Villordsutch reviews Yun on the NES…
In today’s Homebrew Reviews we take a look at another NES release, this time from the Mojon Twins who have released a fair few ZX Spectrum games in the past, but are currently producing a number of crowdfunded NES and Megadrive games. Their most recent free release is called Yun and it borrows a nice killing mechanism from the great Bubble Bobble.
In this Autumn covered world we find ourselves as the newborn Yun, a red demon with an insatiable appetite, has devoured most things in her sight. Unfortunately as she chewed down on a hearty amount of plant and wildlife she failed to notice a rogue tube of toothpaste and promptly picked up the skill to blow bubbles, which came in extremely useful for stunning her prey. She became so skilled in killing she opened a Sushi bar which became extremely popular; however it was on one fishing spree she came eye-to-eye with a shiny orange fugu fish and in an instant Yun realised the damage she was doing to the countryside around her for her customers greedy bellies. So she has decided to turn the tables upon the patrons of her establishment and feed the customers to the fishes.
Yun really does capture the look of an 1980’s NES platformer. Don’t expect to see pixel perfect representations of Yun, enemies or landscapes but you will be given some classic 8-bit graphics; N.B. I didn’t say “Pixel Art” for real 8-bit graphics and Pixel Art are really two separate entities. The game itself has its difficulties – the blue monkeys in trees are a total pain in the backside and are the main cause of my life loss, plus the spikes on the floor occasionally seem to be impossible to dodge. However, there are some excellent mechanics like jumping on your own bubbles to reach higher levels; this takes a wee bit of practice but once you get the knack of it, you’ll love this technique and see the in-game lifts as a hinderance. To kill a mob, as you can see in the video below, you stun them and jump on the bubble which sings back to the fantastic Bubble Bobble. Supposedly there are also hidden button combinations which I have yet to find but I want to, once I know them I’ll be running back into the game to try them out.
Again, as said above, Yun is completely free to download and play. If you have a NES Powerpack or Everdrive you can drop it onto that, however if you have neither get on over to Nestopia, which is an excellent NES emulator. If you want to say thanks to the Mojon Twins perhaps you can donate to any of their upcoming Crowdfunding games or Tweet/Like this review to share their past wares and this game too.
If you’d like to download Yun you can do so here, and to see more of the Mojon Twins games then you can visit their website here, however you will need to have Google Translate ready as the chaps are from Spain and quite rightly their website is in Spanish.
Rating:- 8/10
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Originally published August 29, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
