Odama
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…
Odama is a pinball developed by Vivarium, released 31 March 2006 on Nintendo GameCube.
What Odama is
Odama is a pinball game developed by Vivarium and released in 2006. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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…
How it plays
Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Odama holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 64 rated pinball games in our database, which average 75. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Odama launched on 31 March 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, Ōkami and Daxter. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, Ōkami, Daxter.
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