去玩卡 | Let's play card games - 小女孩玩耍篇 (一)

最近好像有很多哂娃文，大家把家中可愛的孩子都全秀出來了。反而我好像沒有再寫關於女兒的文章了。看了這麼多哂娃文，我決再寫一下女兒們的事。不過讀書方面已經沒有什麼好寫，不如就寫她們平時課餘會玩些什麼。

Recently, there were many posts about kids but I didn't post anything about my kids for awhile. After reading all the kids, I decided to write a post about my daughters. Since I've shared a lot about their study, I would like to talk about what they play at their spare time.

兩個小女孩現在最喜歡玩的是「卡」- 星夢學園アイカツ！ Aikatsu! 和星光樂園プリパラ，PriPara "Prism Paradise的縮寫"的遊戲卡。

Their most favorite games now are アイカツ！ Aikatsu! 和プリパラ，PriPara "a.k.a. Prism Paradise的".

這兩款遊戲基本上就是音樂節拍電玩，加上利用不同的服飾卡片讓遊戲中的角色換上不同的衣服來增加分數。不同分數就會在遊戲中吸引到不同數量的粉絲，或者在對應的手機應用入面換取不同的裝飾或容貌變化。不過以我的觀察所得，遊戲玩法及可玩性並不是重要，小孩子們最着重的，反而是得到一些漂亮服飾的卡片。差不多每次帶她們去玩這些遊戲，到後來都是見到一大群小女孩圍在一塊在互相觀賞和交換大家的卡片。

They are basically music rhythm games that make use of the cards to dress up the in game characters. Based on results of the games, players can use the point they get in game to exchange for new facial or body characteristics or to attract more fans. However, the girls like the correctable part of the card games, they don't care too much about the game play of them. Most of the time when I brought them to play these card games, they ended up checking and exchanging cards with other girls.

雖然不同遊戲用不同種類的卡片，但原理一樣，就是靠卡片上的條碼或二維碼來辨認及輸入不同的服飾，遊戲中的角色就會換上卡片上面的服飾。

Both games make use of the barcodes on cards to distinguish and enter different clothes or jewelries, so that the in game characters will change accordingly.

這兩個遊戲都是源於日本，所以我們到日本時都有讓女兒們玩，她們亦儲了不少日本版的卡片。可惜不同國家得到的卡片是不能互通的。所以她們分別都有日本，香港各一套的卡片。

The games came from Japan and the girls will play them in Japan too. That's why they also have another collection of Japan version cards. Too bad that they are not interchangeable, so that they have to maintain both Japanese and Hong Kong version set of cards.

日本卡和香港卡的分別應該就是卡片是的密碼的不同，而肉眼可見的，似乎就是在條碼下面，有一行細字的是香港版，沒有的是日本版。

Difference between Hong Kong and Japan version of cards should only be the codes stored, but visually you can only distinguish them by spotting the small words under the barcards. Hong Kong version cards have those small words.

最後要提一提日本和香港兩地得到卡片的方法，在香港只可以購買包裝的卡片。而日本方面，每玩一局遊戲就會從遊戲機中得到一張新的卡。因此日本方面的卡有更多的變化，例如會有把玩者的樣貌放入卡裏面的遊戲機。或者是完成某特別關卡而得到的特別卡。亦因為這樣，在日本玩遊戲是要付¥100一局的，而香港則是免費的。估計應該是因為香港人力成本太高我關係，要替換遊戲機入面的卡所需的成本太高，所以香港的遊戲機就不設出卡。

Finally I would like to talk about how do you get those cards in Hong Kong and Japan. In Hong Kong, you can only get the cards by purchase of card packs. In Japan, most common way is to get the cards by playing the games. In Japan, you have to pay ¥100 to play one game, after each game, the machine will give out one card. Some of the cards are printed directly by the machines, that's why they can provide some special cards there, like cards with palyers' faces, or special cards after they complete specials stages. Due to high labour costs in Hong Kong, it is too expensive too maintain those machines in Hong Kong, that's why game machines in Hong Kong don't give cards.

每個年代都會流行不同的遊戲機，現在的似乎都是用卡片玩的，因為應該會更有賺頭。無論如何，能讓孩子們可以在課餘時有點娛樂就已經足夠了。

There are always video games, just that recently game manufacturers like to products this kind of card games becuase they have better profit margins. Anyway, as long as they are good enough to act my daughters' entertainments for their spare time, I am fine with any arrangement.