Gekido Advance: Kintaro's Revenge

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Gekido Advance: Kintaro's Revenge
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Developer(s) NAPS team
Publisher(s)
Platform(s) Game Boy Advance, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
ReleaseGame Boy Advance
  • EU: November 8, 2002
  • NA: November 25, 2003
Nintendo Switch
  • WW: March 22, 2018
PlayStation 4
  • WW: May 31, 2018
Xbox One
  • EU: July 12, 2018
  • NA: July 13, 2018
Microsoft Windows
  • WW: December 1, 2018
Genre(s) Beat 'em up
Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer

Gekido Advance: Kintaro's Revenge is a beat 'em up game for the Game Boy Advance, created by Italian studio NAPS Team. It is a sequel to the PlayStation game Gekido . Unlike the previous installment, this game centers on one protagonist, instead of multiple characters as seen in Gekido. A version for N-Gage was planned but never released. [1] [2]

Contents

In 2018, Gekido: Kintaro's Revenge was re-released for the Nintendo Switch, [3] PlayStation 4, [4] Xbox One, [5] and Microsoft Windows. [6]

Plot

The game focuses on Tetsuo, who has returned to his sensei's house only to be dispatched to a remote farming village where it seems as if the dead rise from the grave. Upon further investigation, Tetsuo finds out that the village has been having strange happenings ever since the old temple became overrun with demons. When he returns to the village after talking to the old guardian of the Temple, the village has been attacked, supposedly, as one of the dying villagers says, by "...ravens..." Also, it seems as if all the children have vanished as well.

Reception

The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [7]

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