Pocky and rocky 2 and famicom series#
Pocky and rocky 2 and famicom tv#

The control pad (obviously) moves your character in the direction you choose, the A and Y buttons fires your weapon, the B button has you swing your melee weapon around which is useful for deflecting projectiles and weak enemies, the X button has you slide in the direction you are facing which is useful for dodging attacks, and the L and R buttons has you use a bomb which hurts everything on-screen which is useful if the action gets too hectic.

Pocky and rocky 2 and famicom tv#

The gameplay is pretty similar to Super Smash TV and Total Carnage in that you can freely move around and shoot in eight directions. The sound effects however, do a good job of enriching the game.

Not bad, but not really that great either.

Most of the other music though is ho-hum. The music for this game is average for the most part, but there are some pretty good tunes in the game such as the music in stage two as well as the music in stage four. The only major flaw of the game’s graphics is that the game lags quite a bit when there’s a lot of stuff on screen, especially in later parts of the game. The stages also have some pretty good weather effects such as rain in part of the first stage and the drifting fog in the third stage. Later, after fighting your way past a lot of enemies as well as a mini-boss, you come across a raft which after getting on, sets off into the river where you fight groups of kappa before eventually coming across the boss. In one stage for example, you start off in a bamboo forest for the first part of the stage. The stages are also varied, detailed, and colorful. The character sprites are all very detailed, colorful, and have a lot of animation (some of it humorous). The graphics for Pocky and Rocky are very good. The story also has a very lighthearted tone to it. Both of them set off on a journey to discover the source of the incident. However, Rocky (or Manuke in the Japanese version) comes over and warns her that a group of yōkai, known as the “Nopino Goblins”, is going crazy for unknown reasons.

Pocky (or Sayo-chan in the Japanese version) is tending to a Shinto shrine one night. The story of Pocky and Rocky is pretty basic.

Pocky and rocky 2 and famicom series#

The Pocky and Rocky series would go on to have a sequel released in 1994 on the Super NES (Pocky and Rocky 2) as well as a sequel for the GBA (Pocky and Rocky and Becky) Except maybe Heavenly Guardian, which so happens to be a spiritual successor of sorts to Pocky and Rocky. Well, you certainly don’t see games like that every day that’s for sure :p. Let’s see, a cute em’ up that takes place in ancient Japan and has a lot of enemies taken from Japanese mythology. For starters, it’s a “cute em’ up,” a side genre of shmups that have cartoony looking characters and protagonists another twist is that a lot of enemies themselves are taken from Japanese folklore and mythology. Released for the Super Famicom in Japan on 1992, and the following year in the rest of the world, Pocky and Rocky plays a bit similar to other top-down shooters, but has a few twists of its own. Pocky and Rocky is a sequel to the arcade game, “Kiki Kaikai”, which is an arcade game that was never officially available outside of Japan. However, there are few Super NES games that are as cute or light-hearted as Pocky and Rocky. There are plenty of top-down shooters on the Super Nintendo, such as Super Smash TV, Firepower 2000, Space Megaforce, etc.