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Promotional Consideration: Ms. Yanagihara
Promotional Consideration is a weekly feature about the Nintendo DS advertisements you usually flip past, change the channel on, or just tune out.Shipped out to stores in Japan just last week, Fujimori Midori no Let's Tarot performs virtual tarot readings while teaching its users how to interpret the cards themselves. It's an interesting title, one that we could picture possibly being a small success if ever brought to the states, occupying the New Age shelves of bookstores.Also interesting is who publisher Bitway chose to promote the fortunetelling trainer, opting for a celebrity face, Kanako Yanagihara, instead of Fujimori Midori, the medium who lent her name and likeness to the game. Read on for some of Kanako Yanagihara's previous work.
Finally, a spiritual successor to Taboo: the Sixth Sense
Do you know how embarrassing it is to have to get your fortune told by an NES game? We're terribly behind the times in that regard. We're afraid we might accidentally, through taking the game's advice, end up leaving our lives behind to join Color Me Badd or something.That's why we're so pleased to see an updated tarot program for the DS. Of course, being the DS, Let's Tarot doesn't just perform a virtual tarot reading for you. Led by a Cooking Mama-esque medium, the program actually teaches you how to interpret the cards drawn, and teaches you the origins and meanings of the cards. It's Tarot Training, basically. We don't want to get your hopes up, but we used our own mystical fortunetelling method to determine if this game was coming to the U.S., and it told us "yes" in no uncertain terms. But then we asked again and it said "My sources say no." There are none who can understand the wisdom of the ball.
