Doshin the Giant

"A good game, but a little too repetative"

I bought this game on the off chance that my locals games store had it in stock. The first time I put it in my GameCube I wasn't disappointed. Wonderful graphics, strange sound effects, but good nonetheless, and a stable storyline to support it all. It seemed like a great God-sim to start with on the GameCube

The first day is really about making the land suitable for your villagers to build upon, and after a while this can get very, very repetitive. Sometimes it seems like you lower the land, and then they want to you raise it again, and this can get really annoying. Also, a lot of the time your villagers never seem to be really satisfied by what you do.

When you do please your villagers you get given these little hearts that collect around the screen, and once you have a full circle of hearts you ''grow'' in size and become a bigger giant. Weird it may be, although when you first play it seems quite rewarding. On the opposite is, if you scare or frighten your villagers you get skulls. Collecting a full circle of skulls is also a way of growing in size, which allows to be either good or evil with your giant.

The actual giant has ''good'' and ''evil'' sides. The good side is a bright yellow colour and the evil side is a dark red colour and has small wings. The good side can help the villagers by collecting trees, lowering and raising land and moving building, while the evil giant can do not much else than destroy. He can throw fireballs and stamp around killing your villagers.

There are more than one ''tribe'' of villagers donated by the colour of clothes that they wear. These are green, blue, red and yellow. And, sometimes in the game you might have to run back a forth between the villages tending each one a lot of the time. Although this really is the point of the game it can get very boring.

The over all point of this game is to get all the shrines built to honour you, although this can be a tedious job because you have to keep all your villagers happy until they will build it for you. And, to get some of the shrines you have to mix the different colours of villagers together, such as put a blue villager in a yellow village and so on.

Don't get me wrong, this is a good game, but at times it can get very tedious, and it makes you not want to play it.

Reviewer's Score: 6/10, Originally Posted: 03/04/03, Updated 03/04/03