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TOKYO--In a recent interview with the Japanese Web site Dengeki Online, Sega reveals a number of new details on its upcoming DS title "Kimi no tame nara Shineru" (which is abbreviated Kimishine, pronounced kee-mee-shee-NAY). Translated into English, the title means "I could die for you" or "I would die for you." Sega hopes to release the game at the December 2 launch of the system if possible.

As reported earlier, the player in Kimishine takes the role of an average boy who is attracted to a nice-looking girl who happens to be surrounded by good-looking men. The game depicts the love story of the boy, who's willing to risk his life to get the attention of the girl. During the game, players will touch the screen as they try and get friendly with the girl.

Kimishine plays with unique silhouette-based graphics that use a color style straight out of the 1970s, and there does not seem to be much dialogue or text in the game. Even more interesting is that Kimishine will be played with just the touch screen, aside from using the start button to pause the game.

Kimishine was announced at E3 2004 under the code name of "Project Rub." The project name comes from the fact that the English words "rub" and "love" are pronounced identically in Japanese. As the early name implies, one of the main things you'll be doing is rubbing the screen, not just tapping it.

The director is Takumi Yoshinaga of Sonic Team, best known as the director of Space Channel 5. The game's producer is Yojiro Ogawa, whose past games include PSO III: Card Revolution. A female planner from Sonic Team named Emiko Sunaga is also working on the title, and although it's rare to hear of female staff working on games in Japan, nearly half of the developers on Kimishine are women.

Sega also had a video for I Would Die For You, which was the danged oddest video presentation we experienced at TGS. The game's video was presented on a gigantic screen that was actually touch-capable - a fact that most people watching the clip never did realize. However, while the screen was touchable, it wasn't all that interactive. Really, all you had here was a DVD or laserdisc attached to a touch screen running images of the game -- when you touch the screen, it played the next sequence of video (and even this was off-balance, since the touch screen and video player were slow to respond.) The rolling video demo didn't show off anything in particular of the game -- the bits of gameplay shown were all still screenshots, and all screens we've seen before on the game's official site. We were hoping for more of this quirky title -- we're not even sure how the animation system works, or what's a 3D element and what's just a 2D bitmap (is your shadowy love a 3D or a 2D character?) However, the one thing that was cool about the TGS clip was that it was intercut with footage of folks playing the game -- a fellow who looked to be from the design team and a female player as well -- and the smiles that the game seemed to be bringing to their faces as they joked about the concept and the gameplay was certainly a positive.

Me_Marcadet a écrit :ils disent que c'est un wario ware like.

ign a écrit :It will be interesting to see how all of these minigame challenges tie together into a cohesive adventure game design...but at the very least, Sega's created one of the most unique and pleasantly whacked-out game concepts since Nintendo's Wario Ware series.

rom vat a écrit :

Me_Marcadet a écrit :ils disent que c'est un wario ware like.

ign a écrit :It will be interesting to see how all of these minigame challenges tie together into a cohesive adventure game design...but at the very least, Sega's created one of the most unique and pleasantly whacked-out game concepts since Nintendo's Wario Ware series.

Ils disent juste que c'est un des concepts les plus fous depuis Wario Ware, mais pas que c'est un Wario Ware-like ?_?

ole a écrit :

P@B a écrit :Booh qu'il est nul ce nom, on perd le charme qu'il y avait dans le titre japonais...

ole a écrit :