History VideoGame / OtenkiKororinWeatherTales

''Otenki Kororin – Weather Tales'' (''お天気ころりん – Weather Tales''[[note]]"Otenki" means weather and "kororin" is an onomatopoeia for small balls cutely rolling down. An approximation in English would be "tumble-bits", but "marble" works in context.[[/note]]) is a [[NoExportForYou Japan-exclusive]] weather-themed [[PuzzleGame Puzzle Combat Game]] by Takumi Corporation done in [[StopMotion claymation]]. It was originally published by Creator/{{Taito}} for the [[UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame Arcade]] in October of 2001 and thereafter ported to the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation}} on May 02, 2002 by Takumi Corporation itself.

Although the game foremost draws attention with its cute cast, whimsical visuals, and [[TheElevatorFromIpanema easy soundtrack]], it's on the challenging end of its genre. It is a MatchThreeGame-type [[FallingBlocks Growing Blocks]] game. The goal is to break through rows of weather-themed marbles to reach the ground first. There are 21 to 61 rows depending on the stage, which are kept track of in an animated center panel. A match starts with half the field filled with marbles and as they're eliminated the competitors descend to rows further down below. The field can hold eleven rows and six columns. If any column grows eleven marbles tall, a forcefield prevents further descend but if the situation lasts for too long such a column grows to twelve, which is an automatic loss. Marbles are eliminated by connecting at least four of the same type of marble by sliding a full row horizontally. An elimination also generates one marble of a random type in the opponent's field. Each competitor furthermore gets one bomb per match as a backup. It destroys the entire row selected at that time and its two adjacent ones, but does not generate marbles in the opponent's field.

For each competitor goes that aligning marbles of their own weather type generates a two-fold attack in the opponent's field. The first part of the attack is that their weather type manifests in the other's field and obscures their marbles for one second. For second part is that a bonus amount of marbles are generated in the opponent's field. At an elimination of four marbles of the same type as the competitor, the attack is not very impressive, but it rapidly becomes more effective if more than four marbles are involved. The view obstruction becomes bigger and the amount of marbles generated plentiful. On the downside, the higher the stage, the more difficult it is to activate a big attack because the marble diversity goes up from five to six to seven in Stage 3 and Stage 6.

** Wind's profile emphasizes her charm and contains the cruel line "Wink hitotsu de otoko no ko nante ichikoro yo ("ウインクひとつでおとこのこなんてイチコロよ"), which translates to "With only a wink, boys so pitiful are done for." "Otoko no ko nante ichikoro yo" is a key lyric of the opening theme of ''Anime/MajokkoMegChan''.

For each competitor goes that aligning marbles of their own weather type generates a two-fold attack in the opponent's field. The first part of the attack is that their weather type manifests in the other's field and obscures their marbles for one second. For second part is that a bonus amount of marbles are generated in the opponent's field. At an elimination of four marbles of the same type as the competitor, the attack is not very impressive, but it rapidly becomes more effective if more than four marbles are involved. The view obstruction becomes bigger and the amount of marbles generated plentiful. On the downside, the higher the stage, the more difficult it is to activate a big attack because the marble diversity goes up from five to to six to seven in Stage 3 and Stage 6.

''Otenki Kororin – Weather Tales'' (''お天気ころりん – Weather Tales''[[note]]"Otenki" means weather and "kororin" is an onomatopoeia for small balls cutely rolling down. An approximation in English would be "tumble-bits", but "marble" works in context.[[/note]]) is a [[NoExportForYou Japan-exclusive]] weather-themed [[PuzzleGame Puzzle Combat Game]] by Takumi Corporation done in [[StopMotion claymation]]. It was originally published by Creator/{{Taito}} for the [[UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame Arcade]] in October of 2001 and ported to the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation}} on May 02, 2002 by Takumi Corporation itself.

* {{Oni}}: Thunder is a raiki with big hair, a tiger print body suit, and a single green horn on his forehead. He surfs on lightning bolts and is noted to be a bit of a bully.

** Wind's profile emphasizes her charm and contains the cruel line "Wink hitotsu de otoko no ko nante ichikoro yo ("ウインクひとつでおとこのこなんてイチコロよ"), which translates to "With only a wink, boys so pitiful come undone." "Otoko no ko nante ichikoro yo" is a key lyric of the opening theme of ''Anime/MajokkoMegChan''.

* ShoutOut: Story mode opens with ''The North Wind and the Sun'', one of Literature/AesopsFables. The conflict between the two weathers explains the way the weathers in ''Otenki Kororin – Weather Tales'' regard one another.

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%%* ShoutOut: Story mode opens with ''The North Wind and the Sun'', one of Literature/AesopsFables

%%* {{Snowlems}}

* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: After Aurora is defeated, the world map screen jumps to the eight color bars test image with the text "Shibaraku omachi kudasari"[[note]]"Please wait a moment"[[/note]] on it. The next jump shows what the technical difficulties are all about: Meteor has hacked the air waves to announce his invasion.

* WintryAuroralSky: Aurora's domain is the Arctic and she herself represents the aurora. She is described as a travelling creature of beauty in terms of both light and sound. She herself is mostly a shimmery aquamarine cloak, but the aurora she casts is pink and purple.

[[caption-width-right:350:Yeah, we could live in harmony and not bring the planet to ruin, but where's the fun in that?]]

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* PolarPenguins: The Arctic Stage depicts penguins at the end of the descent, despite that penguins don't live in the Arctic. The other animals shown in the stage are pinnipeds, which do live in both hemispheres.

%%* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties:

%%* WintryAuroralSky: Aurora's domain is the Arctic.

* TheElevatorFromIpanema: All of the game's music are easy tunes . This isn't unique for the puzzle game genre, but ''Otenki Kororin – Weather Tales'' has the extra bit of vertical context that the competitors are in an actual physical race down to the ground.

[[caption-width-right:350:Yeah, we could live in harmony, but where's the fun in that?]]

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* AFoggyDayInLondonTown: Mist's domain is London. Unlike the real-life smog-fog combination that gave London its reputation, Mist is pure water particles.

* MultipleTailedBeast: Rainbow's attack shot reveals that her septuple-colored dress actually is her seven tails combined.

%%* OurGeniesAreDifferent: Cloud is a genie.

* TakeOverTheWorld: Each weather seeks to subdue all the others so that they may make themselves a permanent global phenomenon. They are oblivious to the damage they cause.
%%* ShoutOut: Story mode opens with ''The North Wind and the Sun'', one of Literature/AesopsFables

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