Princess Tomato in Salad Kingdom is your usual text-based adventure game, with a decidedly vegetarian twist. It's tough for us to provide you with a comprehensive look at a genre with so much content -- plus all of the trial-and-error. It wouldn't make for a very comprehensive and enlightening video, however we soldier on. Check out the latest episode of VC in Brief above!
Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (NES, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
Every week, we like to check out what's new on the Virtual Console. We offer these videos as a sort of taste to help you decide whether or not you would want the game in question. We also toss in our own two cents because we're pushy jerks like that.
It's scary to think I had once owned this (very rare) game back in the day. It was not the greatest dungeon crawler/point and click game, however it was addicting and well thought out.
The story is simple, the salad kingdom's princess (tomato) was kidnapped by farmers who are oppresing and harvesting it's people who are totally made up of a variety of vegitables. You play as Sir Cucumber who along with his squire (an apricot I think), and try and save the princess besting your enemies with a game of rock-paper-siccors.
The story and game led me to believe this was created for children just learning how to read, but after playing through it I found some parts were frustrating (mostly due to getting lost or poorly derived clues) that made me think otherwise.
If I had to rate it unbiased, I would give it a fair 8/10 given the year it was created and it's intended audience.
Not only did I finish this game back in the day (before internet FAQs), I fully mapped it and submitted to Gamepro, etc. Never got printed for some reason... bastards.
Anyway, it's ridiculous, but still a good example of the genre on 8-bit systems, and of Hudson games in general. If you grew up on 1980s text adventures there's a lot to enjoy.
Every week, we like to check out what's new on the Virtual Console. We offer these videos as a sort of taste to help you decide whether or not you would want the game in question. We also toss in our own two cents because we're pushy jerks like that.
