Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu

Jade Cocoon: The Tamamayu Legend (Japanese玉 茧 物语, Tamamayu Monogatari ) is a 1998 video game developed by Genki for the Playstation. An English version was published in the same year by Crave Entertainment for America, the European version of Ubisoft came only in 1999 on the market. This is a role playing game with a typical Pokemon games collection element. On the aesthetic design and animations Katsuya Kondō and other artists of the anime studio Ghibli were involved with which Genki was connected prior to this project for a long time. It has a melancholy atmosphere that is created by tragic scenarios, the orchestral accompaniment, an epic story and illustration. With around ten hours of actual game time, the game is relatively short.

Gameplay

The heavily forested world in which Jade Cocoon plays, is inhabited mainly by people in addition to the unusual, beetle -like creature. As these many different shapes, of which a considerable part for people is dangerous to live in small settlements that lie amidst the forests. It controls in this game Levant, a resident of one of these villages, emulates his father verschwundenem long ago to be cocoon master. The cocoon Masters are the protectors of the settlements before the beetle beings who are normally restrained by the power of a sacred tree of the settlements. To this end, you can see the beings that one encounters, catch, and use them for battle, transform each other to stronger beings (with a simple inheritance system is used ) or convert it to silk, in order to make money. The combat system is based on the four main elements that are associated with the beetle creatures, and each has strengths and weaknesses against each other.

Jade Cocoon appeared at the time, was in the Pokemon played by many. The games are similar in the point that the basic task is to catch monsters, train and send into battle. Jade Cocoon playing in a Final Fantasy 7 -like environment graphics, while a mixture of a representation in 3D and hand drawn images will be used. Fights do not take place on a random basis. The player can observe the movements of the opponent and so decide whether to flee or those involved in a fight. Touching the monster, the player switches to a turn-based battle system. Here, the player either Levant or its entrained monster can let them fight.

The anime artist Katsuya Kondō oversaw the creation of over 600 pre- high-resolution backgrounds. Kondō 's Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke became famous mainly through the two anime movies Kikis, in Jade Cocoon 2, he worked as a character designer.

Successor

2001 Jade Cocoon 2 (玉 茧 物语2, Tamamayu Monogatari 2) was released for the Playstation 2. Also this part was not published until a year later in Europe.

The game plays for a long time after the first Cocoon Master is no longer there, and the main hero of the first game, Levant, is now part of the new generation of fighters, the Beast Hunters. You control a young man who Kahu, whose goal is to become such a Beast Hunter, for which he must pass an examination in the temples of Kemuel. Along the way, he is cursed, and now must collect four magical spheres and sounds of the surrounding woods.

The game system is almost identical to its predecessor, however, a greater emphasis was placed than before to the rearing and combination of trapped animals. Unlike before, not only fights against wild rivals are now unsubscribe, but you can also compete against other Beast Hunter in arenas that have caught their own monsters and let them fight for themselves.