I’ve been revisiting the Kiki Kaikai series as part of research for another article I wrote. While digging up details on some of the games I know less about, I encountered the fact that the sole Gameboy Advance game in the series, Kiki Kaikai Advance - otherwise localized as the bizarrely named Pocky & Rocky with Becky - was released on the Wii U’s virtual console. ![]() shoot em up video game developed and published by Natsume in Japan and North America. An odd inclusion considering the SNES titles that it followed up on were omitted from release, but, okay, sure, I never played it, so let’s give it a go. Pocky & Rocky 2, released in Japan as Kiki Kaikai: Tsukiyo Soushi. Pocky & Rocky Reshrined is a multi-directional scrolling shooter in the classic 16-bit style with improved graphics, sound, and fun Gameplay takes place from a top-down perspective and features both single-player and cooperative modes. Way, way back in my youth, my mother and I spent some time renting Pocky & Rocky on the SNES, and playing co-op. Pocky & Rocky with Becky, on the other hand… A lot of the mainstay enemies have made a return.(Image source: ) WITH? JUST USE A COMMA! While we never got very far because I was a scrub, the time I spent with my mother and scenes from the game itself stuck in my mind for over a decade before I looked into re-acquiring it. It had been 7 years since Pocky & Rocky 2 had been released on SNES, but a lot of early Gameboy Advance games were digging deep into retro libraries to revive characters who never made the leap into 3D. Pocky and Rocky was an almost non-existent title among gamers during the SNES days, though Natsume saw fit to produce a sequel to what is arguably the biggest sleeper hit of the 16-bit days. Kiki Kaikai was one such character dug up from obscurity and slapped onto a portable cartridge, giving us this game in 2001. The sequel to the game you never knew existed. The story this time around is… Hold on, I think I need to look this up. A ghost was imprisoned for 100 years and has broken out. I’m not saying that the Kiki Kaikai ever really had an deep storyline, but they at least had a little more than, “There’s a bad guy, go get him.”Īs the name implies, a third character was added to the mix. Named Becky in the English version, because I guess they couldn’t think of anything else that rhymed with Pocky and Rocky, she’s actually a renamed reintroduction of Miki-chan from the Famicom Disk System version of Kiki Kaikai. RT kandowontu: Pocky & Rocky 2 (USA) - Fastrom has been released Tested and verified on MiSTerFPGA, the sequel has long needed a fastrom conversion. ![]() In Japan the game is known as Kiki Kaikai: Tsukiyozoushi. ![]() Pocky & Rocky 2 is a top-down shoot 'em up from Natsume and part of their Kiki Kaikai series of shmups with a cartoonish youkai twist. Although supposedly based off Japanese idol, Miki Ito, she’s basically just a palette swap of the main character in the FDS version, and, well, she’s still a palette swap on the GBA. Pocky & Rocky 2 is the follow-up to Natsume's youkai-filled cute 'em up Pocky & Rocky, starring the eponymous shrine maiden and tanooki.
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