Syobon Action - Rage-inducing Cat Adventure

This new Halloween version includes:

- New Terrific Graphics, sounds and effects

- New Levels

- New Achievements

- Improved Gamepad, iCade, PS3, and other joystick support

- Save Games

- Portrait or Landscape mode for flexible gameplay

- Many other nice details

- Improved UI

Enjoy the special and terrific Halloween edition with updated graphics and effects. Rob tombs, evade ghosts, and uncover the hidden magical artichoke in the castle.

The world of 2ch is under threat! The Muscular Evil Chicken has stolen the sacred artichoke from the great forum administrator. (`O '*) With the power of the sacred artichoke, he aims to control the peaceful emoticon inhabitants of 2ch for malevolent purposes. "O (¯ - ¯ *) The only hope for saving the 2ch world lies with Syobon (`· ω · '), a young cat-emoticon. Syobon, with its multiple lives, is the only one capable of confronting the power of the sacred artichoke and defeating the muscular chicken. (〃 ^ ∇ ^) o You must be cautious and remember the myriad traps you encounter on your journey. Only you and Syobon, with his infinite lives, can rescue the 2ch world.

Syobon Action is a jump-and-run game/platform parody of Super Bros. However, it features traps and unique challenges that make the game more difficult. A simple run and jump won't suffice; skill and a touch of creativity are essential here.

The game necessitates logical thinking and trial-and-error to progress through its levels effectively.

Gameplay Guide

The player controls a white kitten-like character who must venture through side-scrolling platform levels similar to Super Mario Bros. The game consists of four levels (six in a version which was available at 4399, eighteen on Android and iOS versions) riddled with traps designed to trick the player, and abuse their previous knowledge of Super Mario Bros. gameplay, including normal-looking ground tiles that fall away into pits, blocks that sprout spikes when touched, a coin block at the start of a level that goes up when the players try to hit it, enemies that spawn nearly on top of the character, deadly background scenery, coin blocks rigged at the edge of a pit to cause the character to fall down, warp pipes flying, and a Mario-style flagpole that kills the character in two different ways, either by falling over or shooting a laser towards the player character. Despite the surprise factor of these traps, the levels do not change between plays, allowing the player to memorize their locations and patterns and eventually make progress. Some designers have commented on how the game requires the player to think logically through trial-and-error in order to complete the game at defeating the main antagonist called Onion King. The player has infinite lives.

Walkthrough

The level starts off with the classic starting of 1-1 and like normally, a goomba, or in this game, 2 Onions. The first question mark block, you would think it'd give a coin, but as you hit it, it goes upward and you can't hit it. You can break all the bricks, but the question mark block that would give you a mushroom is blocked by an invisible block. You can still hit it by hitting it from the side, but it gives a mushroom that only makes Syobon say something in Japanese. (translation unknown). The other ? block will give you a coin and the top one has an onion. Then it's a pipe, just like the original, but going over/on it will cause a Seal to go straight up. Down to the right of the pipe is another Onion but jumping on it will boost you upwards, onto another pipe, where you can go in it like the original, but it wil go straight up and you die.

Then like the original, there's an invisible ? block that would give you a 1-up, but instead it gives you poison-shrooms, soft-locking you. Then, it's a hole you have to jump over, with an invisible block blocking you from jumping (a classic trick in Super Mario Maker 1 and 2), and you have to hit it and jump on it to avoid dying, then more of the original layout, but the ? block that would normally give you a mushroom or a fire-flower depending on what power-up you have, it instead gives you another mushroom that makes Syobon say something. And then, going under the bricks you can jump on, it falls on you. So you have to go over them or somehow survive (which is possible), but jumping over the hole makes a seal appear going down this time. More of the original layout, the brick that would normally give you multiple coins based on how much you hit it, it only gives you a lot of coins hitting it once.

Then more of the original layout, the bricks that would have a hidden star power-up has a checkpoint on it, which actually works. The hidden star power-up works but only kills you once touched. More of the original layout but the floor falls once you hit it, and then the stairs part. For some reason, there's a hole down there to the left of the next pipe, going down soft-locks you with hidden ? blocks, meaning you have to die via the hole. That's why it's there. Jumping over it has another hidden ? block blocking you, and then you jump on that onto the pipe, nothing intresting with the pipe, more of the normal layout but the next Cloud kills you. The next pipe is nothing intresting, and then it's the stairs to victory. Going up, 4 onions come down to kill you.

Making it past the onion jumpscare, jumping to the victory pole makes a laser hits you. Getting past them, hitting the flagpole, you finally make it but a seal kills you from above! You have to jump over the flagpole to get the seal to go down, only for you to go too far into the level past the flagpole, and you can't go back so you have to go into a hole that appears there to die. Then, hitting the flagpole from behind, you finally make it, no tricks, straight to 1-2.