Logos Panic
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is a Japan
-exclusive puzzle video game published by Yutaka, which was released in 1995.
The characters were designed by Kotobuki Shiriagari
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s their co-worker
s are saying. Suddenly a silver-haired devil turns up mumbling something. The man and woman say: "He just said しつれいします, didn't he?". Prompting the start screen to launch. Logo's Panic pits players to scramble Japanese Kanji in a sort of Tetris
puzzle style scenario, kanji
must be correctly put together in time, simultaneously as new kanji pop out at the bottom of the screen. The game ends when the player can't assemble appropriate sentences in time. At the beginning there are only eight selectable characters but as the game progresses, another three will eventually appear. It uses a password
system to allow players to pick up and play at their leisure.
Logos Panic is about garbled versions of greeting words. Goaisatu "ごあいさつ" or greetings are the words used in the game being 'garbled' and pretty random, not just greetings. They are puzzled over the greetings "aisatsu します". The two players have to create words that appear in red, yellow and blue at the sides of the screen, aspects to consider are players and the blue line to pay attention to, in order to correctly put the katakana
s in their correct grammatical place.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
-exclusive puzzle video game published by Yutaka, which was released in 1995.
The characters were designed by Kotobuki Shiriagari
Kotobuki Shiriagari
is a Japanese manga artist and actor from Shizuoka, Japan, known for dark humor and his social criticism. In early 1981, after graduating from Tama Art University, he began to work in the field of advertising as an illustrator at Kirin Brewery Company. He maintained his regular day job along with...
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Summary
The game starts with an animated/cinematic intro sequence. A Japanese man and woman portrayed in the distinct business man/woman ("Kaisha-in 事務員") satire comedy Kotobuki Shiriagari "Heta-Uma へたうま" style, turn up at work but they can't understand the greetingGreeting
Greeting is an act of communication in which human beings intentionally make their presence known to each other, to show attention to, and to suggest a type of relationship or social status between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with each other...
s their co-worker
Employment
Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. An employee may be defined as:- Employee :...
s are saying. Suddenly a silver-haired devil turns up mumbling something. The man and woman say: "He just said しつれいします, didn't he?". Prompting the start screen to launch. Logo's Panic pits players to scramble Japanese Kanji in a sort of Tetris
Tetris
Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...
puzzle style scenario, kanji
Kanji
Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters hanzi that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet...
must be correctly put together in time, simultaneously as new kanji pop out at the bottom of the screen. The game ends when the player can't assemble appropriate sentences in time. At the beginning there are only eight selectable characters but as the game progresses, another three will eventually appear. It uses a password
Password (video games)
In many video games of the 8-bit and, to a lesser extent, 16-bit eras , after a level was beaten and/or when all continues were used, the game would display a password, that when entered in the game would allow the player to return to this part in the game...
system to allow players to pick up and play at their leisure.
Logos Panic is about garbled versions of greeting words. Goaisatu "ごあいさつ" or greetings are the words used in the game being 'garbled' and pretty random, not just greetings. They are puzzled over the greetings "aisatsu します". The two players have to create words that appear in red, yellow and blue at the sides of the screen, aspects to consider are players and the blue line to pay attention to, in order to correctly put the katakana
Katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet . The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana scripts are derived from components of more complex kanji. Each kana represents one mora...
s in their correct grammatical place.
Music soundtrack
| Track listing | ||
|---|---|---|
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| # | Title | Length |
| 1. | Opening (part 1) | 00:32 |
| 2. | Opening (part 2) | 00:09 |
| 3. | Opening (part 3) | 00:07 |
| 4. | Opening (part 4) | 00:15 |
| 5. | Title Screen ~ 'Logos Panic!' | 00:38 |
| 6. | Password | 00:16 |
| 7. | Select Character | 00:58 |
| 8. | Playing Logos Panic 1 | 02:14 |
| 9. | Playing Logos Panic 2 | 02:58 |
| 10. | Continue? | 00:18 |
| 11. | Winner! | 00:04 |
| 12. | Here Comes the Robot! | 00:33 |
| 13. | Battle Against Robot | 04:26 |
| 14. | Ending | 01:41 |
External links
- Logos Panic at genkivideogames.com
- Logos Panic GO.A.I.SA.TU. at superfamicom.org
- ロゴス・パニック / Logos Panic at Super Famicom no Soft Zenbu Clear Shiyouze
- Kenji Yamazaki ~ 山崎憲司 （やまざき けんじ） at GameMusicComposerMEMO