TAROTICA VOO DOO

If you like the look of this game you should buy it. Just do it. It took me 2 hrs (which is a good length, didn't overstay it's welcome) and now I can't stop thinking about it so now I'm writing this review for why this might be one of my favorite games in recent memory. You're some person with a sword and shield who, by some coincidence, arrives just in time to a haunted mansion that a plane is going to crash into,...

30 found this helpful, 2018-01-03

The story behind the development of this game is rather cute, much of which is outlined in the wonderful design document it comes packaged with. Development started in 1993 for the MSX as a hobbyist undertaking and reached a presentable state around 1997, where it was intended to be shown off at Comiket. Sadly, Ikushi Togo's disk drive crashed, causing a dramatic loss of the machine language source code and other...

10 found this helpful, 2022-01-20

Cute, but short. Disclaimer, this is a point-and-click adventure game built on MSX-era gameplay and the graphics are completely hand drawn. If neither of these are appealing, this may not be the game for you. The fun is in figuring out what needs to be done and the results of your actions. The initial premise is pretty goofy and points you at the overall tone of the game, an airplane is about to crash into a...

10 found this helpful, 2017-12-30

Very underrated game that started development in 1993 and runs in an MSX emulator. The whole game is pretty surreal as you play as a little dude with a sword and shield that has to explore a house to evacuate a family from an impending plane crashing into them. You explore in adventure game fashion and battle various enemies and objects in a simple block/attack minigame (the final boss was actually pretty hard tbh)....

2 found this helpful, 2023-02-10