0 to Z of Playstation 1 Games - Bonogurashi Kore de Kanpeki Disu

       

Bonogurashi Kore de Kanpeki Disu is an adventure and social interaction simulation game developed and published by Amuze. The game is based on the yonkoma manga series Bonobono by Mikio Igarashi which ran from March 1986 to March 1987, the series ran in the Takeshobo manga magazine Tensai Club before the magazine was replaced with Manga Club, where it has been serialized since April 1987.

 

The game was released exclusively in Japan on the 7^th of June 1996. with a 3DO and Mac release of the game coming separately in 1995, a Pippin version of the game had been announced however that release appears to have been cancelled. In addition to this and another video game adaption the Bonobono manga series has seen tv and film adaption’s over the years, with the most recent adaption coming as recently as 2016.

Bonogurashi Kore de Kanpeki Disu is a mix between an adventure game since the player can use items to advance in the game and a simulation game since the player has to give food or make his character sleep to recover his health. During the game the player has to do different actions with the animals to have a better relationship with them.

 

Basic controls for the game, movement between actions is done with the D-Pad, Actions that the player can take appear below the main characters and appear as five tiles with five different symbols the first being a smiley face, the second a basic shape of a person stood, the third is a magnifying glass, the fourth a sack or small pouch and the final symbol looks like an unrolled scroll.

Movement is done by walking only, this can be done by pressing the X button. You can access your items menu by pressing the L1 shoulder button. To access the locations menu the L2 should button is used. The game also used a feelings menu, this is used when interacting with the various creatures. Pressing R2 will bring up the feelings menu, this appears above the player character and has five symbols on it.

 

These symbols are a hand symbol, a foot symbol, a mouth symbol, a heart symbol and a question mark symbol. When interacting with a creature this menu works like the action menu, with the player moving to the desired symbol and pressing the action button.

The games menu options is accessed with the start button, the game also provides an explanation of the games menus this can be accessed by pressing the select button followed by the circle button. Sadly this is the only information I have been able to find on this hard to find Japanese game.

This being a Japanese only released game critic reviews for this game are none existent, as a result we will head over to GameFAQs for their user ratings of the game, sadly this game is relatively unnoticed by users as it currently sits without any user ratings at all.

The two other stats that we use from GameFAQs are also light on user ratings, with the games difficulty only being rated by one user who rated the game as having just the right difficulty level. The same goes for games lifespan with just one user rating, with this user spending around 8 hours with the game.

 

This is the part of 0 to Z where is visit four online retailers and see what the availability of the title is, and what price you would be looking at if you wanted to pick this title up, the sites that I will be using for this are Amazon.com, eStarland.com, retrogames.co.uk and Gamedude.com I know the last one is very location specific, but from a podcast I listen to, I’ve heard they have a huge stock of older games, Ebay has now been dropped unless the game is unavailable at other retailers.

 

So lets get down to business with Gamedude, where unsurprisingly we don’t find this Japanese only game available, the same goes for Retrogames.co.uk as well as well as eStarland.com. So we will quickly head over to Amazon.com in the hopes of finding some copies of the game.

Sadly Amazon.com as well as the co.uk and co.jp variations sadly do not have the game listed. So as a last hope we head over to Ebay.com where we do finally strike lucky, but the number of copies on offer is limited with just three in total at the time of writing this.

The cheapest copy that is on offer a used copy, not further details given on the condition, however the picture of the copy on offer looks to be pretty decent shape, this copy will set you back $18 once the shipping costs have been factored in.

The second copy on offer which is priced up at $24 once the shipping costs have been added in, this copy coming good condition. The seller has graded each individual part of the copy with the disc, case, instructions and spine card all receiving B grades. The final and most expensive copy on offer with a price of $24.50, this copy which comes in acceptable condition.

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P J Gibbon