Odama
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North American box art
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| Developer(s) | Vivarium |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Keiji Okayasu |
| Producer(s) | Yoot Saito |
| Designer(s) | Yoot Saito Takuya Jinda |
| Programmer(s) | Shintarou Kawahara Kanta Kobayashi Tsuyoshi Inada Takuya Oba |
| Platform(s) | GameCube |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Pinball, real-time tactics |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Aggregate score | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 62 of 100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Edge | 4 of 10 |
| EGM | 5.83 of 10 |
| Eurogamer | 6 of 10 |
| Famitsu | 31 of 40 |
| Game Informer | 7 of 10 |
| GamePro |   |
| Game Revolution | C+ |
| GameSpot | 6.6 of 10 |
| GameSpy | |
| GameTrailers | 6.5 of 10 |
| GameZone | 6.5 of 10 |
| IGN | 6.5 of 10 |
| Nintendo Power | 8.5 of 10 |
| The A.V. Club | C− |
| Detroit Free Press | |
| Award | |
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| Publication | Award |
| IGN | 2006 Most Innovative Design |
Odama (大玉 Ōdama?, lit. "Great Ball") is a video game for the GameCube developed by Vivarium and published by Nintendo in 2006. The game was produced and designed by Seaman creator, Yutaka Saito.
Odama blends tactical wargaming with pinball gameplay. The game takes place in a feudal Japan setting. The main character is a young general named Yamanouchi Kagetora, who is intent on avenging his father's death by reviving the most ingenious weapon ever to hit the medieval battlefield: the Odama. The Odama is a gigantic ball powerful enough to destroy whatever it strikes, friend or foe. Using giant flippers, players aim the Odama to bowl over enemies, shatter their defenses and wreak havoc on the battlefield. With the Nintendo GameCube Microphone, players direct their soldiers out of the Odama's way and into the fray by charging the enemy, defending positions and seizing the enemy gates.
The main character in Odama is Yamanouchi Kagetora, a young general struggling to avenge his clan and preserve the Way of Ninten-do, which is a philosophy that means "The way of heavenly duty". With this philosophy to guide him, he finds that his individual soldiers can band together to create a force strong enough to defeat even the most powerful enemy, a general named Karasuma Genshin. Genshin betrayed Lord Yamanouchi Nobutada, Kagetora's father, in a coup, leading Lord Nobutada to take his own life in order to avoid the shame of defeat. Kagetora exacts his revenge, using only limited resources against a vast army. One of these resources is a sacred object protected by his clan: a legendary weapon called the Odama.
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