Videogames

Videogames

Fushigi No Umi No Nadia
(Videogame for PC98 & FM-Towns)

Graphic: (10/10 - GREAT ! )
Story: (8/10 - Really nice idea of a never-told-episode)
How nice to play?: (5/10 - if you can't speak Japanese, you can only try & try...)
How long will I play with it?: (3/10 - it's not a game to re-play dozens of time with...)

Comments:
This is Gainax's official game (or, at least, the one they produced). PC98 and FM-Towns, as far as I know, are computer similar to European ones but programmed by Japanese people. The only difference is that, in the FM-Towns version, you can hear the voices of all the characters by the Full Talking System with 3 CD-roms. (The voice actors/actresses are the same of the TV series.).

The most interesting thing, apart from the graphic, is the story. In fact, in opposition to the other videogames, which changed the events told in the original series, this one *just* tells an episode which could be perfectly inserted between episode 12 and episode 20.

The plot is simple: it's a normal day inside the Nautilus. Jean walks around, meeting his friends but Marie tells him there's something wrong with Nadia. Nothing relevant anyway...After a quick fight against a Garfish, Jean, Nadia, Nemo and the rest of the crew meet again for dinner. Then, suddenly, everybody but Jean, Sanson, Hanson, Ikolina & Echo, starts screaming for pain. Nadia, just to be non-conformist, tries to kill Jean, but it doesn't matter...JJJJJ

There's an epidemy ! Of course, this is a personal interpretation of what happens, supposing I can't read Japanese JJJ

Will Echo, Sanson, Hanson & Jean find the right medicine (at North Pole!) to save their friends? Of course, but not before lots of breathtaking fights against Garfish (and YOU decide how to fight, how to avoid torpedos, which weapon to use etc etc) and a desperate mission to save Nadia from Gargoyle's base (using a super aggressive high tech Gratan...see below)

It's easy to play, even if you don't know Japanese language. But, in this case, it's quite boring...There are 5 menu[s]: Look, Talk, Think, Move and System and you've to choose what to do step by step till something happens (an animated scene or so).

Here are a few screenshots.

UPDATE !!! (April 2002)

Eh eh eh, only for Tamarro Forever here is a complete walkthru/guide, featuring 125 screenshots !!!!

** Please get a look to the WARNING page if you come here directly **

Download the game (6.9 Mb)

Download the emulator (230 Kb)
(Note: please refer to the walkthru/guide for instruction about how to use it)

Download Japanese font file (210 Kb)

Please mail me to know the password for unlock the ZIP file of the game (sorry for the trouble but it's necessary. I promise to answer as soon as possible)

PLEASE, if you can speak Japanese, could you kindly let me know at least bits of this story (since I can only imagine it from the screenshots)? You can mail me here, really thanks!

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LOTS of thanks to Blurryi and Manabu Tsuribe for some of the infos featured above