runaround: MOV, Tokido, and…I can’t read the kanji, but I know that he’s a top Tekken player.
As for translations, MOV kinda slurred the first part, but I think he said “My strength may have have been too much for him because of his blindness, but I wanted to try my best for this day as well…”
KSK’s turn…comments before the match
KSK: "He was acting like a fraidy cat up to this point, so I wonder if he was kinda putting us on…"
Question: "Are you the best in Japan?"
KSK: “Ahhhh well…that’s what people refer to me as, I guess…”
after KSK loses
Player in beanie and glasses: “God, how embarrassing…” (note: This is the Tekken player that was able to beat him)
Nuki: “Man, you’re supposed to be the best in Japan and all…”
What I don’t get is why all the show though? I mean, the blind dude is obviously not a pushover, why pretend like KSK and the others play MK and could put up more than a half-assed fight? It’s almost disrespectful to the guy. But that’s just IMO.
i agree, thats kinda fucked up… i can see maybe like, they wanna make him feel good? but like if it were found out that they were just leadin him along, he’d be like totally jaded.
I thought Japan was supposed to be an overly polite society, the stuff they said sounds kinda rude, but maybe that’s just the way these guys translated it
Nope, that’s what those guys said. Japanese gamers talk shit as well. =P
Though I’m pretty sure they didn’t expect to get absolutely decimated like they did by a blind kid(even if it was at a game they never even tried). By the end of the whole thing they had respect for him for just being a beast at a game and being blind in general.
I think the full video shows some footage before he went to Japan. He was owning fellow players in Nebraska. I think that he also plays Tekken but not with the same enthusiasm as Mortal Kombat.
As for the Kumite (if that’s what you call this?), most of the players featured were top fighting game players from numerous Japanese games. The magazine that sponsored this was Arcadia (that guy Sawatari with the big hair is the President of the magazine, IIRC) and I guess that they were just interested in telling the story of a fellow fighting-game enthusiast who–even though had a disability–continued to practice and improve. In other words, they were giving props to him by saying “Hey, we here in Japan are awesome at fighting games and just want to show our appreciation to you by bringing you here and letting you play against our best across all our games in your game.” As for the shit-talk, either they really meant it or were just trying to make him feel like it was a legit competition. I think the score was 25-22-3 or something so it definitely wasn’t a freebie for him.
That Tekken player is Kenbou (sometimes goes by the name TareChiChi-Ganryu). I also saw Tokido and Chibita, among others.