Although Japanese games such as Final Fantasy VII: Advent of Children and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater are great, the titles themselves are just out of this world! I mean, what the hell does "Metal Gear Solid" mean anyway? Anyway, after discussing this on a mailinglist I wanted to prove my point and make a Japanese title generator, and here is the result. I really must say I'm looking forward to some of these kick-ass titles! Have a great weekend everybody! :)
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jpname 1.1 Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Christian Stigen Larsen Licensed under the GPL v2 or later. NIGHT XV BLACK STORM GIRL ZERO EVE BEYOND MASTER DREAM GHOST FIRE STANDALONE NOCTURNE UNDER THE SOUL PULSE V LAST ALCHEMIST BEYOND THE NEON HACK THE SNAKE IN THE COMPLEX AFTER THE BLOOD IV: NEON PULSE LIBERTY SOUL PULSE OF LIMINALITY THE PROJECT ADVENT BEYOND LIBERTY AFTER THE NINJA SILVER LEAF IN FULLMETAL MEGAMAN SCROLL AFTER THE ALCHEMIST AFTER THE ADVENT THE SUMMON SOUL ROBOT BUSHIDO PATLABOR XVI SLAYERS XII THE LIMINALITY XI THE SILVER FIST AFTER THE MOONLIGHT IX MYTHICAL HACK OVER REUNION: SOUL KING
Download the complete source: jpname-1.1.tar.gz
Browse the sourcecode of the final overfiend.
If you download the source, you can change some of the random weights on
which words to use. That is only recommended if you're really, really bored
:)
Update (2006): If you're serious about this, you should check out Markov chains, write up a big, fat file with all the titles you know about of japanese game titles, run that through a program that builds Markov-chains, and enjoy the output. If you use big enough k-grams, you shouldn't be surprised to get only existing titles. Reduring k-grams yields the funniest titles.