Tail of the Sun
Apr 26, 1996
Main game
2.88 average rating based on 8 ratings
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Tail of the Sun, known in Japan as Taiyo no Shippo: Wild, Pure, Simple Life, is an action role-playing video game developed by Artdink for the PlayStation. It was created by Kazutoshi Iida, who worked on Aquanaut's Holiday and would later work with Nintendo on Doshin the Giant.
The player's ultimate objective is to build a tower of mammoth tusks that reaches the sun. To this end, a large map full of various creatures and oddities must be traversed in an effort to locate and gather sufficient food for the tribe to thrive and multiply.
- Developers
- Artdink
- Publishers
- Artdink, Sony Computer Entertainment
- Platforms
- PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable
- Genres
- Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator
- Themes
- Action, Survival
Release Dates
Apr 26, 1996 Full Release (Japan)
PlayStation
Apr 22, 1997 Full Release (North_America)
PlayStation
Dec 21, 2006 Digital Compatibility Release (Japan)
PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable
User Stats
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Unique And Gorgeous, Tho Again, The Play Is Lacking
This review is for the PlayStation version
Preliminary: Very odd Look and Sound so far, but very appealing nonetheless 
Like its predecessor Aquanaut's Holiday, it is beautiful (even better! love the planets/moons and sunsets and reflections and landscape and animals etc), great music (even better than Aquanaut's too!), with a really neat idea. But again, execution isn't there, namely in the controls.
Look: 8.5/10
Sound: 8.5/10 So wild for the music, and great atmospheric sounds too.
Play: 7.5/10 Lots of neat ideas in this, just the controls and interaction with the environment can't suffice
Feel: 8/10
Attachment: 7.5/10
Overall: 8/10