Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru
| Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru | |
|---|---|
| Original title | カ エ ル の 為 に 鐘 は 鳴 る |
| Studio | Nintendo Research & Development 1 |
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Senior Developer | Yoshio Sakamoto, Gunpei Yokoi, Makoto Kano |
| composer | Kazumi Totaka |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
4th September 1992 |
| platform | Game Boy |
| genre | Action RPG |
| Game mode | Single player |
| language | Japanese |
Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru ( Japanese カ エ ル の 為 に 鐘 は 鳴 る , German about “The bell rings for the frog” or “The frog strikes the hour”) is a video game of the action role-playing game genre, which was developed by “Team Shikamaru ”was developed by Nintendo's Research and Development 1 in cooperation with the external company Intelligent Systems . It was released by Nintendo for the Game Boy on September 4, 1992 in Japan . The title is an allusion to John Donne's work Devotions over Emergent Occasions , which contains the phrase "... for whom the hour strikes".
In 2011 an English-language fan translation was published.
action
In a faraway land, Richard, the Prince of the Custard Kingdom, and the Prince of the Sablé Kingdom (the protagonist of the game) have been in friendly rivalry since childhood. They often measure up against each other, although their arguments usually end in a tie or close victory. In fencing, however, Prince Richard is always the winner. One day a messenger comes from a small neighboring kingdom and warns the princes that the evil King Delarin has penetrated the Mille Feuille realm and captured the beautiful princess Tiramisu. In another boastful attempt to outdo the Sablé Prince, Richard seizes a boat and penetrates the kingdom. The Sablé Prince is trying to catch up. On his journey, he, Richard and others are transformed into frogs to reveal the true happenings in this kingdom.
main characters
The Prince of Sablé (sometimes referred to as Prince Sabure , Prince of Sabure , Prince Sablé , Sablé-Prince , Prince Sable or Prince of Sable ) is the main character of the game (named by the player at the beginning). He is a good-natured and kind-hearted boy, even though he was not brought up in the ways of the world. He always loses to Prince Richard when they fence. Nevertheless, carefree in nature, they remain friends. The kingdom of Sablé, the richest and most powerful people in the country, has given him a comfortable life until now; he never had to worry about money. This upbringing had the side effect of giving the Sablé Prince the idea that some problem could somehow be solved by throwing money on it, which he often does in the game. By drinking two potions brewed by the witch mandola, he gains the ability to transform into a frog and a snake and use these transformations to progress.
Prince Richard - He is the Prince of the Custard Kingdom. The Sablé prince is his good rival and childhood friend. As the game progresses, the Sablé Prince and Richard will both battle it out to save Princess Tiramisu. Strange events turn him into a frog along with his entire army.
Princess Tiramisu - She rules the Mille Feuille Kingdom. The legend of its incomparable beauty has spread far and wide across the country. King Delarin and his servants, the Croakians, sought their hand (forcibly) in marriage and invaded the countryside and besieged the castle. The princess is mysteriously missing.
Jam - A thief from the city of A La Mode. He was initially hostile to the Sablé Prince and thought he was a member of the Croakian Army. Their second meeting involved him stealing all of the Sablé prince's money. Eventually the two realized the misunderstanding and became friendly with each other. He wears an eye patch and looks like a pirate. He is also transformed into a frog by Mandola.
Mandola - a witch who wears glasses. She alone knows how to destroy King Delarin and restore the kingdom. She has a carrion bird, a condor-like bird named Polnareff, as a pet. She also knows how to brew magic potions. At the end of the game it turns out that Mandola and Princess Tiramisu are one and the same.
King Delarin - He is the antagonist of the title. He captured Princess Tiramisu and released the Croakian army to wreak havoc within the Mille Feuille kingdom. It is later revealed that he is indeed a snake and plans to gather all the frogs in the kingdom for a feast.
Dr. Arewo Stein - ( Dr. Knitt Witt in the fan translation) works as a scientist at Nantendo Inc. He loves wasabi and creates several inventions to help Prince Sable, most notably the Ikari-Z, a wheeled mech, by playing the Z flute can be called.
genre
Gameplay
The movement of the game is divided into two types:
Bird's-Eye Scrolling - A top view only shown in villages, towns, fields, and similar areas. As in the Legend of Zelda franchise, the Sablé Prince moves up, down, left, and right on the D + Pad in that direction. Enemies are visible and the player can start the fight by running into them. Most of the game takes place in this style.
2D Platforming - A side view only shown in dungeons, caves, castles, and other similar locations in the game, similar to Metroid , Kid Icarus, and other side-scrolling platformer. The control pad moves the Sablé Prince to the left and right, while climbing ladders are reserved and look upwards. When looking, Prince Sablé can perform a super jump. As in the top view, enemies are visible from this perspective; The player can start the fight by thrusting into them. Metroid and Metroid II: Return of Samus were the only previous games from Makoto Kanoh, the game's producer. Similar mechanics can also be found in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening .
Enemy battles
When players trick the Sablé Prince into touching an enemy, the game doesn't shift into a battle scene. Instead, a cloud of dust occurs when the fight goes out of sight. As a further separation from the RPG genre, the player does not choose from a series of menu items. Instead, the player just watches the fight. This leads to a loss of physical strength while the Sablé Prince and the enemy attack each other. If the Sable Prince is significantly stronger than the enemy he is facing, the enemy will be defeated instantly, basically letting you skip this battle. Victory or defeat in a typical battle is measured by the Sablé Prince's strength and weapon, attack speed, armor and defense, and opposing stats. When a key is pressed during combat, the player can choose to use an item or run away. Objects do different things in combat. For example, Wasabi temporarily stuns enemies and saws that inflict massive damage on tree enemies. Running away can fail, and it's impossible to run away from certain enemies, usually bosses. For bosses, the player must fill the Sablé Prince's life bar and find the most powerful items at certain points before fighting each boss to win against them. If the Sablé Prince wins, he receives money, hearts or other items. If he loses, he will restart from a "hospital" in the city he last visited, but keep the money he had when he died. After being resuscitated in the hospital, the prince will only have 3 hearts that you will have to pay for healing or leave town to seek hearts elsewhere.
Transformations
As the story progresses, the Sablé Prince will have the ability to transform into a frog and later into a snake. Frogs, snakes and humans each have their own special abilities, some of which need to be switched to get through the game.
Human - The shape with which the Sablé Prince begins. Man has a greater amount of attack power than the other two forms. If the prince tries to enter the water as a human, he will either drown or turn into a frog (only after drinking Mandola's first potion). To transform back into this shape, the Sablé prince must eat a fruit of joy or die. He is returned to human form upon awakening in a hospital.
Frog - After Mandola has given the Sablé Prince the Frog Potion, the Sablé Prince can be transformed into a humanoid frog by stepping on water. This shape has the highest jump height. With this form, the prince can safely enter water and talk to real frogs and some soldiers (without fighting them). If the prince in the frog shape touches an insect-like enemy, he will not interfere in a fight - he will "eat" it and win a heart. This form cannot fight snakes or other enemies other than insect-like enemies, and snakes are attracted to it. Prince Richard, the Sablé Prince, Jam and many others can take this form.
Snake - By drinking Mandola's second potion, only the Sablé Prince can take this form. When the Sablé Prince eats a Hot Springs egg, he turns into a snake. It allows the Sablé prince to walk through tight holes and talk to real snakes without fighting them. While this form cannot fight, you can bite weak enemies and turn them into blocks. Snake shape has the lowest jump height. When the Sablé prince encounters a frog in the shape of a snake, he scares it, lets it flee and moves off the screen.
Related publications
Virtual Console
Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru was released on September 5, 2012 in Japan as a downloadable virtual console title on Nintendo 3DS . The price of the game is 400 yen .
music
Two official CD albums from Club Nintendo Japan each contain a song by Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru . One album is the Peach - Healing Music Album, which contains a slowly remixed version of the Upper World theme by the original composer Kazumi Totaka . The other album is the Luigi - B-Side Music Album, which contains the original theme of the overworld.
The famous song Totaka's Song composed by Kazumi Totaka can be found in this game. To hear it, the player must return to the port city after the third quest in the castle, then go left and up to the shop next to the boat and wait three minutes and 30 seconds. A remix version of the main theme appears as an unlockable disk in the Japanese version of WarioWare DIY .
Other appearances in the media
Several characters and items from Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru , including Prince Richard, have cameos in the Game Boy title The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening . Dr. Arewo Stein (Dr. Knitt Witt in the fan translation), the Nintendo employee from Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru , appears in Wario Land 4 as a researcher in the bonus rooms and as a projectile. A “sticker” of the Sablé Prince (referred to in the game as the Sabure Prince) can be collected in the treasury area of the Wii title Super Smash Bros. Brawl . The protagonist appears under the name Sablé-Prinz as a character summoned with the support trophy feature in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.
Web links
- Nintendo Official Site (Japanese)
- Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru at MobyGames (English)