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Sennen Kazoku is a life simulation game for Game Boy Advance.
Summary
The player assumes the role of Cupid, who under the supervision of God must overlook a family and intervene (e.g. with arrows that change the mood of family members) if necessary.
As time progresses, characters in the game will grow up, become employed/retire, may marry and start new generations of families before dying. The ultimate goal of the game is to have a tree of families that runs for 1000 years.[1]
This game makes heavy use of an internal clock battery. Events will progress in the game even while it is powered off. Once the battery has run dry, it is impossible to play the game (an issue that may affect current day Sennen Kazoku cartridges). The Japanese Wii U Virtual Console release of the game does not have this issue.
Trivia
- The Cupid character was not only inspired by the Roman deity Cupid. In fact, director Masanobu Suzui was also inspired by Pit (also with an appearance based on the Cupid/Eros archetypes) from the Kid Icarus series with respects to Toru Osawa being both the creator of Pit and one of the producers for Sennen Kazoku (with Satoshi Yamato). Pit himself was also used as a prototype for Cupid at an earlier point, until Cupid's design was completed. Cupid also served a practical purpose as the direction of the game changed to incorporate interactions in families/relationships using a third-person view; and it was decided that the suitable protagonists would be like gods including God followed by his subordinates.[2]
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