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<h2>Overview</h2><p>Hi no Ouji: Yamato Takeru ("Prince of Fire: Brave of Yamato") is a turn-based RPG based on the legend of Prince Ousu, or <a href="/yamato-takeru/3005-21777/" data-ref-id="3005-21777">Yamato Takeru</a>, who lived in the 1st century CE. It plays like a traditional top-down Japanese RPG, where the player can form a party, meet NPCs and fight creatures in turn-based battles in a separate view mode that emphasizes the monster models.</p><p>The game is specifically based on a fantastical reimagining of the Yamato Takeru story that was the basis of a kaiju movie in 1994, released in the US as <em>Orochi: The Eight-Headed Dragon</em>. The movie's producers, Toho Company, also published this game. They hired Multimedia Intelligence Transfer to develop the game, the company best known for creating <a href="/shin-megami-tensei/3025-711/" data-ref-id="3025-711">Shin Megami Tensei</a> spin-offs for Atlus.</p><p>After a confusing incident that causes Prince Ousu to kill his older brother after the latter briefly flies into an uncontrollable rage, the Prince is sent away by his father - the Emperor - to rein in his destructive powers and redeem himself by taking down the barbarians living in the Kumaso region. In addition to this task, Prince Ousu has to face the <a href="/yamata-no-orochi/3005-19648/" data-ref-id="3005-19648">Yamata no Orochi</a> dragon, the Kumaso barbarians' god Kumasogami and the antagonistic deity <a href="/tsukuyomi/3005-21476/" data-ref-id="3005-21476">Tsukuyomi</a> with the help of companions <a href="/susano-o/3005-19628/" data-ref-id="3005-19628">Susano-o</a> and Ototachibana.</p>