Trip World (EU,JP) (Platform) (Game Boy)

1992 · Nintendo 3DS · Game Boy · The Data Archivist V0.01

PLAY ONLINE : https://archive.org/details/trip-world-europe MANUAL (JP) : https://archive.org/details/TripWorld_GameBoyManual/mode/2up VIDEO LONGPLAY : https://archive.org/details/GbTripWorldByMuggIn0540.05/tripworld-tas-mugg.mkv Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip_World Trip World [a] is a 1992 platform game developed and published by Sunsoft for the Game Boy . It was released in Japan in 1992, and in Europe the following year. The game's plot centers around the bunny-like being Yakopoo and his quest to retrieve the flower of peace so that peace will return to his disarranged world. The protagonist's trademark ability is to shapeshift into different forms. The game was re-released for the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in Japan on November 30, 2011, and in Europe January 5, 2012. [4] A remastered version, Trip World DX , is being developed by Limited Run Games . Gameplay Yakopoo (right) facing against the first boss, Chong Pei (left). At first glance, Trip World appears to be a scaled-down version of Gimmick! , another Sunsoft game released in the same year. In Trip World , the player controls Yakopoo ( ヤコプ ) through five relatively large and slightly linear stages . They include areas such as a mountain, a jungle, the ocean and a castle. [5] The stages also feature some secret passages and divergent paths. The objective is to find the stolen flower of peace, since the inhabitants of Trip World turned mad because of its absence, acting as the enemies in the game. [6] At the end of each world, Yakopoo faces a boss , in the fifth and last world the player has to defeat multiple bosses in a row in order to complete the game. There are also a few mini-bosses in certain parts of the stages. Yakopoo is able to shapeshift between three different primary forms at any time, these forms are manually activated by the player when desired. [7] In his normal form, he is able to walk and to jump and can attack enemies by kicking them. When Yakopoo's ears transform into wings, he is able to fly in a limited way. This form doesn't allow to fly completely freely through a stage due to gravity, and since the player isn't able to change direction during flight, and Yakopoo always falls down when he touches a wall. In the third form, Yakopoo resembles a fish. While he can't move on the ground, the fish-like Yakopoo is able to swim well and attack enemies with foam in water. Beneath these three forms, Yakopoo also occasionally shapeshifts into other special forms which can't be manually activated or deactivated by the player. By picking up special power-ups , Yakopoo turns into forms such as Flower Yakopoo (stunning enemies with seeds) or Tail Yakopoo (tail attack with long range) for a short time. [8] The player's character has four health points and loses them by touching spikes or when being hit by enemy attacks. Unlike many other platform games, most of the enemies in Trip World don't hurt the player's character on touch. Many benign enemies will become violent if attacked by Yakopoo however. Most of them just push Yakopoo around when not angered, while other enemies are able to attack in certain manners and do so freely. All bosses are able to hurt Yakopoo. The player loses a life when all health points are gone. Plot The game is set in Trip World, a peaceful world where Yakopoo lives. He is a young member of the Shabubu race [9] of bunny-like beings. Yakopoo lives with his grandfather, an old Shabubu, on the holy mountain known as Mount Dubious, where the Maita Flower is found. The named flower is the flower of peace and is deemed to have supernatural powers. Because of this, it is usually protected by Yakopoo's grandpa, so that it won't fall in the wrong hands. However, one day mysterious shadowy creatures appear, attack Yakopoo's grandfather and steal the flower of peace. Since the Maita Flower has been removed from its place, the peace is gone and the inhabitants of Trip World get mad and don't stop quarreling with each other. In order to save his world, Yakopoo sets out to find the thieves and to return the Maita Flower. [5] [6] [10] In the game's last stage, Mirror Land, it turns out that the King of Mirror Land, a Shabubu himself, and his minions stole the flower. After Yakopoo defeats the King's minions and the King who fights Yakopoo in a robot, the Queen appears who hid with the Maita Flower during the fight. The King was actually possessed by a flower of unknown origin on his head which now disappears after his defeat. The King turns good again, Yakopoo's grandfather returns the flower to the holy mountain and the peace is back in Trip World. Trip World European box art Developer(s) Sunsoft Publisher(s) Sunsoft Director(s) Yuichi Ueda [3] Designer(s) Toshihiko Narita [3] Programmer(s) Yuichi Ueda [3] Composer(s) Phase Out (Tsutomu Ishida, Masayuki Iwata, Atsushi Mihiro) [3] Platform(s) Game Boy Release JP : November 27, 1992 [2] EU : 1993 [1] Genre(s) Platform Mode(s) Single-player