New game: SETO TAISHO VS YOKAI

[alessandro]

Hello everyone! SETO TAISHO VS YOKAI, my new game for the 128K ZX Spectrum, is out today.

It is a platform game where you, as Seto Taisho, the "Crockery General" of Japanese folk tradition, must battle against the Yokai, the monsters and goblins of Japan, in an effort to liberate the country from their overwhelming presence - which Seto itself contributed, with its misuse of magic, to unleash.



Features:

• Three levels of 12 screens each, plus a boss screen for each one of them and a bonus screen
• 9 enemies, 3 bosses and 1 bonus character
• A different background music for each level
• SetoLOAD, a new turbo loading scheme, specially devised for the game
• Game and manual in five different languages: Italian, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese
• Secrets and surprises for you to discover
• More file formats than you can shake a (chop)stick at

Download it (cassette inlay cards available separately for each language) from the web page hosted on my website:

www.alessandrogrussu.it/seto.html

Have fun with the Yokai!

[kas29]

Thanks for a great game Alessandro!

[alessandro]

Mar 1, 2016 17:51:02 GMT kas29 said:

Thanks for a great game Alessandro!

Thank you Alexey! I am glad you liked it.

How is your current project going?

[kas29]

Your game was a success! Thank you! In the evenings I play it with pleasure ..)

I completed the game.
Waiting for manual translation into English. Then I add to the archive, and then lay out and wos ..

[andrewvanbeck]

Looks great! - been a while since I had a new speccy game to play.

Maybe it's just my mind, but I could swear one of those sprites was flashing her boobs.

[alessandro]

Mar 2, 2016 8:44:10 GMT andrewvanbeck said:

Looks great! - been a while since I had a new speccy game to play.

Maybe it's just my mind, but I could swear one of those sprites was flashing her boobs.

Thank you Andrew About that sprite... yes it's the Nuppeppo, it appears like a sort of grotesque, fat human figure - in fact, according to Japanese traditional lore, it's made with rotting flesh! You can also see it in the game cover art and loading screen. Now, I actually walked around a Japanese cemetery at nightfall - namely Okunoin, the large and monumental one in the holy city of Koya, during my trip to Japan in 2008. But I found none of such monsters

[alessandro]

Update: A small mistake in one of the Japanese writings in the game has been corrected. This modification is purely cosmetic and does not affect gameplay.

[kas29]

Thanks!

[alessandro]

For those who did not notice it (yet!), the game is now for sale as a physical version with the addition of the all-new exclusive chapter SETO TAISHO TO KAZAN ! Go get it at Monument Microgames

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[Aleisha Beesher]

That looks fantastic! Great work, that design is so good.

[alessandro]

Thanks! Hope you like the game as well

[alessandro]

Hi folks,

in order to promote the forthcoming cassette tape compilation of Sophia/Sophia II from Monument Microgames, me and Graham Richards agreed to make Seto Taisho To Kazan freely downloadable. You can download it from my website (link is almost at the bottom of the page).

Also notice that the "ULA Plus" bug of AGD, which made both games be displayed in false colours under certain configurations (e.g. the ZX Vega), has been fixed.

Enjoy, and stay tuned for more news!