Ganryu
Musashi Ganryuki, known outside Japan as Ganryu, is a platformer and hack and slash video game developed by Visco Corporation and published by SNK in 1999 on Neo Geo MVS. It is loosely based on Miyamoto…
Ganryu is an adventure developed by Visco, released 1 January 1999 on Neo Geo AES, Arcade and Neo Geo MVS.
What Ganryu is
Ganryu is an adventure game developed by Visco and released in 1999. It was published by SNK. It is available on Neo Geo AES, Arcade and Neo Geo MVS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Musashi Ganryuki, known outside Japan as Ganryu, is a platformer and hack and slash video game developed by Visco Corporation and published by SNK in 1999 on Neo Geo MVS. It is loosely based on Miyamoto Musashi's fight with Sasaki Kojirō. Sasaki went by the fighting name of Ganryū, hence the game's name "Ganryu Musashi". The game's selectable characters are the samurai swordsman Miyamoto Musashi and his female kunoichi counterpart Suzume. The mission of the game is to rescue Musashi's love Otsu from a clan of evil ninja led by Kojiro Sasaki. Players are armed with a sword (katana for Musashi/kaiken for Suzume) and a grappling claw. The claw serves as a long-range weapon, and can act as a…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Ganryu launched on 1 January 1999, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999) and Mario Party.
Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party.
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