gravitating towards youkai douchuuki cause i love gross little ghoulies.
like, look at this little guy poking out of the water, isn’t he just lovely?
handling is kinda slippery, but thats the kinda platforming i like. main attack is some kind of little bead you shoot out that returns to you, and rate of fire gets faster the less distance it needs to travel back to you. platforming is slight, but enemies just like to spawn in mid-air and fall down on the stage which keeps you on your toes. kinda jank. very cute. love that little map which takes a quarter of the screen at all times.
shot a frog and he took me to a gambling den. turns out with enough money i can catch a bouncing guy and buy some dango, which i can then feed to a cat on stage 2 to have them take care of the enemies for me.
there’s a drink named ben johnson that makes you run faster
the only boss i fought has you praying while your ghost fights them off and i wonder if this is how all fights are gonna go?
games really hard and seems to kick me back to the title screen every time i die. too early to give in to save-stating for me, but i was curious how this compares to the arcade original, so instead of going back in i booted up mame
so, first thing. other than being more detailed, the visuals have a lot stronger contrasts.
there’s also a ton of stuff that just got cut out of the pc-engine stages, optional paths, little platforming segments, unique enemies. they are nearly different games, with the pc-engine version heavily downscaled.
a lot of of the lost nuances are so neat too, like a specific enemy’s damage flash being them turning into a skeleton for a few frames, or that the gambling frog creates a stepladder of small frogs for you to climb on, or that both the gambling den and the item shop are hidden behind the status bar which just scrolls sideways to reveal them, and so on, and so on.
it’s also significantly harder, and i’m not sure if i’m really up for beating either one, tho i’d like to give arcade one more time. continues send you back to start of stage so it wouldn’t feel like cheating to push through like that.
