Astyanax (video game)

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Astyanax

Developer(s)	Jaleco
Publisher(s)	Jaleco
Release date(s)	^JPN December 21, 1989 ^NA March, 1990 ^AUS 1990
Genre(s)	Platform, Adventure
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	NES
Media	Cartridge

Astyanax is an adventure game for the Nintendo Entertainment System released in Japan in 1989 and elsewhere in 1990. Another game called The Astyanax was also released in arcades, and gameplay was very similar. Both the NES and arcade versions were known in Japan as Lord of King.

[edit] Story

The story revolves around a sixteen-year old high school student at Greenview High known as Astyanax. He has dreams every night about a princess calling for help. One day while walking to school he is summoned to the mythical realm of Remlia by a pixie named Cutie. He is directed to rescue Princess Rosebud, but first he must fight off hordes of monsters set loose by the evil wizard Blackhorn. He must rescue the princess in order to return to the real world.

[edit] Gameplay

Astyanax is a side-scrolling platform game. The controls are fairly simple: the A Button makes Astyanax jump, the B Button will attack with an axe called Bash, and a combination of up and attack will perform a special magic attack. The game also contains a few role-playing elements, such as weapons upgrades. It had a unique feature (for the time) of a bar that grows between attacks; the length of the bar determines how much damage Astyanax will do with his next attack. If one attacks rapidly, one's hits will do little damage, much unlike most games where a rapid succession of hits would all be equally damaging. A very similar system would be used in Secret of Mana some years later.