen girls, who tend to focus their crushes on non-threatening, somewhat androgynous boys rather than muscle-bound men. This is pretty universal -- if you look at magazines directed at the same audience in just about any country, that's what you'll find.

2.) In Japan, even older girls and women tend not to favor guys with bulging muscles. The cultural ideal here focuses more on normal and skinny guys. From what I've heard, being too muscular is actually a turn-off for most Japanese women.

The really took that "Touching is Good" slogan to heart in Japan.

that looks damn gay and if there are girls that actually enjoy wipin off sweat, there is something seriously wrong with them. sweat on girl = glistening, sweat on a guy = take a f*ckin shower.
i saw it in a commercial.

Yaoi paradisssssse *_*!

*gg*

"As I turned to leave I suddenly realized the game I had been playing was being shown above my head on a large screen and behind me was a quartet of young Japanese girls giggling into their hands."

Thats too funny...

@Ninja-Z: Dammit... you stole my joke. Was gonna say, "so they wipe each other down after? No wonder they dont talk about fight club..."

The thing I like best is the look on the boy's face in the photo. He looks as if he just accidentally lost control of his bowels in a moment of rubbing ecstasy.

@Kai_:

All ya gotta do is login to Xbox Live and play on any game at any time. You'll find one in a few seconds, if not sooner.

@Hitokage:

Wow.. I totally read that wrong. Whoops. Anyhoo, I don't mind gay people, I'm bisexual. Besides.. what does sexual orientation have to do with liking someone? :P

Flynn's cool in my books regardless.

@savagesaladin:
Seriously! Instead of offering to walk you home, he is planning to offer to follow you to the nearest restaurant. And in-game, you get to aim a nice sandwich towards his mouth with the stylus while making a cute airplane sound - "vrreeeeeeooom.... here it comes! down the hatch!"

Wouldn't it be funny if they translate and localize this over doki doki?

I remember when I used to be a fangirl over things like this. Thank god I grew up.

This is plain frightening.

@TheDollHouse:
I'm totally with you! And if this game has enough nice looking bishounen in it(and no shotas...eew) then I will probably buy it >_> My sister wants it no matter what though so I might end up being able to play it anyway.

Oh, and Flynn, that was the best article I've read all day XD

@miroku:

Did you know, in ancent Rome, Gladiators used to rub themselve down with oil then scrap it off to be sold as purfume. The greater the warrior, the more expensive his sweat.

Ick, someone put some food in the guy. Honestly, he makes Barbie look fat.

No nipple, no sale.

Maybe they could sell this with a little hand towel? Or coupons for Nair?

Besides, cock-fights are illegal.

This needs to be combined with a Fight Club game for wireless madness.

.... makes me blush just looking at the picture. If i actually buy it and play it omg i'd die of blush overload...

@ARboom: ditto, but that's still doesn't mean that i won't try it out given the chance, just like that doki doki game, which was alot of nothing.

Fight Club: "It's one scary fuck to see guys like our mechanic at fight club. Skinny guys, they never go limp. They fight until they're burger. White guys like skeleton dipped in yellow wax with tattoos, black men like dried meat, these guys usually hang together, the way you can picture them at Narcotics Anonymous. They never say, stop. It's like they're all energy, shaking so fast they blur around the edges, these guys in recovery from something. As if the only choice they have left is how they're going to die and they want to die in a fight."


Or perhaps die after the fight, post-maiden-sweat-dobbing.