Musya: a Classic Tale of Japanese Horror
In this action game, you play Imoto the pikeman battling demons in the abyss. The gameplay is
actually terrible, as are the sound effects, but the graphics and monsters are great, and well, this IS a
page of monster graphics...
Thanks goes out to Shane for the boss names!
Strange green blobs that drop down and cover your head.
Giant ant-women who spit thorns.
Ghost archers. They're quite cowardly and back away when you approach.
Not sure what the hell this is. It floats on the surface of water and wriggles.
Little undead ravens! Cute!
Little undead ravens. Cute!
Ghosts attached to rotating doors.
Pots with eyes peeking out. Can't move, but can hop in place and toss little pebbles everywhere.
Giant spooky eyeballs that grow out of the ground!
Giant spooky eyeballs that grow out of the ground!
Eyeball headed red bats that hang upside down until you get too close.
Little wisps of flame that fly.
Men in fleshy red robes that drift slowly in the air.
Floating heads that spit up balls. Creepy.
Floating heads that spit up balls. Creepy.
Cute hopping frog-head creatures.
Creepy green men with clawed hands and feet. Can leap.
Creepy green men with clawed hands and feet. Can leap.
Crawling heads that are some of the first enemies you encounter.
Weird jiggling balls of faces that fall from the sky in the egg chamber and sit there.
Strange green blobs that drop down and cover your head.
These tiny imps fly while riding spears.
These cool walking fish are encountered only once, hopping out of some holes in the ground and crawling around.
These cool walking fish are encountered only once, hopping out of some holes in the ground and crawling around.
Big one-eyed ogre statues that throw fireballs.
This guy floats near the top of the screen, taunting you and occassionally dropping on yo. He can make little bladed gears that spin in midair.
Ghost knights. They lunge at you swinging their swords like crazy.
Slug-men encountered in the giant egg chamber.
Slug men encountered in the giant egg chamber.
Slug men encountered in the giant egg chamber.
The flying souls of the dead.
This freakyass moon with lips shows up in the egg chamber. It flips inside out to fire spores.
This freakyass moon with lips shows up in the egg chamber. It flips inside out to fire spores.
This is the freakyass moon with lips flipped all the way inside-out into a disgusting ball of red fleshy stuff.
Heads covered in spikes that can be launched. Encountered only in a canyon full of long spikes on which human skulls are impaled.
One room is nothing but statues as far as the eye can see. Some of them come to life and hop at you.
Turtle-demons.
Tiny glowing spirits.
Hold mouse over enemies
The Bosses
Tanuki is the boss of the Dark Cave. It first appears in the guise of a beautiful woman, then reveals its
true form as a monstrously exaggerated raccoon-dog. It guzzles Saki before breathing fire.
Daruma is the boss of the Catacombs. Like the dolls of his namesake, he leaves behind copies of
himself as he bounces along.
Gobo guards "The Palace of Hate," a hideous mud beast assisted by very eerie, long-necked ghoul
heads. Before the fight, he taunts us with "Glurp Glurp! Imoto, come join me in the mud!".
Kappa is the boss of the Cave of Darkness, certainly not like any Kappa I've ever seen he emerges
from a pit of sand (or really dirty water) and strikes at you with his long, clawed arm.
In the Catacombs of Akuma, you face the Haniwa, a hovering statue that does positively nothing to
threaten you but takes vast amounts of damage to destroy, which only reveals its true form, the
Medamao, a gorgeous mass of organs in transparent goo that threatens to make you his slave!
Difficult to defeat, he creates hundreds of tiny little jelly-men. They're adorable!
Hannya is the boss of a very, very brief level (only a few seconds!) in which you face a few archers
and knights. He throws tiny pellets that circle around you and flings multiple shots at once with his
sword.
The final boss in the game is simply called "The Evil One." At this point, I had run out of lives, run low
on health, and had no back-up save states, so I wasn't able to defeat him.