Hi no Tori: Gaou no Bouken

a.k.a. 火の鳥鳳凰編我王の冒険 / Hi no Tori: Houou-hen: Gaou no Bouken

created and published by Konami in 1987-01-04, running on Nintendo Entertainment System

type: action/reflex, platformer
genre: Manga
perspective: side view push-scroll
player options: single player

languages: eng jpn

3.2/5

Personal review

"Hi no Tori" is a well made Konami platform game based on a manga series by Osamu Tezuka (the creator of Astroboy). Killed enemies leave blocks behind which you can collect and then use anywhere else to reach otherwise unreachable places. Graphics and music are well done for an early Famicom game from 1987 and the controls are good as well. Sadly Konami placed a few very hard to find secret doors throughout the game which in the end must be found to warp to other places/time zones of the game. I don't like it to be forced to look into a walkthrough for an otherwise very simple and straightforward game.