Software:Ayakashi no Shiro

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Short description: 1990 video game
Ayakashi no Shiro
Cover art
Platform(s)Game Boy
Release
  • JP: May 25, 1990
Genre(s)Role-playing
Mode(s)Single player

Ayakashi no Shiro (あやかしの城; lit. Castle of Ayakashi) is a 1990 role-playing video game for the Game Boy manufactured by SETA Corporation.[1] It was never published outside Japan.[2]

Gameplay

Ayakashi no Shiro is a turn-based dungeon crawler.[citation needed] Players move the protagonist through first-person dungeons where randomly occurring battles happen. When combat begins, the player is given several options through a menu system to fight the enemies.[citation needed]

Release and reception

Reception
Review score
PublicationScore
Famitsu5/10, 5/10, 6/10, 5/10[3]

Ayakashi no Shiro was released in Japan for the Game Boy on May 25, 1990.[3]

Four reviewers for the Japanese gaming publication Famicom Tsūshin reviewed the game in 1990.[1][3] While on reviewer said the game initially started easy and user-friendly, towards the middle the battles became just an excuse to level up the player which grew tedious. Another reviewer found there was a lack of variety in the enemies fought which led to them growing monotonous.[3]

Two reviewers felt the game lacked the depth of similar role-playing video games like Wizardry (1987) for the Family Computer.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "あやかしの城". Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140541/https://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_h_title&title_id=13786. 
  2. GameFAQs staff. "Ayakashi no Shiro". GameFAQs. http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gameboy/data/579619.html. Retrieved 2010-02-26. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Famibo, Tofuya; Mizuno Tenchō; Morishita, Mariko; Taco-X (June 8, 1990). "新作ゲーム クロスレビュー" (in Japanese). Famicom Tsūshin (102).