#dsiware #imports #accessories #nintendo 3ds #art #chiptunes
Trailer for Detective Saburo Jinguuji: Red Butterfly (Tantei Jinguuji Saburo: Akai Chou), the latest “Jake Hunter” adventure on the way to Japan. Even if you don’t care about chain-smoking, high-haired detectives, you should check this out for the music alone.
NCSX offers a synopsis of the main case: “The core case revolves around a series of political bombings that occurred 20 years ago and current bombings that are targeting lawmakers. Saburo is charged with the task of uncovering the identify of a terrorist named “Red Butterfly” who claims responsibility for the carnage.”
Buy: Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past
See also: More Jake Hunter/Jinguuji Saburo posts
tags / jake hunter / workjam / tantei saburo jinguuji / adventure / jc
Arc System Works has announced a fourth DS game in the Saburo Jinguuji adventure game series (not counting the five DSiWare cases): Detective Saburo Jinguuji: Red Butterfly (Tantei Jinguuji Saburo: Akai Chou), coming to Japanese retailers September 30.
I wish I could tell you what the new game is about, other than the detective’s ongoing love affair with cigarettes, but basically all that’s been released at this point is the date and the above artwork. I was kind of blown away by the last localized Jake Hunter game, so I’m happy to see Workjam continuing with the series.
Buy: Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past
See also: More Jake Hunter/Jinguuji Saburo posts
tags / jake hunter / tantei saburo jinguuji / workjam / adventure / jc
Sekai no Nabeatsu OMORO Calculator. I seem to be running into a lot of weird Japanese iPhone apps recently!
This one, developed by Jake Hunter’s Workjam, is a calculator featuring the “talents” of Japanese comedian and tool Sekai no Nabeatsu, whom we’ve featured before for his WarioWare DIY ads.
Unsurprisingly, the calculator imitates the standalone Sekai no Nabeatsu calculator toy: it speaks the numbers in Nabeatsu’s voice, with wacky outbursts for multiples of three. Apparently, the calculator also speaks English and Swahili! The app also includes wallpapers that switch out monthly. “Everybody just think it’s so funny and comical calculator!”
If you’d like to spend two dollars to experience the dapper, oddly fascinating one-note comedian’s one note, you can find the app here.
tags / sekai no nabeatsu / calculator / workjam / jcTantei Jinguuji Saburo DS: Fuserareta Shinjitsu posters. While the artwork for the third Jinguuji Saburo DS adventure released by Arc System Works in March (before they turned to DSiWare) isn’t quite as classy as the Last Window art, what Arc did with it is pretty great.
The company put the kind of promotional materials usually used for retail — posters, mockup boxarts, and other displays — and put it all online in high resolution for fans to download. I wish everyone made not only the usual screens and character art, but stuff like this available! While most of us aren’t going to advertise the (then) impending release of a niche Japanese adventure game by printing out pre-release boxart and slipping it into a DS case, it’s nice to have the option.
Download: Posters, display boxart, POP displays, boxart
See also: More Jake Hunter/Jinguuji Saburo posts
tags / jake hunter / arc system works / boxart / workjam / adventure / jc
Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past boxart. After renting this second take on Aksys’s localization of a DS Saburo Jinguuji title, I was taken with both the game and the boxart. This art is so classy!
I think both have a kind of maturity not seen in most games (even if Jake’s dialogue is sometimes painfully “hard-boiled detective”). The detective here isn’t doing anything extreme; he appears to be reflecting on the events of the day. It works as both a nod to the title (“Memories of the Past”) and a depiction of the sequences in which Hunter goes over the information he learned that day to try to figure out his next move.
Eric noted that the character designs for the Jinguuji games are done by Katsuya Terada, responsible for the Zelda art in the Official Zelda Player’s Guide, though I’m not sure he did the artwork for this game. Still, whoever did draw this did an excellent job of giving its subject matter a sophisticated look.
tags / jake hunter / tantei saburo jinguuji / workjam / aksys / boxart / jc / katsuya teradaCongratulations! You have reached
the bottom of the page. The darkness
is finally over…
But there are still more pages to
explore. Please continue reading.
A new day is about to begin!
The End?
