Solving the mystery of the monsters is just one part of Sohta's day. The game begins on Friday, with Sohta's mom sending him out on an errand with a quick warning not to get trampled. Giant tracks tread through town, and the neighborhood kids sit on a nearby hill every Friday to watch the action. It's a movie-length, low-key, sweet game that delivers an absolutely perfect summer day on demand.%Gallery-194367%Ten-year-old Sohta has just moved to the sleepy town of Fuji no Hana, home to little but the dry cleaner shop his dad runs, a bakery, a small TV station. Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale (3DS) is a multi-pronged nostalgia assault, combining creator Kaz Ayabe's well-documented love of early 1970's small-town Japan childhood with a fond look back at the Ultraman-style monster shows children of the era grew up on.īut even if you didn't grow up in Japan, or in the 1970s, and never heard the word tokusatsu in your life, Friday Monsters is likely to make you feel like you did.

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