We thank and curse Kotaku for alerting us to the game “Defense of the Diaoyu Islands,” hosted on Chinese Global Times’s website, wherein a player takes control of a Chinese warship that must kill as many Japanese enemies as possible before inevitable failure.
It’s interesting, but what a time suck.
“Defence of the Diaoyu Islands takes after pretty much every single screen scrolling shooter from Raiden to Ikaruga,” explains Eric Jou. “Basically the player takes control of a Chinese ‘Diaoyu Island’ patrol ship for the purpose of defending the Diaoyu Island!”
Or as one Reddit commenter put it, “All this taught me is that the Japanese Navy is fucking badass.”
Two keys for getting a high score:
1. Level up on weapons, preferably the laser.
2. Hitting space bar will destroy all enemies on screen.
30,900 is my high score. Reddit’s platypusmusic has 50,000. And yours?
The redditor got there before me but that’s classic!
They made a game where the Japanese always win in the end, so perfect GT…
So:
1) There is an end to this game: either you make it past the enemy forces and arrive at the disputed islands whereupon a PRC flag will be raised, or you die trying.
2) It’s not called “Defense of the Diaoyu Islands”; the direct translation from its Chinese title “收复钓鱼岛” is “Reclaiming/Recapturing the Diaoyu Islands”. Adjust your semantics accordingly.
3) High score of 40500; however, as a hero of China I had only attained 507,542nd place
http://sinopathic.com/recapture-of-the-diaoyu-islands-joystick-in-the-mud-in-your-eye-on-the-prize/
Aww! i need to update this because in Chinese red games, the Japanese can’t win!! hahahaahaha i can’t believe i overlooked it!
29800. I could play that game for hours.
This is the kind of subtlety William Randolph Hearst could only dream of when he promised to spark the Spanish/American War with the infamous phrase “You supply the pictures, I’ll supply the war.”