Kato & Ken Detective Agency are assigned the task of locating a missing rich man, and you can choose either Kato or Ken to go on the mission. Your partner doesn't like this one bit, so he decides to make a nuisance of himself along the way. Similar to Adventure Island, you must make your way through several levels, destroying wildlife along the way, but instead of using a hammer, you have three different ways to kill them: jump on or kick them, or when they are walking on the ground, blow gas out of them. While scrolling through the level, your vitality will decrease, but it can be restored by collecting fruit and junk food. During your travels, you will also encounter your partner doing things that shouldn't be done in public, but sometimes, he will throw stuff at you to make you lose some of your vitality. The only way that you can deal with him is by kicking him where it hurts. Along the way, you can enter doors. Doing this will give you a hint about the level and your vitality will be increased as well. You can kick certain objects such as lamp posts, trashcans, or thin air to obtain coins, or to make hidden platforms appear. Coins can be used in slot machines that will give you extra vitality, more lives, extra coins, and more. Slot machines only appear when you enter certain doors.
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This game stars two actual Japanese comedians and I can't really say I'm familiar with them like at all but they are the stars of this game and I guess it makes sense, you gotta get some appeal to your console.
To my surprise this game is like a crude take on the first Wonder Boy game. It was made by Hudson Soft who would do the Adventure Island games. This game has a more arcadey feel due to it being based off that game. Now I have to confess I don't like the original Wonder Boy, I just find it obnoxious to play. But this game is actually decent.
First of all it was made easier since now your health bar is actually a health bar and not just a timer you need to keep up. You also got a few different combat actions but they don't have the best hitboxes unfortunately. The game's level design doesn't feel as unfair but it does have it's issues.
The game isn't perfect though as it starts to get too repetitive after a while and sometimes the enemy placement can be placed poorly in my opinion. There's also these keys you can find in the 3rd level of each field and if you don't get them you can't be the last level in the field and it'll take you back to that third level to get it. It doesn't help that the hitboxes you need to hit for platforms or items to show can be pretty small. Bosses are also not too hard if you're at full health and they're all the same which is lame.
The graphics are fairly basic as they probably focused more on the bigger sprites with a lot of personality in them. The music can be good but there's one song when you're in the clouds that I can't stand. Otherwise it's decent stuff. Also when the game was brought here, graphics had to be reworked because no one here would have knew who these two were.
I was surprised that this was a decent time. I always hear a lot of hate for this one but it's not that bad. I even liked it more then Wonder Boy 1 itself. Like I said it has issues and I'm not gonna ignore that but you could do worse and it's probably more entertaining for the people who know who these guys are. There's really no harm in playing either version but just don't go in expecting anything amazing.