Gurume Sentai Barayarō

Gurume Sentai Barayarō

Cover art
Developer(s) Winds[1]
Publisher(s) Virgin Interactive[1]
Composer(s) Ogawa Ikko[2]
Platform(s) Super Famicom
Release date(s)
Genre(s) Action Beat 'em up[1]
Mode(s) Single-player
Multiplayer (up to two players)
Distribution Cartridge

Gurume Sentai Barayarō (美食戦隊 薔薇野郎, "Rose Rascals: Gourmet Squadron") is a Japan-exclusive surreal side-scrolling beat-'em-up developed by Winds and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for the Super Famicom in 1995.

One of the game's notable features is that a button is used to make the character use various sentai poses when held down and used with the directional pad. While it is not beneficial, this was added to make the character flex his or her muscles for show. Each of the five stages has a time limit; players lose all the ingredients that were acquired when the timer reaches zero. However, the game has no concept of how many lives the player can have in the game; it's an automatic game over if the player dies. Focusing on the time limit is important if the player wants to recuperate his lost strength after the fight with the level's boss. Tomoharu Saito was responsible for the unique character designs.

A mysterious creature called Kongaman appears in the option screen with unknown configurations along with the dancing people in the background. Kongaman also appears in certain stages if certain conditioned are met during the course of the game.

Story

Sometime in the 21st century, the metropolis known as Zeus Heaven Magic City has made a miraculous recovery from the fires of a nuclear World War III.

In order for you to survive in this city of power and technology, it's necessary to ingest protein in whatever food that can be found. Eventually, the secret organization of evil called Bath came to power under the slogan "the power of our protein and all." Bath is a force that grows and expands every day, causing strife and of violent crime throughout the city. Zeus was in danger of ruin because of the forces of Bath were constantly instilling their will upon the city by force. Zeus' leaders, however, with the promise of a secret project that gives the them optimism on the prospect of defending the city against "Bath". The secret project looks to enhance and to create a soldier wearing the special body armor, the strongest of the strongest body armor. From this project the conception of the idea to modify the human body was conceived.

The final product from this concept turned science project... three humans were transformed into fighting robots. Despite all of the damage that has already ensued from the aggression of "Bath", will these three heroes manage to save Zeus in time?

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Release information". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2008-09-30.
  2. ↑ "Composer information". SNES Music. Retrieved 2012-03-28.

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