If you are looking for action or hundreds of hours gaming, then please look elsewhere because you will not find them here. What you will find is an utterly charming tale, eloquently wrapped in a mood most similar to the feel of a Studio Ghibli film.
Attack of The Friday Monsters! is the story of a boy called Sohta who moves to a rural Tokyo village in the Japanese Summer of the 1970s, an era when tokusatsu shows like Ultraman were all the rage.
It is a quiet and charming love letter, written to a time when we were socially unaware enough to stare at the TV with our mouths open, completely immersed in the adventures of our favourite heroes. The story captures those moments in our youth when the worlds and characters found on television bled into our every day lives. Moments that all too briefly, seemed more real than the physical world around us.
Attack of The Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale, is that long forgotten Summer where we lay on the grass of our secret hideouts and talked to our friends about the TV shows we loved.
I encourage everyone to check out Kaz Ayabe and Level-5's tiny slice of nostalgia. It has instantly become one of my favourite games of 2013.
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