Kunio's Oden (くにおのおでん Kunio no Oden, lit. "Oden of Kunio") is a puzzle game for the Super Famicom that was developed and published by Technōs Japan Corp. which was released in Japan on May 27, 1994. It was the last Kunio-kun game released on the system.
An official re-release of the game with an English localization was announced to be apart of the Super Technos World: River City & Technos Arcade Classics collection on January 22, 2025 and was subsequently released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Steam on April 23, 2025.
Development[]
Story[]
During a festival at Nekketsu High School, Misako is running her own oden stand and is struggling with sales. Kunio passes by and feeling bad for her, he decides to eat at her stand. Liking the food, he attempts to boost her sales by claiming that any student will lose their prestigious titles if they pass by without trying her food. This ends up attracting familiar faces from the other schools and devolves into a competitive eating contest.
Gameplay[]
Kunio no Oden is a drop-pieces puzzle game similar to Tetris, although this time the player must maneuver and align oden ingredients instead of shaped blocks.
The game provides two modes of aligning rules the player can choose from:
- Columns based rule: The player must align three identical ingredients either vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
- Puyo Puyo based rule: The player must align four identical ingredients touching in any tetromino configuration.
The game provides three difficulty settings: Easy, Normal and Hard, and an option can be selected where the game will highlight the current available places where ingredients can be dropped.
When playing against another opponent, either controlled by the CPU or a second player, by aligning several ingredients at once, the player can perform a chain attack that will result in several chopsticks dropping on the other player's screen, taking away space. The more ingredients the player aligns, the more chopsticks that will drop on the enemy's side.
A special power bar will fill up as the player successfully aligns ingredients and performs combos, which when completely filled, will summon a paste that when placed on an ingredient will make all similar ingredient blocks to disappear.
The game allows the player to choose between three background music themes to listen during gameplay.
Characters[]
Playable characters[]
- Kunio: Controlled by the first player in all gamemodes. He is voiced by Ryō Horikawa.
- Riki: Appears as the first CPU opponent or is randomly selected as the second player. He is voiced by Daisuke Gori.
- Naritaka Nishimura: Appears as the second CPU opponent or is randomly selected as the second player. He is voiced by Daisuke Gori.
- Susumu Godai: Appears as the third CPU opponent or is randomly selected as the second player. He is voiced by Ryō Horikawa.
- Kazumi Hasebe: Appears as the fourth CPU opponent or is randomly selected as the second player. In the endurance gamemode, she is also able to be seen handing the food to Kunio. She is voiced by Saori Sugimoto.
- Satomi Momozono: Appears as the fifth CPU opponent or is randomly selected as the second player. During the credits, she is seen singing the song Lover to Friend. She is voiced by Saori Sugimoto.
- Kaoru Sonokawa: Appears as the final CPU opponent or is randomly selected as the second player. He is voiced by Daisuke Gori.
Cameos[]
- Misako: Cameos on the title screen alongside Kunio and is also able to be seen on the background of the Versus screen.
- Ryūichi and Ryūji Hattori: Seen on the Versus screen.
- Toraichi and Toraji: Seen on the Versus screen.
- Shizuka Aihara: Seen on the Versus screen.
- Mami Shimada: Seen on the Versus screen.
- Tsuyoshi Gōda: Seen on the Versus screen.
- Mamoru Tōdō: Seen on the Versus screen.
Re-releases[]
The game was released on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Steam as part of the Super Technos World: River City & Technos Arcade Classics collection. This version provided an official English localization of the game.
Gallery[]
For see the gallery of Kunio's Oden you can see Kunio's Oden/Gallery
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