Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town Reviews
Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is a delightful game that captures the anime with beautiful backdrops, fun racing, and collecting.
Just like the first game, Shiro and the Coal Town highlights the joy in ordinary tasks like collecting bugs and getting to know your neighbours, but with its stronger cast of characters, array of side quests to complete, and well-developed trolley racing minigame, it has a lot more to offer and is a significant improvement on Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation.
A leisurely collectathon set in the Japanese countryside, which can't help but stick in your memory.
Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is a stunningly beautiful game balanced by its fair share of weird humour. While not mechanically complex, it's a charming slice-of-life game that will likely delight any fans of the Crayon Shin-Chan series.
Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is another wonderful cosy game featuring that daft anime kid, and is a seriously relaxing experience.
Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is an adventure superior to my summer with the professor, although it still has problems, from extreme simplicity to a somewhat slow and monotonous development. But if you're into the crazy universe created by Yoshito Usui, and you like Japanese culture, you're very likely to be conquered.
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Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is an adventure with childlike tones and a deliberately monotonous pace that aims to recreate the carefree atmosphere that many associate with their childhood summers. Undoubtedly designed for a very young audience, it forgoes some of the original work's strengths to package an aesthetically enchanting adventure, but perhaps a little too poor in terms of gameplay.
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Light-hearted as the flight of a butterfly, refreshing as water raised by the dart of a fish and relaxing as a sunny summer afternoon. Shiro and the Coal Town is an old-fashioned title that requires no special skills, but if played with the right spirit can awaken sweet emotions, welcoming you into a typically Japanese rural atmosphere.
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Like its mischievous protagonist, “Shin Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town” is a surprisingly complex game. And by that, I don’t mean its mechanics. After all, the gameplay in “Shin Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town” is about as simple as it gets. Instead, it’s the little details where the game pleasantly surprises. In that sense, “Shin Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town” is very Crayon Shin-chan-like. It might seem shallow at first. But give it a closer look and there’s some depth behind that butt-walking move that he loves to whip out.
I honestly think Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town greatly benefits from its new location, adding a unique charm that sets it apart from its predecessors with a charming story that's personal and melancholic. It still has its issues with overly simplistic gameplay, which could use an extra bit of spice to keep it from dragging, but this game is a definitive and polished way of experiencing Shin chan's adventures in video game format.
Shin Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is a beauty of a game. It has a lot of cozy elements but also very basic ones.
Shin Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is a great mixture of adventure, multi-quest challenges, and somewhat open-world exploration. The game is a great primer for the young gamer in your household and will put their mental fortitude to the test while not pushing them too hard with impossible content.
Like the 2022 title, Shin-chan: Shiro and the Coal Town mashes together the iconic Crayon Shin-chan manga with the gameplay of a more obscure, Japanese bug-catching series.
The pacing is drawn out and intended to be contemplative, nostalgic, and relaxing. Gathering stuff most of the time and bouts of intense break-neck racing do not always make the best experience and will turn off a lot of players. It is worth sticking with it and bearing with the grind because the story is genuinely interesting and the trolly races are fun.
It’s incredibly relaxing and doesn’t outstay its welcome — well, unless you plan on going for every achievement. With how much I enjoyed this, I’m definitely planing on checking out Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation some time soon!
I don’t quite think Shin Chan is that bad as Matt makes out, but the tone is jarring, and I do kind of feel that I’d get on just a little better with the core game that’s here without him present – though I’ve little doubt that his presence probably helped shift more than a few copies when Shin Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town first debuted in Japan earlier this year.
I was pleasantly shocked at how much fun and relaxation I found in Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town. The only issue might just be the price point!
But let me be clear: Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is a great experience that has me fully invested in Millennium Kitchen's flavor of adventure games. Between a well told slice-of-life narrative, an improved structure, a super fun minecart racing mode and some really pretty art, this is a top tier adventure game for anyone hungry for some weapons-grade nostalgia.
Shin-chan: Shiro and the Coal Town takes what made the previous Shin-chan game good and adds a twist of intrigue that is much stronger than the latter's plot. There is a lot of fun to be had in Shin-chan's new adventure in Coal Town and a good relaxing holiday story to boot. The dedication to matching the visual and writing style of the Shin-chan universe makes this a joy to experience and a fantastic pickup for those who pine for summer during the cold seasons! It's a satisfying little adventure story with a ton of very odd humour and a really unique design.
Shin Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is an easy recommendation for any fan of Shin chan, as well as for those looking for a relaxing experience while exploring a beautiful place through the eyes of a 5-year-old boy with a lot of imagination. The game looks great and lets you engage in various farming tasks, collect all kinds of insects, fish, and minerals you come across, and enjoy some excitement in curious races. The best part is that the signature humor of the series is present at every moment.
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