Update: November 30, 2006
«©NCSX» Mitsuo Aida was a poet and calligrapher who's works focused on emotions, feelings, and the meaning of humanity. In one of Aida's poems, he wrote, "Meeting someone can change your entire life; May you have a good meeting" which reflected on the ability of one person to affect another person's destiny. Mitsuo Aida's works touched millions of people in Japan as well as others who were fortunate enough to come in contact with his words. In 1996, the Mitsuo Aida Museum was established in Ginza, Tokyo but it has since moved to the Tokyo International Forum. Ertain's Kokoro ni Shimiru collects the poems of Mitsuo Aida and uses them in calligraphy lessons where players trace out words with the NDS stylus. By skillful application of virtual ink, entire phrases are written out and dabbed on the touch screen. View the back cover and screenshots on the main NCSX website.
NCS Game Notes
» Somewhat similar to the virtual coloring book released a few months ago, Ertain's Kokoro ni Shimuru asks NDS stylus manipulators to transcribe a kanji character in calligraphy script as closely as possible. Calligraphers practice and train for years before they're able to perfect their craft and you're given the opportunity to hone your calligraphy on the touch screen of the NDS. The software keeps tracks of the "thickness" of the application of the pen and any thinning when writing out a character will draw demerits. The key is consistency of the stroke and maintaining a fluid flow when writing out a character. In addition to calligraphy, players may also transcribe line-drawings of simple scenes which are rendered in calligraphy strokes with thick, thin, and broad sweeping strokes.» When an exercise starts, the top NDS screen shows the full text of the calligraphy that is to be recreated. The game starts off with a cursor which encapsulates a portion of the text that is to be transcribed first. On the touch screen, a magnified portion of the top screen is shown with pinkish colored outlines that are guides which you write over. For example, each character is shown in a outline and you can draw over it, replacing the pinkish character outline with your black pen ink. As each character is finished and completed, the touch screen moves to the next character for the writer to complete and fill out. While all this is going on, melodic music plays to add ambience and mood to the writing action. The reticule on the top screen moves from the upper right then downwards and then to the northwest and downwards until the entire calligraphic exercise is finished. The full name of this product is: Kokoro ni Shimiru: Mouhitsu de Kaku - Aida Mitsuo DS Jan Code: 4939814200107 This document is ©NCSX 2006. All rights reserved. No reproduction in whole or in part of this document may be made without express written consent of National Console Support, Inc.
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