First appeared for the first time as second bossfight in Metal Slug 2 and then in Metal slug X, the run’n’gun series from SNK. That picture immediately reminds me of a tribute from the developers to Aeshi Nero’s bossfight. In the trailer we can see some mid and colossal boss fights including a gargantuan sea creature (a Kraken?) and a titan that will chase the players.įor a few seconds we see what looks like a colossal snake bossfight devouring a column where our heroes are trying to escape from it. His special ability is the Halfmoon Slash.ĪZAES (warlock), a Master of sword and sorcery. SAIS (valkyrie), a defensive fighter specialized in counterattacks. In Abathor we can choose up to 4 players with different special abilities and a personal plot to accomplish.ĬRANTOR (barbarian), the strongest one. Another side-scrolling hack and slash game developed by Makoto Uchida and published by SEGA in 1989. The multiplayer nature of the game, the characters design and their special abilities, remember a classic of the genre like Golden Axe. 4 Players, Treasures and Other References An honorable mention for the levels design with traps, verticality of platforming and very good and various artistic and gameplay ideas. The game was a success and everyone drew comparisons to the movie character Conan the Barbarian (1982), Capcom’s platformer Ghosts ‘n Goblins (1985) and Konami’s run-and-gun shooter Green Beret (1985).Ībathor’s pixel art, character design and gameplay took great inspiration from these milestones, like platforming and the eight-way joystick commands. The game talks about the story of Rastan, presently a ruler of his kingdom narrating his past full of dangerous adventures and his ascension to a kingship. One of these is Rastan, whose original title was Rastan Saga in Japan, is a side-scrolling hack ‘n’ slash video game released by Taito for arcades in 1987. Inspiration From the Old Classicsįirst thing I saw from the trailer is the strong inspiration that the level and character design took from 80s and 90s arcade video games. Players must cooperate and compete to save Atlantis through a series of challenges.ĭuring their quest, the players will face an incredible amount of fearsome opponents, loot as many treasures as possible and offer them to the gods to obtain forgiveness. Atlantean people angered the gods, so they sent hordes of monsters to destroy Atlantis as punishment.
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