KIKI KAIKAI is an action game released by TAITO in 1986. Player will control Sayoa young Shinto shrine maidenin fighting against monsters in order to save the kidnapped Seven Lucky Gods.

Game objectives

  • Emulator used: openMSX 0.13.0
  • Aims for fastest time

Comments

To save time I avoid the majority of the enemies,and take the power-ups of the statues.
The game finish in the scene 8,and then begins the round 2.
Has an interesting trick that was used in the boss 6.
Basically few seconds before him do vulnerable,do an attack with multiple scrolls,depending of the number he can lose 2 bars of health.

feos: Updated the movie with a 751 frame improvement.
Noxxa: The movie looks technically sound, although it comes short on entertainment value and audience response (largely due to the eye-searing scrolling). Accepting for the Vault.
feos: Pub.

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Ooh, I didn't know this game before. The run was fairly interesting, and short enough not to get boring. Yes vote.
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is this related to pocky and rocky SNES game?
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grassini: I was thinking the same thing. There's also one stage of Rainbow Islands (Bubble Bobble 2) that is probably referencing this game, since it starts with the same music and similar images. The scrolling made my head hurt at first, but the action is pretty good. It looks like the run makes the game look too easy. zupapa, can you explain bosses 6 and 7, since they look quite different from the other fights?
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Boss 6 has a period of invincibility, I think this can not be manipulated. Boss 7 is much healthier than others, and usually follows the character making it impossible to beat him with normal methods. Update: http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/35928501575170431 That is a version improved in the boss 1,boss 6 and some routes were improved.
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grassini wrote:
is this related to pocky and rocky SNES game?
According to the Wikipedia article of KiKi KaiKai: Like The Ninja Warriors, KiKi KaiKai had been a one-off work until 1992, when Taito allowed Natsume to release KiKi KaiKai: Nazo no Kuro Mantle, which would be known as Pocky & Rocky for its North American release. Therefore, Pocky & Rocky is the sequel of this game. Anyway, the TAS was pretty solid, but....I'd prefer if it was either done on the Arcade or the PC Engine version. Really, this port's main weak point is the choppy scrolling. This gets a very weak Meh for the entertainment for me. By the way, the 7th boss is a tanuki (or rather, a bake-danuki), known in Japanese folklore to transform into humans or other objects. See the Wikipedia article for more details. By the way, said Wikipedia article also mentions this is, in fact, Rocky, who turns out to be an ally in Pocky & Rocky.
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Interestingly, this game was reviewed by a Dutch MSX Magazine and also there the biggest comment was the very annoying choppy scroll. Also, they didn't know the real title back then (look for "Katikuya Fighter King"). And funnily enough, they choose a very similar screenshot :) See page 26 of https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.msxcomputermagazine.nl/archief/bladen/msx_computer_magazine_36.pdf
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If that's the same as DM then that's quite expensive...
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Yes, it was very expensive and the review also mentions that as one of the reasons why the conclusion is "Highly NOT recommended!!". It was a direct import from Japan and these were always quite expensive in those days. But for that money you could buy much better new Japan imports.
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I enjoyed this run's movement optimization but I struggled with the scrolling. I don't often vote Meh but I've opted to do so here as I think it falls just short of the bar in the entertainment category to be in consideration for Moons. Well done on the optimization though!
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Synced/dumped. Should I judge or publish this?
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Maybe someone with SVP can make it smoother :)
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SVP won't help. It's not a frame rate issue. It's just bad use of the hardware... they're not using any sort of scrolling register of the V9938.
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [3304] MSX Kiki KaiKai by Zupapa in 05:48.62
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