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1988 · Thinking Rabbit · Action · Action-adventure

8 Eyes

Nintendo console exclusive

8 Eyes is an action game set in a post-nuclear future where rebellious dukes have seized eight powerful jewels. Players control Orin the Falconer as he enters each duke’s castle, battles soldiers and mutants, defeats its guardian, and recovers the jewels for the Great King.

Released: 27 September 1988
Platforms: NES Windows
Genres: Action Action-adventure Adventure Platformer Post-apocalyptic
Developers: Thinking Rabbit
Publishers: SETA Corporation
Modes: Co-op Local multiplayer Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action Fantasy
Country: Japan
Languages: English, Japanese
Time to beat: 2hmain story7hcompletionist

About

8 Eyes is a 1988 platform video game developed by Thinking Rabbit and published by SETA for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game features eight levels, and can be played by one or two players. It also features a large, diverse soundtrack, composed by Kenzou Kumei, consisting of three pieces for each of the eight levels, which are set in different parts of the world.

Piko Interactive acquired the rights to 8 Eyes and released it for Microsoft Windows via Steam on August 14, 2019. 8 Eyes was also released on the Evercade as part of Piko Interactive Collection 1 on May 22, 2020.

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Gameplay

The game consists of eight levels, each set in the castle of one of the dukes. At the completion of each level, Orin receives a new sword. The player can choose to play each of the first seven castles in any order, though the boss at the end of each is vulnerable to only one sword. It is therefore easier to play levels in a particular order.

There are hints about the correct order hidden throughout the game. Only after each has been completed can the House of Ruth be played.

Story

8 Eyes is set in a post-apocalyptic future. Mankind is recovering from hundreds of years of chaos and nuclear war, and civilization is being rebuilt by the Great King, who harnesses the power of eight jewels. The jewels, known as the 8 Eyes, were formed at the centers of eight nuclear explosions that came close to destroying Earth. The 8 Eyes have mysterious power which, in the wrong hands, could bring about the end of the world. The Great King's eight power-hungry dukes steal the jewels for themselves and banish the King to the nuclear wastelands, threatening to once again plunge the Earth into war.

The player controls Orin the Falconer and his fighting falcon Cutrus. His mission is to infiltrate the Dukes' eight castles and retrieve the 8 Eyes. With the help of Cutrus, Orin must fight the Dukes' soldiers, nuclear mutants, and the duke of each castle to retrieve the jewels. After the jewels have been recovered, Orin must return them to the Altar of Peace so that the Great King may return and finish rebuilding the Earth.