Tail of the Sun was released for the original Playstation in 1997 by Artdink. It's an extraordinary experience set in an expansive open world featuring various monuments, landmarks, and oddities scattered throughout.
To beat the game, you'll simply need to kill animals and return the meat to your tribe until your weapon levels up enough to take on mammoths, which are located in the Tundra, directly north of your village. When the mammoth tusks are returned to your tribe, they are stacked until you can climb high enough to reach the "tail" of the sun.
However, once that's accomplished, you'll probably have a lot left to explore if you want to see everything in this prehistoric wonderland. The instruction manual includes a map to get you started with finding the stone body parts, and furthermore lists some unmapped items and suggests there are many more. How many can you find?
Maps from the manual (thanks, BovineDevine):
*Update 12/27/23:
An achievement developer named
Layton has developed a
really nice set for Tail of the Sun on
Retro Achievements, which gives these discoveries more of a purpose, and also sheds some light on what some of this stuff is supposed to be. He also shared another map from the Japanese strategy guide, which pinpoints all locations:
Discovered:
Stone Ear (1)
Stone Ear (2)
Stone Eye (3)
Stone Eye (4)
Stone Nose (5)
Stone Mouth (6)
Stone Hand (7)
Stone Hand (8)
Village (9)
Stone Foot (10)
Stone Foot (11)
Monkey Skeleton
Diamond
Aliens
Dinosaur Tracks
Ice Mammoths
Deserted Village
Stonehenge
Penguin
Cave Painting
Big Bone
Triceratops Skull
Floating Monolith
Dead Animal #1
Dead Animals #2
Breast #1
Breast #2
Body Parts Assembled
Butt Rock
Torso Rock
Giant Footprint
Sun Stone
Rock Painting
Stone Monkey
Stone People
Stone Shapes
Tusk Pile #1
Cocoons
Snakeskins
Strange Plants #1
Strange Plants #2
Crystals
Underwater Temple
Body of an Alien
Shadow
Now my journey with this amazing game is finally complete, thanks to Layton!
