Animetic Story Game 1: Cardcaptor Sakura (1999) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Animetic Story Game 1: Cardcaptor Sakura

Animetic Story Game 1: Cardcaptor Sakura was released on August 5th, 1999. Published by Arika for the PlayStation 1, the game is an adaption of the first season of the anime.

5 August 1999

What Animetic Story Game 1: Cardcaptor Sakura is

Animetic Story Game 1: Cardcaptor Sakura is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Arika and released in 1999. It is available on PlayStation only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ten-year-old Sakura Kinomoto is an ordinary fourth-grade student living in Tomoeda until, one day, she stumbles upon a mysterious book of cards titled "The Clow." Pondering over her discovery, she unintentionally causes a magical gust of wind to scatter the cards all over town. The accident awakens the Beast of the Seal—Keroberos, nicknamed "Kero"—who tells Sakura that she has released the mystical "Clow Cards" created by the sorcerer Clow Reed. Due to each Card's ability to act independently and their incredible power, Clow had sealed them away. Now that they have been set free, the Cards pose great danger to the world, and it is up to Sakura to put an end to them. Appointing Sakura as the…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Cardcaptor Sakura series

Animetic Story Game 1: Cardcaptor Sakura is the first of 10 entries we hold in the Cardcaptor Sakura series. The next entry was Card Captor Sakura: Sakura to Fushigi na Clow Card in 1999.

See all 10 Cardcaptor Sakura games in release order →

What it launched against

Animetic Story Game 1: Cardcaptor Sakura launched on 5 August 1999, within three weeks of Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty, Croc 2, Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War and Hybrid Heaven.

Released around the same time: Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty, Croc 2, Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War, Hybrid Heaven.

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