Dream Skincare coming to Japanese DS
Konami recently unveiled Dream Skincare in Japan for the Nintendo DS. The "game" is more like Brain Age, except instead of being a brain trainer, it's a skin trainer. The game features a virtual version of beauty adviser Chizu Saeki (pictured) and allows players to enter their body temp. and monitor hormonal balance to keep their skin fresh and supple. It would be the perfect present for the greasy teenager or beauty queen in your life. Sadly, it's only in Japan at the moment with no announcement of it going anywhere else.Good skincare isn't the worst idea for a game on the DS. If it ends up selling really well we may see it leave Japan. We're still waiting for Common Sense Training, another one of these "games," but it teaches people common sense lessons. For example, at a train station, you let people get off the train first before moving in. It sounds like such a simple concept, yet Nintendo would be kind to teach us all this lesson. Nintendo should do every country a favor by just air dropping that game across the planet. Maybe we'll have a more polite society and Nintendo can just keep smiling while they continue selling DSs by the boatload.
[Via Eurogamer]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jonah Falcon @ Jun 14th 2007 9:34PM
Noxema bought the rights to promote Oily T Zone Blasting!
Gavin @ Jun 14th 2007 9:51PM
If this is the new face of casual gaming then the Nintendo "Revolution" is the biggest joke since Beanie Babies. Popular crap is still crap.
hvnlysoldr @ Jun 14th 2007 10:02PM
Just because your popular crap isn't popular anymore doesn't mean squat.
Ken @ Jun 14th 2007 10:03PM
@Gavin
Hey Gavin, take a look at the sales this month! And last month! And the month before that!
:) Sorry bro, just throwing salt in your wounds.
Gavin @ Jun 14th 2007 10:23PM
Britney Spears and Celine Dion have sold millions of records, but that doesn't make them any damn good. Sales are only the mark of quality if you are shallow and short-sighted.
The Star Wars prequels were crapfests and they were some of the biggest blockbuster films of all times. Sales do not equate quality.
The Wii is the Backstreet Boys of game consoles.
Rob Accomando @ Jun 14th 2007 10:26PM
What are those people at Konami smoking? How about a game that trains your pinky toe?
Ken @ Jun 14th 2007 10:31PM
@Gavin
Because YOU don't like them, doesn't make them a bad group. Obviously someone likes the movies... Or else it wouldn't be a blockbuster film.
Narrow-minded asshole. That's all you are Gavin.
No offense of course, because you probably knew that ;)
Gavin @ Jun 14th 2007 10:42PM
Hey Ken, you have shitty taste and you are proud of it? Good for you. More idiots should express their terrible opinions on the interwebs.....oh, wait.
Ken @ Jun 14th 2007 11:50PM
@Gavin
It's pointless to get into this argument. There's no way I can prove that your taste in games is bad, and there's no way you can prove my taste in games is bad.
Because you know what? It's your own personal opinion and I have no right to say that your opinion is wrong, no matter how bad it sounds.
Megaqwerty @ Jun 15th 2007 1:19AM
Actually...
They do have a common sense trainer for DS, albeit in Japanese.
Mika Tan @ Jun 15th 2007 1:39AM
Is gavin the new Jack of no trades guy or Jack of all trades guy? Whatever... What happen to him/her anyway? I dont see his/her name in the comments anymore.
dotun.o @ Jun 15th 2007 3:18AM
@ Gavin,
If you're looking for classic "hardcore" gaming, then yes, I see your point. But this is what you don't see: the DS (and by that extension, perhaps the Wii too) is growing out of just gaming and into something larger; it is actually becoming an interactive electronic device. Sure, it will feature games you may not enjoy, games that are not even games in the traditional sense, games meant for a certain niche, but don't forget the hardcore niche is not the only niche. Nintendo certainly realizes this; they've made a system that opens its doors to the imagination of developers and the markets they wish to capture. If you recall, something similar was the main reason behind PS1's success: a system open to all developers, big and small. It was relatively easy and cheap to develop games on it (and yes, there were tons of forgettable games). It wasn't about the specs; Sony itself seems to have forgotten this, though.
Gavin @ Jun 15th 2007 4:36AM
I'm sorry but there is no way you can claim that watering down the industry is a good thing. Harlequinn Romance novels get stupid people to read cheaply produced crap books. Those readers are NEVER going to read Dostoevsky.
The same thing with the Wii. Attracting the mindless masses with garbage games is not going to do anything positive for gaming. Casual gaming is just a load of garbage for the most part. Casual gaming is just quickly pumped out filler games that should only cost $15 at the most yet on the Wii they will sell it for $50.
If you can't figure that out about the Wii, then you are just in denial.
driven2sin @ Jun 15th 2007 5:06AM
people like to enjoy themselves Gavin - and the DS is magic in a box.
I've been gaming for 30 years and it is a breath of fresh air.
I don't think you realize how stale 'hardcore' gaming was getting. Since most people play those games like it is work and not fun they don't even realize how similar all those games and sequels have gotten
Marc @ Jun 15th 2007 6:49AM
Gavin, please open your mind up a bit and think about things from everyone's perspective, not just the "hardcore" gamer.
I think most people would agree (including yourself) that "fun" is too subjective a term to argue about, so how about... we don't?