More specifically, my last Day One pre-order PS2 purchase. There's still a few interesting rumors in the pipeline (KH2 Final Mix!) and plenty of games that I missed when they were new that I now intend to circle back to.
I pre-ordered Chulip solely because it doesn't strike me as the sort of thing that any store will have around in any kind of number. I'm pretty much counting on the local EBs stocking zero to one of it, and I want to make sure I get one. This is exactly how I felt about the first Katamari, by the way... the game is so stupidly obscure that nobody is going to have it around.
In fact, Chulip is an EB/GameStop exclusive, so if those guys don't have it, ain't nobody gonna have it.
As to why I want the game, well, that's solely on the strength of the ridiculous synopsis. I suppose it is akin to Harvest Moon, if Harvest Moon was all about kissing. I really have no idea. But after the kissing thing, I don't even care if it's awful. Some game concepts are so incredible that it's worth slogging through nasty gameplay to experience it.
To wit: Disaster Report, Mister Mosquito, Killer 7, and Resident Evil: Dead Aim.
Insert Credit describes the game like this:
Chulip, as you may recall, is a game where you have to kiss people at their ultimate low point, in order to cheer them up. It's also by Punchline, the developers who went on to do Rule of Rose (I talk about this a little bit in the interview I had with them). The graphics probably won't be very good, as the game was made ages ago, but should be somewhat wacky and enjoyable... maybe! If you think there was boy-on-boy kissing in Bully, well... there's a lot more in this.
Rule of Rose is also on my Let's Bide Time For The PS3 list, incidentally.
