Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999

released on Jan 01, 1999

"I crave power. Power that only the darkest evil can imagine." Enter the sinister underworld of the Dark Realm! Battle creatures of darkness in your quest for the ultimate bio-weapon. Only then will you be able to conquer the evil and grisly world. Collect multiple weapons to defeat the hideous creatures. Four main areas to explore and complete. Will you be the one to conquer this action/adventure thriller?


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RPG


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kind of a special little game. not only because it's on the neo geo pocket color (i played it with an emulator on my ds, though evidently it's also on the switch and pc now!), but also because it's a tight, short action rpg featuring elements of gothic horror pulling from classic monster stuff (werewolves, zombies, draculas) with a flourish of a weirder sort of biopunk tokusatsu reminiscent of the creations of keita amemiya, or of tetsuo in akira with his gnarly arm-thing. i mean, your actual weapon evolves as it feasts on the souls of the monsters you've busted. that's the game!

it's basically proto-Boktai and that's pretty cool. only real complaint is that it's short