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Tail of the Sun is a classic action-adventure game developed by Artdink, originally released in Japan in 1996. It features an expansive open world, stunning visuals, and engaging gameplay that appeals to both nostalgic gamers and new players alike.
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T**Y
Captain caveman!
So you wanna be a caveman? or cavewoman? then this is for you! now you might think it sounds silly but this game can devour your life whole. as of this writing I have recieved a copy *again* and its as fun now as it was way back then and its soundtrack is still excellent and the night sky and stormy skies make this game a true winner! Did I mension the sound? its stunning. never in a game have I heard music and effects this good. I absolutely recommend this to any harvest moon nuts *like me* or anyone whom likes simulations. you start off as your sole tribe member but as you explore the earth *all of it* you will find other animal life, cavemen, and even aliens! its a weird game but its loads of fun. I had been playing what seemed like an hour when I looked at the time and saw 7 hours had passed! I am telling you this is great! the objective of the game besides getting your tribe to grow and advance *yep weapon improvements* so you can finally hunt the Wooly Mammoths for their tusks to build a tower to grab "the tale of the sun" right down to how the game shows your tribes history as a cave painting. I truly wish this would come out for a next gen system like PS3 or PC. Buy it before it vanishes and you miss one of the great art style games *think ico but 1st gen graphics*Graphics: kinda ugly now. still 4 stars for the evening skies.Sound: Superb 5 Star every sound Rocks! from eating to waterfalls!Fun: this rating scale isn't big enough for 10 star fun. so 5 starsOverall: One of the Forgotten Gems of the PS1 grab a copy or you will end up buying one all scratched up off ebay. or worse.Buy It Here !!!
Tail of the Sun
S**K
For the Love of All That's Weird and Quirky
I used to write for Game Informer and this goofy little game has had a lasting impression on me. If the words "best game ever" cause your brain to lean more towards a Halo or a Final Fantasy than a Katamari Damacy, this one's not really for you. It's weird. It's kind of... bad. Yet it's delightful. You're a cave man. You run around and hit various animals with a stick to get food. You fall asleep for a good 20 seconds at a time (often sliding down mountains in the process). The only real goal of the game involves running back and forth and repeating a task. It's inexplicably awesome to some of us. If you have or want Pepsi Man in your gaming library, this one's definitely worth grabbing.
C**.
Unique little hidden gem for the PSX
Tail of the Sun has a simple premise and simple gameplay: you're a caveman trying to survive, evolve, and build a tower of mammoth tusks that reaches so high into the sky it catches the tail of the sun. The game involves taking your caveman (or woman, if you so choose - you get to pick which tribe member you play next each time one dies) out into the wilderness and exploring every nook and cranny, trying to make sense of the world around you. Along the way you'll eat many, many fruits to both help you survive (it is possible to starve to death) and to shape the attributes at which you want to excel - you can become an excellent jumper, hold your breath underwater for longer periods, evolve quickly, run quickly, to name a few. Each food makes a slight, unique impact on these attributes, and you must balance these attributes, deciding what is most important to your tribe's survival. As you explore, you will encounter animals from nearly harmless monkeys to deadly sabretooth tigers, from which you can gather meat to bring back to your tribe and help it grow. You'll also encounter caves, solve little mysteries of the world, and, of course, battle mammoths to build your tower - the ultimate goal of the game.I'll say it now, the graphics and sound are nothing particularly standout or beautiful. If you must have your eyecandy or an epic musical score to set the mood for your game, look elsewhere. On the up side, however, the graphics aren't so bad you can't tell what you're looking at, and the sounds and music are decent enough that, while you probably won't be humming them for hours after shutting off the game, they won't make you want to mute the game, either.Tail of the Sun is a fairly easy game with simple controls that could be mastered by just about anyone, including children. Its repetitive nature is what prompted me to give it just four stars - after I had satisfied my curiosity as to exploring the rest of the world and decided that sabretooth tigers just weren't worth my time to bother trying to kill, it quickly devolved into an exercise of running to the nearest spot I knew had mammoths, killing one, bringing it back to my tribe, and repeating, over and over, until the tower was complete. I'm sure this wasn't the way the game was exactly intended to be played by the developers, but there it is. Eventually that's all there is to do, and it does become repetitive. There probably isn't much for replay value unless by some strange chance you manage to finish your tower while exploring and still haven't satisfied your urge to explore the prehistoric world, or you have some burning desire to see whether you're able to finish it with a different attribute setup.Overall, the game is just a fun, light little diversion that will keep you busy for a few hours just dying to see what's around the corner or what happens when that tower is finished. I had a lot of fun playing it, and other fans of quirky games will probably get a big kick out of this game.
E**S
Incredible Exploration Game
I bought this when it first came out. I knew it wasn't going to be a standard action or strategy game. Anyway, it was by ArtDink, which was enough for me to buy it.What I got was astounding. This is one of a tiny number of games to have a vast world to walk around in! (We need more vast worlds in games. Preferably procedural ones, to cut down on the disk space.) Shame there's no way to look southward, or have longer lives. Also, there is an ultimate limit to the tribe which you cannot exceed, meaning everything is limited if you're trying to collect tusks. Fortunately, you can usually get enough in time.There is also a vast cave system if you know where to look. In the south continent is the largest entrance, but if you go all the way there your tribesman will die of old age, lost in the enormous cave.The worst problem with this game today is there is no way to make a map of the game since everything is in 3D. The manual had a crude map but it just wasn't accurate.I've seen all the different endings to this game-- a bunch of strange CG sequences which sort of show the tribe's possible futures.This is an exquisite and beautiful, and very misunderstood game. It's too bad most people can't see past the primitive 32-bit graphics and interface. It's just the game's STYLE.
C**M
Great for a collection
I collect rare PS one games as a hobby, and this game was on ebay when I bought it, I've never heard of it, so I tried it out. Compared to a lot of rare games (so many of them suck) this is original and creative and fun. very enjoyable. Often funny. Graphics are okay, camera angles just about piss me off sometimes. i would definitely get this game if you are a ps one game collector.
S**N
Brings me back!
Showed up ahead of schedule, love this game!
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Tail of the Sun is one of the most tactical, small-scale empire-builder ever created - the scale here being individual hunters in small tribes. In this 3-D hunter/gatherer you play a prehistoric knuckle-dragger on a quest to, well, exist. Existing entails sleeping, eating berries - actually, they're obviously Japanese sugar cookies, please just don't even ask - hunt down creatures residing on the lower rungs of the food ladder, procreate, and ultimately croak on some godforsaken, windswept tundra. Along the way, you'll develop new skills and weapons for your tribe, which will prepare you to go after the bigger game; specifically, the mammoth, which not only provides scads of meat, but valuable tusks which are used to create your tribe's greatest cultural achievement: The Irritating Control Scheme.
No, seriously - the tribe's greatest achievement is The Tower (made of those coveted tusks) with which your tribe will reach toward societal growth, the Sun God, spiritual enlightenment, and all that crystals-and-healing crap. But that's a lofty goal for future generations, and if you don't get out there and take down some fresh meat for the tribe pronto, there ain't gonna be any future generations. So off you go, one warrior at a time, to roam the quiet Earth in search of game. The world is a 3-D environment with multiple terrains, bodies of water, and moving animals, as well as many different varieties of plants (and by 'plants' I mean 'sugar cookies') which, when eaten, have specific benefits for different skills and parts of the body; you will discover plants that increase intelligence, strengthen legs for fast running/hunting skills, or aid the, ahem, procreative faculty.
The graphics, in keeping with the game's subject, are minimalistic, reinforcing a primal atmosphere - yeah, right. The graphics are crude, with blocky warriors and creatures, some of which move around like they were stuffed animals tottering around from one leg to the next. Anyway, your warrior's days are numbered as he treks across the wild.
Snowstorms, sunrises, and the like reflect the passage of time and seasons. One very simple but nice trick comes when night falls, and the sky becomes a bright, child's kaleidoscope of stars and planets, crossing the sky in uniform arcs like points of light in a planetarium show. As you move about, it immediately becomes apparent that while the world is truly 3-D and unrestrained, your viewpoint is annoyingly bolted firmly to the south - thus, trekking south will have your own character facing you, and trekking west locks the viewpoint to the side of your cromag's progress. This whole setup gets irritating when you're trying to throw new-fangled weapons (such as rocks and spears) at prey because it's more difficult to line up a shot. Another point about hunting while the going's good: Getting your warriors tucked in each night is important, because the sandman comes to say nighty-night in this world with all the subtlety of Krakatau. It's not uncommon when chasing an animal to be running full-bore after some prize piece of game only to suddenly and stiffly face-plant yourself to sleep because you haven't been resting enough in your travels. Do this close to your prey and the animal will have no qualms about mauling you, the sleeping bozo, while you doze. Do this on the steep terrain of a mountain and you will slide down the slope, snoring and spewing Zs all the way to the bottom.
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Did I mension the sound? its stunning. never in a game have I heard music and effects this good. I absolutely recommend this to any harvest moon nuts *like me* or anyone whom likes simulations. you start off as your sole tribe member but as you explore the earth *all of it* you will find other animal life, cavemen, and even aliens! its a weird game but its loads of fun. I had been playing what seemed like an hour when I looked at the time and saw 7 hours had passed! I am telling you this is great! the objective of the game besides getting your tribe to grow and advance *yep weapon improvements* so you can finally hunt the Wooly Mammoths for their tusks to build a tower to grab \"the tale of the sun\" right down to how the game shows your tribes history as a cave painting. I truly wish this would come out for a next gen system like PS3 or PC. 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It's kind of... bad. Yet it's delightful. You're a cave man. You run around and hit various animals with a stick to get food. You fall asleep for a good 20 seconds at a time (often sliding down mountains in the process). The only real goal of the game involves running back and forth and repeating a task. It's inexplicably awesome to some of us. If you have or want Pepsi Man in your gaming library, this one's definitely worth grabbing."},{"@type":"Review","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"4.0"},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"C***."},"datePublished":"Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2011","name":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n Unique little hidden gem for the PSX\n \n","reviewBody":"Tail of the Sun has a simple premise and simple gameplay: you're a caveman trying to survive, evolve, and build a tower of mammoth tusks that reaches so high into the sky it catches the tail of the sun. The game involves taking your caveman (or woman, if you so choose - you get to pick which tribe member you play next each time one dies) out into the wilderness and exploring every nook and cranny, trying to make sense of the world around you. Along the way you'll eat many, many fruits to both help you survive (it is possible to starve to death) and to shape the attributes at which you want to excel - you can become an excellent jumper, hold your breath underwater for longer periods, evolve quickly, run quickly, to name a few. Each food makes a slight, unique impact on these attributes, and you must balance these attributes, deciding what is most important to your tribe's survival. As you explore, you will encounter animals from nearly harmless monkeys to deadly sabretooth tigers, from which you can gather meat to bring back to your tribe and help it grow. You'll also encounter caves, solve little mysteries of the world, and, of course, battle mammoths to build your tower - the ultimate goal of the game.I'll say it now, the graphics and sound are nothing particularly standout or beautiful. If you must have your eyecandy or an epic musical score to set the mood for your game, look elsewhere. On the up side, however, the graphics aren't so bad you can't tell what you're looking at, and the sounds and music are decent enough that, while you probably won't be humming them for hours after shutting off the game, they won't make you want to mute the game, either.Tail of the Sun is a fairly easy game with simple controls that could be mastered by just about anyone, including children. Its repetitive nature is what prompted me to give it just four stars - after I had satisfied my curiosity as to exploring the rest of the world and decided that sabretooth tigers just weren't worth my time to bother trying to kill, it quickly devolved into an exercise of running to the nearest spot I knew had mammoths, killing one, bringing it back to my tribe, and repeating, over and over, until the tower was complete. I'm sure this wasn't the way the game was exactly intended to be played by the developers, but there it is. Eventually that's all there is to do, and it does become repetitive. There probably isn't much for replay value unless by some strange chance you manage to finish your tower while exploring and still haven't satisfied your urge to explore the prehistoric world, or you have some burning desire to see whether you're able to finish it with a different attribute setup.Overall, the game is just a fun, light little diversion that will keep you busy for a few hours just dying to see what's around the corner or what happens when that tower is finished. I had a lot of fun playing it, and other fans of quirky games will probably get a big kick out of this game."},{"@type":"Review","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5.0"},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"E***S"},"datePublished":"Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2011","name":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n Incredible Exploration Game\n \n","reviewBody":"I bought this when it first came out. I knew it wasn't going to be a standard action or strategy game. Anyway, it was by ArtDink, which was enough for me to buy it.What I got was astounding. This is one of a tiny number of games to have a vast world to walk around in! (We need more vast worlds in games. Preferably procedural ones, to cut down on the disk space.) Shame there's no way to look southward, or have longer lives. Also, there is an ultimate limit to the tribe which you cannot exceed, meaning everything is limited if you're trying to collect tusks. Fortunately, you can usually get enough in time.There is also a vast cave system if you know where to look. In the south continent is the largest entrance, but if you go all the way there your tribesman will die of old age, lost in the enormous cave.The worst problem with this game today is there is no way to make a map of the game since everything is in 3D. The manual had a crude map but it just wasn't accurate.I've seen all the different endings to this game-- a bunch of strange CG sequences which sort of show the tribe's possible futures.This is an exquisite and beautiful, and very misunderstood game. It's too bad most people can't see past the primitive 32-bit graphics and interface. It's just the game's STYLE."},{"@type":"Review","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"4.0"},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"C***M"},"datePublished":"Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2005","name":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n Great for a collection\n \n","reviewBody":"I collect rare PS one games as a hobby, and this game was on ebay when I bought it, I've never heard of it, so I tried it out. Compared to a lot of rare games (so many of them suck) this is original and creative and fun. very enjoyable. Often funny. Graphics are okay, camera angles just about piss me off sometimes. i would definitely get this game if you are a ps one game collector."},{"@type":"Review","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5.0"},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"S***N"},"datePublished":"Reviewed in Canada on December 5, 2022","name":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n Brings me back!\n \n","reviewBody":"Showed up ahead of schedule, love this game!"}],"aggregateRating":{"@type":"AggregateRating","ratingValue":4.333333333333333,"bestRating":5,"ratingCount":6}}
