The Master Traveler takes on the Monsters of the World. Play as the ninja Maru in this action-packed side-scrolling game that will take you on a journey across the world. While Maru is out for a walk with his girlfriend Cori, an evil samurai named Muramasa suddenly appears and kidnaps her. In Maru's efforts to track her down and rescue her, he must face a number of mythological monsters while gaining new and powerful weapons in order to defeat them. Using the hints that are left behind by his enemies, Maru will follow a trail that will lead him across six different locations - including the bug-infested forests of America and the scorching deserts of Egypt. Help our hero on his mission as he fights to rescue Cori.
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I'm sure the original localized game boy title is some garbage baked outside till it's done in the middle, but the recently translated game boy color version that preserves all its Japanese-ness is fine. EXCEPT. There are these occasional pre-level interludes where I guess you have to swim to a different continent and kill sharks on the way there. You have a harpoon gun and four sharks and the game's like go crazy. Why? How are the sharks obstructing my way? Or are they evil in-on-the-kidnapping-plot sharks or something? Leave those sharks alone, Jajamaru, they're stigmatized enough by cultures all around the world already!
And also, on top of having a bizarre idea of what places around the world look like, including, ah, saguaro cactuses in Romania, this game has the cheek to have the last, hellish level where literally satan lives take place in... America. I'm getting a little sick of the rest of the world shitting on my country so much. Don't get me wrong, I hate it here too, but this shitty country is OURS to make fun of, not yours. We're the ones who get to bemoan that the corrupt geriatric lawmakers who have appointed themselves in office for life have effectively made sure we will never get free healthcare and a school system free of active shooters. You get to ride in your widely-expansive public transportation and enjoy your socialized medicine and three-month government-paid vacations and shut the fuck up about it, that's the rules. To prove my point, I could have at any time in the above paragraph said "a game where you just kill sharks for no reason? Obviously a game from Japan ho ho ho knee slap!" But I didn't, because that doesn't belong to me. You see? I'm doing my part, too.
And that cover! Jesus Christ look at that cover! One of the worst I've ever seen, definitely worse than the first mega man. At least if I saw that one I would still kind of want to play mega man. I would never play Maru's Mission on the strength of that cover alone, even if it was a great game, just out of spite (and the only reason I played this version is because it's part of a series I'm already into and the real cover looks like this). Anyway, if they knew they were making a great game, they'd care more about the cover than that. There isn't even a ninja on it! Who's Maru supposed to be, a kid in a Sunny Delight commercial? Fuck outta here, his girlfriend can stay in hell for all I care. Excuse me, I mean America.
And also, on top of having a bizarre idea of what places around the world look like, including, ah, saguaro cactuses in Romania, this game has the cheek to have the last, hellish level where literally satan lives take place in... America. I'm getting a little sick of the rest of the world shitting on my country so much. Don't get me wrong, I hate it here too, but this shitty country is OURS to make fun of, not yours. We're the ones who get to bemoan that the corrupt geriatric lawmakers who have appointed themselves in office for life have effectively made sure we will never get free healthcare and a school system free of active shooters. You get to ride in your widely-expansive public transportation and enjoy your socialized medicine and three-month government-paid vacations and shut the fuck up about it, that's the rules. To prove my point, I could have at any time in the above paragraph said "a game where you just kill sharks for no reason? Obviously a game from Japan ho ho ho knee slap!" But I didn't, because that doesn't belong to me. You see? I'm doing my part, too.
And that cover! Jesus Christ look at that cover! One of the worst I've ever seen, definitely worse than the first mega man. At least if I saw that one I would still kind of want to play mega man. I would never play Maru's Mission on the strength of that cover alone, even if it was a great game, just out of spite (and the only reason I played this version is because it's part of a series I'm already into and the real cover looks like this). Anyway, if they knew they were making a great game, they'd care more about the cover than that. There isn't even a ninja on it! Who's Maru supposed to be, a kid in a Sunny Delight commercial? Fuck outta here, his girlfriend can stay in hell for all I care. Excuse me, I mean America.
it's good ninjafeel