King's Game is a popular drinking game. The idea is that there are several identical sticks (Chop sticks, generally) and someone holds them out. One of these sticks is marked, and is the king's stick (Sometimes each stick will have a number, one being the king. This way the king can announce what a particular number does, rather than a specific individual). The king makes a declaration! For example "I declare person number 3 dances on the table!" or "Everyone must give the king a kiss!". And so on... Everyone that round who is not the king, takes a shot or a drink (Preference depending).This, however, is a one on one game of Kings. You can play with the computer or with another person who is with you. However, I swear the computer cheats because every time I've played the computer, it's been the king. So, because of this, I can not say what happens against the computer when the player is the king.
This game has even been used in video games and cartoons from time to time. A good example would be the Persona 4 game. Several teenagers who believed they were drinking alcoholic beverages (But were not) played this game while acting very drunk. Oh the power of the mind...
Now, this application is entirely in Japanese. This, as you know will end up in a lower score from me. As always, I believe that if you release a game to the US market, you should translate it. But don't fret. I'll translate the screen captures I have taken for you.
So, the start screen as we have above and to the right... At the top, the name of the game. Below are 2 options.
* MASAE'S SPECIAL RULES (The character)
(Play with Masae)
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*PLAY WITH TWO PEOPLE
(Game of punishment by force)
The blue option at the bottom is just to view other apps. It has nothing to do with the actual game.
Let's start with Masae... If you play against her you want to draw the chopstick that has a circle on it. However, I have never managed to draw that chopstick. If you get the X, it's a penalty.
On the left you can see her saying your penalty. "Shake 100 times" Game penalty. This means you have to shake your iPhone 100 times. This is why I was never able to draw the other chop sticks. You have to shake it 100 times every time you draw the wrong one. You may think "Um, just close the application?"... But you would be wrong. This crafty wench will "still" make you shake your phone, even after closing and relaunching the app. Your arm is going to get tired pretty quickly if you lose too many times...
On the right it's just saying the game name at the top. This screen is to show that she has various facial poses.
Now on to the two player game mode...
The question mark screen shot is what you'll see at the start of this mode. It's the same as when you go against Masae, but there's a question block instead of her head. Each person will place their finger on a chop stick. The sticks will rise up to show the X and the O. It will point to the O to let you know that is the king's stick.
The box in the middle will quickly cycle through various punishments. The king then taps the stop button (Presented above the original pink box). It will stop on a punishment. The other individual will then have to do what the punishment says. The king is safe.
This is where it gets tricky... Because it's in Japanese, only people able to read the punishment would be able to use this application at this point. However, alternatively, you could just have the king declare what the other person's punishment should be, off the top of his (or her) head. Rather than reading the punishment on the box.
The punishments written above is...
"Lucky Game! There is no punishment"
Some other possible punishments are...
"Warm you hands in the king's hands for 10 seconds" &
"Sing a song for the king"
In case you have no noticed from the screen shots, the advertisements at the bottom of this app are very "mature" content. Fortunately the screens don't show anything, but if you were to click the banners they would take you to a pornographic page that would open in your phone's browser. So this application should not be downloaded by minors. It 'is' a drinking game, after all.
All in all it's a good application. A fun game and has a cute character. I am disappointed in the lack of translation and my lacking the ability to pick the circle chop stick when playing against Masae... If you download this and get to be the king against her, please let me know what happens.
Rating: 3.5/5
- Free
- Category: Entertainment
- Released: Jun 30, 2012
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 7.3 MB
- Languages: English, Japanese
- Seller: 翔志 中曽根
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