Tokyo Wakusei Planetokio

Tokyo Wakusei Planetokio (東京惑星プラネトキオ, lit. "Tokyo Planet Puranetokio"), or simply known as Planetokio, is a third person adventure game for the PlayStation that was developed by OutSide Directors Company and published by Asmik Ace Entertainment on August 26, 1999 in Japan only. Osamu Sato, who designed LSD: Dream Emulator for the PlayStation, worked on this game. This was the last game Hiroko Nishikawa, who worked with Sato, alongside Eastern Mind, Chu-Teng and LSD, before she left OSD.

The game takes place in the near future and more specifically in Planetokio. Planetokio is a number of floating cities, rose from the rubble of Tokyo after a massive earthquake, destroyed the entire city. The story begins when Iken, a young boy that works in a restaurant and also as a sole member of the Planetokio Defense Force led by Dr. Hokin go out to fight an alien attacking the city of Akihabara island and had his delivery get stolen by a thief. During his adventure he will meet many interesting characters to react to, many planet cities to explore, and eventually, he will have to fight with aliens threatening the city using his trusty gun, Naru-naru MK1.

Gameplay
Tokyo Wakusei Planetokio is a surreal action- adventure game that takes place on floating cities hefted by anti-gravity in which Osamu Sato provides the computer generated characters and scenery.

The game takes place in the near future in the city of Tokyo when the city is attacked by alien invaders that got a personal shield that allow them to receive no harm.

The gameplay is about going around the town talking to the characters and getting new items to advance to other parts of the game. In some places, there are some TVs that explain the invasion that is happening during the adventure. There are places in the game when the character has to avoid being caught by robots, birds, gorillas, and the battle parts are turn-based RPG since the player can choose between his items to use which one wants to use in each turn to attack the opponent.

Overworld Part
Each chapter starts Iken in the overworld. There, Iken travels through the city, gathering information from people and picking up items to combat the aliens. Iken comes across important buildings such as Rai Rai Ken, whose the owner can save Iken's progress, Pai Pai Clinic where Iken continues off after getting killed by aliens and obstacles in the maze, and One Seven Convenience Stores where the clerk gives Iken valuable hints and items. Iken can also come across a stamp robot in this part where he can stamp locations he visited; These collected stamps can be found in the pause menu. Some paths may be blocked out and requires talking to certain people before progressing.

Maze Part
In some chapters, there'll be mazes where Iken must navigate while carefully avoiding obstacles patrolling the area. If Iken is in the obstable's range (except for the pigeons), they'll try to capture him with their beam (for robots). In case for gorillas, they'll shoot rocks, and pigeons randomly drop feces above him. If Iken gets hit by these projectiles, he'll be knocked out unconscious, and ends up in Pai Pai Clinic. Iken can use ladders to hide himself from the obstacles and avoid projectiles, should he be in the obstacle's range.

Battle Part
At the end of each chapter, Iken must fight aliens that cause havoc of Planetokio. In the room, before entering the boss room, Iken receives calls from either Dr. Hokin or Naomi informing about the upcoming boss in the next room. Once Iken confront the aliens, there is no going back unless he wins or losses the battle. Iken must use the items he collected during his adventures each chapter, which disappears (exception of the boxing glove item) after each chapter. Each alien has strengths and weaknesses which Iken must experiment with the items. Iken can also decide whether the items needs to launch normally or launched as an energized shot.

Plot
(Spoilers Ahead)

The story begins during breaking news about an alien attack at Akihabara Island. Iken (a meal delivery boy that works in a ramen restaurant) is talking to Dr. Hokin in his basement laboratory (that can be accessed using the refrigerator that is in the restaurant). The Dr shows him his new invention a gun that picks up items and shoots standard shots and fires energized shots in which he used it on Iken as a test subject. Soon his boss, Lai Lai tells him to deliver a meal, and as soon as he arrives at the parking when a man collides with him and stole the delivery. Iken manages to encounter the man later on only to find out it was too late and the ramen he stole was gone, he ate it because he didn't have enough money to feed himself, and so when Iken asked for payment, the man instead handed him a one hundred yen coin. Iken then picks up the robot body that he finds in the landfill along the way and used that and the coin to confront the alien. Iken successfully defeats the alien and he took its body to the headquarters where Dr. Hokin investigates, he finds a molecule on the computer screen which turned out to be the "Collect Virus", he predicted decades ago before the alien invasion; The virus known to infect the aliens and previously known to destroy nearby planets. As Hokin claims that aliens are after Planetokio, another alien from space foreshadows the strike.

Dr. Hokin then gives Iken his invention, the "Artificial-intelligence" brain as a reward for capturing Biri-biri. Iken used the brain to install into the robot body he found in Akihabara Island so he could create his own robot. He then realizes the robot needed a shell to cover its brain and so he phoned his girlfriend, Naomi of Uomasa Fishmongers for opinions. Naomi then brought Iken over to Shibuya Island, where they go to a trendy robot shop "Giddy Park" to buy the head. As they browse through the shop, Fuwa-fuwa the alien barges in suck all the items in the shop kidnaps Naomi and smacks Iken down unconscious. Iken then seeks help from the beggars and the pigeon gang and manages to defeat Fuwa-fuwa and rescuing Naomi and Iken's robot head. After a rough experience at Shibuya, both kids witness the birth of the robot. In the end, Naomi names the new robot Boro because it looked beaten down.

Some day after the events of Shibuya, Iken was invited to Naomi's house of Uomasa fishmongers. There, Iken encounters strange fishes in the aquarium. Naomi claims that the fishes are for her dad's clients and that her dad is a genetic expert in creating mutant fishes. As Iken question, Naomi's protruding horn, Dr. Canbell brings the kids to his lab where he introduces them to his masterpiece, Gyororin RX 035 Beta. As they gaze the fish, Naomi picks up the call from Dr. Hokin. Dr. Hokin warns the three about the strong alien signal coming from the fishmonger when suddenly, Nuru-nuru barges in, traps the three in sticky goops, steals Gyororin and leave. Dr. Hokin calls Iken to chase after the alien, Iken refuses first but with Naomi's charm and asking him to do on a date after rescuing the fish, Iken frees himself from the goop and chases the alien to Asakusa Island. Iken successfully defeats Nuru-nuru, and rescues Gyororin. Naomi thanks Iken and promises to go on the date under a beautiful fireworks display. While Iken gazes at the fireworks, Naomi secretly kisses Iken on his cheek.

After the events of Asakusa, Boro is in Iken's apartment, working as a cleaning maid. He accidentally steps onto his own cord, and he laments how he wishes to be cordless. Boro then wakes up to find out he's in a gorilla suit. Iken claims that animatronics are the trendiest thing in the robot world and that Boro is the type of robot Naomi likes. Iken brings Boro to Iken's workplace when Lailai suddenly appears and orders Iken his meal delivery, leaving Boro with the professor. As Dr. Hokin explains Boro about his wig, Choki-choki the alien appears and attacked the restaurant. Iken returns to the restaurant after delivery only to find a place in ruins. Dr. Hokin appears from the fridge bald; Hokin explains while Iken was in errantry, the alien appeared and stole his wig to protect his genius mind and Boro and escaped off to Ueno Island. Hokin tied Iken to a rocket catapult and launched him to Ueno Island. Iken landed on the island unsuccessfully as he was on the train tracks but was able to jump off as the train reached the station. There, Iken again seeks help from the beggars and the protest group to retrieve weapons to defeat Choki-choki. Iken rescues Boro and retrieved Hokin's wig and returns to the restaurant, exhausted. Dr. Hokin offers Boro to recharge his battery using Biri-biri's body as a power generator. Things didn't go too good as the alien instead, electrocutes Iken and Dr. Hokin.

Meanwhile, at Uomasa fishmongers, Naomi was testing out different ribbons to satisfy her horn when Dr. Canbell appears and ask what his daughter was doing. Dr. Canbell was shocked in disgust when he saw Naomi's horn and decides to diagnose her and bring the information to Dr. Hokin. Dr. Hokin unfortunate cannot do anything next and suggests Canbell, to wait for her additional symptoms. Naomi woke up one morning only to find out she gotten really fat. Iken visits Uomasa to meet Naomi when shortly, he and Canbell heard screams coming from Naomi's room. Iken and Dr. Canbell rushed to Naomi's room, only to find out she isn't there. The truth reveals, a different alien, Muchi-muchi has kidnapped Naomi and headed off to Ryogoku-Island. With Dr. Hokin's advice, Dr. Canbell pushes the red button on Iken's Naru-naru MK1 and launched Iken to Ryogoku-Island. After the events at Ryogoku-Island, Dr. Hokin extracts the 2D-fied Naomi from a book and placed it onto a scanning desk, in his lab. Hokin explains the two that the alien changed Naomi's dimension to turn 2D and to turn it back to 3D, she needs a tiny drop of boiled water. Iken poured a drop of boiled water onto Naomi which changed her back to normal. As Iken attempts to give her a fat blasting supplement, she turned away in disgust, but her body went back to slim and she leaves the headquarters, with Iken chasing her.

One evening, Iken visits Naomi's house once again to apologize for what happened before. There were no responses and Iken questions why the store was in a blackout during operating hours. Dr. Canbell meets Iken while carrying a candle; Canbell told Iken his daughter took all the lightbulbs in the house. Iken finds Naomi sitting in the middle of her room, surrounded by lightbulbs and unconscious. Dr. Canbell explains Iken that Naomi was infected by the Collect virus; Dr. Canbell reveals that Naomi was a daughter, created by duplicating the gene of his deceased wife and gestated in the lab. Because Naomi was created artificially, she didn't have the immunity to the Collect Virus, unlike what normal humans do. Canbell explains to Iken that Hokin has managed to extract the virus from her but it is the race against time to create a vaccine to end all invasion. Iken returned home, worried, while Boro questions Iken if Naomi may end up like the aliens. Iken refused to believe that she may end up like the aliens when suddenly the tv switched to breaking news; An alien has been sighted on Higashogaoka-Island. Iken thought the alien would be Naomi when a call from Dr. Canbell reveals that Naomi was once again kidnapped by the alien while she escaped from her house. Dr. Hokin clarifies that the alien is indeed Pika-pika, and it headed off to Haneda-Island and commands Iken to defeat them. He also commands Boro to convert to his flight-mode which transforms Boro into a small plane for Iken to ride. Iken manages to arrive at Haneda-Island with barely any fuel left for Boro and chases Pika-pika across Tokyo until he confronts them on the highest point of Tokyo Tower. As Iken finishes off the alien with the collect virus, the alien dodged the shot and accidentally land onto Naomi tied to a rope which transforms her into a Naomi headed-monster abomination, Puri-puri. Puri-puri flies up to the highest point of the tower, pushes Iken and Pika-pika, and flies off to Planetokio Kenkou-land. Pika-pika, unfortunately, dies from great heights, but Iken survives the fall by clinging onto the tower's steel frames.

By the time Naomi has turned into Puri-puri, it was too late and this enraged Dr. Canbell very much that Dr. Hokin had to retrain him. Dr. Hokin then orders Boro to return to the HQ to collect the second batch of the vaccine and orders Iken to chase after her. After Boro flew off, Iken meets up with the reporter of Planetokio, Taro Tokio, and asks him to take Iken to Kenkou-Land; Both Iken and the reporter flew off to Kenkou-Land in a flying van. As Boro picks up the vaccine, Iken infiltrates the recreation center, disguised as an employee. Iken reunites Boro in the recreation center only to find out his robot accidentally lost the vaccine. As Puri-puri confronts the weary Iken, and beam of bright light ended the battle.

Iken wakes up to a bight morning sunlight in his room. Unsure if the battle he had was a dream, he walked to Rai Rai Ken, when it turned out it wasn't a dream when he saw the aliens and Naomi in one building. Dr. Hokin explains that the aliens and Naomi are cured of the virus and they're no longer a threat. Boro says the aliens wanted to see Iken's collections and depending on what the player did in the game, they could travel to space to partake the Biennial Intergalactic Collect Exhibition or not.

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Characters

 * Iken: The hero of the game and the main character.
 * Boro: Iken's robot.
 * Naomi: The girl of the game.
 * Dr. Hokin: The scientific that lives in the bottom of the ramen restaurant and the inventor of the gun, Naru Naru MK1.
 * Dr. Canbell: Father of Naomi and master of biologic engineering. He runs a fish shop and as well as creating mutated tropical fish for collectors.

Reception
Tokyo Wakusei Planetokio received mixed to positive reviews.

Full game
On August 15, 2016, the full game was uploaded to YouTube by a user named Gabriel Garcia (MYCUN). In addition, all cutscenes were also uploaded on that same day.

Trivia

 * "Planetokio" means "Planet Tokyo" or "Tokyo Planet." Also, it can be a combination of "Planet" and "Tokyo".
 * Like LSD: Dream Emulator, this game was never released outside Japan.
 * Tokyo Wakusei Planetokio may be considered to be one of the hardest and rarest PlayStation games to find.