Edit: The developer is continuing to work on Hakoniwa Sumo. He has added a "newcomer screen" where you can pick from new wrestlers, and he has also fixed the bugs in the game, so those two paragraphs which were my main issues with the game no longer apply.
In my opinion this game is too good to be free, and people who like sports management sims really need to check this out.
Also there is a review about a virus being in the game. I've never noticed anything like that. I think it is due to a false report from an AV.
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This is a pretty good management sim. I've enjoyed it, although it has some pretty serious flaws.
Here, you run a stable of Sumo Wrestlers, signing guys for your stable and watching them fight matches over years and years. This is strictly a text-based management game, so you do not control anything in the matches themselves. Even if you don't understand Sumo wrestling, the documentation does a decent job of telling you what everything is. The fights themselves are entertaining. You can understand what is going on.
The translation was probably done by google translate. It's not pretty but you know what the game is trying to say.
This would be a really good game, worth $10 in my opinion except:
You have very little control over who to sign. You'll say, I want to sign someone this month. And the game will be like, "Do you want this guy? I can't tell you if he's any good even how tall he is, but I can show you exactly what this 21 year old fighter was like when he was 15.". And you'll say no, and it will show you another guy with the same lack of info and if you don't select him, you don't get anyone that month. It kills the game really, because even though you understand what is going on, you can't knowingly sign anyone who takes advantage of your knowledge.
There are no finances. Well, there are but when you run out of money, someone just gives you more and it doesn't really matter.
There's also no training. You've got no input into how the wrestler develops.
After 5 hours my game has started to crash when it hits a certain point, so I think my save is getting messed up which would be a game-killer if I had paid for this.
So I am of two minds about Hakoniwa Sumo. One one hand I think it is an excellent text-based management game for being free. On the other hand if the developer had added the above missing things and fixed the bug, he could have had an excellent $10-$15 text-based management game instead, and I would have spent 200 hours playing it. I hope he is continuing to work on this idea.
