gamerking60

Gannon

sooiee115

coktoe

Ario Reads Kotaku, Seems Pleased

King Seafoam

Sonjool

Couldn't help myself to that, I'm sorry.

I can't even begin to imagine the horrid mini-games that could spawn from this game. The sword charge from "No More Heros" comes to mind. ;D

Giant Enemy Crab

sooiee115

Gannon

***psycoking, educating pervert since 2006***

psycoking

Gannon

IrisMR

Heh. I'd have to label both of my Wiis in such a case. "Porno" and "Not Porno".

TempestOblivion

NaryaMithrandir

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

A perfect match for their users.

/zing

ohhello

YUYU

OtakuboyT

Gimme a break, I just woke up.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

Who would of thought?

well not me for certain.

*goes off to buy bananas to hang in his bathroom*

Onizuka-GTO

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

firesign

SynKade

Gannon

ArgentAngel

*sigh*

ArgentAngel

Zero_Beat

M.C.-Action

@muu: Doesn't it work the other way around? Like PC to PS2 is the usual transition...

Lyner

Lockenator

I agree that using macrons is better than throwing out the extra syllable (actually not syllable but I forget the correct term) and making ou into just 'o', but leaving it as 'ou' is better still imo. :) At least unless addressing a really completely clueless audience that is likely to be seriously confused which, you know, probably isn't kotaku. (Uh... at least, maybe. ;)

@denki: I don't think it's a good idea to get the Wii branded as a machine for [...] people that like to look at pictures of stylized children eating bananas in the bath.

Agreed, if they did that they'd have to compete for target audience with the almighty (Japanese) Xbox 360! Oh noes. :)

Seriously, if it's the same as in the US, Nintendo will release anything that gets a rating, so providing it isn't in fact pornographic, it should be good to go. Obviously it won't get a US release but whatever, I'm sure people who care about H games are capable of importing a Japanese Wii if they like.

quen

EmeraldDragon

tobi72

Americo

(sorry it had to be said)

stromasdragon

If certain PS2 games are any indication, maybe we'll see a "full version" sometime on the PC, where you get to 'clean' away those pesky shampoo bubbles.

muu

Gannon

While you Japanese scholars are battling it out, can you tell me what this guy is saying? Right after "Hey!" about 18 seconds in. I need it for a school project:

+ Watch video

:P

Billkwando

I see a connection there.o_O

KM91

When writing Japanese words for non-Japanese-speaking readers, I suggest that leaving out the long "o" and "u" sounds altogether is the simplest solution ("osoji", rather than "osouji"), since the difference between long and short Japanese vowels isn't readily apparent to English speakers anyway. The thing I like about macrons, though, is that they provide a nice middleground - understandable by those who've studied Japanese, but not excessively confusing for those who haven't. Perfect, I think, for the Kotaku readership.

Number41

Bboboo

lamusiqa

Neer'mo

However, now that I'm remembering all this, I'm starting to see your point. I realize that I used to pronounce some romanized Japanese words incorrectly before I started taking classes.

psycoking

Geeze, look how simple that one was.

Sinfjotle

Pinhead

Fryfat

jtraveller

BPMο

NocturnOwl357

I don't know if the "exact" system of romanization is widely used in Japanese classes - perhaps that's at the high school level? I would guess that any good class would switch quickly to exclusive use of the kana. For the record, though, my college Japanese class used an awful romanization system for it's first semester, with all lengthened vowels written by doubling the vowel. えいが, for example, was written as "eega". That was inacurrate and misleading, and remains my most hated romanization system ;)

I would promote macron usage because it's the defacto standard for Japanese romanization in the real world. All Japanese train stations names, for example, are written using macrons.

@ハリセンボン: I disagree. I find the strength of macrons is that if you don't understand them, you can just ignore them and still pronounce the word well enough. This isn't the case if misleading vowel combinations are written out faithfully to the original Japanese. (I would agree, however, that the use of apostrophes in the Hepburn system can be confusing for someone unfamiliar with Japanese. I could understand avoiding those.) And as I see it, the whole purpose of romanization is making Japanese words as legible as possible for non-speakers. Otherwise - as you said - we may as well just write everything in Japanese.

@the-red-terror: I acknowledge that I've now taken this discussion way off track. Sorry about that. I will shut up now.

Number41

y2kenjination

Tis' the sound of inevitability, and it is with this title that it will reverberate through the halls.

The_Rabbit

FatCatLim

One Way Mule

Phazon

homerj

There was a game on the Commodore 64 that did that. It took the "joystick waggling" mechanic that was popular in sports games like "Summer Games", and took it to another (more literal) level.

Marlor

MrPerson

psycoking

munkah

I think Bashcraft should just write everything in Japanese and be done with it. ;)

ハリセンボン

Just don't let FAUX News get wind of this or it may cause a complete collapse of the space-time continuum.

cybereality

psycoking

Mavwick

I have reason now to play the Wii.

Sailorcancer

This game makes me want to play with my wii...

sorry, I had to say it since nobody else did >_<

Now on to serious business

@Number41: the "ou" spelling of "osouji" is a direct translation of the Japanese gana into the alphabet we all know and love, and is what is used in most Japanese classes. Its also more acurate since the elongated "o" sound isn't always guaranteed to use the "ou" combo, like in the word "ooki"

psycoking

Highlander Wolf

You know what else doesn't make sense:
Cleaning Squadron Clean Keeper
Is there a way to translate it to make sense. I never got Japanese when i studied it.

One Way Mule

Szin

Szin

@the-red-terror: I think I prefer the phonetics discussion, actually.

Achenar

Plus it means having to learn another special keystroke for o. Maybe not a big deal for europeans who have to deal with umlauts and the like but PITA for those with us keyboard layouts.

cactaur

the-red-terror

Bleh, sorry for resorting to "get a gf/bf/tm I never "got" H-Games, and I guess I'm just scared of what I don't understand. Like those young'uns and their Playboxes.

One Way Mule

Malmer

Achenar

Macrons make reading romanized Japanese words a lot easier - both for people who are familiar with Japanese phonetics and for people who aren't! And in today's modern age of unicode, there really isn't any good reason not to use them. Please consider this humble suggestion.

Number41

Pure coincidence. Happens to me all the time.

cornunderscore2x

There. I did it.

dowingba

TheIrishNinja

superbeast1370

superbeast1370

maiky-nisute

I'm all for Wii getting more...adult oriented content, but this isn't really the way to start the ball rolling. Capcom, bless their hearts, is doing this best with RE and MHWii, but I don't think it's a good idea to get the Wii branded as a machine for children and...people that like to look at pictures of stylized children eating bananas in the bath. I applaud the effort, but it's an applause that is also used when watching an incredibly drunk person trying to tie their shoes; you know, an applause for the effort more than the end product.

Oh, and saltines with pistachio pudding is utterly disgusting- oreos and saltines doesn't work either (or oreos and pistachio pudding). Peanut Butter and Icecream is, however, star get.

denki

Demaar

I dunno - feel free to correct me, but those screens up there just creep me out.

Achenar

MrSoursop

psycoking

...then again, this seems like it could end up being worse, as it almost actually has full nudity. Just as Scazza said, we'll never see this in the States so I doubt it's worth getting into a tizzy over.

Archaotic

Maximum risqué.

dan

And thats never a good thing.

Kaemon

Evin

NaryaMithrandir

HateFate

CatCream

Dorphat the Insomniac

Renay

Scazza

Bernoulli

amost