The story is set on an Earthlike planet called Neo Kenya in the year AMD 1991. A meteorite known as "The Grim Reaper" is set to destroy the planet in 8 years. However, a giant ship dubbed the "Astro Ark" and a tombstone fall from the sky one day, with the tombstone bearing a message from God saying that a man and a woman must pilot the Astro Ark together and capture animals of each sex to board the ship. Yes, it's that kind of game.
You play as a teenage boy named Ken Challenger, who volunteers to be the male pilot and help capture the animals, along with his childhood friend/girlfriend Linda, who is a feisty and violent Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak, but is deeply in love with Ken. From there, the player can select from three scenarios to play from, each with their own self-contained story, as well as a unlockable bonus one.
This game can be described as Pokémon meets Earthbound, but darker and with a heavy dash of Surreal Horror.
This game was never released outside of Japan, but finally got an unofficial English translation on January 31, 2024, courtesy of Cargodin. You can download the patch here
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Linda Cube provides examples of:
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Linda's hair changed from pink to cyan in the remake.
- Ambiguously Brown: Ken and his mother Meme are both tan skinned, but aren't stated to be of any particular race. Averted with Hume, as it is mentioned more than once that he is black.
- Art Evolution: The character designs from the remake are radically different from the original PC Engine version.
- Evil All Along: Elizabeth Green comes off as a sultry, but well-meaning CEO of a pharmaceutical company who is helping Linda regain her memories, but it turns out that she has massacred Beastian women for their blood in order to keep herself young looking.
- Evil Twin: Ken has one named "Nek".
- Good Stepmother: Meme is a good natured and well meaning stepmother to Ken unlike his biological mother Elizabeth Green.
- Gotta Catch Them All: The goal of this game is to catch animals from both sexes to board the Astro Ark.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Linda is violent and very brash, but is otherwise a good person.
- Sanity Slippage: The Mad Scientist Emori in the second scenario lost it after his daughter Sachiko committed suicide because she was not being able to be the female pilot of the ark. He makes several clones of her that he sexualizes, and he's responsible for the death of Linda's parents, taking Linda's left arm, grafting it onto one of the Sachiko clones and putting her in one of Linda's dresses in his mad attempt to convince Ken to relent and take Sachiko as the female pilot.
- Scary Black Man: Hume, Linda's father, is huge and brutish-looking. The fact that he attaches his wife to himself and kills her off in Scenario A makes him play this trope very straight.
- Self-Made Orphan: Nek has killed both his biological father, and later his biological mother Elizabeth Green.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Hume is a giant hulking man who is rather Gonkish, but his ex-wife Ann is conventionally beautiful.
