The game is soaked with the details of summer in 1970s Japan and plays like a mix between animal crossing and old school 3D adventure games like Resident Evil (due to the camera angles and tank controls, not due to a presence of zombies. The sequel contains games from Keiji Inafune ( Mega Man, Dead Rising), Kaz Ayabe ( My Summer Vacation), Kazuya Asano ( Torneko, Kamaitachi no Yoru 2) and Takemaru Abiko ( Kamaitachi no Yoru, 428: Shibuya Scramble). The collection was popular enough to get a sequel collection in Guild 02, followed by releases of all the games as individual eShop releases in English. These included Suda51 ( Killer7, No More Heroes), Yoot Saito ( Seaman, Odama), Yasumi Matsuno ( Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story), and comedian Yoshiyuki Hirai. Similar to films like Paris je t’aime (2006) or The Animatrix (2003), Guild 01 is not one single game but instead a collection of smaller-scoped titles created by 5 of Japan’s most famous game creators. In October of 2012, Level-5 announced a new Nintendo 3DS game they were working on called Guild 01. So as we savour these last few days of summer, it’s only appropriate that we look back at one of my favourite Kaiju games: Attack of the Friday Monsters for Nintendo 3DS. Instead of making the player feel like a lumbering beast, it recreates the magic of being a kid and revelling in your love for the genre. Attack of the Friday Monsters is one of those games. However, every now and then a game comes along that defies those assumptions.
This is simply developers attempting to deliver on what they believe their audience is looking for.
Most Kaiju games are violent action games where players can beat the tar out of other monsters or smash cities into rubble (Dawn of the Monsters certainly does not intend to buck this trend). I’m going to highlight classics, hidden gems, and everything inbetween. Giant Japanese-style monsters and games are two of my favourite things in life, so to cross them over like this was only natural. This is the fourth part in a series on notable kaiju video games. Attack of the Friday Monsters: A Tokyo Tale (怪獣が出る金曜日)
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