As a video game it’s limited and extremely short, but as a fondly-recreated artefact of that time and place, Attack of the Friday Monsters is more than a throwaway curiosity. A stream runs through its little Tokyo suburb, Fuji no Hana, and cicadas buzz and shriek in the air little shops and ramen bars boast hand-painted signs and radio chatter emanates from within. It’s set around the early ‘70s, before Japan’s urban sprawl replaced the entire countryside between Kansai and Tokyo with grey buildings, and it recreates that period lovingly. Attack of the Friday Monsters A Tokyo Tale plays on nostalgia for a time and a place that probably none of its Western players will have experienced.
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