You Are Lucky! (or "Untsuku", thanks Graig and tom!) is a gorgeous little game, created by Shuichi Oshida ("Ossy"), that is a cross between a point-and-click game and one from the
Grow series. The aim is to uncover all ten of the characters (who look a bit like
WarBears with pastel coloured poop on their heads). Unlike Grow, you don't have a list of items to check off — simply click things and see what happens. Mostly, the sequence seems to be fairly logical and linear (I can't give details without spoilers), but it's entirely in Japanese and I'm not sure if being able to understand the text makes any difference. It's often hard to tell if you've backed yourself into a corner, although you will know when you've lost — unlike Grow's generous "booby prizes", you'll get an embarrassing "Wa-wa-wa-waaaaaaa" sound and the logo "YOU ARE LUCKY!" in huge letters.
It's a gorgeous, fun and challenging game that's filled with charm, and I've only managed to uncover eight of the characters. Won't someone please tell me how to reach the acorn?
Play You Are Lucky
I believe the name is 'Untsuku'. Don't know what that means though....
untsuku
un means (luck) or (poop)
and tsuku means (to stick)
so
it's making kind of a joke with luck/poop with these little creatures that supposedly stick to you giving you luck but has a poop look-a-like on their head
So slow! I solved the first few puzzles, waiting what seemed like eons for the little bear creature to waddle around. And then I experienced a hard failure with one of tasks that relies on luck... Argh!
how do I get the monkey number five?
I know that this game is Japanese but
walkthrough:
1. pink -
2. yellow -
3. green -
4. dark blue -
5. red -
6. black -
7. light blue -
8. purple -
9. grey -
congratulations!
I agree -- the speed (or lack thereof) really takes away from the game.
For the fifth character:
To get the acorn, you have to
I did it!
I got the camera, now what do I do?
thanks
Great looking game, though a bit slow. I some how lost after digging a hole with a sppade I found in the graveyard?!? I had six charecters unlocked.
Isn't the one with the "ichi"s and "a" a tea ceremony saying? That'd be in older kanji that are closer to how they originally came over from the Chinese.
Cute little (but very slow) game...
I've managed to get the first eight animals, but now my little "poop-bear" won't walk anywhere! I'm stuck!
Woo hoo! Got 'em all!
Pink character:
Yellow character:
Green character:
Red character:
Dark blue character:
Brown character:
Light blue character:
Purple character:
White character:
I have a jar that I can't do anything with, and the ufo just flies away or fades out when I click it.
OK. I talked to the UFO/? Bear-thing...and my blue bear disappeared and I can't do anything. Anyone else have this problem? I had all but the last character unlocked. Guess I'm not lucky...
Cute and charming, but ultimately too breakable. I didn't mind the slow pace until I picked up the acorn too early, and have noone to give it to. Not worth my time to play through it again to finish the game off!
Fuzzboxer, your walkthrough is great, but some places lack a bit of detail, and some people might not understand what you mean by things like 'snake eyes' for double 1s. :P
I'll post another one, and hopefully between me and fuzzboxer you'll be able to complete the game. (You'll get more thrill doing it by yourself though)
Full Walkthrough:
In case anyone is interested, I translated the names. As far as I'm aware, they don't meant anything except for the last one... but then my understanding of Japanese is much smaller than minimal.
White turd- Kumanchi
Pink turd- Rabinchi (Rabbit?)
Yellow turd- Wasochi
Green turd- Mosochi
Light blue turd- Gosochi
Dard blue turd- Pasochi
Red turd- Nyasochi
Black turd- Akunchi
Purple turd- Najinchi (Alien? Jin means person...)
Grey turd- Soma-/nori-chi (Either way means wizard/hermit)
How board am I, you ask? Very. Very very.
The answers.
Wooo-hooo! The first game from the maker of "Grow" that I completed without help.
I, too, had the problem with doing some things too early and my bear not reacting anymore. The first time it happened was when I tried to get the two red dots at the game of dice and decided to quit for the moment and come back later. Still, restarting the game was totally worth it for me.
Thanks for the translation, Craig!
Groogokk - it's not by On of Eyezmaze, even though the graphics have a similar charm as On's work.
This one was created by Ossy (Shuichi Oshida). :)
Why do they write "MENU" on the menu-tag when opening it everything is in Japanese?
Can it happen that I haven't solved everything, I've got bears to discover, there are no game end messages still I can't do anything? I couldn't beat the bear in the dice toss (would be pretty hard to do - i don't even know what I'm supposed to roll out...) and there i am, can click on lots of things but nothing happens, altho i only found like 4 or 5 other bears.
One really important hint if you're trying to finish the game without using a walkthrough is:
Oops, forgot to mention... I found it annoying that I glitched out twice in the same place: after giving the Purple companion the thing that he asks for in his thought bubble. One time it just froze so that things that I clicked on wouldn't respond, even the thing I was supposed to click on next. The other time, as soon as he handed me the orb, I disappeared!!
Other than that, nice, fun, and easy.
I got eight with no help; the speed didn't bother me at all. Just needed a little hint on 9 and 10. This is an adorable game! Love the combination of point-and-click and Grow.
OK, i finished it.
It was an OK challenge, though tediously slow at times and felt way too infant while plying...
Belive me, if I was able to finish it in a short time without any help, anyone can.
By the way, do i understand they are actually animals with shit on their heads? Lovely - no matter what it means in the Japanese culture...
I think they're advertisements for little lucky charm toys. If you click on the characters, it tells you what each one does.
Kumanchi (blue one) - +5 luck in friendship, -3 luck in study
Rabicih (pink one) - +5 luck in love, -3 luck in money
Unchi (yellow one) - +5 luck in money, -3 luck in friendship
Monchi (green one) - +5 luck in your job, -3 luck in love
Gonchi (ugly little kid) - +5 luck in health, -3 luck in gambling
Panchi (panda bear) - +5 luck in study, -3 luck in health
Nyanchi (cat) - +5 luck in gambling, -3 luck in your job
Akunchi (zombie) - +5 power in escaping bad luck, but reduces every other kind of luck just a little bit
Nazonchi (alien) - +5 random luck, -3 random luck
Senchi (old man) - +10 whatever kind of luck you want, -10 the opposite of that luck
By the way, people who are confused about the poop, "luck" and "poop" are pronounced similarly in Japanese, so it's a joke.
This is the absolutley most frusterateing game. I can't beleive I played for 30 Minutes just trying to light a fire. I pick it wrong, and I have to start ALL OVER AGAIN. Then, when I look for help, everyone tells me to pick up "The Blue And Orange One" Well, if you FRIGGIN LOOK AT THE GAME, THERE ARE TWO BLUE AND ORANGE ONES! I can't believe I wasted my time with this horrible game.
Oh, and of course, when I finally get the monkey guy, my player disapears. Yup. I don't know what happened, I just pressed the seed after putting in the key. Geuss what! I HAVE TO START ALL OVER AGAIN.
Odd. I managed to solve the game the first time without any problem or having to restart even once.
Yeah, the game's really buggy. The player character disappeared once and the game froze three times. I've tried to play it four times at this point, and I'm not sure I want to go in for a fifth try. :/
@ jay: Thanks for reminding me that On =/= Ossy. I just skimmed the first few lines of the review and was off for the game, yelling "Yay, another Grow game!!11" without reading on. I thought something was wrong when the game didn't play the sound you always hear in Grow games when you get a key (I love that sound).
@ the glitches/restarts: Well, it just depends on when or if you try to do something that is not planned to happen at that time. If you never quit the game of dice, for example, you never have a problem with it. Keep in mind that most events are stable; the problem has only occurred to me when I
* quit the game of dice (as I said above)
* tried to get the acorn too early.
it can be a bit buggy.
Great game but not fully beta tested for release. An "Oh noes you failed!" message in Engrish during these accidental mishaps would at least let the player know to try again instead of clicking everywhere with no response for no reason.
But I did have fun playing it. Cute designs.
Okay, my character disappeared for no reason. I already had to start over once because apparently I dug in the wrong place, when there was no indication that that would be a bad thing to do. I really don't feel like starting again. This game is moderately charming, but it's just not worth it.
Yep, my character disappeared and/or I could no longer interact with the objects on a couple of run-throughs, and it's not worth playing again. Too bad, cause otherwise it was cute.
Yeah, I disappeared just before getting the last companion, too. Too slow to dig through it all again.
Darn it, every time I give the skeleton something-I get stuck in the graveyard. It just won't let me move...Frustration.
This game is cute and relatively straightforward, but I've found it very frustrating to have to start over twice after getting two thirds of the way through the game. The first time, I chose the wrong pile to dig and a dialogue appeared in the upper right hand corner. I clicked it, and the game started over. The second time my character disappeared altogether when I went to pick up the bottle. I don't think I'm going to start over another time. This game is just too slow to play a third time, especially with no guarantee I'll be able to finish.
I understand that shit and luck are pronounced similarly in Japanese still I find animals with shit on their heads very disgusting. Full stop. And i don't want to find out in another "cute" Japanese game what other words are pronounced like "vomit", "saliva" or "urine"...
@lonetrombone
Japanese uses Chinese Characters (called Kanji) and syllabary (called katakana & hiragana) to write. Kanji are pronounced differently in Japanese (and Cantonese also) but they sound the same.
These are my translations... pretty much the same :D
White - Kumanchi Bear-chi
Pink - Rabinchi Rabbit-chi
Yellow - Wanchi Woof-chi (dog)
Green - Monchi Monkey-chi
Light blue - Gonchi Gorilla-chi
Dard blue - Panchi - Panda -chi
Red - Nyanchi - Meow-chi (cat)
Black - Akunchi Demon-chi (Akuma literally)
Purple- Nazochi Enigma-chi
Grey- Senchi Hermit-chi
Graig, your translations are very nice, but I think you go the so/n katakana characters mixed up.
If you look closely at the second katakana character for the 9th creature, it is tilted more vertically than the very similar character in the 3rd & 4th creatures names. The one that is tilted up more is "so", or actually "zo" in this case because of the two diagonal marks above it.
So you would get instead:
This actually makes a little more sense, because with these pronunciations of the creature's names, their names become relative to the creature they look like.
The easy ones are:
The last three are little bit harder.
Ok, I had to start over again and again, mostly because the game got stuck, and after some ten times I simply have had it. It looks nice and I like the cuteness, but this is too much. I've had it.
Yes indeed, I was well wrong with the so/n business. Been to Japan 3 times now, and still get buggered by kana.
I'll try harder next time!
Not sure if you got my email or not Jay. But HBB sweetie! :-)
This game makes me so happy i pee my pants... im stuck, how do i get the acorn in the tree?
Had to play over and over again before I finally got the key, but then my blue bear just dissapeared into thin air.. and I've had it. Despite of all the cuteness, it pissed me off =='
Hmm. Tried 3 times to end this game, and 3 times it either froze, or it reset itself. If I was 5 years old, it might be more entertaining.
BTW, anyone notice the crosses each character is wearing? Are those a Japanese character or are the cats Christian?
@Micky
it's a plus sign. You can see more clearly if you select the first item in the menu. Bigger cute characters, with bigger poop, LoL.
Cool game, poop head bears are cute as poop head buttons ~ If it was in english think I could probably finish first time hints and the slow movement f my character would not be so bad ~ BUT ~ in Japanese it gets old not understanding what I did wrong to be so unpoo ~ I mean unlucky and having to start all over again. That's when the tedium sets in.
Oh well, I think I'll give it one more run with a walkthrough step by step just to reach some poo bear closure...
Honestly, this is an interesting game. Very cute and fun. However, I have played through this about two dozen times only to get to the graveyard and subsequently have the character freeze and refuse to dig up more mounds forcing me to restart. I think it's a cute game, certainly worth a play through, but unfortunately, it's got a handful of glitches that seem to stall the game and with as slow as the characters move, it is an exercise in frustration.
there's a little old man on the tree... and know the little blue bear is on the tree...
is it done???
what about the boards in front of the door to the tree
I believe it only gets buggy if you open other windows/tabs while playing it. I've had quite a few bug issues. However, it's absolutely brilliant; I love how Japanese things are absolutely bewildering if one hasn't lived in Japan since childhood. Also, it does remind me of Shimajiro, the Toilet Training Tiger (if you still don't know him, please search "Japanese Toilet Training" on Youtube - you can be sure it's worth it).
The reason why you keep loosing at the graveyard is because you don't read the description. It says if you make an error there will be a big waaaaa-waaaa-waaaaaa and say YOU ARE LUCKY.
it was moved
I was almost finished, then my blue guy disappeared.
I cooked the meat, and this black monster (with no poop head) came out, and he ate the meat, and then got sick. Something chinese or japanese went up on the screen, and now I don't know what to do. I have 6 unlocked. PLEASE HELP!
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