The Space Sheriff Spirits
Encyclopedia
, is an action game
for the PlayStation 2
. This game is based on the popular Japanese live-action TV series
Space Sheriff trilogy produced by the famous Toei Company
. The three seasons were directed by Hattori Kazuyasu and Yoshiaki Kobayashi, and were named , and . This series helped the Metal Heroes
genre to grow popular in Japan in the '80s. The Space Sheriff trilogy was quickly exported in Europe
an countries, such as France
since 1982 (the series was renamed X-OR), Asia
(including Indonesia
, Malaysia and most notably Philippines
) and Latin America (Brazil
). The game was simultaneously released on May 25, 2006 in Japan
, Hong Kong
and Taiwan
. Weekly Famitsu rated it 21/40.
Kenji Ohba and Hiroshi Watari reprised their roles as Gavan and Sharivan, respectively. Takuo Kawamura
took over as the voice of Shaider, as Hiroshi Tsuburaya
died in 2001.
TV series based
The crossover 1984 movie based + original elements
Action game
Action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction-time. The genre includes diverse subgenres such as fighting games, shooter games, and platform games, which are widely considered the most important action games, though some...
for the PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
. This game is based on the popular Japanese live-action TV series
Toei Superheroes
Toei Superheroes are superhero shows produced by Toei Company Ltd., which has done the biggest number of live-action tokusatsu superhero shows in Japan...
Space Sheriff trilogy produced by the famous Toei Company
Toei Company
is a Japanese film, television production, and distribution corporation. Based in Tokyo, Toei owns and operates thirty-four movie theaters across Japan, a modest vertically-integrated studio system by the standards of the 1930s United States; operates studios at Tokyo and Kyoto; and is a...
. The three seasons were directed by Hattori Kazuyasu and Yoshiaki Kobayashi, and were named , and . This series helped the Metal Heroes
Metal Heroes
The is a genre of tokusatsu superhero TV series produced by Toei for Japanese television.The protagonists of the Metal Hero Series are mainly space and police-based characters who are typically androids, cyborgs, or humans that don "metallic" suits...
genre to grow popular in Japan in the '80s. The Space Sheriff trilogy was quickly exported in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an countries, such as France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
since 1982 (the series was renamed X-OR), Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
(including Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
, Malaysia and most notably Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
) and Latin America (Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
). The game was simultaneously released on May 25, 2006 in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
and Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
. Weekly Famitsu rated it 21/40.
Kenji Ohba and Hiroshi Watari reprised their roles as Gavan and Sharivan, respectively. Takuo Kawamura
Takuo Kawamura
is a male Japanese voice actor from Saitama, Japan.-Anime cast in:*Baki the Grappler as Gym Member B ; Naito*Demonbane as Stone*Detective Loki as Thief *Fullmetal Alchemist as Examinee *Happiness! as Hachisuke Takamizo...
took over as the voice of Shaider, as Hiroshi Tsuburaya
Hiroshi Tsuburaya
was a Japanese actor. 3rd son of Hajime Tsuburaya and grandchild of Eiji Tsuburaya. Became known to tokusatsu series audiences by playing the leading role in Uchuu Keiji Shaider as Dai Sawamura/Shaider.-Death:Tsuburaya died of liver cancer on July 24th, 2001 due to alcoholism developed through the...
died in 2001.
Story
- Gavan Mode
TV series based
- The Space Sheriff Spirits Mode
The crossover 1984 movie based + original elements
Gavan Mode
Play as Retsu Ichijoji (Gavan), and as Kojiro Aoyama in two stages, in this story mode based on the Space Sheriff Gavan TV series. The plot is followed by stills taken from the most important episodes. The player has the ability to pick up and throw items in this game mode.- Mission 1 (episode 1 of the series)
- Mission 2
- Mission 3
- Mission 4
- Mission 5
- Mission 6
- Mission 7
Uchū Keiji Tamashii Mode (extra)
- Opening
- Mission 1
- Mission 2
- Mission 3
- Mission 4A / Mission 4B
- Mission 5A / Mission 5B
- Staff Roll
Battle Royale Mode
In this Versus mode, the user selects one of the playable characters, within the heroes side, and fights against a CPU controller villain in a single-round deadly fight. Small variations are offered in this mode, like the ability to select an ally or, to fight versus either a single or a couple of ennemies. The player has the ability to pick up and throw items in this game mode too.- 1P vs CPU2
- 1P vs CPU2 + CPU3
- 1P + CPU1 vs CPU2
- 1P + CPU1 vs CPU2 + CPU3
Survival Mode (extra)
The player select one, of the five available characters, and have to defeat 999 villains, including bosses appearing in the Gavan Mode. CPU controlled allies from the two story modes will briefly join the fight and help the player. Exceptionally, this mode is a single-stage one, located on the parallel world, also no items can be used by the player. Beating this mode will unlock videos in the Omake Mode.- Retsu Ichijoji (Gavan)
- Den Iga (Sharivan)
- Dai Sawamura (Shaider)
- Alan
- Annie
Omake Mode
This theater mode contains five unlockable original TV commercials broadcasted in Japan in the '80s. An extra "Making of 宇宙刑事魂" 2006 footage is also selectable once unlocked.- Gavan action figure 006P, PopyPopyPopy Popy Popy (ポピー）was a Japanese toy manufacturer of the 1970s and early 1980s. The company was owned by Bandai. It was founded in 1971, and merged back into the parent company in 1983...
, TV commercial (unlockable) - Dolgiran ship DX, Popy, TV commercial (unlockable)
- Sharivan action figure + Crime Burster gun, BandaiBandaiis a Japanese toy making and video game company, as well as the producer of a large number of plastic model kits. It is the world's third-largest producer of toys . Some ex-Bandai group companies produce anime and tokusatsu programs...
, TV commercial (unlockable) - Sharingar Tank radio control, Characon/Bandai, TV commercial (unlockable)
- Shaian tank DX + Bluhawk bike, Popynika/Bandai, TV commercial (unlockable)
- Making of The Space Sheriff Spirits, behind the scenes featurette (unlockable)
Option
- Memory card (PS2): Load・Save
- AutosaveAutosaveAutosave is a function in many computer applications or programs which saves an opened document automatically, helping to reduce the risk or impact of data loss in case of a crash or freeze...
function: Off・On - Vibration function: Off・On
- Game difficulty: Easy・Normal・Hard
- Key assign type: Type A・Type B
- Music volume: Low<->High
- Sound effects volume: Low<->High
- Custom settings: Default・Custom
Playable
- Gavan Mode
- Retsu Ichijoji (Gavan)
- Kojiro Aoyama
- Alan
- Uchū Keiji Tamashii Mode
- Retsu Ichijoji (Gavan)
- Den Iga (Sharivan)
- Dai Sawamura (Shaider)
- Annie
- Battle Royale Mode
- Retsu Ichijoji
- Gavan
- Chief Komu (unlockable)
- Kojiro Aoyama (unlockable)
- Den Iga (unlockable)
- Sharivan (unlockable)
- Alan (unlockable)
- Dai Sawamura (unlockable)
- Shaider (unlockable)
- Annie (unlockable)
- Survival Mode
- Retsu Ichijoji (Gavan)
- Den Iga (Sharivan)
- Dai Sawamura (Shaider)
- Alan
- Annie
Non-playable
- Battle Royale Mode
- Syako Monster
- Double Man
- Sai Dobler
- Saber Dobler
- Saimin Dobler (unlockable)
- Buffalo Dobler (unlockable)
- Sun Dolba (unlockable)
- Dark Galaxy Queen (unlockable)
- Vario Zector (unlockable) (hunter-Killer of Space Sheriff Gavan/Universe Sergeant Gavan in his own combat suit)
- Khubirai (unlockable)
- Kiba the Witch (unlockable)
- ? (unlockable)
- ? (unlockable)
- ? (unlockable)
- ? (unlockable)
- ? (unlockable)
Voice cast
- Kenji Ohba - Retsu Ichijoji/Gavan
- Wakiko Kano - Mimi
- Hiroshi Watari - Den Iga/Sharivan
- Takuo KawamuraTakuo Kawamurais a male Japanese voice actor from Saitama, Japan.-Anime cast in:*Baki the Grappler as Gym Member B ; Naito*Demonbane as Stone*Detective Loki as Thief *Fullmetal Alchemist as Examinee *Happiness! as Hachisuke Takamizo...
- Dai Sawamura/Shaider - Naomi MorinagaNaomi Morinagais a former Japanese actress. She became quite popular for her performance in tokusatsu television series such as Uchuu Keiji Shaider , as well as in Jikuu Senshi Spielban .-Film:* Space Sheriff...
- Annie - Hiroshi MiyauchiHiroshi Miyauchiis a prolific Japanese actor from Chiba Prefecture. He is best known for playing some of the most memorable roles in Tokusatsu history, such as Kazami Shiro in Kamen Rider V3 and Ken Hayakawa in Kaiketsu Zubat...
- Alan/Space Sheriff Alan - Toshiaki Nishizawa - Commander Kom
- Masayuki Suzuki - Kojiro Aoyama
- Shōzō IizukaShozo Iizukais a male Japanese voice actor from Fukushima Prefecture who is affiliated with Sigma Seven. He graduated from the fine arts department of Nihon University....
- Don Horror/Psycho/Kubhirai - Michiro Iida - Hunter Killer/Vario Zector
- Noboru Mitani - Kiba the Witch/Majou Kiba
- Ken NishidaKen Nishidais a Japanese actor and voice actor. He is noted for his roles in Return of Ultraman, Eyeful Daisakusen, Uchuu Keiji Gavan, Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger, G-Men '75, and Shin Kyoto Meikyū Annai. His guest roles have included multiple episodes of Key Hunter, Mito Kōmon, Taiyō ni Hoero!, Zenigata Heiji,...
- Sun Dolba - Machiko SogaMachiko Sogawas a Japanese voice actress and actress.- Life and career :Machiko had humble upbringings and was raised to be a singer, though her talents were with acting. She was “discovered” after doing a play in Tokyo Center...
- Dark Galaxy Queen/Honey/Mitsubachi Doubler (Double Girl)