I watched another film from Jun Ichikawa the other day called Song Of Gratitude which is easily one of his weakest without anything that made this, Bu Su or Tokyo Marigold so captivating (maybe Tony Takitani if your Murakami tolerance is high) but there’s one shot of a kid watching a trailer for a video game that I couldn’t put my finger on.
I lost a day trying to figure out what this was with the closest thing being that the white haired guy kinda looks like the dude from Tales Of Destiny (this was 2006 and Tales of VS wasn’t out for another 4 years) until a friend pointed out what this is from and I have even more questions now.
This is from a doujin fighter called Fate Axis that every review I can find online says is shit. There’s barely any videos of it and I could probably find an exe if I tried harder but I don’t want to. This raises more questions as I know the screenshots in no life king were make specifically for the movie (with Yuzo Koshiro music!) but for this:
- The clip is for a trailer evidenced by the CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES WITH A VARIETY OF COLLABORATIVE TECHNIQUES text.
- I cannot find any trailers for this game online at all, let alone gameplay
- This game came out four years before the movie did.
Then tried to work out what the chances were of this kid turning the TV on just as this already out of date doujin game trailer plays on prime time TV before giving myself a migraine.