Jeremy Parish

Happy nerd year! It's Game Boy World #057 (Patreon)

Published:

2016-01-02 00:33:48

Edited:

2016-01-02 00:33:49

Imported:

2024-04

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Get it, because it's a new year, and we're all nerds.

ANYWAY, here is the first video of the year: Ayakashi no Shiro, a game I couldn't give a proper review. Alas! Hopefully the video is still an interesting watch?

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Game Boy World #057: Ayakashi no Shiro [Seta, 1990]

Game Boy gets its first old-school dungeon crawler, one of the least common genres on the system. This one offers an atypical setting for the genre (ancient Japan!), which is aesthetically cool yet somewhat frustrating in practical terms: The game text, which has never been localized or fan-translated into English, displays entirely in cumbersome traditional hiragana script (even English loanwords like "damage").