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Matching Maker 4 Lets You... I Don't Know, Walk?

In my mind this is some sort of bad/great Japanese SimCity clone? I can't tell.

Nov. 30 2011

Posted by: Jeff

In This Episode:

Machi-ing Maker 4

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Nevermind.

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@FoxMulder It's a play on words. Machi in Japanese means town, so it goes to be Machi-ing me-ka-. To make it into ing form, it'd be "machi te iru" or "machi teru," which doesn't sound as nifty. They pick their words carefully.
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1:08, that's all I needed for the day. Just amazing.

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It's "Machi" (è¡— = City) - ing Maker but I wouldn't be surprised its a play on words on "Matching" since they go to the trouble of putting -ing.

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Game of the Year? Yes please!

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@Brake said:

I was onboard after dude in a gold suit and top hat did gymanstics ontop of a helipad.

Lol, same for me as well. Japanese are so weird, but you wouldn't see Marcus Fenix do that. Maybe the leg stretch to the head was a special way to announce you are looking for a partner.

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-_-

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Did you see how flexible Golden Tophat was? Grrrl, match me up with 4 of him.

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The fact that I could skip to three or so random locations in this video, and hear "Matching-a-Makah" in all three locations means this is just the right amount of what a "hella japanese" commercial should be like.

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this needs a quick look

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I WANNA PUT THAT TUNE ON A LOOP Y'ALL

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@Joey2683 said:

@Brake said:

I was onboard after dude in a gold suit and top hat did gymanstics ontop of a helipad.

Lol, same for me as well. Japanese are so weird, but you wouldn't see Marcus Fenix do that. Maybe the leg stretch to the head was a special way to announce you are looking for a partner.

Haha, yeah. A traditional Japanese mating ritual.

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I'm tempted to translate this to English for everyone to know what the hell they are saying, but it's too generic in English and I'd rather leave it to your imagine to pretend they are saying some crazy stuff in Japanese.

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@brentgett said:

I'm tempted to translate this to English for everyone to know what the hell they are saying, but it's too generic in English and I'd rather leave it to your imagine to pretend they are saying some crazy stuff in Japanese.

Such is the my personal quandary, too. Enlightenment in Japanese comes with a price and in this instance, it's that this video is delightfully boring to listen to. Although that being said, "è¡—ing"... what a terrible pun. I think that's reason enough for me to also refrain from whipping up subs for this video.

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@DavoTron said:

I WANNA PUT THAT TUNE ON A LOOP Y'ALL

CHOP - AND - SCREW

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Adventure music!.

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This reminds me; Giantbomb needs to do import Quick Looks!

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@Rapid said:

It's "Machi" (è¡— = City) - ing Maker but I wouldn't be surprised its a play on words on "Matching" since they go to the trouble of putting -ing.

Its definitely a play on words. :P

Was thinking about picking this up for Japanese practice, but then I realised its on consoles only ;_;

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WHAT

THE

FUCK

ARE YOU SAYING?!

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@Shakey1245 said:

I'm not sure I can buy a game from someone who can't make a trailer that doesn't have frame rate issues.

My thoughts exactly. Also, I'm positive the name of the game is MATCHINGU MAKAE.

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MACHINGU MAKA FO

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I hope one of those bullet points roughly translates to "Looks slightly better than a big bag of dicks."

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Matchingoo Makah! Ho!

Silly Japanese lanuage, thinking that oo and ah sounds add to the title.

Skywardoo Swordo!

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I went through the video and rewatched it. Most of the points in the video you can see just from looking and it doesn't seem that crazy lol.

As the city gets better you can upgrade tenants, and you can do favors for citizens etc. Most of the rest is like obtain numbers only possible in your dreams! Become the largest in the world! Travel freely in full 3D! Cultivate a city thats kind to people! Also apparently this is a very popular series?

Yeah its Japan :P

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That music is way too triumphant for a Japanese Sims knock off.

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This is somehow also a Japanese dating sim I bet.