THE .gifs ARE AWESOME
I can't believe this game... it has so much... IS THERE ANY PROGRESS ON THE STORY?
Is it a meditation on the agricultural revolution? Or is it a parable about urbanization? Imperialism?
so far I'm on my 4th island, Its just basically the same, conquer the land with farming, defeat the Volcano, fight boss and pick the next island and so on and so forth which hopefully will unravel a final island...... In the map above the center has this swirling vortex's which I think will reveal the final spot of the wicked person that created the volcanoes...
Regarding the agricultural revolution.... I guess the original TV bosses wanted to turn their farming mascots into the Mario and Co video game stars... This is pre Harvest Moon and later on Setsuko Miyakoshi thought farming would be a great idea for a game and hence Harvest Moon was born. I guess Daichi Kun was ahead of its time and probably may have been an influence on those games.. 1989 release
I think the TV show finished long before the game was released so the characters lost popularity.
If TTI had decided to translate this game I think this would have become one of those hidden tg-16 gems and value would have rocketed to Magical Chase levels..
Famitsu gave daichi kun a decent score where each reviewer awarded it: 8,8,8,8. That belongs in their Gold Hall of Fame (32 points)
The pointers: "surprising" "amazing" and "more interesting than sim city"