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

This is somehow also a Japanese dating sim I bet.

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

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

Matchingoo Makah! Ho!

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

Skywardoo Swordo!

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

MACHINGU MAKA FO

This just made Katamari Damacy look NORMAL.

@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.

WHAT

THE

FUCK

ARE YOU SAYING?!

@Rapid said:

It's "Machi" (街 = 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 ;_;

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

Adventure music!.

@DavoTron said:

I WANNA PUT THAT TUNE ON A LOOP Y'ALL

CHOP - AND - SCREW

@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, "街ing"... what a terrible pun. I think that's reason enough for me to also refrain from whipping up subs for this video.

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.

@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.

I WANNA PUT THAT TUNE ON A LOOP Y'ALL

this needs a quick look

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.

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

-_-

@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.

Game of the Year? Yes please!

It's "Machi" (街 = 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.

1:08, that's all I needed for the day. Just amazing.

Nevermind.

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-44-49-en-70-1byc.html Yeah it's Metropolismania 4 accept it looks as if the game hasn't really improved at all

Is this anything like Metropolismania?

the f**k?

This has the smell of "Hot Coffee" written all over it.

Is there no Japanese character for the suffix "ing"? I find it weird to see a character then "ing" added to the end of it.

Hell yeah this looks rad.

Looks like a strange knockoff of something like Second Life, does look a bit odd with the 'ing' in the name. You'd think they'd just go all Japanese & have a full English translation instead of half & half.

D3 Publishers

MAUCHINGUU MAYKAYAAA

AN INGAME AD FOR TOWER RECORDS

Wow, I can't imagine a better metaphor for modern Japanese game development than the dying husk that is Tower Records.

Kinda looks like metropolismania with the main character in a yellow suit thing

Oh cool, so is this a PSP or 3DS game?

...PS3 and 360?! Then why does this game look as if it should've come out in 2002? Jesus, just take a look at Cities XL or the last two Anno games.

Why is there a yellow suit dude doing stretches on top of an hospital?

No, wait, I don't wanna know.

i don't get it. is this going to be localized or not? it's from D3 and it looks like something i could play if it was budget priced. 
 
also, what is that guy doing?!

@CaLe said:

It's machi (街) ing maker. City(ing) maker. I dunno about you, but I like citying.

This.

The use of licensed stores is pretty cool, actually. I would like to make a city entirely out of Mos Burgers.

I'd buy a hardcore walking sim.

What the.. okay... why's he on a runway... hm.... Is he doing ballet stretches on a sky scraper?... What th... Huh?!

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?!?!

I figured looking up Matching Maker 1 to 3 might help shed some light. Let's just say that putting those two words together in Google didn't exactly yield anything helpful.

Matching Maker 4 theme song for soundtrack of the year.

I don't think I've wanted to play a ridiculous Japanese mundane simulation game this much since Tokyo Bus Driver. I'm not kidding, I really want to play this.

Welcome to the era of yellow top hats.

@Lebensbaum: Lot's of languages do that. It's because there's no word/words that directly translate "Match Making" from English to Japanese. I hope that helps. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Actually looks like it could play well enough if your into these city sim games.