The game revolves around Boku, a 9 year old boy sent to his aunt and uncle in Japan's wooded countryside and the daily adventures he encounters there. Boku is there because his Mother is in her final month of pregnancy. The player controls him for the 31 days of August 1975 (In Japan, a Summer Vacation, called natsuyasumi last for one month). You explore the game's area and can catch bugs and pit them against each other, collect bottle caps, fly a kite, or just relax.
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Character
Earnest, contemplative, warm and grave.
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation
- Developer
- Millennium Kitchen, Atelier Double
- Publisher
- Sony Computer Entertainment
- Released
- June 22, 2000
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Third person
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The Velveteen Rabbit 202370% alikeFilm · Both earnest, warm, effortless.
Somewhere in Time 198070% alikeFilm · Both earnest, grave, classical in form.
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