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yamamanama79 days until the vernal equinox
This is not, as you’d expect, a game about the Astyanax from Greek mythology, it’s a game about an ordinary high school student who is named after the Astyanax from Greek mythology.
Even if he was born in August, he’s rather old for a high school freshman. Somebody explained it as “Japan’s high school is only three years and starts at our equivalent of 10th grade,” and whoever translated it didn’t understand that.
Or is it?
I’d have to play it to find out.
But probably not because the Greek myth Astyanax was thrown off the walls of Troy as an infant because the Greeks were like “if this guy lives, he might avenge his father and rebuild Troy.”
I don’t know if it was intentional but the Greeks were assholes.
the game is called The Lord of King or maybe the Road of King in Japan. For what it’s worth, Astyanax translates to Lord of the City in Ancient Greek.
Yes, Rosebud Frozen Peas.
Remlia is supposed to be Lemuria, that mythical lemur continent in the middle of the Indian Ocean that got explained away by continental drift and now lives on in Japanese media.
The floating blob things just spawn endlessly. The enemies aren’t named by the manual or anywhere else.
There’s a game called Astyanax for arcades but it’s mostly different. The one similarity is that your weapon’s attack power is based on a charge. So you can’t just spam attack.
Smash open idols to get items. Getting lobster claws increases your power meter and a hit does more damage. There’s one in each level.
Audrey II shoots fire in both directions and likes to spawn in the most inconvenient places possible.
It goes axe>spear>sword and the only way to revert (not that you’d want to) is to die or to use up your magic, smash an idol, and ask Cutie for an axe tranformation instead of a magic restore.
I mean, it doesn’t really look much like a spear to me, but whatever. The spear does less damage but it also uses up less magic power. The sword’s the opposite.
The miniboss drops down from the sky, bounces around a few times
transforms into this two-headed xenomorph thing and shoots a pea at you, and then repeats.
A miniboss and then a two phased boss. In the first level. Geez.
This guy is called Caesar by the manual, or the monstrous creature with a gland problem or Gremlin-Face or The Thing That Walks Like A Chicken or Daphne but only to its closest friends.
At least the strategy for the second phase is just “back him into the corner and spam attack” but don’t get too close.
Now he’ll be the one with all the country goodness and green pea-ness! Wait, that’s terrible!
And yes, you get your health refilled upon beating a boss. And you get points based on how much lf and sp you had.
They call it Redroad but it’s really more of a brown color.
He’ll crawl around on the ground and when you hit him, he’ll turn humanoid and do the hustle for a second, and then go back to what it is he was doing.
I don’t think any of these bosses have names aside from the first one.
All I can find about the meaning of the name Inazumi is that there’s an underwater cave with that name. Maybe it’s supposed to be Izanami.
The mountain is made of dragons.
The eldritch monsters shoot arrows horizontally.
In Japan, Medusa has boobs and not The Pale Man’s figure. She tosses snakes to the other side of you and the snakes attack you from that direction.
Just a brief cutscene.
Ryogoku is another real life locale. Most of the enemies here are skeletons, plants, and metroids, nothing you haven’t seen before
The boss is a minotaur that generates lightning from his horns and if you leave him be long enough, he hits you with a full screen lightning rain. If you hit him, you’ll interrupt it but he’ll eventually warp over to the other side and there ain’t shit you can do about it.
At least there’s no boss after that.
Where is the rent? I must have the rent! Dollars, dimes, and nickels, I need them all right now.
it’s just a palette swap of the previous vertical, only you’re going down this time. Your biggest risk is hitting an enemy that you couldn’t see.
the rock monster will rush at you while throwing almonds. His biggest deal is to do damage to you that you would otherwise need when fighting the actual level boss.
We’re back to the multi-phased bosses. First he throws spiked balls at you.
Then he throws more spiked balls at you.
Then he flies around the screen.
Is her Japanese name Cutie? I don’t know, Legends of Localization doesn’t have a page.
The fishmen jump out of the water. If they end up on solid ground, they sort of hop towards you.
There’s also little fish that jump out of the water. And there’s a lot of knockback in this game, but even if there wasn’t, this stage would still be super hard. There’s usually three of them plus a fishman or two plus a Metroid or an Audrey II.
There’s a magic spell that does damage but it’s just a screen flash so I never actually show it off.
Yep, this guy is the mid-boss of the level. He’s exactly the same as every other skeleton except he’s yellow.
Looks cool but there’s really nothing special about it. I’m surprised Nintendo tolerated the crosses but I guess maybe they’re more associated with graves than with religion.
There are butterflies here. It makes sense because in Ancient Greece and other places, butterflies are seen as souls of the dead. They work exactly like the cluster blob things so I have no idea why both of them show up.
Wizzrobe can teleport.
This treant thing can summon vines from the ground and even vomit them out of his mouth.
If Telugamn means anything, I can find nothing.
The bridge is less annoying than the marshy cave because there aren’t as many small platforms. And your sword should be powerful enough to one hit a fishman at full pw.
The roc flies around and the lion runs around.
Eventually the roc will pick up the lion and they’ll sort of fuse together.
Just a cliff.
The prisoners are a cool touch.
It’s that same exact rock monster. and I mean same exact. And you don’t have to worry about your health either.
There’s no miniboss.
You have to hold up for three seconds before you enter the door.
And only enter doors that are guarded by skeletons.
You’ll know you’re making progress when the color palette changes.
There are three different palettes in this castle.
Once you’re outside, you’re done with the maze.
Thorndog’s mummy form isn’t very impressive. He’s a lot like Wizzrobe, that is to say, he teleports around and has access to the same spells you do and if you used an invincibility code, it can breach that.
To hit Thorndog’s fuck me light, you have to get through his hand first.
It grows back after a few seconds.
Also he can fire lasers from his fingertip.
Your fight wasn’t bad but I just don’t believe your NOOOOO! I mean, you’ve got to sell it. Remember, that NOOOOO! is what gets you your next job.
after this, the cutie powerup will no longer appear.
but it’s just a miniboss rush.
followed by a health restore and a lobster claw.
And at last, we come face to face with Blackhorn himself.
If you thouht he was piss-easy, that’s because that wasn’t his true form.
His main attack is to shoot fire.
Once he turns red, he only takes one more hit at full power. but now he can use time stopper. Or maybe he could before and he just chose not to.
The end.
burning question: Don’t you think you really want to say “July” over the snow? Isn’t that the fun of it? I think it’s so nice that–that you see a snow-covered field and say “every July peas grow there.” We’re talking about them growing and she’s picked them.
This is not, as you’d expect, a game about the Astyanax from Greek mythology, it’s a game about an ordinary high school student who is named after the Astyanax from Greek mythology.
Even if he was born in August, he’s rather old for a high school freshman. Somebody explained it as “Japan’s high school is only three years and starts at our equivalent of 10th grade,” and whoever translated it didn’t understand that.
Or is it?
I’d have to play it to find out.
But probably not because the Greek myth Astyanax was thrown off the walls of Troy as an infant because the Greeks were like “if this guy lives, he might avenge his father and rebuild Troy.”
I don’t know if it was intentional but the Greeks were assholes.
the game is called The Lord of King or maybe the Road of King in Japan. For what it’s worth, Astyanax translates to Lord of the City in Ancient Greek.
Yes, Rosebud Frozen Peas.
Remlia is supposed to be Lemuria, that mythical lemur continent in the middle of the Indian Ocean that got explained away by continental drift and now lives on in Japanese media.
The floating blob things just spawn endlessly. The enemies aren’t named by the manual or anywhere else.
There’s a game called Astyanax for arcades but it’s mostly different. The one similarity is that your weapon’s attack power is based on a charge. So you can’t just spam attack.
Smash open idols to get items. Getting lobster claws increases your power meter and a hit does more damage. There’s one in each level.
Audrey II shoots fire in both directions and likes to spawn in the most inconvenient places possible.
It goes axe>spear>sword and the only way to revert (not that you’d want to) is to die or to use up your magic, smash an idol, and ask Cutie for an axe tranformation instead of a magic restore.
I mean, it doesn’t really look much like a spear to me, but whatever. The spear does less damage but it also uses up less magic power. The sword’s the opposite.
The miniboss drops down from the sky, bounces around a few times
transforms into this two-headed xenomorph thing and shoots a pea at you, and then repeats.
A miniboss and then a two phased boss. In the first level. Geez.
This guy is called Caesar by the manual, or the monstrous creature with a gland problem or Gremlin-Face or The Thing That Walks Like A Chicken or Daphne but only to its closest friends.
At least the strategy for the second phase is just “back him into the corner and spam attack” but don’t get too close.
Now he’ll be the one with all the country goodness and green pea-ness! Wait, that’s terrible!
And yes, you get your health refilled upon beating a boss. And you get points based on how much lf and sp you had.
They call it Redroad but it’s really more of a brown color.
He’ll crawl around on the ground and when you hit him, he’ll turn humanoid and do the hustle for a second, and then go back to what it is he was doing.
I don’t think any of these bosses have names aside from the first one.
All I can find about the meaning of the name Inazumi is that there’s an underwater cave with that name. Maybe it’s supposed to be Izanami.
The mountain is made of dragons.
The eldritch monsters shoot arrows horizontally.
In Japan, Medusa has boobs and not The Pale Man’s figure. She tosses snakes to the other side of you and the snakes attack you from that direction.
Just a brief cutscene.
Ryogoku is another real life locale. Most of the enemies here are skeletons, plants, and metroids, nothing you haven’t seen before
The boss is a minotaur that generates lightning from his horns and if you leave him be long enough, he hits you with a full screen lightning rain. If you hit him, you’ll interrupt it but he’ll eventually warp over to the other side and there ain’t shit you can do about it.
At least there’s no boss after that.
Where is the rent? I must have the rent! Dollars, dimes, and nickels, I need them all right now.
it’s just a palette swap of the previous vertical, only you’re going down this time. Your biggest risk is hitting an enemy that you couldn’t see.
the rock monster will rush at you while throwing almonds. His biggest deal is to do damage to you that you would otherwise need when fighting the actual level boss.
We’re back to the multi-phased bosses. First he throws spiked balls at you.
Then he throws more spiked balls at you.
Then he flies around the screen.
Is her Japanese name Cutie? I don’t know, Legends of Localization doesn’t have a page.
The fishmen jump out of the water. If they end up on solid ground, they sort of hop towards you.
There’s also little fish that jump out of the water. And there’s a lot of knockback in this game, but even if there wasn’t, this stage would still be super hard. There’s usually three of them plus a fishman or two plus a Metroid or an Audrey II.
There’s a magic spell that does damage but it’s just a screen flash so I never actually show it off.
Yep, this guy is the mid-boss of the level. He’s exactly the same as every other skeleton except he’s yellow.
Looks cool but there’s really nothing special about it. I’m surprised Nintendo tolerated the crosses but I guess maybe they’re more associated with graves than with religion.
There are butterflies here. It makes sense because in Ancient Greece and other places, butterflies are seen as souls of the dead. They work exactly like the cluster blob things so I have no idea why both of them show up.
Wizzrobe can teleport.
This treant thing can summon vines from the ground and even vomit them out of his mouth.
If Telugamn means anything, I can find nothing.
The bridge is less annoying than the marshy cave because there aren’t as many small platforms. And your sword should be powerful enough to one hit a fishman at full pw.
The roc flies around and the lion runs around.
Eventually the roc will pick up the lion and they’ll sort of fuse together.
Just a cliff.
The prisoners are a cool touch.
It’s that same exact rock monster. and I mean same exact. And you don’t have to worry about your health either.
There’s no miniboss.
You have to hold up for three seconds before you enter the door.
And only enter doors that are guarded by skeletons.
You’ll know you’re making progress when the color palette changes.
There are three different palettes in this castle.
Once you’re outside, you’re done with the maze.
Thorndog’s mummy form isn’t very impressive. He’s a lot like Wizzrobe, that is to say, he teleports around and has access to the same spells you do and if you used an invincibility code, it can breach that.
To hit Thorndog’s fuck me light, you have to get through his hand first.
It grows back after a few seconds.
Also he can fire lasers from his fingertip.
Your fight wasn’t bad but I just don’t believe your NOOOOO! I mean, you’ve got to sell it. Remember, that NOOOOO! is what gets you your next job.
after this, the cutie powerup will no longer appear.
but it’s just a miniboss rush.
followed by a health restore and a lobster claw.
And at last, we come face to face with Blackhorn himself.
If you thouht he was piss-easy, that’s because that wasn’t his true form.
His main attack is to shoot fire.
Once he turns red, he only takes one more hit at full power. but now he can use time stopper. Or maybe he could before and he just chose not to.
The end.
burning question: Don’t you think you really want to say “July” over the snow? Isn’t that the fun of it? I think it’s so nice that–that you see a snow-covered field and say “every July peas grow there.” We’re talking about them growing and she’s picked them.
