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"Card Captor Sakura: Tomoe Shougakkou Daiundoukai" as it's often called on the web (or more accurately, "Card Captor Sakura: Tomoeda Shougakkou Daiundoukai" / カードキャプターさくら ~ 友枝小学校大運動会 ~ or "Card Captor Sakura: Tomoeda Elementary School's Big Sports Day") is a fun, great licensed game based on CLAMP's popular anime and manga, "Card Captor Sakura", developed and published by MTO Inc. in 2000 and copyrighted to various other parties such as NHK, Kodansha Manga Sho (Kodansha Manga Award) and NEP 21. As we own the game and I'm a little suprised at the lack of info, I have to put up some important info for it.

For starters, this game is mostly unrelated to the main CCS storyline and is a compilation of sports-themed mini-games played at Sakura's school in Tomoeda, "Tomoeda Elementary", for a fun change of pace, and it works as Sakura and various other characters in the anime and manga are known for their athleticism. Starring the titular ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto, the game opens (if you've initialized the cart already) with Sakura waking up, wishing you good morning, and gets ready for school. In the game, you can play with fifteen characters from the franchise who have a variety of stats (Stamina, Speed, Jump, Chikara / Strength and Kiyou / Skill) who specialize at different events and their stat differences will certainly be noticeable in certain events. Some characters can only be used if you have a specific team, and you can choose from the red or blue team whenever you want. The game features at least twelve events (most with useful instructions) including the Exhibition events, the cute "Baton Dance" (as Sakura is skilled with the Baton) and Tobibako or "Vaulting Horse", which offer different points and rewards (like Stamina refill). Characters you use will be weaker in following events until you recharge their stamina, so the game forces you to use other characters, which is good. Depending on your lead or defeat, you get different scenes and voice clips. With the ability to play by yourself or link up against friends, there's a decent amount of fun to be had within the main game.

Additional features within the game includes the ability to practice events you've played before and an "Omake" mode with a few interesting features. Some of the things include seeing stats and switching hats (teams), the Uranai or "Divination" feature (where you get your fortune told, though it's extremely basic compared to games that specialize at such like Famicom's "Ai Sensei no Oshiete"), and the ability to use the Game Boy Printer with "Print Asobi" or "Print Playing". The game features nice graphics with fairly detailed cutscenes and bold, large character sprites with fluid animations, making it at times seem more reminiscent of a NeoGeo Pocket Color game than a GBC title. I also like how each character has a distinct look that follows them within various events. The music is great and upbeat and the game also features PCM voice samples of characters talking, usually to emphasize key phrases. It features a simple story with nearly all dialogue being written in Hira/Kata, usually with equivalents for the few in-game Kanji.

Now... some other issues people don't point out about the game. The game does not work properly in anything other than a Game Boy Color, at least as far as I know. The game plays fine in other devices, but the PCM voice samples just come out as garbled sound unless played in a normal GBC (or emulator). I've tried the game on my Game Boy Advance, GBA SP, GBA Micro, and my Game Boy Player and they all had the same garbled sound result. As such, the only way to get the voice clips was to capture the sound from my Pokemon GBC using Component cables plugged into the audio jack and captured through my AVerMedia, then I carefully edited them into my captured footage from the Game Boy Player. So, if you somehow get this and play it on said devices and the sounds are strange and you look at this video and wonder how I did it or blame me because you didn't read the description, then that's on you.

Anyhoo, this is a video showing some of the game in action and ending on the "Baton Dance" mimicry game. I recommend this wholeheartedly to fans of mini-game compilations, school events, and CCS fanatics. Enjoy.

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