Be the Hero of Tales - SOYOGI

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About this game

Available in 12 languages (Japanese, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Chinese, Arabic), stories and collection included.

Read the world's best-known folk tales again, this time as the hero. Your first read follows each tale just as it is usually told. From the second read on, choices appear at the story's crossroads, and your decisions lead you to endings you have never heard of.

The twelve tales:
- Momotaro the Peach Boy (Japan)
- Little Red Riding Hood (Grimm)
- The Enormous Turnip (Russia)
- Urashima Taro (Japan)
- The Three Little Pigs (England)
- Hansel and Gretel (Grimm)
- Princess Kaguya (Japan, from the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter)
- The Bremen Town Musicians (Grimm)
- How the Twelve Animals Were Chosen (a folk tale told in Japan)
- The Crane Who Returned a Kindness (Japan)
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (from the Thousand and One Nights)
- The North Wind and the Sun (Aesop)

107 endings to collect
Every ending you find is recorded in the Ending Collection, with hints for the ones you have not found yet. You can also replay any ending from its last crossroads. No choice ever leads the hero to a cruel end, so feel free to wander.

36 tales, including the villains' side
Finish a main tale and you unlock the same story from another point of view: the ogre chief, the ever-hungry wolf, the turnip being pulled, the grateful turtle, Princess Otohime and the secret of the tamatebako, the brick house that shelters three little pigs, the lonely witch who kept building her house of sweets, the white bird who ate the breadcrumbs, the old bamboo cutter and his wife after Kaguya's departure, the envoy from a moon that knows no tears, the robber who crept back into a dark house, the rooster who was meant for the soup pot, the cat who missed the date, the rat who never told the true day, the crane who counts her feathers as she weaves, the old woman who was told not to look, Morgiana the servant who notices everything, the captain of the thieves whose secret was found out, the North Wind whose work is to blow, and the Sun whose work is to shine. Villains and side characters have their own stories to tell.

Endings from the original sources
Old tales keep endings that modern picture books left behind: Urashima Taro turning into a crane (Otogi-zoshi), the second wolf in the Grimms' 1812 first edition, the wits-battle of turnips, apples and a butter churn from Joseph Jacobs's English Fairy Tales (1890), a house of bread walls and sugar windows just as the Grimms wrote it, the five noblemen's impossible quests and Kaguya's farewell letter straight from the tenth-century Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, and a crossroads built on the fact that in lands across the sea, the cat really does have a year of its own. This app restores them as branches you can actually read.

All text and art are original
The stories are original retellings written for this app, based on public-domain sources (the Grimms' first edition, Tolstoy's retelling, Otogi-zoshi and ancient Fudoki records, Jacobs's English Fairy Tales, and more). All illustrations are original. The branches and every ending beyond the first are this app's own creation.

Music and cut-in effects
The music is generated to match each scene: Japanese instruments for the Japanese tales, balalaika-style strings for Russia, marching tunes for England. Climactic moments burst into comic-style cut-in animations.

Comfortable reading
- Full Japanese/English switching, stories included
- Three text sizes
- Continue where you left off
- Works offline once loaded. Your records stay on your device only; the app never sends data anywhere. No account needed

Developer: Kaigo to Shien no Soudan-dokoro Soyogi (a non-profit support organization in Japan)

What’s new

Modify functions according to feedback.