Tokyo Clanpool Review (GOG/PC)

by Jim Smale · January 10, 2025

Tokyo Clanpool Review, Shortly Tokyo, the government collapsed following the appearance of a mighty tower extending from the mysterious Reverse City in the sky and connecting with the National Diet Building. Monsters threaten the people of Japan, and it’s up to newly inaugurated Prime Minister Natsume Kannuki to lead her Diet Dolls into battle against them!

Tokyo Clanpool Review Pros:

Anime-like graphics.
3.13GBG.
GOG Achievements.
Full controller support.
Graphics settings – display mode, and resolution.
Keyboard support.
Set the message speed.
You can remap the controls for both the keyboard and the controller.
The additional content menu lets you enable and disable extra content – maidskin, bikiniskin, E Angelskin, T Powerskin, G braveskin, Helper item set, battle item set, material item set, and Regalia equipment set.
Japanese voice with English text.
Animated cartoon portrait interactions and cutscenes can be skipped, fast-forwarded, or set to auto-scroll.
Action RPG gameplay.
Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
Turn-based combat.
You can set everyone’s attack and have them group up for attacks.
Combo counter.
End of combat breakdown with a rank, support percentage, and any EXP and donations earned.
Earn EXP and level up to increase stats, each character gets their own set of EXP.
Characters have their own Cyber Fairy and during battle, you can do a Sacred Union Synchronisation which if successful will heal you, give you a temporary boost to your stats, and increase damage to enemies.
25 save slots.
The game is split into chapters.
First-person view dungeon crawling with 2D combat sequences.
The map uncovers as you move around and fills in points of interest.
You can set up and save up to five actions per character for combat and then every encounter you just press combat.
Random encounters can happen when in the dungeon.
The camp menu (pause) lets you change gear and skills, use items, check Gadgettia, use Digimagic, use and check apps, suspend the game, quest management, and access game settings.
Apps are used like buffs and having them on will drain your phone battery, you can find battery packs or return home to restore phone power.
Full team management where you can edit who takes out, equip items, and change load outs.
When dungeon crawling you can turn elements of the hide off like character portraits and the map.
Find gates that act as fast travel points.
Power and restoration springs can be found and used in dungeons.
The support mechanic whereby you see an ever-changing number on the Hud, goes up when you are winning and finding loot and goes down when losing fights, etc. Getting this number high triggers Support Fever which can have huge advantages in dungeon exploration.
Every attack and action in combat shows a hit chance percentage which also helps tell you if an enemy is resistant to certain elemental attacks.
You can fast button press through combat encounters.
Playing the dungeon crawling part is a lot of fun and the dungeons are huge and varied.

Tokyo Clanpool Review Cons:

The UI is messy and not straightforward, with little in the way of boxes and backgrounds on text it makes it hard to view entries properly.
Opening combat is not great at breaking you into what should be a simple turn-based combat affair but instead is tedious.
A slow pace of a fast-paced game with huge story dumps and a lot of character interactions.
You don’t get a turn order or enemy health bar in combat.
Menus are d-pad only and you cannot use the stick.
There is a lot of fighting the same enemies over and over.
Repetitive gameplay.
The difficulty level is low for many hours and only every now and then does that change.
It’s a game I found myself just mashing buttons through as the story fell to the side.
They went for the odd choice of having you find the tutorial pop-ups in the dungeon, it won’t have anything to do with what you are doing and it just feels an odd choice.
It is also worth noting that the tutorials you do read are not always that helpful or in-depth.

Tokyo Clanpool:

Official website.

Developer: Idea Factory, Compile Heart

Publisher: eastasiasoft

Store Links –

GoG