> Does somebody know about a translated version of
>Shalom? I believe that game must be pretty cool,
>unfortunatelly the fact that it is in japanese makes
>it unplayable by people like me (that know absolutely
>nothing about japanese).
It really is a weird game, but very nice. The introstory is about a boy and
a girl who are both members of a computerclub. The girl recently bought a
copy of the latest Konami-game: Shalom. The boy rips the game out of her
hands, puts it into his computer and... vanishes. When he opens his eyes, he
is being stared at by a lady pork called Butako (I think I might translate
this as 'Porky' since 'buta' means 'pork' and 'ko' is something very much
used to create a girls' name (it literally means 'child', though) who tells
you that you're in the ancient Greek kingdom and the only way of returning
to your own world and time is to defeat the evil demon king Gogu. Since you
don't understand a word of the local language, Butako functions as an
interpreter as well as a local guide. During the game you will discover that
things you do in the ancient Greek kingdom actually have great influence in
the time you're living in yourself. There are some nice parallels with the
real world and like I said before, the game is full of jokes.
I myself never actually finished Shalom (got stuck near the end of the
game), but as far as I played it, it was very interesting.
Rieks.
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