WEEK 6

[lockdownmods]

[Week six comes like an ominous wave. If anything, the wall is more threatening that it's ever been. That sign from last week? Looks aged-- like it's far more than just a week old. But more than that, it feels like something is waiting to snap this week. What could possibly go wrong, after last week?

Said no one ever, at this point.

But still, if you look around this week, you might find out something. It's like someone has started leaving clues in places old and new. Take a look around.]

LOCATIONS | PROFILES | HAN OFFICE HOURS | MEGUMI OFFICE HOURS

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

Comments

[lovedanime]

Hello there...

[Mitarai has just been wandering through this arcade, for visual experience really, and happens to see Max.]

Oh, this is a good game. I like how distinct it is from driving a real car. That's how video games should be, you know?

[reshoot]

[Max looks over and smiles. Ah, Ryota Mitarai. So sweet, so pure.]

Hey, Ryota.

Yeah. Video games should be an escape.

[lovedanime]

That's what a lot of people really need...

[but to voice that point any more explicitly is excessively philosophical and defeats the whole point.]

Hey... Two-player?

[reshoot]

Huh?

You wanna play with me?

[lovedanime]

Y-y-y-y-y-yeah!

Though I think a lot of the old pole position games weren't programmed that way... AI was so much simpler back then...

[reshoot]

We can find something you like. Is there a specific type of arcade game you like most, Ryota?

[lovedanime]

If I had to pick... Rhythm games. The carefully calculated instalment length, the synaesthesia of it all - they're wonderful.

[reshoot]

Oh! Do you like the dancing ones? Those ones were always pretty fun, although...I'm kinda too awkward to be good at them.

[lovedanime]

Oh, no, those are too hard for me too. I mean something more like...

[Actually he just takes a couple steps and waves her over to a Taiko Master type of game.]

This.

[reshoot]

Oh, those are way easier...Ones where you just have to use your hands. Like...BeatMania, or whatever it was.

...The American versions of these games were always pretty crummy, though. They'd fill the soundtrack with crappy covers of "popular" songs in America.

The worst.

[lovedanime]

...I don't mean to be culturally insensitive, but that's criminal. I deeply respect non-Japanese artists who try to make their own music that actually fits the format, for sure. But you have to take into account the beat per minute differences of moraic and syllabic languages,

[ryota are you gonna go on about linguistics or are you gonna play]