Youkai Yashiki

a.k.a. 妖怪屋敷

created and published by Irem in 1987-10-23, running on Famicom Disk System

type: platformer
genre: Fantasy
perspective: side view
player options: single player

languages: eng

Personal review

"Youkai Yashiki" is a modified port of an older MSX game from Casio. There are 5 stages. In all stages you have to find five symbols which opens up the way to a boss fight. Well, the game is your typical Japanese platform game of that time. The levels are not straightforward, but have a very complicated layout with rather confusing warp zones. Sometimes you can only progress when you stumble about hidden ladders; some seemingly deadly pits are entries to bonus rooms and so on. Enemies are eliminated by shooting at them with a flashlight. Playability is average as are the graphics. All in all pretty unimpressive, but there are worse games.