'Amaho no Sakunahime' play review where you can enjoy super-real rice-making simulation and exhilarating action on Nintendo Switch
The Japanese-style action RPG ' Amaho no Sakunahime ', which combines a side-scrolling action game with 'rice-making' elements, was released on November 12, 2020. I was wondering how the action elements are fused with the 'simulation elements that deeply reproduce the ancient Japanese rice cultivation', so I actually played and checked it.
'Amaho no Sakunahime' Official Website
Amaho's Sakunahime has a Nintendo Switch version and a PlayStation 4 version, but this time I played the Nintendo Switch version.
The main character, Sakunahime, is a god who inherits the qualities of both a father who is a warrior god and a mother who is a fertility god.
However, because of their appearance and behavior, they are sometimes treated as children by humans. The character's strength is that it first appears in a drunken state and then drops kicks to humans in about 30 seconds.
For some reason, Sakunahime is banished to the island where demons nest with humans. Although the story is serious, Sakunahime has comical expressions and movements, so you can enjoy playing it.
The exiled Sakunahime will work hard to hunt and grow rice to secure food. The first thing to do is 'rice planting'. Seedlings can be planted at any position in the rice field instead of being planted at a fixed point. I thought that it would be better to plant the seedlings apart from each other without crowding them, so I planted them so that the seedlings would not be densely packed ...
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From rice planting to harvesting, a lot of work is required, such as controlling the amount of water in the rice fields and pulling out weeds. A fellow farmer will tell you what you need to do, so people who say, 'I've never grown rice, so I don't know what to do!' Are relieved.
When the rice grows, we will work to obtain white rice. In addition to 'harvesting' rice with a sickle to obtain white rice ...
'Threshing' to remove paddy from rice with chopsticks ...
Work such as 'paddy shaving' is required to polish the rice with paddy. These tasks cannot be done with the touch of a button, and you need to patiently operate the sticks and buttons for minutes, so you can experience the “difficulty of rice cultivation”.
You can check how the rice is actually grown from the following movie. You can experience most of the elements of rice cultivation such as rice planting, harvesting, and rice milling in the game.
In addition to agricultural work such as 'rice planting' and 'paddy', soil is also an important factor in determining the quality of rice. It is necessary to make fertilizer to make the soil better, but since fertilizer has many parameters such as 'disease prevention', 'insect repellent', 'weed control' and 'toxicity', what kind of fertilizer is made? You need to think carefully.
When the rice cultivation is completed, the 'Rice cultivation result' will be displayed. By eating the harvested white rice, you can temporarily greatly increase the status of Sakunahime. In addition, the 'grade' of rice is evaluated by the amount, taste, hardness, stickiness, beauty, and degree of aroma, and the parameters of Sakunahime increase accordingly. The higher the 'rank', the higher the status of Sakunahime, so even hard farming work cannot be overlooked.
It is possible to leave part of the farming work to a friend, but the more you leave it to a friend, the lower the quality of the rice. If the quality of the rice is low, the status of Sakunahime will not rise so much and it will be difficult to capture the game, so it is recommended to work with your own hands as much as possible.
Amaho's Sakunahime is characterized by the 'rice-making' element, but the action element with outstanding exhilaration is also an interesting point. The operation method of the action part is as simple as a weak attack with the Y button and a strong attack with the X button, but it is possible to launch various attacks by combining each attack with the arrow keys.
In addition, Sakunahime wears a 'hagoromo' that can be extended in all directions with the L stick + R button, and can fly around the side-scrolling stage endlessly, such as moving to a high place or taking behind the enemy. I can.
In addition, Sakunahime inherits the powers of the gods of war and fertility, so you can learn 'martial arts' that allow you to take advantage of the strategy according to the growth of rice. 'Martial arts' can be easily activated by simply pressing the A button, so no complicated operations are required.
In the following movie, you can see Sakunahime defeating the enemy with screams such as 'Buttobe!' And 'Rice farming!'.
If you defeat a pig-shaped demon, you can get pork, and if you defeat a sparrow-shaped demon, you can get ingredients according to the type of enemy, such as sparrow meat.
By taking the obtained ingredients back to the base and eating them, you can temporarily increase your physical strength and attack power.
The meal scene is very detailed, with the graphics changing according to the menu and the tableware being emptied according to the character's eating behavior. You can skip the meal scene, but it is recommended that you watch the conversation without skipping because the conversation during the meal reveals the world view and the character's past.
You may also encounter huge bosses on the stage. Unlike Zako enemies, bosses launch powerful attacks, so fighting with bosses is quite chewy.
I raised my status by eating and managed to win by making full use of 'Hagoromo' and 'martial arts'. You can see how you actually fight the boss in the following movie.
Amaho's Sakunahime has a concept of time, and the night comes when exploring each stage or doing farm work. Not only is visibility worse at night, but enemies are orders of magnitude stronger, making it harder to explore the stage. In such a case, you can greet the morning by returning to the base and resting.
If you rest three times, you will move on to the next season, which will be the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, so you need to do the necessary work for each season, such as planting rice in spring and harvesting in autumn. By harvesting the seedlings planted in the spring in the fall and planting the seedlings in the next spring, and so on, the status of Sakunahime is gradually strengthened and it becomes possible to beat the strong opponents. To go.
When I actually played Sakunahime of Amaho, I paid attention to various factors such as the position to plant seedlings, the material of fertilizer, the amount of water in the rice field, and did the farming work such as 'threshing' and 'paddy' steadily. It was a game where you could feel the gratitude of rice while playing, because you had to spend a lot of time and effort to make rice. The action is quite refreshing, and you can move Sakunahime in all directions without complicated operations. In addition, I was able to play comfortably without the screen becoming jerky even in scenes where a large number of enemies appeared. This time I played on the difficulty level 'normal', but as the stage progressed, I sometimes struggled not only with the boss battle but also with the opponent of Zako, but I ate the white rice obtained from rice cultivation and tried 'martial arts' I managed to clear the stage by mastering it. This work has a rare element of rice cultivation, but the comical character Sakunahime shows various reactions, and the world view is told in the conversation of the meal scene, so it is possible to naturally adapt to the game. This work can be recommended to anyone who likes action games and agricultural simulations.
Sakunahime of Amaho is sold on Amazon.co.jp for 5478 yen for both Nintendo Switch version and PlayStation 4 version.
Amazon.co.jp: Sakunahime of Amaho | Online Code Version: Game
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