Xcomp gives it 85%
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However, it’s very satisfying when you make a profit and the cheery prompt appears full of warm colours, a long figure with trailing zeroes and a happy Nozomi! In contrast, you can also feel the huge disappointment when stocks you invest in plummet. As you can imagine, Nozomi doesn’t so happy and the background is full of dark cold colours. It doesn’t stop there however because the picture also varies depending how much profit or loss you ended up with after selling stock.
Sega Sammy earned me 68,000 Yen in an hour. Nice!
On the whole, although “Kabushiki Baibai Trainer, Kabutore” isn’t really going to guarantee you success in the real life stock market, it’s still a fun and satisfying sim to play, allowing players to experience the great risks there is. I don’t know a thing about stocks apart from the time I played a very simplified version in Theme Park for the PC but now I’ve learned quite a few things from this title such as how they are bought in set quantities, how buying/selling works and what all those blue and red bars in the charts mean. So who knows… if Japan can use the DS to help teach Kanji and other subjects, maybe this title will find its way into the business and finance classes!
Import Friendly?
I would have to say it’s not because of the text heavy menus. However, with a bit of basic Japanese you should be able to figure out how to get through the tutorials and how to buy/sell stock.
Pros
- Story Mode and Expert Mode give the sim a bit of variety.
- Satisfaction when the money rolls in.
- Good simple presentation.
- Clean and easy to navigate interface.
- Quick tutorials to guide the complete beginner.
Cons
- Can bombard you with prompts if you reserve too much stock.
- Can’t end a mode whenever you want.
- No records of the highest amount of profit you make.
