Japan is weird.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/06/conception-ii
"A Japanese game entitled Conception: Please Give Birth To My Child (rough translation) -- a sort-of romantic RPG released in 2012 -- is getting a sequel.
The original game, released on PSP, was a dungeon-based adventure game that saw you take on the role of male student Itsuki. Your purpose? Conceive a child with as many as a dozen "star maidens", which will aid you in a fight to save the world.
Each child has a special skill depending on his or her mother, all of whom are assigned a star sign: Aric is an Aries, Tarua is a Taurus, and my personal favourite (because she has cat ears), is Femiruna, who's a Leo.
When reviewed by Famitsu, the highly respected Japanese gaming magazine, it received rave scores. Clearly its commercial successes were enough to warrant the conception of this second offspring, to be delivered onto PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS.
It's the work of Tokyo developer Spike, which is better known for its creation of the Dragon Ball Z game series, as well as being the publisher of various Western games inside Japan, such as Dragon Age, various Tomb Raider titles, BioShock and Homefront.
It's doubtful the game will ever be released outside of Japan, but it's a fun example of how consistently opposed larger Japanese and Western studios are when it comes to experimentation. They get WTF titles about star maidens and dungeon-based childbirth, we get Garbage Truck Simulator 2011."
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/06/conception-ii
"A Japanese game entitled Conception: Please Give Birth To My Child (rough translation) -- a sort-of romantic RPG released in 2012 -- is getting a sequel.
The original game, released on PSP, was a dungeon-based adventure game that saw you take on the role of male student Itsuki. Your purpose? Conceive a child with as many as a dozen "star maidens", which will aid you in a fight to save the world.
Each child has a special skill depending on his or her mother, all of whom are assigned a star sign: Aric is an Aries, Tarua is a Taurus, and my personal favourite (because she has cat ears), is Femiruna, who's a Leo.
When reviewed by Famitsu, the highly respected Japanese gaming magazine, it received rave scores. Clearly its commercial successes were enough to warrant the conception of this second offspring, to be delivered onto PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS.
It's the work of Tokyo developer Spike, which is better known for its creation of the Dragon Ball Z game series, as well as being the publisher of various Western games inside Japan, such as Dragon Age, various Tomb Raider titles, BioShock and Homefront.
It's doubtful the game will ever be released outside of Japan, but it's a fun example of how consistently opposed larger Japanese and Western studios are when it comes to experimentation. They get WTF titles about star maidens and dungeon-based childbirth, we get Garbage Truck Simulator 2011."
