If you're worried that playing too much Contra 4 has made you lose touch with your sensitive side, 99 no Namida (Tears of 99) might be just what you need! Announced earlier today by Namco Bandai, 99 no Namida is a game specifically designed to make you cry, just like your promiscuous ex-girlfriend.Players are first asked to provide a few details which the game then uses to pick out the narrative most likely to pull at your heartstrings. After 10-15 minutes of that, players fill out a Brain Age-esque questionnaire to establish their profiles. For example, if your answers betray an empathy for animals or pets, expect a tearjerker about a young pig befriending a loquacious spider in the near future.
99 no Namida plays on the principle that people feel better after crying -- according to a study conducted with the game at Waseda University, most people experienced a noticeable "mood increase" after playing 99 no Namida. The remaining testers were likely too insecure to admit their weakness to the game's "crying trigger points."
Because of this title's emphasis on its Japanese text, relying on a simple graphics style reminiscent of Feel the Magic, very few of you will benefit from importing 99 no Namida. Instead, you'll have to settle for listening to The Cure's "Pictures of You" on repeat, sobbing into a pillow as you wonder how you lost it all.
[Via Siliconera]
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2-05-2008 @ 2:01PM
Nigeria said...
A game has never made me cry, and I really don't see how this game would change that fact.
In fact, I haven't cried at any piece of media since The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 10 or-so years ago. What a great film that was.
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2-05-2008 @ 4:30PM
The Theory said...
what a cute kitty!
if there was an english version of this, i'd pick it up on the cheap out of morbid curiosity.
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2-05-2008 @ 6:59PM
Waffala said...
Pictures of You gets me everytime.
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2-05-2008 @ 7:40PM
milan said...
... Eric, have you recently gone through a bad break-up or something?
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2-05-2008 @ 10:39PM
Foodie_Monster said...
I'm not getting a game that will emotionally betray me and make me feel bad, that'll use the information about my love for pets to tell me how one gets ran over by a truck. No thanks. What the fuck Nintendo, let your console be used to publish porn and hentai games instead, seriously.
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2-06-2008 @ 12:47AM
Dio said...
LUCY?!?
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
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2-06-2008 @ 1:57AM
Matdredalia said...
I must be insane or something, for some reason this game sounds cool to me.
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