[DS] Touching Witches? I rofled.

[MjClarke1]

DS Witch Touching Game #1 on Amazon Pre-Orders
The game's not even out yet and Japan's already in a frenzy.
By Mark Whiting, 05/04/2007
Don't act like you don't like touching the witches. We all know you're a closet witch toucher. Can't wait to get your stylus on those touchable witches, can you?

So...yeah. In some weird reflection on modern society (or at least Japanese society) SNK's Doki Doki Majo Shinpan -- aka "That Witch Touching Game" -- has gone the Amazon equivalent of quintuple platinum, at least according to Kotaku, who have a small piece up at the moment detailing the ridiculous amount of buzz which the title is currently enjoying over there in Nippon.

Amazon.jp serves as the litmus test for this little experiment, where excitement for Doki Doki Majo Shinpan is currently listed at a fever pitch. How much? Enough that it beats out both a Final Fantasy game(Tactics, for the PSP) and a new Zelda (Phantom Hourglass) for the coveted ichiban #1 spot on the pre-order sales list. Keep in mind this represents only theoretical hype -- the tactile witch hunt doesn't start proper until July. Import freaks better get your wallet out now if you plan getting your stylus on some jailbait witch booty.

The game's developers are as surprised as you are. Over on the Doki Majo blog, the producer of the game sends tearful shoutouts and thank-yous to all the tentative witch touchers waiting breathlessly out there in the wings. Sure, it's crazy, but with Doki Doki Majo Shinpan, SNK might just be staring down the barrel of a megahit.

In case you've forgotten, DDMS centers around the central conceit of witch touching. With your stylus, you play the role of Akuji Nishimura who is commanded -- by an angel no less -- to prod, titillate and otherwise examine seemingly 'ordinary' junior high school girls for any signs of latent witchery that might conceivably be lurking under their skirts in the form of a magical crest.

A Barry White level of finesse is apparently necessary for das hexenverfolgungem -- play too rough or too soft and the witches will slip from your grasp like a sweat-slick plastic stylus on a crowded subway train. Wise man say: Only the master witch-touchers can get a girl's heart racing with the slightest brush from of an Inquisitive (you see what I did there?) hand.

Witch touching!


Source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3159227

Well. It's true.

I think it's like only in Japan but. You touch witches..

Usually, there's a "witch's crest" hidden somewhere on her body which can appear in "Witch Check Mode."'

From a post somewhere else

As much as this is a weird game. I so wanna buy this. Seriously now, Who doesn't wanna touch witches?

 

[SiK]

*blink*

This screams loli fetish. Where do people come up with these ideas.

 

[MjClarke1]

Oh christ, crazy Japanese people. Why am I not surprised that its not released yet and already its Amazon Japan's BEST seller.. xD

 

[SiK]

Anything involving little girls seems to sell there, not the be racist or anything; but it seems like the entire culture wants to **** a 12 year old in the ass.

 

[jpbaloga]

crazy jap people..japanese are pedophiles o.0

 

[ElMarshal]

keeps the japs happy