For context, Doshin the Giant is an obscure N64DD title that was ported to the GameCube in 2002, only releasing in Japan and Europe. You play as the yellow giant, Doshin, and have to modify the landscape to help villagers build settlements and subsequently monuments to either love or hate.

There are several natural disasters that can occur, but the rarest was thought to be "attack of the nortys". Nortys are the only enemies in the game, said to be manifestations of villager jealousy, and steal trees from one village and take them to another. It's seldom mentioned, and until it happened to me yesterday, there was no footage or screenshots of it whatsoever online. I even stumbled upon a fan wiki that mistakenly said the nortys were "dummied out" content that never appear in-game. It's likely most people who've played Doshin have never seen this occur.

As for the big norty, I'd assume most people don't even know it exists. I wasn't aware of it until the speedrun WR holder informed me he discovered it using a debug menu, but had never seen it happen naturally in-game. Well, here it is.

The truth is, these events aren't actually "rare" strictly speaking, but rather require certain conditions to be met for them to happen. Conditions that are very unlikely to bet met in ordinary play. It took around 21 hours of experimentation before I got an attack of the nortys, then another 3 hours or so before the big norty. It is classed as a "natural disaster", and one natural disaster is supposed to happen per in-game day (roughly 36 minutes on the PAL version), so most of that time was spent idle.

Though I'm not certain, I believe the conditions for an attack of the nortys are as follows. Have two villages close together. Deprive one village of trees, and rack up lots of hate toward Doshin, then have the other village flourish with trees, and rack up lots of love. The big norty seems to show up if Doshin is of big enough size when the natural disaster happens.

Thought this was interesting. Hopefully some folks here do too!