I have a really long shot with this phantom of a game. Even the ppl who played it with me do not remember its name QQ.
The game is from the '90s maybe after 95. It was on PC, and maybe on Win95. It totally had 256 colors or more.
It was a Sidescroller, Jump and Run, with 2.5D graphics. Hand-drawn, but pixelated. the background was moving at a different pace to indicate depth. The name of the game ( not 100% sure) sounded Japanise, and I'm almost sure it originated from there. In its name, there was the letter "E", but not sure.
The CHARACTER: -The main character was always on the opposite side of the screen the direction you were facing, you were able to go left and right too. The character looked like an 8 (head and torso and legs), and it had a green color, maybe some slight blue color palette. You could walk, run and sprint (or run and sprint were the same, IDK) and the sprint was like in Super Mario 3, and when you reached max speed, the legs of the char were going in circles beside the torso (lower body).
GAMEPLAY: -You basically exorcised all the levels from the spirints there. There were pickups, powerups (maybe) and weapons. I have a faint memory of a boomerang against a bat enemy.
THE LEVELS: -There were many places, maybe 5-6, but not sure. I only remember 2 or 3. 1 place consisted maybe 2 or more stages. Between maps, you saw the world map (the real world map), and some places there.
- The first level, of which I'm most unsure, was taken place in JAPAN, in a bamboo forest. There were floating scrolls, and other things I don't remember.
- I think it was the 4th level, I IDK, but it was a vampire castle for sure. And here what I remember very well, on IDK which stage, you had a super shortcut (about 30% of the stage, or a harder part of the stage). At the beginning, you had to go right, till a chasm or what, with spikes (bottom of the screen) and then climb up, but if you sprinted and ignored all the enemy at the start, and jumped before the chasm, took damage once from the spikes, you got yourself a very good skip. There was all kind of undead thing on the level, and bats and maybe vampires.
- One of the last maps was in NYC, I'm sure of it. To progress, you needed to climb up 2 "skycraper" and dodge the basketball guys ball other stereotypes. At the end of the level you are gone into the metro, where you had some ghost metro cars, crawling like a caterpillar and other enemies I don't remember.
Sry for the long post, I'm searching for this for 6 years not :(
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