Shaman King: Legacy of the Spirits, Soaring Hawk

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Shaman King: Legacy of the Spirits, Soaring Hawk

Developer(s)	Konami
Release date(s)	February 8, 2005
Genre(s)	Role Playing
Mode(s)	Single player, trade (linking)
Rating(s)	E,CERO A
Platform(s)	Game Boy Advance

Shaman King: Legacy of the Spirits, Soaring Hawk The new video game based off of the renowned Shaman King manga and anime series. This new Shaman King (Game Boy Advance) video game had been released by Konami during February 8, 2005. This game had been released only within the Unites States.

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Within the Soaring Hawk version of this game, Konami decided to implement some sort of Pokemon style system in which you are to collect various spirits and battle against opponents with them; this feature being influenced by their new bonus feature within Shaman King: Master of Spirits 2. As like Pokemon for the handheld systems, you must buy the other Shaman King GBA incarnation (Sprinting Wolf) if you wish to use all 177 collectable spirits. However, they can only be traded through GBA linking. Due to the fact that Shaman King attained a Pokemon theme, Asakura Yoh's story was altered to make sense for this game, in which it seems to be of complete rivalry. When capturing "wild spirits" in this game, you (as like in Pokemon) throw an item known as a mortuary tablet to catch this spirit when it's health is at a low level. To win a battle in this game of course you must knock out each of your opponent's spirits that are under his control.

An exclusive feature in this game however allows Asakura Yoh himself to gain experience through battle to the extent that he can merge two spirits together. Thus when it comes to the spirits' evolutionary capabilities, a Yu-Gi-Oh! theme is installed - merging two to become one more powerful spirit than having a single spirit become "more powerful" by it's own self such as in Pokemon. The linking cable in this game however seems to have great weaknesseses, in which you are only allowed to trade spirits between games and are unfortunately not allowed to actually battle against the other system being linked. This game also doesn't seem to have any side quests, resulting in continuous battle. The graphics also seem to be as standard as any other random game, only with seemingly lesser character graphics which seem to reflect the original GB qualities - head making up for the body. Overall, this game is said to be around a 15-hour game, making it rather stand out from Pokemon in this right.