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| Developer(s) | Artdink |
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| Director(s) | Kazutoshi Iida |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation |
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| Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Tail of the Sun, known in Japan as Taiyō no Shippo: Wild, Pure, Simple Life (太陽のしっぽ WILD・PURE・SIMPLE LIFE, Taiyō no Shippo Wairudo, Pyua, Shinpuru Raifu), is an action role-playing video game developed by Artdink for the PlayStation. It was released in Japan in 1996 by Artdink and North America in 1997 by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was created by Kazutoshi Iida, who worked on Aquanaut's Holiday and would later work with Nintendo on Doshin the Giant.[2]
The player's ultimate objective is to build a tower of mammoth tusks that reaches the sun. To this end, a large map full of various creatures and oddities must be traversed in an effort to locate and gather sufficient food for the tribe to thrive and multiply.
The game was re-released in Japan on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable as a PSone Classic in 2006,[citation needed] and on the PlayStation Network the same year.