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Pages in category "Video games based on Japanese mythology" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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Kiki Kaikai (奇々怪界, lit."Strange and Mysterious World") is a shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Taito for arcades in 1986. [2] Set in Feudal Japan, the player assumes the role of a Shinto shrine maiden who must use her o-fuda scrolls and gohei wand to defeat renegade spirits and monsters from Japanese mythology. [3]
[5] [6] The game takes place across five different worlds themed after Japanese mythology with different levels included in each world, such as haunted house levels. [7] Cutscenes play after certain levels and the seasons change as the player progresses. The player can also collect coins throughout the levels and minigames to buy powerups in shops.
Orochi in Japanese mythology is a gigantic creature, so lead character designer Sawaki Takeyasu designed the back of the demon to include a garden and palace; this inspired the game designers to include a bell in those structures that would be Orochi's fatal weakness in the game. [31]
[11] Cosmology of Kyoto is the only video game that Ebert is known to have reviewed and enjoyed. [6] In October 1994, Los Angeles Times published a review by David Coller, who described it as an "adventure-cultural-historical game" that is "graphically violent at times," but a "cerebral game" that "in no way resembles Doom or Rebel Assault ...
Warriors Orochi 4, released as Musou Orochi 3 (無双OROCHI 3, Musō Orochi Surī) in Japan, is a 2018 hack and slash video game developed by Koei Tecmo and Omega Force for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
The game was first briefly introduced in 2011 in the form of a teaser; [8] further information relating to the game was revealed at the Tokyo Game Show in 2013. While the game has significant graphical improvements over its predecessor, it maintains its trademark visual style resembling Japanese traditional-style artwork.