Japanese telecom companies sure work hard to promote their mobile phones. Softbank has built yet another city floating in the sky, but it’s inteesting because it features a scavenger hunt for clues that you can play for freebies.
Floating around the region are giant mobile phones in what would appear to be random formations. Not so. On top of buildings throughout the region are telescopes. Look through them and the mobile phones form keywords used to receive a particular phone. Except the words are in Japanese, so to me it looks like a random pattern. But that’s okay, because the telescope also says the English keywords in local chat.
In the central building you’ll find a set of doors in what looks like a mobile phone museum. Say the right keyword at each door and you can get to the freebie phone behind it. Ot, if you’re lazy, you can also use your camera controls to look past the doors and grab the phones anyway. Oops. Maybe Softbank should have thought this through a little more.
The phones are typing animation overriders. When you type, it looks like you’re taking a call. I’m chatting with you No, I’m taking a call. No, I’m chatting with you. No, I’m taking a call. I’m… arrrgh!!!! Who’s idea was this?
In the central building you can also grab a cute oversize camera phone into which you can drop textures to create a slide show. To be frank, I trashed most of these freebies when I was done gathering them. Still, you should make it a point to visit Softbank just to see the speactacle of the flying phones.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/SOFTBANK%20SLIM%20JAPAN/128/7/325
