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Umihara Kawase

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Umihara Kawase (海腹川背) is a series of platform games, starring a young Japanese school girl named Kawase Umihara (海腹 川背 Umihara Kawase), who has somehow become lost in a world of surreal salt-water and fresh-water creatures. She wears a bright pink rucksack. The Umihara Kawase games' main distinction are their tranquil fish and bird infested worlds and the rope physics, which defines the gameplay.
The name is written as four kanji characters: umi, hara, kawa, se meaning sea, belly, river, back. This is an extraction from a Japanese kitchen idiom "Sea fish are fat in the belly; river fish are fat in the back.".
The protagonist was first seen in the eponymous Super Famicom release of 1994 and later the sequel and re-release of Umihara Kawase Shun for the PlayStation in 1997 and 2000.

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Developer
Studio Saizensen
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Agatsuma Entertainment
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Jackpot
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Genterprise
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TNN/NHK SC
Publisher
Degica, Natsume, Marvelous Entertainment, Agatsuma Entertainment, Genterprise, TNN, XING
Age rating
Not rated
Website
http://www.degica.com

System requirements for PC

Minimum:
  • OS: Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10
  • Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2Ghz or faster processer
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 256MB VRAM
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 150 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Direct Sound
  • Additional Notes: Controller recommended.

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Last Modified: Jun 2, 2023

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Umihara Kawase reviews and comments

Translated by
Microsoft from French
Gameplay-wise, it's one of the best platformers I've played. The impressive physics allows for countless possibilities and every level can be rediscovered many times. Graphically it's far from the best 16 bits game, but the atmosphere, universe and music are lovely and unique. It's a shame western kids couldn't play this game back in the day, when I think of all the stupid games I bought on the SNES. Also, it's worth getting the steam version instead of emulating because of the very useful practice mode and the lack of slowdowns.
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Microsoft from French
Fishing rods and valves. Umihara Kawase is more than a game it is a sport. There is a challenge, a real search for performance. In short, it is undoubtedly an app to get into the "Hall of Fame" of the platform. The programming is simply hallucinating and the margin of progression of the player constant. It is surprising to succeed tricks that one thought impossible 5h of play before. Of course, we will have to be selfless but it is a game that deserves and in the end, after a good forty hours of play, we can finish the game at 100%, become a fool of the grappling and take definitely a lot of fun. I think I do not stop there. Indeed, it would now be very unfortunate not to apply my hard-earned skills on the "Umihara Kawase Shun" also available on steam. Fishing rods and valves I tell you!
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Microsoft from French
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY! A very little known game outside of Japan, released on Super Famicom (Super Nintendo home) and Yes this game has so more than 20 years. It is a platform game, we use a fishing rod as a grapin and the goal is to arrive, before the end of the Chrono, at the exit door of the level. Why buy this game rather than DL the SNES version on emulator? is many reasons! -Steam success (good that osef but let's not be sectarian)-steam maps history of having pennies in addition to the wallet or having the class with a badge that no one will see because frankly the number of people who drag on the steam activity are also cabins them as Linux users on steam (free troll DSL:p)-online ranking and backup in the steam cloud, history of not left on for 20 years the SNES to not lose the backup because of the battery of the SNES cartridge (Yes Yes , take a tour on the net, you will see that a Japanese left his console lit for 20 years ^_^)-steam workshop, history share our masochistic spirit to the happy possessor of this little video game bead < 3 and according to a press release, the Shun version (output on PS1) will also see the day on steam \ o/short, pulls out your CB from the wallet and validates the purchase of a free click and with full of stars in the noeils: 3
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