Studio MAPPA and Japanese distributor Toho Animation released a new trailer for the second part of Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 on Thursday, and boy oh boy does (mostly) everyone sure look good.
07.08.2023 - 19:23 / ign.com
There’s this mobile game ad I see all the time on social media. It shows a number of vials filled with differently colored liquid. The goal is to combine matching colors until all vials have one single, solid color contained in them. If you’ve never seen this before, one version of it looks like this:
I love watching this ad – it’s extremely soothing. But if I look through a mobile storyfront to play the actual game it depicts, almost all the versions of that game are either so full of ads and microtransactions they’re agonizing to play, or they’re outright scams. And it’s not the only game like this. “Color Water Sort” (for lack of a better title) is part of a larger genre of mobile games with similar premises. It has catchy ads depicting players fumbling very easy puzzles that the viewer immediately thinks they could solve, but when you go to play the game, it’s heavily monetized, full of ads, or a different game entirely. Other variations include a man trapped in a weird tomb puzzle trying to get to treasure, and a game about choosing the correct path through a series of battles that will make your character strong enough to reach the end.
For years, I’ve wanted to play “those games.” And now, thanks to the developers of Katamari Damacy Reroll, I can.
Last month, developer Monkeycraft Co. and publisher D3Publisher surprise released a new game for PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch aptly titled: “YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM!” This game, which I’m simply going to call “Those Games” for brevity, is a minigame collection filled with challenges based on those same inscrutable mobile game ads.
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It has Pin Pull, which is the guy trying to get the treasure in the tomb; Color Lab, the color water vials; Number Tower,choosing a path to become powerful enough to reach the end, and a few others. All the games star the same Game & Watch-like stick man, and have a number of levels with increasing difficulty as you progress. But best of all, it’s $10 for the whole thing – no ads, no microtransactions, and no fake-outs.
I keep seeing that “Yeah, you want THOSE GAMES” game floating around and I really love the typography of the game, so I had to check out the Japanese version to see how they did it and… wow. That’s a lotta detail. #あのゲー pic.twitter.com/NfTFQPNXWB
Speaking to IGN, producer Maya Ito tells me that Monkeycraft decided to make this collection for the same reason I wanted to play it: “I see these mini-games on a daily basis and thought to myself, I want to play them; thoroughly and to my heart’s content!”
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Studio MAPPA and Japanese distributor Toho Animation released a new trailer for the second part of Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 on Thursday, and boy oh boy does (mostly) everyone sure look good.
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