

1999 · Indie · Role-playing
Moon Whistle
Moon Whistle is a Japanese language freeware role-playing video game created with RPG Tsukūru 95. Mainly made by Kōichirō Takaki, also known as Kannazuki Sasuke, this game involves an adventure of a five-year-old kindergartner in a pseudo-Japanese city of the 1980s and 1990s.
- Released
- 1999
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- IndieRole-playing
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- indie game
- Modes
- Single-player
- Engine
- RPG Maker 95
About
Moon Whistle (ムーンホイッスル, Mūn Hoissuru) is a Japanese-language freeware role-playing video game created with RPG Maker 95. Mainly made by Kōichirō Takaki (高木 幸一郎), also known as Kannazuki Sasuke (神無月サスケ), this game involves an adventure of a five-year-old kindergartner in a pseudo-Japanese city of the 1980s and 1990s.
It won an ASCII-held monthly contest, Internet Contest Park, two popular votes on Internet Contest Park, reaching respectively #1 and #8, and received an honorable mention in the ASCII Entertainment Software Contest.
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
While unique in appearances, its gameplay is a customary one for a role-playing game; buying items in shops, equipping gadgets, random encounters, boss battles, leveling up, explorations, communicating with townspeople, and so forth. Its battle system is the default one of RPG Tsukūru 95 so that battles are operated in a front-view, turn-based fashion that resembles to that of SNES Dragon Quest games.
Story
Set in Motomachi Town (もとまちタウン), a fictional 1980s Japanese suburb, the story begins on Zenon's first school day following spring vacation. After school, he goes to a hill in the town together with Narumi looking for X-Ranger, a superhero in a children's TV show, who allegedly appears in Motomachi Town for some reason. After meeting a man in X-Ranger's costume, Zenon and Narumi fight a bad monster in the hill in hope of helping him. Thanks to this, Zenon becomes popular enough with school-age children to be invited to their "secret base" to join them.
Later Zenon and the gang happen to visit X-Ranger's hideout, and touch the panel of a giant machine sitting in there without his consent. Then they find themselves in a strange town, where they save Zeta (ツェータ) from Hart (ハルト), a spoiled mean child, and are befriended with him. Once prohibited to use the machine by X-Ranger, later they are allowed to go between two cities. A cat-like creature, Max (マックス), is also acquainted with them.
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