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Recently I was invited to stay in Japan for the summer! This was absolutely a once in a life time opportunity for me so of course I immediately snatched it up!
Now, I've only left Georgia maybe 3 times. I've been to Florida twice as a kid, and one time I accidentally drove to Tennessee and immediately turned back around. So of course, I've never flown before! So the trip here was my first ever time even getting near an airplane!
It was a fine ride. My seat neighbors were all nice and helped me out with stuff, I watched some movies, and I actually really liked the food! But it was pretty late into the flight when I discovered they actually had games built into the seat TVs! All with their own original studio making specialty airplane games!
So, of course, I just HAD to play them all and write up my thoughts on them!! These are all short and mostly just for fun. I didn't sleep on the entire 14 hour flight so I wasn't exactly super alert and awake while playing and writing these thoughts. But I hope you enjoy and find this funny!
Bird vs Bird
Simple but interesting enough. Control an orange bird and get it to the edge of the map 1 tile at a time while black birds spawn to stop you. It's kinda boring but inoffensive. I finished Orange Bird Story but there's a level in Black Bird Story that I legit think is impossible without being able to place 2 birds at once.
Casino
Basic as fuck casino minigames. Only things of note are that is has horseracing, I never got ANY matches other than cherries on the slots after doing nonstop pulls, and interestingly enough the game seems to have a money counter that presumably makes your little protagonist avatar become wealthier? I didn't have the patience to try for it though cause early in your max bet is so low and idk when it raises.
Chess
It's chess. I don't know how to play chess. I meant to play with my mom before leaving but never got around to it. Sorry mom. When I get back home let's play Chess right away, okay?
Hue Drops
Interesting puzzle game where you have a board of blobs of different colors, change colors to link blobs together, and the board must end on a specific color. It took a bit to understand but once you get it its okay. The randomness makes some levels seemingly straight up impossible however. But I think there's some potential here.
Juan's Magic Lab
Basically a non game, I have no idea how this isn't listed in the kids section when its obviously made for really little children. Make a weird chimera, Juan is happy, Juan gets a fly as a reward for your chimera? And you get nothing. There's a mode where you have to match another chimera, and a mode where you have to memorize a chimera and recreate it. This would be tough if the chimeras didn't react when you were right so its impossible to lose this one YOUR GAME SUCKS, JUAN!!
Luggage Lane
WAIT this is the best game in the lot, genuinely. It's a simple premise. You play as baggage check, and you have to tag bags appropriately. Some levels are by contents (represented by a little image) and some levels are by weight (these beat my ass). If you mess up, you have to grab it from the back row before your boss sees it. If your boss catches an error 3 times you lose. It's simple but fun and the later levels get gross with conveyors having mismatched timing and TONS of bags. What sets this over the top is the features though. 10 levels with ranking systems, achievements, a leaderboard, and a cute lady as the protagonist! This is a game game!
Shanghai
It's mahjong. I don't know how to play mahjong.
Solitaire Classic
It's solitaire. I don't know how to play solitaire.
Tick Rack Toe
Now THIS is a fascinating concept!! It's connect 4 (not tick tack toe...) but it's more in depth and interesting. You must get 3 rows in order to win, and there are power ups you can get to interfere with the board! This is the second most interesting game here and certainly one I'd like to see expanded on! The only issue is that the CPU absolutely never makes a bad play, even on the easiest difficulty. So you have to genuinely outplay it which is not easy. And this is the only game in the kid's section!! It DOES have multiplayer though! Local and seemingly with others on the flight so that's neat!
Walk the Vine
Potentially the worst game here. But maybe I'm just harsh on it because it was the last one I played and I was tired by then. This is similar to bird vs bird, but less fun and less thematically cohesive. Play as a Chameleon trying to eat a bird. Each turn you can go across a rope, and each turn the bird can cut a rope. Simple enough but its not fun. I don't think level 1 is actually beatable as the chameleon, genuinely, and the vines have such a small button to cut them as the bird. And whats the correlation between chameleons and birds anyway? Shouldn't you have gone with a bug that could reasonably cut the vines like a stag or a mantis. This is the game I played and enjoyed the least.
I do think it's very interesting that there's no game ports here, and it's all original stuff instead. Could you imagine if they only made original movies instead of just licensing movies? That'd be insane. And while I can tell these are all meant to be slightly easier mobile games, so you can't port Elden Ring to Delta Airlines... No Angry Birds? No Fruit Ninja? No Among Us with flight exclusive lobbies?? It seems like a missed opportunity.
EDIT: HEY WHY DID TUMBLR DELETE MY WHOLE SECTION FOR ORIGINAL GAME IDEA!?!?! I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE UNTIL NOW!!
Basically my concept is that it's a shorter kind of JRPG with traditional turnbased combat. Nothing too intense like action commands or anything cause the screens kinda suck ass and you need to be able to pause it at a moment's notice. Just regular turnbased combat with special abilities and items and the like. And then between battles you can land in cities and towns to buy gear for your aeromorph and talk to NPCs and learn a little about the world around you. Which, aesthetically speaking, would be full of old ruins and really prioritizing the different islands you land and fly over having different cultures and such!
You play as a cute Aeromorph fighting sky pirates as she soars around the world. Either to stop the sky pirates from attacking her friends, or because you're collecting stuff around the globe and the sky pirates are attacking you to steal it from you. However big you want to make the mystery. I would love an RPG that's like, 10-13 hours, perfect for my flight length, but I think something much much shorter is probably better.
An idea I had when I first wrote this was what if the game actually used the real time flight tracker? The aeromorph flies in real time with your plane and as you fly you get random encounters and power ups. I hate to say it but some roguelike elements of some kind would probably work pretty well since it's meant to be a little short and sweet. Only issue is like, what if you die? You can't just start the flight over again. Maybe it impacts your score? But who gives a shit.
Just some basic concepts. Again I'm so sorry tumblr just axed this whole section from the post and only kept my initial shitty idea of making chimeras with fucking Juan to fight in Pokemon battles. I don't LIKE that idea cause I don't LIKE Juan FUCK YOU JAUN YOUR GAME SUCKS!!
Thank you so much for reading! There's a lot of interesting stuff that's certainly gaming related happening in Japan. From used game stores, to arcades! And I'll absolutely be sure to share it all here in time! I hope you look forward to it!!
ah for some reason tumblr axed my whole big game idea at the end of this post so I had to rewrite it!! If you're interested in my own stupid idea for an in flight video game, you can scroll to the bottom and give it a look!
