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 is "Metal Gear Solid" supposed to mean anyway? Anyway, after discussing this on a mailinglist I wanted to prove a point and make a Japanese title generator, and here is the result. I really must say I'm looking forward to some of these awesome 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. COSMIC POKEMON: GREEN MIRROR THE ROBOT OF THE PRINCESS XII THE SAMURAI UNDER THE HELL IX COSMIC GHOST IN HELL XVII: THE LABYRINTH METAL EXILE UNDER COSMIC KING OVER THE EATER COSMIC LABYRINTH AFTER THE MIRROR AFTER THE CRAFT III THE DRAGON NEON LIMINALITY SOUL THE FIST BEYOND FIREFLIES XVII MASTER COMPLEX FULLMETAL OVERFIEND OF NINJA BEYOND STAR: SILVER MACROSS SUPER WARS GHOST THE SWORD XVIII THE FINAL FIREFLIES BEYOND LIBERTY BEYOND PRINCESS XIV MASKED DREAM OVER RETURN IN SEED XIII PROJECT LABYRINTH AFTER THE DRAGON BEYOND THE SWORD VII EXTREME FANTASY BEYOND POKEMON AFTER THE STAR SOUL HACK: FULL SLAYERS THE SEED XVI
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.
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