It seems like the most obvious joke ever now: a training game about trains. Especially in Japan, the land of both trains and training games. And now it's real! We made up the pithy name, though. The real one is not nearly as catchy: Chishiki-Ou Series Train Master.Train Master features daily quizzes, each day of the week focused on a different category, including routes, trains, train cars, and history. On Friday, you get to choose the topic, and on Saturday, you are tested from within all the topics. This is actually starting to sound like work.
The developers seem to recognize the work-like aspect, as well. On some Sundays you get to take a day off from quizzing-- to go on a virtual date with one of the mascot characters at an interesting railroad- or train-related location.
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9-12-2007 @ 12:34PM
Donald said...
This game sucks and is now about...
*checks*
DAMN!!
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9-12-2007 @ 12:47PM
hvnlysoldr (NDF - Wind Ring) said...
It's like writing books for dummies for dummies. That'd make an incredible DS game. Books for Dummies Series.
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9-12-2007 @ 6:56PM
Eric said...
Great, I've just started work on Dummies for Dummies. I feel like there is a lot of market appeal there.
Seriously though, I hope this game come stateside. Since we have all of 2 trains left in america, the localization should be super easy!
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