Walkthru ?
 

Hello,

I just found this. Is this a walkthru? Is it good? Bad?

Saber?
Void?

japanese walkthru?

Re: Walkthru ?
 

Looks like a Ulm tutorial for me... At least reading the images http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: Walkthru ?
 

Actually, I think it looks more like a review. Notice how they indicate which operating systems the game is for, a link to the publisher website, and all that: If it were a tutorial, it would already be implicit that you knew who made the game and where to get it, and wouldn't have a need for top-page link to the publisher.

The images look too discontinuous to be a straight tutorial: One image displays creation, another one has jumped forward some 10-20 turns and is displaying something else, in a very short span of page. That looks more like the kind of screenshotting pattern you'd see in a review. Also, there's a link leading to what is clearly an index of more, unrelated games.

Then there's the front page of that site. I think it's actually some sort of gaming site, rather like MegaGames or Gamespy, which would highly suggest that this is some sort of review.

Re: Walkthru ?
 

This is hilarious it's probably actually true. On my browser (because I don't have any other Languages installed) it is all question marks.

I imagine that's what a newbie sees when they first start playing Dom2 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: Walkthru ?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Question marks? I see squares, slashes, and othersuch. Of course, it means about the same thing to me, since I don't understand Japanian anyway. This can be both a blessing and a curse. Japanians have some really creepy stuff.

Re: Walkthru ?
 

No, it is certainly a walkthrough. It looks like it was patterned after Bruce Geryk's. The writer even has a page up with a partly complete spell list, translated into Japanese... up to level 6 in most paths. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Unfortunately, it is mostly beyond my capability to read now... so I can't say how good it is. He only went to turn 3, so it is quite in depth. Hmmm, maybe Hana can read it=)

...or maybe you could contact him and see if he'll do a complete Japanese translation=)

-Cherry

[ February 11, 2004, 22:01: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

Re: Walkthru ?
 

If I can get a copy of it in Japanese, I should be able to translate it. Don't think it'll show up on the computer I'm on, though.

Bayushi Tasogare

Re: Walkthru ?
 

I don't have the slightest notions of Japanese, but on my computer, maybe half the characters are displayed as "asian-looking" characters, and the other half look like squares with 4 hexadecimal signs inside - most likely, these are 2-byte codes that have no pictures in whatever font my browser is trying to use.

But, judging by the pictures, it seems to be awfully detailed. I cannot imagine someone going to that much trouble to write a bad review of a game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Walkthru ?
 

Why no simply ask the guy who wrote it? Presumably he speaks both English and Japanese...

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Apparently he likes Nascar

http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~archon/game0/gm_fbdn.htm

and drawing

http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~archon/game0/gm_pict.htm

and graphic novels

http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~archon/mangetu.htm

and Anime.

The name of his site is Big Mouse and has what reminds me of a tentacle monster mouse as an icon. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

I think it's just a fansite.