Doujin Game Sispri Gauntlet (40Mb)
There can’t be too many of you out there who haven’t heard of Gauntlet? Gauntlet is of course a fantasy-themed hack and slash 1985 arcade game by Atari Games and the first Dungeon Crawl game of note.
This is a Japanese version based on the characters of Sister Princess and it’s a 3rd person SMU with bullets flying everywhere! If you’d like a thousand hugs, you might just become wary that if you don’t toast the assailants and fast, they will very quickly toast you! Being Japanese, it uses ‘cute’ female assailants, but don’t let this put you off, as it becomes remarkably difficult later on, and these female assailants are anything but cute re: their firepower. Expect to dodge a lot of bullets in this one! If you survive the first level and boss battles, you are doing well! Probably astonishingly well if it is your first attempt! Be warned it gets extremely hard later on!
"Smash TV" fans will enjoy Sispri Gauntlet for it’s Anime characters and graphics. The basic version has three characters, each with different powers, and allows up to three players. There are plenty of power-ups, different weapons to locate, loads of enemies on screen at once, and super big boss battles! As well as the great (sometimes almost hallucinogenic) artwork, it needs fighting skills in profusion. There are many secrets to discover, secret characters, and secret weapons to name just two. The basic version finishes after level 2. The final update version has 17 levels, with level 6 resembling level 13, just entered at a different point by a different gate. Other levels are notably different though. A game save facility is available as it’s not possible to complete all the levels at a single play-through, quite aside of how long this would take! You get about a second or so of invulnerability at the start of each level; use this to shoot as many enemies as you can! While you still have the chance! Basically you probably either enjoy ‘bullet hell’ type of games, or you don’t. If you do, this is one of the very best around!
Keys
Z = shoot (Pressing Z fast and re-pressing quickly may sometimes give you extra fire power!)
X = hold position (hold it while holding down the shoot key so that you won't rotate)
C = change character (only if you get them, they are hidden in every stage)
If you prefer Gauntlet itself, with more traditional graphics, see Week 16 Here where WhiteRabbit has Gauntlet Revisited posted.
Sispri Gauntlet
Because the game developer is no longer around, I’ve had to post (links checked and working) where it still is available. If you give it a go and really like it, there’s also a much bigger (327 Mb) final update version 2 with many more levels and characters. YouTube has a number of video replays and there are (a few!) people who have completed all the levels! It has something of a cult following!
or for the Final Update 2 version Here (327Mb) - scroll down to text Sispri Gauntlet Final partway down the page and there’s a link to the download page. There are four 7z files to download. Most decompression programs will unzip these for you.
Video Here
