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Shin chan starts a mysterious daily routine, traveling between two worlds: the Village in Akita and Coal Town.
Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is a adventure, casual and point & click game
developed by h.a.n.d. and Inc.
and published by Neos Corporation.
Released on October 23rd 2024 is available only on Windows
in 7 languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
It has received 511 reviews of which 489 were positive and 22 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5 4440
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4 GB available space
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Shin-Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is, on paper, the sequel to Millennium Kitchen's Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation. It's definitely a similar type of game, the two biggest differences being a) you have two smaller locations instead of one big location, and b) it's a lot more linear and story-focused - while M&tP uses a timeloop spin on the tried and true Millennium Kitchen "time-limited summer vacation" pacing, Shiro gives you as much time as you need to do whatever you want. The two areas kind of embody the two things this game is trying to accomplish. The titular Coal Town basically gives us an interactive take on a Shin Chan movie, with the critically acclaimed (no, really) The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back being an obvious reference point. The "Unbent Village" setting by contrast gives you a tiny village in Akita to do a massively simplified take on your more standard Millenium Kitchen fare - collectathoning and sidequests, basically. The simplified nature of the game does have it's advantages. The main plot, while nothing that special and having a cheap twist at the end in my personal opinion, is definitely a lot better than M&tP's - it helps that the lack of timelooping avoids the obvious pacing issues that game had, but honestly, it just feels like a more professional effort than whatever that game had going on. The collectathoning is also nowhere near as much of a pain in the ass as it was in either M&tP or Natsu-mon for that matter, and a ton of your collectibles feed directly into the sidequests (and occasionally the main quest), meaning the time spent on getting a blue crayfish or two will actually reward you with more than just a steam achievement. It also helps that the main minigame of minecart racing - which plays like a weird mix of Yakuza's RC racing and Mario Kart - is definitely a lot more interesting and unique than the rock-paper-scissors monster battles of M&tP. That being said, this game doesn't really feel like a Millennium Kitchen game - it feels like something more inspired by Millennium Kitchen but not really authentically them, and it turns out, that's because it is - though MK seem to have been involved (apparently) in some kind of supervisory or consultant role, this game was actually developed by h.a.n.d. - and no disrespect to them, because they seem like a very competent company - but this game doesn't really feel like a Summer Vacation in the way it's predecessor did, and I would argue that although more polished, it lacks something of the artistry of M&tP as well - I don't mean in terms of the visuals or music, which are both phenomenal here, but rather in terms of the minute details, the minor characters, flavor text - this is a lot more sparse, it feels like it was made by seasoned professionals working on a small scale and strict schedule as opposed to Millennium Kitchen, who were much more interested in immersing you in their world - one of the beauty or rural Japan- than they were in telling you a Shin Chan story. I feel like I'm in a minority position there - most people seem to see this as a clear improvement and I would still recommend both, it's very much a "if you like one, you'll like the other" kind of situation - but in terms of what I got from both games, it's a bit like comparing watching a movie to taking an actual vacation for me.
No spoilers in this review! Played on a Steamdeck [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45534557/]@MatureContent This game is one big improvement over the last game, in every possible way. Everything from the story and the art to the dialogue and the jokes is all just so much better in this game, and I liked the last game, so it isn't even like that was a bad game, everything is just so much better here. So, I'm really glad I started out with the “professor game”, or my opinion of that game might have looked different. The premise of the two games is still the same though, or at least very similar. Shin Chan once again goes on vacation with his family and ends up getting lost in his own imagination. This time he ends up in a mysterious industrial town simply just called Coal Town. Here he meets a lot of new faces, most notably a little girl named Sumi, who he ends up teaming up with and another key character, Miss Yuri, a scientist/engineer. A key location which you will also visit quite frequently throughout the game is the Misono Diner also located in Coal Town, here you learn about a lot of different japanese cuisine and a lot of quests always ends up there somehow. I can't really say much more about the story and its characters without ending up spoiling it, so I'll leave it here. Just know that the story is a lot better in this game, the writing and flow is just better, funnier and feels more linear, which is good. There is also a lot of similarities in freeroaming. You once again catch bugs with the butterfly net and fish in the streams and ponds with the fishing rod, though in this game you are granted two different rods, one for shellfish and one for normal fish. You also gather plants and complete bulletin board quests, though these boards now offer more than just money as a reward, they can also offer things which you might need for your quests or what you might need to complete your journal. You can also farm like in the last game, but here the farm is right beside the family vacation home for easy access and there is just generally a lot more choices in what you can farm. Some other improvements I noticed is that you can now choose different languages for subs and dubs, which is something I was really missing in the first game. Another thing is that you can now manually save whenever you want, you no longer must sleep to save, which also is a nice change. There is no way I can't recommend this game, I mean, I liked the first game a lot and this game is very much like that game just much better, so of course I recommend this, on sale or not. ————————————————————————————— [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45534557/]Help me out by following my Curator, I’d really appreciate it!!
I like the vibe of this game at the first half part of this game. As I get deep in the game, I start to get bored finding everything is getting repetitive, especially close to the end of the game, where a great amount of pocket money are needed to push forward the progress, which is like forcing us to repeat the boring contents after we finished Yuri's book, which is an incentive why I keep on playing this game apart from the main plot. I‘ve finished this game. It reminds me of the time I spent playing My Summer Vacation on the PSP as a kid. It feels like a final farewell to my childhood. As all those memories fade away, they linger in my heart as a faint, bittersweet feeling.
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Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
No, Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town received 489 positive votes out of a total of 511 achieving a rating of 8.87.
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Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town was developed by h.a.n.d. and Inc. and published by Neos Corporation.
Yes, Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is not playable on MacOS.
No, Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is not playable on Linux.
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No, Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town does not support VR.
Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town. Explore additional content available for Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town on Steam.
No, Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
h.a.n.d., Inc.
Publisher
Neos Corporation
Release
23 Oct 2024
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