Cocona World

a.k.a. ココナワールド

created and published by Sofel in 1987-04-10, running on Famicom Disk System

type: action/reflex, adventure
genre: Cartoon, Traditional game, Bingo, Bingo, USA variant
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player

languages: jpn

Personal review

Now this is a weird piece of software. I was pretty clueless as to what this game is all about. You are a little witch in a very strange forest with even stranger creatures. The reviewer of the "Video Game Den" mentions it has something to do with filling up your magical wand so you can transform (hostile) animals into nicer objects. Well, at least he found it out. I didn't, and when I read about it I didn't want to try playing the game again. I felt that the game is hardly predictable. You leave the screen to the west and then back east, but you don't land on the screen you came from, but land in a totally different location. Don't know if it is purely random. And the girl moves sooo slowly. There is a little Bingo mini-game, which failed to interest me, exactly as the rest of the game.