Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale

Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale is an Adventure game that was developed by Millennium Kitchen for the Nintendo 3DS and was released on March 13, 2013. The game’s plot is structured in 26 episodes and takes place in 1971 in Setagaya, Tokyo, in the suburb of Fuji no Hana. It starts with the ten-year-old Sohta, who has recently moved into town and whose parents own a dry-cleaning shop, being sent on an errand but forgetting about it.

As he ventures through town, he meets various classmates, against whom he plays a trading-card game called “Monster Cards”, and other residents. The episodes are non-linear and involve individual quests. The overarching story of the game is presented in a magic realist manner, and involves the sudden and inexplicable appearance of massive fictional superheroes and kaiju that battle every Friday outside of town.

As a tokusatsu show is also filmed in the same town, it is unclear whether it is a supernatural phenomenon or a giant hoax orchestrated by the townspeople. In the game, the player explores the town to which the protagonist Sohta has just moved to, with gameplay consisting of speaking to NPCs to progress the plot and playing card battles against other residents. Sohta must collect “glims”, energy shards that allow him to magically obtain new cards.