Spotify is now available in Japan, so I decided to explore it, and discovered that the entire Falcom game music library seems to be there under the artist name "Falcom Sound Team jdk". No kidding, there is decades of music in there, including - some albums have different versions for the different platforms each game was released on. Dozens upon dozens of albums. I scrolled for a good ten minutes and there was seemingly no end!
To follow up from my earlier post about the rare ANTHEM track "Xanadu" being available on Amazon, I notice that the same album "Falcom Classics" - containing that song - is out on Spotify. They also have "Falcom Special Box 90" which contains two later ANTHEM tracks - Holy Fighter and Protecters!
Then!
Then I went to "related artists" and discovered:
The entire 5 disc BAYONETTA soundtrack! I already have this on CD, it's amazing.
Yoko Shimomura (they mostly have Street Fighter music there, sadly hardly any Kingdom Hearts and no Mario & Luigi soundtracks)
Masafumi Takada - all Danganronpa soundtracks. =D
Capcom Sound Team - multiple Darkstalkers and Mega Man soundtracks, and also one Resident Evil soundtrack and a 1980s compilation which contains Ghosts & Goblins and so on...
SEGA - mostly modern Sonic soundtracks, but the Jet Set Radio soundtrack is also in there!
Akira Yamaoka - lots and lots of Silent Hill. Something about the title "The Best Of Silent Hill" feels really... no that's wrong you shouldn't do that!
Nobuo Uematsu - well, kind of expected him to be there with a lot of Final Fantasy, but it's actually mostly Distant Worlds versions of FF music, and the Blue Dragon soundtrack (which is also good .... apart from the cheesy battle theme)
Yasunori Mitsuda - a bunch of Chrono here and... "an cinniùint".
...
Also I know the Corona Blossom soundtrack is here on Spotify, yay, Momoi Halko!
...I'm sure there's going to be a ton more, but for now, I'm going to get back to listening to Falcom stuff while working. It's good! So good! :)
Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts
Thursday, 29 September 2016
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
The Japanese rape game controversy and getting round website blocking
There was a big hoohah in the news a few weeks ago about some British MP being really offended that 3rd party sellers on Amazon.com were selling copies of the (rather offensive) Rapelay computer game, where players rape women and girls, and, well that's the whole game. Horrific and distasteful and wholly unerotic stuff, imho.
That started a huge controversy, and the initial outcome was that one of the main videogame ratings bodies (EOCS) decided to ban games from having "rape" in the title, as well as banning games containing mostly rape. Hooray! This stopped Rapelay from being sold, and other knock-on positive effects are:
* Rape victims really suffer in Japan as it's not seen as a terrible crime, and the victims are not given much help, and are stigmatised. I read some articles citing government reports saying that although the official crime rate of rape appears low, estimates are that 10 times as many rapes are unreported. It's a really bad problem there. A lot of these games trivialise rape (e.g. "that was a surprise!" then they go about their normal life), and/or show women appearing to have really enjoyed it when it's over, so it's good to stop the positive reinforcement of rape that these games give.
* Rape has become a worn-out cliché of the adult-only erotic game genre in Japan, and there are often a lot of unavoidable rape scenes in games. I am thinking that maybe if makers are forced to stop using boring old rape scenes, they might be forced to dream up new pleasing erotic content using only consenting adults, and attract a bigger and more mainstream audience. I know that when a PC erogame proves popular enough to warrant a mainstream release, all sex scenes are removed for a home console version. I'm thinking that if erogames became less extreme in content they might appeal to more people, and if they clean themselves up they won't have such a bad reputation. So I'm thinking that in the long run, the industry could actually benefit from this action.
However, the controversy continued beyond the subject of rape and some online shops decided to stop selling certain games with other types of extreme sexual content, and it's all still a hot topic and various other things could stop being permitted by the two main ratings bodies.
One way that a few Japanese game companies have decided to react is to block all access to their official websites by all people outside of Japan. Instead, we get holding pages telling us to go away, or perhaps write to the Japanese government in support of erogames. Unfortunately, this action is even being taken by some companies which don't make or sell extreme pornographic games. This is highly annoying, as an official website is often the only (reliable) place to find information about games, and it appears to be nothing but an unhelpful xenophobic overreaction.
If you want to get round the blocks to Japanese websites, use this intermediate website to access them: http://www.ijapan.org/red/
That started a huge controversy, and the initial outcome was that one of the main videogame ratings bodies (EOCS) decided to ban games from having "rape" in the title, as well as banning games containing mostly rape. Hooray! This stopped Rapelay from being sold, and other knock-on positive effects are:
* Rape victims really suffer in Japan as it's not seen as a terrible crime, and the victims are not given much help, and are stigmatised. I read some articles citing government reports saying that although the official crime rate of rape appears low, estimates are that 10 times as many rapes are unreported. It's a really bad problem there. A lot of these games trivialise rape (e.g. "that was a surprise!" then they go about their normal life), and/or show women appearing to have really enjoyed it when it's over, so it's good to stop the positive reinforcement of rape that these games give.
* Rape has become a worn-out cliché of the adult-only erotic game genre in Japan, and there are often a lot of unavoidable rape scenes in games. I am thinking that maybe if makers are forced to stop using boring old rape scenes, they might be forced to dream up new pleasing erotic content using only consenting adults, and attract a bigger and more mainstream audience. I know that when a PC erogame proves popular enough to warrant a mainstream release, all sex scenes are removed for a home console version. I'm thinking that if erogames became less extreme in content they might appeal to more people, and if they clean themselves up they won't have such a bad reputation. So I'm thinking that in the long run, the industry could actually benefit from this action.
However, the controversy continued beyond the subject of rape and some online shops decided to stop selling certain games with other types of extreme sexual content, and it's all still a hot topic and various other things could stop being permitted by the two main ratings bodies.
One way that a few Japanese game companies have decided to react is to block all access to their official websites by all people outside of Japan. Instead, we get holding pages telling us to go away, or perhaps write to the Japanese government in support of erogames. Unfortunately, this action is even being taken by some companies which don't make or sell extreme pornographic games. This is highly annoying, as an official website is often the only (reliable) place to find information about games, and it appears to be nothing but an unhelpful xenophobic overreaction.
If you want to get round the blocks to Japanese websites, use this intermediate website to access them: http://www.ijapan.org/red/
Wednesday, 11 July 2007
Aerobics / English Language educational videos
I found these strange videos on youtube this afternoon...
Here and Here.
They're very very random English phrases to learn. If you were going to teach people Japanese people English, would these be the phrases you would say were most useful?
This one makes it all make a bit more sense
So it's a little bit less random. But only a little bit.
Here and Here.
They're very very random English phrases to learn. If you were going to teach people Japanese people English, would these be the phrases you would say were most useful?
This one makes it all make a bit more sense
So it's a little bit less random. But only a little bit.
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