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By Far one of the weirdest things to come out of Japan in a while

So thanks to some Facebook threads and posts around them inter webs I stumbled upon perhaps the most Japanese crazy thing.

First lets get the link in here https://japansumocup.jp/pc/

So What is Japan Sumo Cup?

Its a promotional game that's for certain. Connected with the Japanese Racing Association but also with Street Fighter. The game plays like a rudimentary rhythm game; using the arrow keys the player tapes up or down in time to the Street Fighter Characters respective Theme Music.

At the onset you choose a difficulty level which contains a batch of characters and as you beat one difficulty you unlock the next. The first two Difficulties contain 3 characters a piece and you can choose 4 player characters at the start unlocking more as you go along. The player has the choice of either Street Fighter Characters (some needing to be unlocked) or Three Sumo Wrestlers. Each has specials and trick moves although they do not change to much of the format of the game.

Overall its not a bad experience and for messing with it you get some wallpapers for mobile and if you complete some of the secret/ unlocked modes there is a download code available but with 14 characters its not clear how to go about redeeming unless your fluent in your Japanese.

All in all check it out if you can.

Seems awfully quick, wonder if it will have the issues unity had...

@humanity: I agree scripted things such as these can be a bit shotty. Its not uncommon to come across over blown or unrealistic, That said as you mentioned trying is a good move. The method may not be the greatest but the discussion is where it really matters.

In my own experience, I was fortunate to have friends male and female who would game in pretty significant ways; Halo, Star Craft, and the like. But as years went on I do feel the environment has pushed them away.Other than the occasional game of Smash Brothers on either the Wii or Wii U there has been a pretty larger drop off.That said no issue is ever based upon one or two reason but almost always is a multifaceted thing. Would they come back if things changed I do not know. But at least if things changed for newer generations coming up to games maybe that not a bad thing at all.

At least there is more and more of a start rippling in the community time will tell its affect.

Side note: @patrickklepek Great article and links as always. Would Bayonetta be a good game to pick up if say you could only play every so many weeks? 2 or 3 apart lets say. Sadly my current schedule makes it a bit impossible to sit down fully with one game, and I do own a Wii U that sees limited use but not sure if I could squeeze that in. Cheers.

@sub_o said:

As an Indonesian, hell yeah! Indonesia does have some weird horror stories. I'm waiting for stories like Pontianak, the spirit of dead pregnant woman, that according to the tales, she appears in woods while holding her baby and brushing its head.

creepy

good stuff, always great to hear the other sides we dont often get a chance to see of the crew and a healthy discussion

man I had to watch this after the read, its nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well that will be helpful less of a pain to shut it all down and boot it all back up later

Zelda news is alright but kinda was hoping for more from Nintendo. Smash bro hopefully is out with biggest roster yet and they hopefully add cross play between the versions.

cant believe it, all the best to fam and friends

Very cool read, a bit surprised to see that the War model didn't change too much from the original test. But also glad to see he turned out the way he did :)