Shin chan Shiro and the Coal Town Review (Steam)

Shin chan Shiro and the Coal Town Review, Hiroshi is suddenly given a job assignment near his hometown in Akita. So the Nohara family make their way to a small village near Hiroshi’s parents’ home and rent out a traditional Japanese farmhouse. Nestled in this tranquil rural landscape, they begin their carefree and quiet life in the countryside.

Shin chan Shiro and the Coal Town Review Pros:

• Beautiful hand-drawn graphics.
• 3.86GB Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• 3 save slots.
• Four voice choices – Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, and Cantonese.
• Five controller input icons – Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, generic, and keyboard.
• Two keyboard layouts – QWERTY and QWERTZ.
• Graphics settings – fullscreen, and resolution.
• Game settings – passage of time (speed), new insect, voice setting, and subtitles.
• Adventure gameplay.
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
• In-game cutscenes and interactions.
• You can click through interactions to speed it up.
• Great presentation and opening song sequence.
• Save when you want.
• It feels like you are playing in a cartoon world.
• Memorable characters throughout the game.
• Clean easy-to-use menu system.
• Main and optional side missions.
• Objectives are daily quests that you complete and fill in your notebook, new objectives pop as you progress.
• A very happy game from the music to the bright colors and happy residents of the world.
• Any bugs you catch will pop up their name and size and if it’s a new find. This is optional and you can turn it off.
• A 3D game world with set camera angles.
• It’s fun to run around the world and catch all these different bugs.
• Bugs will give off a shiny icon to help find them and catching them is a button press and the net swing is very generous.
• Find vegetables, fruit, and all sorts in the game world.
• The name of your current location will pop up on the screen as you walk around.
• Kazuko is the resident bug lady who is making a book about them. You take your findings to her and this acts like a Pokedex on Pokémon where you are looking to complete the book.
• Four sections in the book – insects, fish, plants, and minerals.
• Eventually, you can plant and grow your own vegetables.
• Supply and create food dishes for you and for the shops in town.
• Trolly racing, which is a ton of fun but also has its own set of unlocks, you can upgrade your trolley and customize it to your liking.
• You can check your book progress at any time on your menu.
• Day and night cycle. The passage of time goes down as you explore and you can tweak the speed of it in the settings.
• It’s a beautiful world to explore.
• Nighttime is generally free time, you can find night-only bugs, etc but you only have access to set places.
• Fishing is simple, you can see the fish moving around, they splash and vibrate your controller when they bite and you just press the button to catch them.
• Earn pocket money from completing side missions.
• Has a full crafting system of sorts as you help a lady create inventions.
• An excellent chilled-out experience where you can just relax.

Shin chan Shiro and the Coal Town Review Cons:

• The mouse cursor stays on the screen even when using the controller.
• No English voice choice.
• You cannot skip the opening song sequence.
• Bare minimum graphics settings.
• No way to have interactions auto-scroll.
• Very slow starter as you get huge story dumps at the beginning and pop-ups constantly.
• There isn’t a camera button.
• Due to the camera angles, it can be hard to see or judge pickups.
• Not always clear where you can go or where there is an entrance.
• Doesn’t seem to have an auto-save of any kind.
• The game says you have free time but then without warning just ends the night.
• Not all characters are voiced which is a bit of a bummer.
• Fishing is too basic, you cannot set the distance or placement of the line.
• Despite being near water in any place, you still have to go all around the area to see which part lets you fish.
• You have a limit of 1500 yen that you carry.

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Shin chan Shiro and the Coal Town:

Official website.

Developer: h.a.n.d., Inc.

Publisher: Neos Corporation

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Steam