Hanjuku Hero | |
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Developer(s) | Square |
Publisher(s) | Square |
Designer(s) | Takashi Tokita |
Composer(s) | Nobuo Uematsu |
Platform(s) | Famicom |
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Genre(s) | Real-time strategy |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Hanjuku Hero: Aa, Sekaiyo Hanjukunare...! | |
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Developer(s) | Square |
Publisher(s) | Square |
Designer(s) | Takashi Tokita |
Artist(s) | Kazuyuki Kurashima |
Composer(s) | Koichi Sugiyama |
Platform(s) | Super Famicom, WonderSwan Color |
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Genre(s) | Real-time strategy |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Hanjuku Hero Tai 3D | |
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Developer(s) | Square Enix PDD 7 |
Publisher(s) | Square Enix |
Designer(s) |
Takashi Tokita Kazuyuki Kurashima |
Composer(s) | Nobuo Uematsu |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
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Genre(s) | Real-time strategy |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Egg Monster Hero | |
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Developer(s) | Neverland |
Publisher(s) | Square Enix |
Designer(s) | Takashi Tokita |
Composer(s) | Nobuo Uematsu |
Platform(s) | Nintendo DS, mobile phone |
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Genre(s) | Action |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Hanjuku Hero 4: 7-Jin no Hanjuku Hero | |
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Developer(s) | Square Enix PDD 7 |
Publisher(s) | Square Enix |
Designer(s) | Takashi Tokita |
Composer(s) |
Nobuo Uematsu Kenji Ito Tsuyoshi Sekito Hirosato Noda Naoshi Mizuta Ai Yamashita |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
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Genre(s) | Real-time strategy |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Hanjuku Hero (半熟英雄 Hanjuku Hīrō?, "Soft-Boiled Hero") is a Japan-exclusive series of real-time strategy video games. It is directed by Takashi Tokita and published by Square Enix (formerly Square). The series contains four main titles and a spinoff game. The main titles are Hanjuku Hero (1988), Hanjuku Hero: Aa, Sekaiyo Hanjukunare...! (1992), Hanjuku Hero Tai 3D (2003), and Hanjuku Hero 4: 7-Jin no Hanjuku Hero (2005). The spinoff is a Nintendo DS game called Egg Monster Hero (2005), which is a role-playing game with an emphasis on touch-based gameplay. The series is known for its humor and is centered on Lord Almamoon, the protagonist who must save his country from danger in each game.
Hanjuku Hero (半熟英雄 Hanjuku Hīrō?, "Soft-Boiled Hero") is the first game in the series, released in 1988 for Famicom. It was re-released on the Virtual Console in 2007 for the Wii, in 2013 for the Nintendo 3DS and on April 9, 2014 for the Wii U.
Although the game did not receive a stand-alone soundtrack album release, a bonus disc of 17 tracks from the game was included in the soundtrack album to Hanjuku Hero VS 3D, featuring some of Uematsu's earliest work. Patrick Gann of RPGFan was reminded of the soundtracks to Final Fantasy II and Final Fantasy III, amid this "humorous" album.