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ファイヤー バム
©1988. Hal Laboratory
©1988. Live Planning
Release: 1988-02-01 (¥3300)
DiskCard HAL-FBM
Action / Adventure game
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Fire Bam is a side scrolling action game by HAL. The game
tells the story of Bam, a fifteen years old courageous boy.
Like every boy of its age, Bam must pass the village's test and bring
back an insect's shell from the forest. But as he returns, and to his surprise, most of
the village has been destroyed and his parents turned into demons.
Bam's quest to become a man is about to begin. Armed with
his sword, Bam sets forth in search of what happened to the
village and his parents. His first steps lead him to the forest
where he has to defeat all sorts of monsters. Fire
elements can be collected along the way and used as currency when
trading inside shops scattered around the game. Special items and
new weapons can be purchased this way too. Soon, Bam will stand
in front of dark and tall towers, each one of them need to be visited
and the bosses hiding within defeated.
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The game's manual features some unusual and yet very interesting art-work.
They are actually designed like bas-reliefs telling Bam's
adventures. They somehow remind me the now famous
introduction scenes of Hayao Miyasaki's
epic masterpieces Nausicaa Of the Valley Of the Wind and Laputa
released in 1984 and 1986.
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Fire Bam is a curious and yet inspired title. Graphics are
very well drawn and the overall design of the game quite unusual. It is also
technically eye dropping (or at least it probably was back in 1988) and
features one of the smoothest horizontal scrolling I have seen on
the Famicom system. But, and there is a big *but* here, the
"jump" system is really awkward. Bam has to run or bend down to do
a high jump and this can be very frustrating, especially at the
beginning of the game when these sort of tall Giraffe Men appear.
Trying to avoid them is a real nightmare. All in all, despite this flaw
(which may be the reason to shelf this game until your patience gets
back to normal) and the very 'one of a kind' box-art,
Fire Bam is a nice and surprising game if you can hang onto it...
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