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Wait! That was the girl with the "Orange" picture you posted before, wasn't it?
http://imagehost.auctionwatch.com/pr...orce/Mika2.jpgQuote:
Originally posted by MechDeus
Wait! That was the girl with the "Orange" picture you posted before, wasn't it?
Mika says, "WOW! SUPER COOL!!":D
I'm telling you guys, Seven Force's sigs always bring a smile to my face.Quote:
Originally posted by MechDeus
Wait! That was the girl with the "Orange" picture you posted before, wasn't it?
Looking forward to the next one... which I guess will be Yaguchi Mari?
Keep 'em coming :)
http://imagehost.auctionwatch.com/pr...orce/guchi.gifQuote:
Originally posted by Tsubaki
I'm telling you guys, Seven Force's sigs always bring a smile to my face.
Looking forward to the next one... which I guess will be Yaguchi Mari?
Keep 'em coming :)
Guchi-chan!!!!!!!!:D
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Originally posted by Seven Force
It's called Mini-moni Shakka tsuto Tamborine! da pyon!
http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P...9.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://sega.jp/ps2/minimoni/screen_1.jpg http://sega.jp/ps2/minimoni/screen_2.jpg
http://sega.jp/ps2/minimoni/screen_3.jpg http://sega.jp/ps2/minimoni/screen_4.jpg
Did they not import the original arcade version? D= Thats terrible..
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AAAH! I remember them. I saw them on Hey! Hey! Hey! It was the cutseyest thing I've ever seen.
I saw that too. When Ai Koga kept falling over whenever her feet touched the . . . what, squid? and she asked if it was a slime, and i was like "awww. . . "
hev you been watching Salary Man Kintaro too?
http://madballgraphics.bizland.com/GroupMiniMoni.jpg
what's up with this pic? did they forget to stamp the American Flag all over that girls clothing?
No, but it's a nice change not having Mika look like a total oddball for once.Quote:
Originally posted by rezo
http://madballgraphics.bizland.com/GroupMiniMoni.jpg
what's up with this pic? did they forget to stamp the American Flag all over that girls clothing?
I wonder if they'll ever make a Happy 7/Sexy 8/Odoru 11 game?
It was good to think so...
:lol:
If Namco\'s Taiko no Tatsujin (the Taiko drum game) comes home, expect to see some songs like Mini Moni Telephone Ring Ring Ring and Souda! Were Alive!-also from Morning Musume/Mini-moni.
I got my copy yesterday and with my arms sore and my hands bruised, I think I've played enough to form an opinion. I've never played Samba, but I'd like to one day. So my impressions are based on Shakatan's own merits.
Gameplay is thus:
Using the Samba engine, players will recognize the hexagonal format of hand positions. Colored spheres emanate from the center to one of those six positions. Now, depending on what color the spheres are, you will either shake the tambourine there, or slap it. This is a lot of the fun, as your brain tries to process not only where to put the tambourine and on what rhythm... but also whether to slap or shake it. Situations can be hairy when there are mixed colors in rapid succession.
In addition to that, there are paths to follow, where you follow the onscreen arrows with your arm movements and shake the tambourine. This is easier said than done, as the speed of the movements can differ wildly.
And that's basically the game right there.
Music:
For me, and I'm pretty sure darn near every Japanese person who bought the game, the music is why they bought the game in the first place. There are 19 songs available from the beginning, and it's nearly every song pop (sub)group Minimoni has ever done. In addition, a few Morning Musume songs were added as well. As far as I can tell, the songs aren't remixed in any way, except for Happy Summer Wedding, which sounds different from the original.
For those of you who do not know the style, I'll describe it as "dorky cute". Morning Musume is a girl-group of 13 members and MiniMoni is the 4 shortest members of MoMu. So if you want to sample the type of songs beforehand, be sure and try them out. If you don't like what you hear, chances are, you won't like what you hear here either.
Extras:
There are other modes in this game, but a few of them are for 2 players only. There is a minigame mode which consists of 3:
1. One is a mascot with insects flying all over. You must slap as many insects as possible w/o hitting the mascot character. Too many slaps, and the game's over.
2. This is a battle tic-tac-toe game. You and your opponent (cpu) are on a 3x3 board and to claim a square, you must slap it 4x. But the opponent can also slap your square. So let's say you slap a square 4x to place your X there. The computer can slap it once and it's no longer an X. But if they slap it 3 more times, it becomes an O for them. So it's dueling for squares.
3. The last game is similar to the first except it uses balloons, where you must slap a variety of balloons within a time limit. One color will drop your score. The other two will raise it.
In addition to minigames, there's also a Minimoni Gallery mode. (As if you couldn't tell this game was made for Minimoni fans.) The pictures in the gallery are unlockable by playing the main game and meeting certain criteria. For example, it may require an A ranking on Normal difficulty, song: "Koi no Dance Site".
Complaints:
I'd say the only one, although it's a biggie, is difficulty. Despite having four difficulties to choose from (Beginner, Easy, Normal, Hard), I was passing and sometimes acing the Hard songs on my 1st or 2nd try. That's not to say they're all easy, as I fail a few of them everytime. But it's not a good thing if I'm making a killing on all Normal-mode songs the first hour or so of play.
I would guess the arcade is more difficult, because the home version has a Minimoni focus (ie for little girls).
I also wouldn't mind if there were more songs either, but 19 isn't horrible. It's just kinda bad because of the lack of difficulty in general.
Overall:
If you're a MoMu or MiniMoni fan, you would definitely like it. The game for me is a total different approach to music games, working on your arms rather than fingers (Bust a Move D&R) or legs (DDR). But if you're a music-game fan, you may be disappointed by the lack of difficulty. And that lack of longevity may be key to whether or not you spend $100+ on the tambourine set. The tambourine itself is pretty accurate, but you have to know the zone in which the sensors can pick it up.
In the future, I'd love to try out Samba de Amigo to compare it's type of gameplay and song difficulty.
As Minimoni. Shakatto Tambourine da pyon! is, it's fun but you can probably master the songs in a week or two.
Great Review, Tsubaki.
http://www.yasudasite.com/yas_gahaku...ku/ga14_07.jpg
"Yes I agree. Wait until Beatmania: DJ Mari Edition is released! Then you can be a true solja!!"
What are you having trouble with?Quote:
Translation FAQs will be needed. In fact, I need one right now. :)
The songs are numbered though, even if you can't read Japanese.Quote:
Issue 2 is that there is no song clip preview. That is a huge problem because the song names are all written in Japanese. To an english reader like me, all of that writing looks the same and I have absolutly no clue what I am selecting or if I have played that song before.
I posted a tracklist a few months back here:
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/s...&threadid=7056
Oops... did i say there were 22 songs? I guess it's just 19. Time to edit.