TGS 2009: The worst logo of the show

by JC Fletcher { Sep 27th 2009 at 11:30AM }

There were plenty of game titles at TGS that we couldn't read because they were all in Japanese, but only one that we couldn't read in English.

In fact, it was only because of the Japanese title underneath this logo, for an Akella-developed MMO published in Japan by Acquire, that we could parse this unfortunate image at all. Good luck!

Tags: acquire, akella, mmo, seriously-what-does-that-say, tgs-2009

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Gregory @ Sep 27th 2009 11:36AM

I can't read the english, the Japanese says Furagorila フラゴリア

chilano @ Sep 27th 2009 11:38AM

Looks like the English name reads "Fragoria" to me.

eldee @ Sep 27th 2009 1:17PM

how exactly does the japanese read 'gorila' when none of the japanese sylabaries contain an "L"? that's just a plain ol' "A"

Vegnagun bwf @ Sep 27th 2009 1:46PM

Gregory:

It reads Furagoria.

Ulotirch @ Sep 27th 2009 2:32PM

since there is no "L" in Hiragana or Katakana (or Japanese language for htat matter)... Good job on deciphering it!

R (Planeteers | Power of Penile Pulse) @ Sep 27th 2009 3:47PM

Ulotirch, actually you are slightly wrong. what the Japanese do is combine the L and R sounds into one letter. Most of the time when a Japanese word containing this L/R sound is romanized (translated into English), it is written as an R. However, it is also considered both acceptable and correct to write such letters as Ls. One good example of this is the Japanese name れな, which you see translated both as "Rena" and "Lena" fairly often.

MrKlorox @ Sep 27th 2009 4:57PM

"Cause that little muthafuckin cheetah can't hang with furagorila"
"Cap peelers. Furagorilas in the mist"

Gregory @ Sep 27th 2009 7:59PM

I realize there is no L in the Japanese phonetic alphabet. It was a typo. I corrected myself a few comments down.

cylet @ Sep 28th 2009 11:54AM

dammit where were you guys for the Peace Walker demo?!?!

manarchy @ Sep 27th 2009 11:36AM

Fragoria?

Skor @ Sep 27th 2009 11:21PM

Yep, I'd say FRAGORIA also.

embassy @ Sep 28th 2009 1:44AM

I thought it was Frag o III.

Thinking this was somehow the 3rd entry in a series or something.

Holy Shit.

Joshua @ Sep 27th 2009 11:37AM

Fragoria?

Tragoria?
Trigeria?

Wtf

IonAion @ Sep 27th 2009 11:39AM

At first i thought it was TRICO III. Then i read the japanese and realized there were a's. Fragoria.

jonbo298 @ Sep 27th 2009 11:46AM

Thank you Joystiq, for melting my brain trying to figure out what the hell that is.

Gregory @ Sep 27th 2009 11:49AM

Sorry, the Japanese says Furagoria フラゴリア

danny @ Sep 27th 2009 11:50AM

According to Google, Fragoria is a browser-based MMO RPG. So a pretty safe bet that it's Fragoria. There's some info here:

http://feature.mmosite.com/content/2008-07-29/20080729013758143,1.shtml

Note that this page has an even WORSE logo for the game.

Lionbacker @ Sep 27th 2009 12:07PM

holy shit, you weren't kidding! haha

kojo87 @ Sep 27th 2009 12:12PM

"Combat with Other Heroes"

now thats descriptive for an MMORPG

Smoke_me_a_Kipper @ Sep 27th 2009 12:24PM

They really did improve the logo for TGS. Those Japanese and their constant quality improvement.

groovy guy @ Sep 27th 2009 12:36PM

That "worse" logo actually says Fragoria in cyrillic Russian.

I'm new to russian and it's actually EASIER to read for me than the english one!

Hyperfludd @ Sep 27th 2009 1:55PM

Review of the game according to that site:

"HOW DO U REGISTER THE GAME! THE STUPID VIDEO SUCKS AND IT IS BOORINGGG"

Oh yeah, it's a keeper.

jeneni @ Sep 27th 2009 11:53AM

That's awful. On a completely unrelated note if anyone's looking for a logo artist my 9 year old sister is available. I think she has MS paint.

Kinsey @ Sep 27th 2009 12:01PM

Even amateur artists know not put a yellow background behind yellow writing.

devilsei @ Sep 27th 2009 1:57PM

Obviously your lack of artistic talents is shown by such a statement. It isn't just yellow on yellow. No!
The writing is in a bright, golden yellow, while the background is a mixture of "Baby poo orange" and "drunken yellow".

It's edgy and eye-catching!

/sarcasm

Vaitork @ Sep 27th 2009 12:03PM

I think the logo designer should probably get some credit. If it wasn't for his horrible logo, almost no one would ever know what Fragoria is. There isn't such a thing as bad advertising after all.

Bowser Rogozhin: England is finished @ Sep 27th 2009 12:07PM

That's some mighty fine Wordperfect clipart there.

Bunnyears @ Sep 27th 2009 12:18PM

Looks like some logo designer wants to be in a metal band.

MrKlorox @ Sep 27th 2009 5:05PM

It most certainly doesn't. NO serious metal band would use that font.

qbert18 @ Sep 27th 2009 6:29PM

i bet dragonforce would

Shadowbender (Nelson Is Behind You) @ Sep 27th 2009 12:20PM

Is this some kind of sick joke?

JeezWhiz87 @ Sep 27th 2009 12:21PM

I think that font is called "Power Metal Cyrillic".

MystileArmor @ Sep 27th 2009 12:23PM

If they can't get the logo right, imagine what the game will look like... and it's flash-based as well.

Shadowbender (Nelson Is Behind You) @ Sep 27th 2009 12:27PM

Oh crap...

MystileArmor @ Sep 27th 2009 12:43PM

Oh crap is right.

SEVENim @ Sep 27th 2009 1:23PM

the graphics are very reminiscent of Age of Empires

Misfit Toy @ Sep 27th 2009 12:44PM

Little Hiro-san is holding his large box of cookies because it was instructed to only give cookies to those that correctly deciphered the title. Sadly he has only handed out three cookies. Poor Hiro-san.

Meh @ Sep 27th 2009 1:40PM

WIN

Quattro @ Sep 27th 2009 1:10PM

Geeze you aren't kidding. I was trying to make it out at first until I saw the katakana below.

ipwndbowser @ Sep 27th 2009 1:20PM

And I thought my 1st grade Japanese reading skills would never prove useful, thanks Rosetta Stone!! But seriously, that looks more like a black metal band then a game...

MrKlorox @ Sep 27th 2009 5:04PM

BLACK metal? No no no.... as some dude mentioned earlier, it's much more POWER metal looking than anything.

Besides it is much more readable than most extreme metal logos and isn't a bunch of jagged intersecting white lines that looks like a Rorschach test from a distance.