


You may not be the son of a dry cleaner like Sohta and you might not live on the edge between housing and farmlands like him, and you especially didn’t have giant monsters showing up every Friday evening near your childhood home to fight, but the general mindsets of the children characters in this 3DS download title feel like they line up remarkably well with a realistic depiction of youth, not making the kids too mature and intelligent or too mindlessly precocious. Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale takes place in 1971 in the specific small town of Fuji no Hana on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan, and yet its tale of childhood naivety and discovery has a certain universality to its nostalgic appeal.
