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| Incredibly obscure 1991 [[hardware:nes|Famicom]] game from //[[game:Little Samson]]// publisher [[company:Takeru]] and someone forgotten by time and the Internet called [[company:K2 Multi Creative Team]] (almost certainly the same staff behind //Little Samson//), that basically plays like “Make your own //[[game:mega_man_series|Mega Man]]//”. The premise is, you've been visited in your dreams by a magical being known as the Tapir; he gives you the opportunity to build an avatar for yourself. You choose a head type, a body, weapon type, apply a name. Bingo, you have your own character. | Incredibly obscure 1991 [[hardware:nes|Famicom]] game from //[[game:Little Samson]]// publisher [[company:Takeru]] and someone forgotten by time and the Internet called [[company:K2 Multi Creative Team]] (almost certainly the same staff behind //Little Samson//), that basically plays like “Make your own //[[game:mega_man_series|Mega Man]]//”. The premise is, you've been visited in your dreams by a magical being known as the Tapir; he gives you the opportunity to build an avatar for yourself. You choose a head type, a body, weapon type, apply a name. Bingo, you have your own character. | ||
| - | Once you have a character, you're thrown into a nonlinear game world –-- sort of like //Mega Man// again, except after you select a level you have to walk there on your own. If you're in level A and you select level D, then before you get to level D you have to walk through an extensive transition between the two. | + | Once you have a character, you're thrown into a nonlinear game world --- sort of like //Mega Man// again, except after you select a level you have to walk there on your own. If you're in level A and you select level D, then before you get to level D you have to walk through an extensive transition between the two. |
| ====There is also a plot!==== | ====There is also a plot!==== | ||
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| - | The game, as you can see, is what your college roommate would probably call “trippy”, if he weren't more inclined to call it “fruity”. As you play, you will encounter eggs reminiscent of those from [[company:Hudson]]'s //[[game:adventure_island_series|Adventure Island]]//; crack 'em to get health refills, score-increasing thingamabobs, or --– most intriguingly and importantly --– power-ups. If your current weapon is (say) a [[character:shuriken]], you'll find a shuriken. Collect a few shurikens, and your shuriken will go up a level. You can do this several times, until you get pretty darned powerful. | + | The game, as you can see, is what your college roommate would probably call “trippy”, if he weren't more inclined to call it “fruity”. As you play, you will encounter eggs reminiscent of those from [[company:Hudson]]'s //[[game:adventure_island_series|Adventure Island]]//; crack 'em to get health refills, score-increasing thingamabobs, or --- most intriguingly and importantly --- power-ups. If your current weapon is (say) a [[character:shuriken]], you'll find a shuriken. Collect a few shurikens, and your shuriken will go up a level. You can do this several times, until you get pretty darned powerful. |
| At the end of every level, you'll face a very Capcommy boss. Actually, the whole game positively sweats a [[company:Capcom]] vibe. It would be no surprise whatsoever, either in atmosphere or the feel of the mechanics and game engine, to learn that the game comes from the //[[game:Little Nemo]]// team. No, though. Different company. Obscure company. Not Capcom. | At the end of every level, you'll face a very Capcommy boss. Actually, the whole game positively sweats a [[company:Capcom]] vibe. It would be no surprise whatsoever, either in atmosphere or the feel of the mechanics and game engine, to learn that the game comes from the //[[game:Little Nemo]]// team. No, though. Different company. Obscure company. Not Capcom. | ||
| - | A decent English translation patch by Akujin is [[http://www.romhacking.net/translations/104/|available online]] --– which is probably the only place you'll ever run across the game anyway, so while you're out hunting for the one, you might as well get the other. | + | A decent English translation patch by Akujin is [[http://www.romhacking.net/translations/104/|available online]] --- which is probably the only place you'll ever run across the game anyway, so while you're out hunting for the one, you might as well get the other. |
| =====Trivia===== | =====Trivia===== | ||