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. SILVER OVERFIEND UNDER ELEMENTAL MEGAMAN UNDER THE SOLID XVIII ADVANCED POKEMON BEYOND VAMPIRE VII SILVER CHILDREN XII COSMIC POKEMON BEYOND PULSE VIII THUNDER FIRE BEYOND WARS XVI THUNDERDOME NARUTO THUNDERDOME RISE PATLABOR EVANGELION REUNION GHOST OVER NEON STAR ROBOTECH LEAF BEYOND THE RIDER OF THE COMPLEX VII SOUL REUNION OVER THE POKEMON BLOOD OVER THE NEON SWORD BUSHIDO BALL BEYOND LIQUID PULSE METAL RAIN XVIII ADVANCED SAMURAI COSMIC ALCHEMIST EVANGELION THE FANTASY MASKED SONS EVANGELION SNAKE FULL KING OVER SCROLL MASTER PULSE EVANGELION RETURN OVER MIRROR
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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