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Oh poo poo, it's a Kairosoft thread.  They make neat management-ish games. It's a bit hard to pin down precisely what they are, because they're a very distinct flavor of game that's more or less unique to Kairosoft. Originally founded in 1996 as a cell phone game company, Kairosoft hit it big in the west when they released Game Dev Story on iOS. They've been porting some of their more successful cell phone games over to iOS and Android. (This explains why most games have a menu-heavy interface, two soft-key-style buttons in each lower corner, and the option to use a directional pad with a single center button. Dumb phone habits die hard, yo.)  The one that started it all. Not too complex, not too simple. Make the next big vidjagame! Then make sequels, then make more sequels, then make even more sequels. It's just like the real games industry! TouchArcade Review: 5 VIDJAGAMES  Their newest game, Beastie Bay was described by TouchArcade as "Pokemon meets SimCity." That's a good description. It takes the familiar build-a-city aspect of Kairo games and adds a Pokemon-esque battling system. It's also their first free game; for $4.99 you can remove ads and enable landscape mode, and midway through the game you can start to buy medals with IAP. You won't really need the latter, and the former is if you like it enough to throw cash their way. TouchArcade Review: 4.5 STARS  Build up a town on the edge of a monster-infested plain, selling your wares and attracting adventurers. TouchArcade Review: 4 STARS  Build up your little soccer team from a piece of poo poo to a not-piece of poo poo. TouchArcade Review: 4 GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALS  Run a restaurant! Discover dishes! Go deep! Really deep. Really, distressingly deep. TouchArcade Review: 4 STARS  Build a town into a bustling medieval Japan hotspot, replete with castles and inns and statistics. TouchArcade Review: 4.5星  Did you like Oh! Edo Towns? Did you want to play a less-good version of it in the modern day? ... Okay then. TouchArcade Review: 2.5 STARS  Regarded as one of the best Kairo games. Start a racing team from scratch, build cars, race 'em, win 'em. Fun as all hell. TouchArcade Review: 4 STARS  Build a town in space! Attack space aliens! Make spacey space things! Space! TouchArcade Review: 4.5 SPACE STARS  Recruit and educate students! Then make them kiss. This is a gameplay mechanic, for some reason. TouchArcade Review: 5 ANIME COUPLES  Run a big, tall clothing store. Unlike most Kairosoft games, it's portrait-only. It's pretty samey, though, and not their best work. TouchArcade Review: 3 STARS  Build up a gigantic mall! Have customers spend $10,000 in a single go! Take all their money! TouchArcade Review: 4.5 STARS  Japanese people, apparently, love hot springs. Let's exploit that for massive profit! TouchArcade Review: 4.5 STEAMY SPA-GOERS Anything below are Android-only, so I can't speak to them. I don't know if they'll ever make it to iOS, but here they are~      Got your own reviews or favorites? Got a strategy to milk each and every dime from your poor, poor virtual people? Well let's do it!
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Feb 13, 2013 03:53
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Oh poo poo indeed! I've put far too many hours into Kairosoft games. You might note which games are iPad friendly, though, since most of them are only on iPhone resolutions. Also, a link to Kairospot seems like a useful addition! That said, Game Dev Story, Pocket League Story, Dungeon Village, and Grand Prix Story are probably my favorite. Pocket Academy is awesome as well, and I don't truly dislike any of them. I'm still not sure how much I care for Beastie Bay, though allsizesfitone fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Feb 13, 2013 |
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Feb 13, 2013 04:08
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Kairobotica is really great, I just could never figure out how to unlock the last planet.
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Feb 13, 2013 04:18
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I'm just starting to dig into Beastie Bay and I know this is gonna end up with me not sleeping for a few nights.
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Feb 13, 2013 04:19
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I hate how much more stuff Android users get over us iGoons. Send the games to the AppStore faster, Kairosoft. All the poo poo's right there. 
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Feb 13, 2013 04:24
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Kaboobi posted:I'm just starting to dig into Beastie Bay and I know this is gonna end up with me not sleeping for a few nights. It's very bare-bones, but there is useful info on beastiebay.net. Don't worry about trying to get high scores on your first run, just research everything and do all of the islands, find the hidden caves, and find one good beastie to take into the new game+. You'll get to keep all of your items, and the levels of your survival items will roll over once you research them once in the new game. Before you do that new game, though, medal farm and leave your game running overnight, then spend all of the medals on level and slot scrolls; the medals don't carry over but the items do. Finally, if you downloaded and played the game from the Japanese store, you can copy over the Library directory with iFunbox and keep your saved game.
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Feb 13, 2013 04:59
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Are all of these games ports? Are any of them made for smartphones from the ground up? GameDevStory owned though.
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Feb 13, 2013 05:04
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^^^^Edit: I'm pretty sure most of them are ports. Also I desperately want Kairosoft to port their horse racing game.
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Feb 13, 2013 05:06
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Revitalized posted:Are all of these games ports? Are any of them made for smartphones from the ground up? p sure they're all decades old ports from Japanese cell phone games. They were huuuuuge into cell phone gaming long before the US even put tetris on digital watches. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Feb 13, 2013 05:09
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The 'good ones' in my opinion are: Game Dev Grand Prix Epic Astro Pocket League Beastie Bay Dungeon Village Academy was not bad, the rest are pretty eh in my opinion but I haven't played all of them. I have wasted whole days of my life to these goddamn games.
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Feb 13, 2013 05:39
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I played GameDev Story like a fiend but haven't touched any of their other games. Are any of them iPad optimised?
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Feb 13, 2013 05:49
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I never can make enough money in Astro Story to get the top gear, so I've never been able to complete a map 100%. Are the Android only ones available for Kindle Fire?
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Feb 13, 2013 05:54
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Does anyone think Beastie Bay feels easier than older Kairosoft games? Also Pocket Academy was ok, but goddamn was it impenetrable, I could barely figure out how anything worked in it.
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Feb 13, 2013 05:56
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dabre_aiamim posted:It's very bare-bones, but there is useful info on beastiebay.net. Don't worry about trying to get high scores on your first run, just research everything and do all of the islands, find the hidden caves, and find one good beastie to take into the new game+. You'll get to keep all of your items, and the levels of your survival items will roll over once you research them once in the new game. Medal farming...? How the heck do you farm medals in this game?
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Feb 13, 2013 06:01
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Legs Benedict posted:Medal farming...? How the heck do you farm medals in this game? The presents you can harvest can sometimes be coins.
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Feb 13, 2013 09:43
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twistedmentat posted:I never can make enough money in Astro Story to get the top gear, so I've never been able to complete a map 100%. The only Android only ones that have made it to Kindle so far is the Sushi Spinnery and World Cruise Story.
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Feb 13, 2013 09:47
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Do any of these look ok on iPad? I tried one or two a while ago, and they looked like poo poo. I like to think I am a substance over graphics guy, but they were truly terrible.
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Feb 13, 2013 09:49
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Cafeteria Nipponica is my fave, although Pocket League and the classic Game Dev will always be dear to me. Dream House Days is promising despite the presence of in-app purchases. I do hope that they branch out with more stuff like Kairobotica and Beastie Bay, which are both quite different to their normal style, though.
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Feb 13, 2013 12:30
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Bummey posted:p sure they're all decades old ports from Japanese cell phone games. They were huuuuuge into cell phone gaming long before the US even put tetris on digital watches. Wait, I can get Tetris on my watch?
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Feb 13, 2013 13:10
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Meowjesty posted:The only Android only ones that have made it to Kindle so far is the Sushi Spinnery and World Cruise Story. All of them work without issue on the Kindle if you crossload them from your phone or hack your Kindle so you can use Google Play. I always think World Cruise Story doesn't get enough love, but Pocket League and Grand Prix are the ones I'll actually play more than once. They haven't done one in that style for quite some time.
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Feb 13, 2013 15:16
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Kairosoft games are awesome, but hideously addictive. Usually find myself playing at night, and before I know it, it's 3am and I'm totally screwed for work the next day.
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Feb 13, 2013 15:22
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Legs Benedict posted:Medal farming...? How the heck do you farm medals in this game? Shwqa posted:The presents you can harvest can sometimes be coins. When you build things, you'll notice they have a grade in stars, 1-5. Apparently any 5-star nature item can produce medals, but the easiest (and only, perhaps) nature feature you can get a lot of are alpine plants. At some point after increasing trade with other islands, you'll be able to purchase alpine plant 'chips' from the Pumpkin Shop. At that point you find some space on your island, put down an ally bed, surround it with alpine plants, throw a handkerchief/rag/headband on the monster and let it farm.
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Feb 13, 2013 15:32
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It's been so long since World Cruise Story hit the Android store I presume it's not getting an IOS release, that was one I would have bought. I do still hold out hope the horse racing game makes it across, if it gets anywhere close to the fun I had with Grand Prix Story I'll be well happy. Talking of which, I never could get even close to winning an Ice Race in that drat thing! Anyone who comprehensively beat that game have any good tips for your run throughs etc?
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Feb 13, 2013 15:34
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Fazana posted:Talking of which, I never could get even close to winning an Ice Race in that drat thing! Anyone who comprehensively beat that game have any good tips for your run throughs etc? It's been ages since I beat Grand Prix Story, but I seem to recall that durability was a must, and spec the crap outta your tyres. What build are you currently trying the races with? General rule - if you dont shoot into the lead within the first half couple of bends from the start - you got no chance of finishing 1st.
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Feb 13, 2013 15:43
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Dungeon Village, Cafeteria Nipponica, Pocket Clothier and Beastie Bay are all universal apps. The rest look ok on iPad, owing to the pixelly motif. EDIT In Grand Prix I abused the hell out of the supercharger, especially early on. It gives you crazy good acceleration off the line, even if installed by a bunch of nincompoops.
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Feb 13, 2013 18:33
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dabre_aiamim posted:When you build things, you'll notice they have a grade in stars, 1-5. Apparently any 5-star nature item can produce medals, but the easiest (and only, perhaps) nature feature you can get a lot of are alpine plants. At some point after increasing trade with other islands, you'll be able to purchase alpine plant 'chips' from the Pumpkin Shop. At that point you find some space on your island, put down an ally bed, surround it with alpine plants, throw a handkerchief/rag/headband on the monster and let it farm. To expand on this, you can farm the cave on the west side of the starting island (damp cave, chill cave?) and occasionally you get to build rocks. Put the rocks between two power sources (solar works best) and then all the woods (the 3-tree ones, not 5-tree ones) can be upgraded to Legendary trees. Put your best beasts with the highest work skill around the trees and you'll be able to get ~100 medals an hour assuming you have as many beasts as possible and all of them working on nothing but Legendary Trees or alpine plants. To max out their recovery rate, I put 8 beasts around a clinic and then put a woods in front of each of them, and a person's house in each corner upgraded to Mansions, not their tourist businesses. Seems to help. Also, you carry over ALL the stuff in your inventory so to max out your money buy as many baits as you can afford, then just sell them when you start a new game. You need around 300,000g to max out all the investment opportunities.
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Feb 13, 2013 18:46
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There's just something about these games that really grabs me. Of course I always have to name the places some variation on "Sunny", even when it isn't the default. Plus you always know you're going to end up with Kairobot, and he's awesome. Grizzly Bearington is another favourite for me. The wrestler guy is great when he turns up too. And Metaboks if it's one with monsters.
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Feb 13, 2013 19:09
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Merrill Grinch posted:I always think World Cruise Story doesn't get enough love, but Pocket League and Grand Prix are the ones I'll actually play more than once. They haven't done one in that style for quite some time. I keep hoping (a) that World Cruise Story will eventually see an iOS release, and (b) that we get another in that same style. I wondered if Beastie Bay might at least have some sort of breeding mechanic that worked out like building/improving a car, honestly.
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Feb 13, 2013 20:05
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poo poo, There's a New Game+ in beastie bay that lets you keep 1 monster and all your items? Maybe I won't worry about trying to capture everything as I go and I'll just focus on leveling and killing stuff with my starter Duckie, Electrobot(?), and something else like the definitely-not-a-kingslime I just got from the first uninhabited island.
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Feb 14, 2013 05:35
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Evil Fluffy posted:poo poo, There's a New Game+ in beastie bay that lets you keep 1 monster and all your items? Maybe I won't worry about trying to capture everything as I go and I'll just focus on leveling and killing stuff with my starter Duckie, Electrobot(?), and something else like the definitely-not-a-kingslime I just got from the first uninhabited island. Do your first playthrough until you get to the hidden caves and can find either a Kairobot or a Princess, one of the weapons that does +128 to all enemies and C resist charms for at least 3 elements. On your next game, you give 2 slot scrolls to your 3-slot Kairobot and you can watch that thing solo the entire game until you get to Enigma Island, basically.
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Feb 14, 2013 18:29
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How do you access the hidden caves? The site said where they are, but not how to access them. Do I need to get 100% completion for that area?
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Feb 14, 2013 19:46
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ZephroDyne posted:How do you access the hidden caves? The site said where they are, but not how to access them. Do I need to get 100% completion for that area? There are 6 of them, I think one per island, where you keep leveling up one of the caves on the island and at some point you find a boulder that you can break. It'll level the cave up to I think L30 or 35 at that point and you get an option to go in the hidden cave the next time you do it. Each one is different, they're mostly one element themed but also have the robots which are sorta hard to capture because they can crush your party and they run away. You really, really want a 4* or better.
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Feb 14, 2013 19:55
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I love Game Dev Story. My best moment was developing a golfing FPS hybrid game. I called it "Holes in Every One"  It did extraordinarily well. I'd like to think it was the name.
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Feb 14, 2013 20:06
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I've completed all races in Grand Prix and all matches in Pocket League and played enough of Game Dev and Dungeon Village to be done with them. Currently going through Beastie Bay, but am nowhere near enough time in on it to take advantage of the high level stuff mentioned so far here.
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Feb 14, 2013 20:08
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So my current attempt at some measure of min/maxing Beastie Bay is to convert all of my beasts into Alpine Plant-based medal farms and using my human people to generate tourist income/farm orchards. This + fast mode and leaving the game on for a while is working out pretty well. Is it worth it to set up Legendary Trees and other stuff or should I use my millions of illicit overnight money to just buy tons of Alpine Plants?
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Feb 14, 2013 21:08
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I want a Game Dev Story II so bad. I liked Kart Story, and I think a Horse Racing sim could be even better, so I echo the person who says they want it to come over.
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Feb 14, 2013 21:23
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Telex posted:Do your first playthrough until you get to the hidden caves and can find either a Kairobot or a Princess, one of the weapons that does +128 to all enemies and C resist charms for at least 3 elements. On your next game, you give 2 slot scrolls to your 3-slot Kairobot and you can watch that thing solo the entire game until you get to Enigma Island, basically. That's... more extreme than I expected. While clearing the island that introduces tourists I ended up fighting a Mimic. Not sure if they normally appear there or if it was a rare thing with the chest I found but it was level 4, my party was level 7-8 and it killed my non-duck characters before the 3rd bait captured it but holy poo poo are they powerful. Gains 2-3 atk per level and 1-2 defense. I think my duck gets 1 atk/def a level and others MIGHT get 1 atk and def per level if lucky. My only suggestion for other new Beastie Bay players so far is to do whatever it takes to catch one of those mimics if you fight one early on. It's just silly how powerful the thing is.
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Feb 15, 2013 00:10
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Harlock posted:I want a Game Dev Story II so bad. I liked Kart Story, and I think a Horse Racing sim could be even better, so I echo the person who says they want it to come over. Yeah. As much as I liked the other Kairosoft games, GDS was my first and still my most favorite. I'd love to see a sequel to it.
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Feb 15, 2013 01:48
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There is a sequel to GDS but it's PC only and in japanese.
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http://adeptgamer.com/forum/threads/game-dev-story-2-translation.301/ Apparently there's a translation for it for sale on that website. The game itself is supposedly available for free on the Kairosoft website.
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