Shaman King: Master of Spirits

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Shaman King: Master of Spirits

Developer(s)	Konami
Release date(s)	July, 2002 November, 2004
Genre(s)	Adventure, right-to-left
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	E,CERO A
Platform(s)	GBA

Shaman King: Master of Spirits A new creation made by the renowned video game developmental company, Konami. This is the first Shaman King fighter that is featured for the Gameboy Advance, in which it had been released during July of 2002. This game however would not be released until November of 2004 within America, which is due to the fact that it took this amount of time for the United States to air the anime and manga.

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Within this video game exclusive to the GBA, you will play the role of Asakura Yoh in his desire to become the King of Shaman. Within this 2D platformer, you will continuously battle it out against various enemies along with other set traps. Within this exclusive GBA video game, your alternate goal is to stop a certain evil shaman who wishes to resurrect the "Guardian of Demons". When starting off in this game, a large map full of various dots will appear. While within any random stage however, you can access a certain menu in which you are able to purchase food for health recovery. Due to the wanted "adventure" theme of this game, you have to unfortunately travel backwards continuously from where you had previously been in order to get to your desired area. Obviously this feature would only be truly joyful if it had been featured in 3D instead of 2. However, a certain spirit will transport you to your desired area after a set amount of time. When it comes to health however, it is rather obnoxious to always have to rely on provisions that are within your inventory instead of just picking random healers during the gameplay. When it comes to Yoh's moveset, limitation seems rather prevalent. Unfortunately however, it seems that Yoh can only simply strike forwards with his sword, and nothing else. This extreme systematic simplicity however is slightly made up for the L and R shoulder buttons that release your spirit - which in this case is Amidamaru. Overall, it seems that this game has many rather loose ends in it's gameplay; hardcore fans of Shaman King still may enjoy it however.