Picture this. Hiro Miyamoto, the leader of the renowned Miyamoto clan, is practicing in his dojo one day. Suddenly, a stranger appears, filling Hiro's head with all sorts of flights of fancy. It seems Kage Mishima, enemy to the Usagi and Miyamoto families, has stolen the mystical Daikatana sword and aims to use it to rewrite history. As farfetched as it might sound, the sword allows the user to bend the very fabric of time, altering reality without anyone being the wiser. Before Hiro has time to absorb it all, the Mishima clan kidnaps his friend Mikiko and attacks the dojo. Hiro must rescue Mikiko, seek out Kage Mishima, and reclaim the Daikatana. This is where you come in. Across the eight locations and 32 levels of Kemco's Daikatana, you get to be the hero, um Hiro.
Unlike the laughable PC and N64 releases, the Game Boy Color Daikatana is not a 3D first-person shooter. Instead, it's a top-down-perspective dungeon crawler with action-RPG elements, and it's a fun one at that. Progressing through the game's intricate plot, you'll need to travel from timeline to timeline, acquiring weapons and stalking the evil Kage Mishima. Along the way you'll gain two allies, the agile Mikiko and the charismatic Superfly Johnson - both of whom you get to control at various points in the game.
Picture this. Hiro Miyamoto, the leader of the renowned Miyamoto clan, is practicing in his dojo one day. Suddenly, a stranger appears, filling Hiro's head with all sorts of flights of fancy. It seems Kage Mishima, enemy to the Usagi and Miyamoto families, has stolen the mystical Daikatana sword and aims to use it to rewrite history. As farfetched as it might sound, the sword allows the user to bend the very fabric of time, altering reality without anyone being the wiser. Before Hiro has time to absorb it all, the Mishima clan kidnaps his friend Mikiko and attacks the dojo. Hiro must rescue Mikiko, seek out Kage Mishima, and reclaim the Daikatana. This is where you come in. Across the eight locations and 32 levels of Kemco's Daikatana, you get to be the hero, um Hiro.
Unlike the laughable PC and N64 releases, the Game Boy Color Daikatana is not a 3D first-person shooter. Instead, it's a top-down-perspective dungeon crawler with action-RPG elements, and it's a fun one at that. Progressing through the game's intricate plot, you'll need to travel from timeline to timeline, acquiring weapons and stalking the evil Kage Mishima. Along the way you'll gain two allies, the agile Mikiko and the charismatic Superfly Johnson - both of whom you get to control at various points in the game.
