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Saiyuki Gameboy Advanced game
Dec. 15th, 2004 09:16 pmBearing in mind that I can read numbers up to 9, the directions of the 4 winds and randomly the words ‘fortune’ and ‘centre’ in Mandarin script...
Wai!
On my first go I stalled at the first mini-game, where you have to get Goku to eat 4 bows of rice in quick succession. If you fail, you get sadistic Hakkai popping up to tell you to try again and you can’t get any further until you eat all the damn rice within the given time-limit.
On the second go I managed to whack Goku over the head with the infamous paper-fan twice in a row and got extra pinging noises of the type you’d normally get in a dating sim to indicate that you’ve won more points with one of the girls you’re trying to date. And for the very first battle all three of Sanzo’s options appear to be the ‘Makai Tenjou’ though possibly the variation is whether he yells random insults before or not. Later, when you start getting into mini-battles you can only use each character’s ‘limit break’ once it seems, though when Kougaiji and his lot turn up they seem to repeatedly use theirs.
The in-game graphics variate between dating-sim-esque character picture with text underneath to old-school-RPG overhead view with little walking sprites navigating a map. The closest comparison I’d come to would be maybe Final Fantasy 3 or Zelda. The sideways walking little sprites for the mini-battles are pretty damn cute, in the way that they never were in Golden Axe or Streets of Rage, though Streets of Rage didn’t particularly have little sprites at all.
I could just sit and happily watch sideways scrolling Sanzo walk across a screen for a good while, let me tell you. He walks across the screen, shoots things and occasionally kicks them, what’s not to love?
Though if the first battle with the Kougaiji-tachi follows up with the appearance of Chin Iisou, as the same scenario does in the manga and anime, a sideways scrolling Chin Iisou sprite might happily keep me occupied for the duration of the Christmas holidays.
Wai!
On my first go I stalled at the first mini-game, where you have to get Goku to eat 4 bows of rice in quick succession. If you fail, you get sadistic Hakkai popping up to tell you to try again and you can’t get any further until you eat all the damn rice within the given time-limit.
On the second go I managed to whack Goku over the head with the infamous paper-fan twice in a row and got extra pinging noises of the type you’d normally get in a dating sim to indicate that you’ve won more points with one of the girls you’re trying to date. And for the very first battle all three of Sanzo’s options appear to be the ‘Makai Tenjou’ though possibly the variation is whether he yells random insults before or not. Later, when you start getting into mini-battles you can only use each character’s ‘limit break’ once it seems, though when Kougaiji and his lot turn up they seem to repeatedly use theirs.
The in-game graphics variate between dating-sim-esque character picture with text underneath to old-school-RPG overhead view with little walking sprites navigating a map. The closest comparison I’d come to would be maybe Final Fantasy 3 or Zelda. The sideways walking little sprites for the mini-battles are pretty damn cute, in the way that they never were in Golden Axe or Streets of Rage, though Streets of Rage didn’t particularly have little sprites at all.
I could just sit and happily watch sideways scrolling Sanzo walk across a screen for a good while, let me tell you. He walks across the screen, shoots things and occasionally kicks them, what’s not to love?
Though if the first battle with the Kougaiji-tachi follows up with the appearance of Chin Iisou, as the same scenario does in the manga and anime, a sideways scrolling Chin Iisou sprite might happily keep me occupied for the duration of the Christmas holidays.
