Back on the blogging train

So I just saw the advertising video for Patapon. I don't think I'd ever buy the English release of this thing, but if I had the means, could I really resist purchasing the Japanese title? I think I could not.

I imagine there are existent titles more indicative of the Japanese gaming philosophy than Patapon, but I'll be damned if I can think of one off the top of my head. Only in That Country could a group of people sit together in a room and say "Hey, let's make a game that won't stop singing at you for the duration of play, and have you fight people by creating drum sounds pushing buttons in ryhthm! Yeah, people will love it. No way that shit's gonna get old."

And what's bizarre is the game actually looks sort of amusing. Maybe it's just my art side kicking in and saying "Wow, that 2D style is really snappy" but if it was in Japanese I think I would go for it, despite the fact that the incessant PATAPATAcrap would probably unnerve There's just something about it, where if the title is in Japanese I can forgive what I'd consider in English to be unforgivable transgressions against my sensibilities. This is probably some sort of blatant bias, but what can I say? I guess I'm just a horrible person.