Stardom Warriors - LaSalle Ishii's Childs Quest

This is a recreation of the original Famicom game, LaSalle Ishii's Childs Quest, featuring both the Stardom Warriors localization and a new version with a translation of the original content. It's been rebuilt from the ground up in GameMaker to run on Windows, Android, and any other platform I can get around to.

LICQ was initally not released in the U.S., likely due to the obscure celebrity cameos, excess of Japanese pop culture references, dirty jokes, and Japanese puns.  However, I released a translation patch of the game to replace the celebrity references with a brand new story and make the game family-friendly, as if it were localized by Nintendo of America. However, the restrictions of the original NES platform meant that I had to heavily abbreviate many of the terms in the game, resulting in a clunky script. My Japanese skills were also quite lacking at the time, meaning much of the game went over my head.

With this project, I've made a complete recreation of the original game with a huge number of improvements to the localization, including:

• Fully unabridged text
• Retranslated lines
• Non-abbreviated item names
• You can name your Manager with 8 characters instead of 4!
• Save files instead of passwords

Also, I added an option to turn on bonus content which adds a bunch of cool new stuff to the game:

• Tons of new hidden items scattered around the world
• New and improved quizzes
• Hidden suits are now equippable
• New NPCs
• New items, including one to reveal hidden secrets!
• A secret hardmode! (Name yourself "TORAKIA" to unlock)
• A new area to discover
• New final boss music

The bonus content is mostly implemented, but I still need to add some abilities when you have the suits equipped. The new area in the game currently has no enemies or cutscene. For the time being, you can find by walking into the mountains at this spot:

You must actually walk ONTO the mountain tile the Manager is facing in the image.
Then, the Secret Lens can be obtained by LOOKing at the tile shown at the sparkly, left 1 and up 1 from the Manager's position in this image:

Finally, I'm about 70% done with an additional mode which restores the unlocalized content of the Japanese version! The main dialogue script is all that's left to finish. You can play a faithfully translated version of LaSalle Ishii's Childs Quest for the first time! At the moment, I'm looking for feedback one the format of the text in the Japanese mode, so any advice you can offer on the look and feel of it is appreciated. Keep in mind that my goal is to emulate the original game's UI as much as possible.

Despite being called "beta", you CAN beat this game from start to finish in all version. I've also stomped out as many bugs as I could find.

This game is not quite 100% complete, but I'm releasing it at the moment to get some playtesting and feedback before I consider it done. Any and all feedback you can provide will be helpful in making this recreation the best it can be.

If you like this game, then be sure to check out its direct sequel on Steam ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/1899110/Octo_Vinctum_Revenge_of_the_Czar/ ) or the experimental free version here on Itch Io ( https://polinym.itch.io/octo-vinctum-mystic-knights ).

Controls:
Spacebar: A Button
Shift Key: B Button
Arrow Keys: D-Pad
Z Key: Start Button