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Astyanax
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Item Description
A sixteen-year-old student from Greenview High School keeps dreaming of a young woman calling his name, until the dream pulls him through into the kingdom of Remlia with a fairy named Cutie at his side and a huge axe called Bash in his hands. That is the setup of Astyanax, and it tells you exactly what kind of NES adventure this is: earnest, a little strange, and drawn on a scale that made players stop and stare. Developed by Aicom and published by Jaleco, it fills the screen with some of the largest, most detailed sprites on the console, from armored knights and skeletal beasts to towering bosses that loom over the hero.
The combat has a rhythm all its own. Astyanax's swings draw on a power gauge that refills whenever he holds back, so a patient, fully charged strike hits far harder than frantic button mashing. Power-ups transform the axe into a spear and then a sword, and each step is a real trade-off: the spear is the weakest weapon but makes spells cheaper, while the sword hits hardest and costs the most magic. Lose a life and you drop back to the previous weapon. Choose among three spells, Bind to freeze enemies, Blast to sear everything in range, and Bolt to call lightning down on the whole screen, and Cutie can step in to swap your weapon or refill your magic.
The journey runs through six stages, each split into two parts, with cutscenes between them that push the story forward: Princess Rosebud is held captive by the wizard Blackhorn, and the final confrontation brings a revelation that makes the quest far more personal. That story is unique to this cartridge. Jaleco's arcade original, The Astyanax, starred a different hero named Roche and offered only the axe, so the NES version is less a port than a reinvention, with its own weapon system, three separate gauges and a single-player campaign built around them.
If Castlevania's deliberate, weighty combat is your kind of action, Astyanax offers a bigger, stranger and more fantastical take on it: an ambitious, oversized adventure, a real conversation piece of the NES library, and a cartridge that still makes a striking first impression on original hardware.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1989
- Publisher
- Jaleco
- Developer
- Aicom
- Genre
- Platformer, Beat 'em up
- Players
- Single player
About the game
It is a 2D action platform game focused on hack and slash and spell casting. The game consists of six linear levels of which each has two sub-levels meaning the game consists of 12 level in total. After every level there is a cut-scene pushing the story forward. There are three weapons - an axe, a spear and a big sword. An axe is a basic weapon the hero holds at the beginning of the game. The player can upgrade the axe using a power-up which has the shape of a small axe. The spear is the second stage of the weapon upgrade system and the big sword is the final stage. The big sword is the most powerful melee weapon in the game. The player can cast three magic spells which using is limited by the magic meter. The first is "Bind", which stops the time altogether with the enemies in the level. The second is "Blast", which casts fire balls destroying all enemies visible on the screen at the time of the casting. The third is "Bolt", which has the form of a lightning strike and acts similarly to "Blast".
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