Recently, there has been an increase in the number of cases in which the target age range for games has been raised in China and South Korea. For example, Sony Interactive Entertainment's “Stellar Blade' is in Korea.Screening results for “Not available to young people”I am receiving
Recently, the smartphone app “Brown Dust 2'' has also been banned from use by young people.Official Korean community postsIt became clearer. Additionally, “Snowbreak,'' which is currently being distributed on Steam/Smartphone, is restricted to users under the age of 18 in China through real name authentication.
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Will these efforts related to age restrictions continue to accelerate? On the other hand, I feel like Japanese games are challenging themselves to a chicken race where they keep pushing to the limit. For now, let's introduce three titles to watch this week.
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◆“Hiroki Diaoyu University”Happy Fishing Master)”
Currently in China, a new fishing simulation for smartphones released at the end of March “Happy Fishing Master” is very popular.
After the game was released, it rose to the top of the rankings on the App Store and TapTap, and the ever-popular “Ouja Glory'' and “Persona 5: The Phantom 's large-scale RPG 'Monoka Yashin”, and has continued to maintain its No. 1 ranking.
just,For “Monoka Yashin”, there is a pre-download period before the official service starts at the time of writing the article.Due to these circumstances, it is quite possible that this ranking will change after the official service launches.
However, “Kiraku Diaoyu Master'' is only available on TapTap.4.91 million downloadsThis is an astonishing number, and at this point, the number of pre-registrations for Monoka Yashin has already exceeded the combined total of all platforms.
Of course, the number of pre-registrations and the actual number of downloads may not necessarily be the same. However, a title that has been in beta testing for a long time, raised the expectations of many users, and steadily increased the number of pre-registrations, has suddenly become a hot topic as a mysterious fishing game. There is something very sad about what happened.
Chinese mediaPlay capitalAccording to the research,Approximately 50 million people are watching videos related to the current work “Diaoyu Master” on the Chinese version of Tiktok “Douyin”.. Since streamers from their home countries are all streaming, it is likely that general users, not gamers, are contributing to this number of downloads. It has become a dark horse game.
◆“Light of the Stars”
In South Korea, the new strategy RPG “Light of the Stars' has been released. It feels like a somewhat Japanese-like title, such as the visual illustrations and the atmosphere of the beautiful girl characters,In fact, the Japanese version theme song and Japanese audio have already been recorded..
The voices that can be heard in the character introduction on the official website, and the Japanese narration in the PV for the home country, seem to be expected to be expanded to Japan in the future.
You can listen to both the Japanese version of the theme song and the English version of the theme song on official YouTube. However, the quality of the animation shown in the PV cannot be said to be high. We watch anime regularly and talk about the animation and direction, so we have become discerning, so do we have high standards? The theme song and characters are good, but something about the animation itself feels off.
Immediately after release, the reviews were pretty good.In particular, the character visuals were highly praised.. It will likely take some time before a more concrete evaluation is finalized.
◆『ZERO9』
Since its release in South Korea in mid-March, the side-scrolling action RPG “ZERO9” is gaining popularity. Although some time has passed since the official release,Both App Store and Google Play recorded high scores..
The content of the reviews is also very specific and has many positive opinions. In addition, the score ratio is high overall, and there is no extreme bias where only low and high ratings are noticeable.
The game is being developed by Ujoy Games. The company is also known for inheriting the Japanese publishing rights for the RPG “Ash Echoes – Shiraiku Corridor'', which is currently being distributed in China, on February 14th of this year.
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Ujoy Games has not released any hit works that have been widely talked about so far, but if the upcoming “Ash Echoes – Shiraiku Corridor” does well in the Japanese market, the current work “ZERO9” will be released in Japan. There may be hope for this as well.
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