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Amazon’s Deal of the Day today is Little King’s Story, down to $14.99 from its usual $29.99 price point. I don’t want to be one of those bloggers who bullies readers into buying a game — “you’re just the worst person if you don’t buy this” — but I will gently suggest that it would be a good idea to pick this up. It was my favorite game of last year, after all.
Even if you don’t really like strategy-type stuff (I don’t), the Pikmin-ish game’s mechanics are way fun, both easy to understand and surprisingly deep, and it’s all wrapped up lovingly in an irresistible presentation. Or maybe you just want to collect Cing games.
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[Image of King Ken Suyama: GAME Watch]
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“World-Famous King of TVs” by Peachifruit. Last night, during a live-streamed drawing session, the “hiimdaisy” artist produced this portrait of Little King Story’s TV Dinnah, meaning we are now best friends.
Even though we’ve never spoken, and it’s possible she’s never heard of our little website, she dedicated some of her time to making rad fanart for Little King’s Story, so BEST FRIENDS.
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tags / little king's story / fanart / peachifruit / jcThat’s why we decided to cut this and replace it with the opening you can see in the final game.”
Little King’s Story producer and director Yoshiro Kimura in a Gamasutra postmortem about Joystiq’s JC Fletcher’s Game of the Year.
If only he had been in charge of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, maybe I wouldn’t have spent the first hour of that game wishing I had the sword so I could kill myself with it.
See also: “Buff Miner” by Hinomaru
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“Buff Miner” by Hinomaru. Given Little King’s Story’s cool reception in Japan, I didn’t expect to see any fanart for the delightful action-strategy game on Pixiv. I definitely didn’t expect to see any sexy fanart. For comparison, here’s what miners look like in-game:
HOTTTTTT
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JC had a chance to interview Yoshiro Kimura, the designer behind Chulip and Little King’s Story, at TGS. Naturally, he used his time with the developer wisely by asking about LKS’s recent Japanese contest tie-in with Burger King:
The contest winner, Suyama-san, as part of his prize, he got a hundred burgers, right?
In addition to the one hundred burgers, he also got a hundred bananas, and one hundred onsen [hot springs] tickets too. It was a tie-up with Burger King. Because the winner was the king, he needs to have the one hundred burgers, one hundred bananas, one hundred spa tickets.
Did he get that all at once?
Yes. (laughs) First, we thought of having a kind of board with an illustration with one hundred burgers and one hundred bananas, but we thought that was kind of boring, so we said, “No, bring one hundred bananas and bring one hundred burgers, so we really brought one hundred bananas and one hundred burgers.” The winner is still eating bananas by the time we’re talking right now.
And the bananas are a little…
(translator) Yeah, they’re black.
Has that inspired you to make a game specifically designed to appeal to an advertiser?
First, I made the game, and then after I made the game, “Okay, we can make a tie-up with this sponsor.”
Like, maybe a character just happens to really love Coca-Cola.
Maybe next time.
God, I wish I could’ve sat in on this interview and added my own goofy questions: “What’s the deal with Burger King’s chicken nuggets/tenders? They’re kind of terrible, aren’t they? How do you even mess up chicken nuggets?”
Kimura also gave away a few interesting details, admitting that he’s working on No More Heroes 2 as a producer (he also helped design the original No More Heroes).
See also: Little King’s discount
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While it’s sad to see that Little King’s Story apparently bombed, that detonation results in savings for you, the people who waited for this to happen. GameStop has dropped the price of this wonderful game to $29.99.
It’s sold out online, so you’ll have to go to a store if you want it. Oh, and the wallpaper is from the Japanese Little King’s Story site.
See also: Little King Ken Suyama
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Little King’s Story wallpaper, depicting all of the princesses you marry during the game after you conquer their kingdoms. Yes, there is polygamy in this game, but it’s far too benign to be really shocking. It’s still pretty weird!
It’s not quite like a political marriage, because you’ve already taken over the kingdom and thus have no power to gain. And it’s not really prurient, since your relationship with your many wives consists entirely of them giving you quests. In fact, while rescuing them all from evil kings seems like your basic video game power-fantasy stuff, the fact that they then just hang out and give you work to do kind of subverts that whole conquest angle.
For what it’s worth, one of the king’s ministers does find it a bit offensive. As for me, I don’t really have a thesis statement for this or anything — I just find it interesting, and an example of how unexpectedly deep this game is.
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Little King’s Story contest winner. Both Eric and I were enthralled by this picture from Famitsu of some guy addressing his new kingdom, princess Ayana Tsubaki contractually by his side. Dude is totally holding court already — he’s a natural.
Siliconera explains the situation: it was a contest in which Marvelous looked for someone down on their luck but upbeat, who would then be handed a crown, cape, scepter, and moustache, and turned into a king! 24-year-old musician Ken Suyama was chosen. Here he is playing the ukulele:
In addition to his new job of standing around and promoting Little King’s Story, Suyama won 100 Whoppers from Burger King, 100 bananas from Banana King, and 100 bathhouse visits from Bath King. Here’s Ken taking a royal bite from a Whopper (from GAME Watch):
Totally makes me crave BK, even though I just ate there on a whim like a week ago and found it disappointing (even compared to my memories of Burger King food).
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See also: “Bittersweet” by Swimmingpoo1
tags / marvelous / little king's story / ken suyama / jc“Bittersweet” by Swimmingpoo1. Little King’s Story monster designer Kazuyuki Kurashima designed the album art for Swimmingpoo1’s 2007 album “Half Asleep,” as well as the art for this video (it appears). The video appears as a bonus in Little King’s Story.
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See also: The hidden depth of Little King’s Story
[Via GoNintendo]
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If you want to a) see artwork from Little King’s Story, and b) meet producer Yoshiro Kimura and monster designer Kazuyuki Kurashima (maybe? I don’t actually know), you should get your Swiss or Swiss-adjacent butt down to the Jardin Botanique in Fribourg, Switzerland on August 26 for the Exposition Amis Artistes Japonais.
According to Rising Star Games, the two Marvelous staff will “show some art” at the exhibit, which runs from August 26 to September 6. I don’t know if they themselves will be there, but if so, the opening party on the first day seems like the most likely time. In any case, Little King’s Story art! Yay!
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See also: Little King’s Story essay
[Via GoNintendo]
tags / marvelous / yoshiro kimura / little king's story / jcBut in LKS, these characters have names. They have families you helped create by pairing them up and directing them to be married in a church.
When one dies in battle, he or she will wash up resuscitated on shore the next day, ready for reassignment. Usually. But not always.”
— Michael Abbott on the hidden depth of Little King’s Story in a Brainy Gamer article. It’s mostly hidden because you haven’t played it.
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