3/11/2023 0 Comments Pocky and rocky 2 enemiesEach character can also utilize a short-range melee attack designed for close encounters and batting away projectiles. Each player has access to two modes of fire single-shot and automatic. The gameplay itself operates as top-down, run-and-gun that is differentiated by some nice touches. This theme goes a long way in making Pocky And Rocky stand out from the crowd. All of this is welcome weirdness since the only other game that is steeped in Japanese lore that I can recall offhand is Legend Of The Mystical Ninja. Even stranger are the villains, essentially brainwashed Yokai (Demons) that range from Kappas to Tengu. They set out trying to help Rocky’s friends who have fallen under the spell of a Dark Wizard. For one thing, the two main heroes are Pocky, a Shinto Priestess and Rocky, a Tanuki (or Raccoon if you were playing in the 90’s). Right off the bat it’s clear that Pocky and Rocky is not afraid to give us a taste of Japanese mythology, a rare thing in the 90’s where most games that made it here were designed with western influences in mind. But fate (and Natsume) had other plans in the 16-bit era, leaving gamers with one question: Is it weird in a good or bad way? Let’s find out! This has the distinction of being a game that is so bizarrely Japanese that it seemed certain to remain there like its NES counterparts. And sometimes they are just weird, which brings me to Rocky and Rocky. Sometimes they are bad, like Super Ghouls and Ghosts making us PLAY THROUGH THE ENTIRE GAME AGAIN (not that we expected anything less :smile:). Sometimes these are good, like A Link To The Past springing what at the time seemed like A GAME WITHIN A GAME on us after beating Aghanim. If there is one thing I am sure of in this hobby, it’s that developers love surprises.
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