Be-Bop High School: Koukousei Gokuraku Densetsu

a.k.a. ビー・バップ・ハイスクール高校生極楽伝説

created and published by Data East in 1988-03-30, running on Nintendo Entertainment System

type: adventure
genre: Manga, Humorous
perspective: other bird's-eye
player options: single player

languages: jpn

Personal review

"Be-Bop High School: Koukousei Gokuraku Densetsu" is based on a long-running manga series about the advenuters of some high school boys, featuring quite a lot of wacky characters. I don't know the manga but the game seems to make good use of the license, capturing the atmosphere and characters nicely. While this game is basically an adventure game you spend much time with walking through the town from an overhead perspective. Over the time more and more locations become accessible. Some action scenes where you have to hit some other guys in the face are also included. The game also features a day-night cycle with certain actions only being possible at a certain time of the day. This combined with the fact that there is a general timelimit to complete the game and some random factors makes it rather hard to play without a walkthrough. Needless to say that you won't be able to follow the story when you don't understand Japanese. Graphically the game is pretty decent with some nice portraits and some funny looking situations.