A cute Japanese action adventure by Lenar, mixing exploration and light shooting. Charming, short, truly obscure but worth the detour.
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Action1 player12+
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Action-adventure featuring a young stranger cowboy solving mysteries in a fantastical Western village. Published by Almanic, released in Japan in 1997. Top-down view in a Wild West village, pistol combat and interactions with villagers and secrets to uncover. A late, original and obscure action title on Super Famicom.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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A 1997 ASCII Super Famicom action-adventure, Japan-exclusive, a 16-bit Zelda homage transposed into a sci-fi Wild West. The cart was released at the very end of the SFC cycle with a drastically short print, and its offbeat humour made it a cult object among niche collectors. Intact boxed CIB with cardboard sleeve and illustrated manual has become a serious target for late-cycle SFC collectors, and the cote climbs hard.
An underrated gem
Picture a Zelda transplanted into a zany Wild West, with a hero who falls from the sky and humor at every turn: that's this little gem, released at the very end of the console's life. Its Japan-only status and late arrival doomed it to anonymity. Snappy, funny and surprisingly well-paced, it will delight fans of sparkling action-adventure.
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