Aa Yakyū Jinsei Icchokusen

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During the game, the player can use the powers of the occult to either help him improve his stats or to hinder an opponent in many different ways. In addition to using the occult to increase or decrease a player's stats, spirits can also be invoked to cause an opponent to lose his next turn.

Gameplay

Childhood and adolescence

As the player advances in age and intellectual capacity, the system used to move a player evolves as the game progresses from early childhood to young adulthood. The game starts out with "Rock-paper-scissors" to provide an element of childhood diplomacy and the innocence of the elementary school years. Once the player graduates to high school and matures in his thinking, the childhood diplomacy is replaced by a power meter. The longer the player waits to hit the action button, the further he goes on the board. But if he waits too long, then he doesn't move at all and misses a turn. [cite web | url = http://www.geocities.co.jp/Bookend-Ohgai/2339/mein/aa.htm| title = Game review #2 (Japanese) | publisher = Geocities Japan| date = | accessdate = 2008-04-30]

When transferring between elementary school and high school or between high school and the real world, the player must impress both his father and the head coach by doing interactive miniature games. These vital exercises involve physical fitness exercises that would be considered useful in baseball. Running around all the bases in less than 20 seconds and running across a field with a tire behind his back in less than 10 seconds are the challenges that the head coach will give to the player. In addition to how fast the player can keep hitting the action button, the weight and height of the player's virtual identity will play an important role in the success of the exercises. Self-esteem is boosted when the player successfully completes the athletic assignment; this is naturally followed by a promotion to either a more prestigious high school or to a better minor league team. Failure will make the father angry because a son usually looks up to his father for advice; causing a decline in self-esteem. The player will also be relegated to either a less prestigious high school or play for a second rate minor league team because of his performance at the miniature game. [cite web | url = http://www.mobygames.com/game/aa-yakyuu-jinsei-icchokusen| title = Game Review #1 | publisher = Moby Games| date = | accessdate = 2008-04-29]

Adulthood

After the player graduates from high school, this method is replaced by a virtual batting screen. This is meant to represent a real-world baseball situation. If the player misses the ball when he is up to bat, the consequence will involve losing a turn to the next player. There are numbers with a value between 1 (one) and 6 (six) on a wall; successfully hitting the ball to one of the spaces moves the player in that many number of spaces around the baseball diamond. The player must strive to get drafted when the player reaches home base. Otherwise, he must take a vacation and train to get drafted in the next round. There is a mini-game to determine the player's starting annual salary when he gets drafted; salaries can range between 200,000,000 yen and more than 1,000,000,000 yen depending on his timing at the mini-game.

The player's salary is also indirectly influenced by the stats accumulated throughout the game. After the starting salary is determined, the player's avatar signs with the professional baseball team. The newly minted pro baseball player proceeds to look up in the starry sky as part of the game's closing title because that is where his father showed him all the stars in the game's opening title (i.e., when he was a child).

Limitations

There are five stats to worry about in the game: weight (in kilograms); affected by eating food, height (in centimetres); affected by drinking milk, physical, intellectual, and self-esteem (face). Statistics in the three main developmental characteristics (physical-mental-self esteem) can actually go into the negative if the player has bad luck with the choices that are offered near the beginning of the game.

However, it is impossible for the player to become a father himself because the primary goal of the game is to become the number one draft choice of a professional baseball team. Also excluded from the game are the concepts of marriage, divorce, purchasing a house, and retirement. The game only allow male characters; with the Japanese -kun (くん) suffix as opposed to the Japanese -chan suffix (ちゃん) which is used for young females. Due to the subject matter of the game, there is no possible way of making a female character using either normal methods or any form of cheating.

References

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUyiatLrshk You Tube]