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DS Daily: Advertising and you


Last night we commemorated (a pretty good amount of) a year of the excellent Promotional Consideration column, which deals with game advertising. There's no doubt that game advertising has the power to entertain, but can it also, you know, sell games?

Take the Let's Tarot campaign, for example. Did anyone see popular actress Kanako Yanagihara in the ads and think, "I believe I will purchase this product. The reason is that I am a fan of Ms. Yanagihara's work, and she has accepted money in exchange for the association of her likeness with the item in question."? Or Jam Sessions's bizarre New Zealand ad campaign, which associates receiving the product with becoming an awful person.

Is being memorable all it takes to be successful as an ad? Have you ever been swayed by game advertising, or reminded sufficiently of something you were interested in to go get it?

Promotional Consideration: Ms. Yanagihara



Promotional Consideration is a weekly feature about the Nintendo DS advertisements you usually flip past, change the channel on, or just tune out.

Shipped out to stores in Japan just last week, Fujimori Midori no Let's Tarot performs virtual tarot readings while teaching its users how to interpret the cards themselves. It's an interesting title, one that we could picture possibly being a small success if ever brought to the states, occupying the New Age shelves of bookstores.

Also interesting is who publisher Bitway chose to promote the fortunetelling trainer, opting for a celebrity face, Kanako Yanagihara, instead of Fujimori Midori, the medium who lent her name and likeness to the game. Read on for some of Kanako Yanagihara's previous work.

Continue reading Promotional Consideration: Ms. Yanagihara

Finally, a spiritual successor to Taboo: the Sixth Sense


Do you know how embarrassing it is to have to get your fortune told by an NES game? We're terribly behind the times in that regard. We're afraid we might accidentally, through taking the game's advice, end up leaving our lives behind to join Color Me Badd or something.

That's why we're so pleased to see an updated tarot program for the DS. Of course, being the DS, Let's Tarot doesn't just perform a virtual tarot reading for you. Led by a Cooking Mama-esque medium, the program actually teaches you how to interpret the cards drawn, and teaches you the origins and meanings of the cards. It's Tarot Training, basically.

We don't want to get your hopes up, but we used our own mystical fortunetelling method to determine if this game was coming to the U.S., and it told us "yes" in no uncertain terms. But then we asked again and it said "My sources say no." There are none who can understand the wisdom of the ball.

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