This horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up features six long levels, all with detailed and mellow background graphics, aiming for a less hectic feel than contemporaries such as Project X. As a magician's apprentice, you have been turned into an owl to give you the best chance of destroying the many dark creatures to be faced, and thus discovering the secret of cosmic strength. These dark creatures include piranhas, giant ants and mosquitoes. Extra weapons and invincibility periods can be collected. The technical details include 3 layers of multi-directional parallax scrolling, background animation, and different title and in-game music.
IGDB / 11890
Agony
This horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up features six long levels, all with detailed and mellow background graphics, aiming for a less hectic feel than contemporaries such as Project X. As a magician's apprentice, you have been turned into an owl to give you the best chance of destroying the many dark creatures to be faced, and thus discovering the secret of cosmic strength. These dark creatures include piranhas, gi Show full summary
This horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up features six long levels, all with detailed and mellow background graphics, aiming for a less hectic feel than contemporaries such as Project X. As a magician's apprentice, you have been turned into an owl to give you the best chance of destroying the many dark creatures to be faced, and thus discovering the secret of cosmic strength. These dark creatures include piranhas, giant ants and mosquitoes. Extra weapons and invincibility periods can be collected. The technical details include 3 layers of multi-directional parallax scrolling, background animation, and different title and in-game music.
World design
Nicht eindeutig
GameplayCombat-focused
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Traitauto-scrolling levels
Traitbird
Traitboss fight
Traitexplosion
Traitflight
Traitghosts
Traitmagic
Traitnon-humanoid protagonist
Traitowl
Traitpixel art
Traitplatform exclusive
Traitselective invincibility
Traitshoot 'em up
Traitside-scrolling
Traittime manipulation
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Studio & publishing
- Developer
- Art & Magic
- Publisher
- Psygnosis
- Franchise
- Standalone
So spielt es sich
Spielprofil
- Modi
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- Fantasy
Wo & wann
Platform releases
- Amiga 1992
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