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the circle of life, all beasts contribute to the never-ending road of
consumption. In a theoretical jungle, rat eats roach, cat eats rat, and vampire
bat saps the blood of cat and rat.
When rat, cat, and bat succumb to the reaper, roach feasts on all.
Doubutsu Bancho, loosely translated into Animal Leader, takes the
concept of consumption and plies it into a unique video game. At the onset, you
take control of a simple mammal with limited mobility. All similar sized
animals roaming the fields are fair game to your appetite, as you are to
theirs. As a predator, you kill prey by knocking them down and biting them
until dead. Eat an animal with superior mobility, such as a pair of legs, and
you'll evolve on the spot. Other attributes may be culled by consuming various
prey and assimilating new skills and motor functions.
Scattered across the land are animal bosses which when defeated,
pass on their attributes and titles to you. Once you're the king of a region,
it's time for mating in order to pass the bloodline down to a new generation
where you start over again as offspring. Although it's a new beginning, you're
also faster, sleeker, and better endowed to carry on the Animal Leader lineage
and take on new challenges.
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