Ynxa - Leaf and the Secret of the Pyramid
Digital Deluxe includes GameBoy and Lynx version
It was a shiny day. Leaf was lounging rocked by a light wind. When suddenly the wind rose and Leaf heard a little voice: "I need your help, again."
Leaf was carried by the wind for hours, beyond forests and mountains. After the sunset, everything went dark... and cold. Then everything stopped, Leaf was lying on the grass.
Alone.
Leaf opened her eyes... Well, maybe not alone.
Ynxa - Leaf and the secret of the Pyramid is a new Metroidvania-like game for the Nintendo Game Boy. It is more focused on exploration and puzzle rather than action.
The game is divided in 3 parts :
1. The tutorial, where you will have to unlock powers from Air, Fire and Water.
- Leaf, as Air form will learn to jump, and double-jump
- Fire will learn to shoot, explodes and bigger explosions, but be careful, he is very fragile
- Water will learn to slide under tunnels and flood to escape from pits
2. The Temple of Perseverance, where you will have to go through 8 Paths of Perseverance, which consist of 4 levels each, to prove your bravery
3. The Pyramid, which is is a very big level, where you will have to find the 5 ceremonial objects, in order to access the end of the game.
The physical version of the game is available at https://yastuna-games.com
The Atari Lynx version is english only while the GB version is multilingual.
Note: The game has been elected Atari Lynx homebrew of the year in 2022.
Credits:
- Code & Level Design by Fadest
- GB Musics by David Sauer
- Lynx music by Fadest & Rygar
- Graphs by Kronbits, Elthen, Fadest
- Brasilian portuguese translation by Bilie & Andrey
- Japanase translation by Kurono Studio
- Atari Lynx: created with BLL library from M. Domin & 42Bastian
- Game Boy: created with GBDK
Purchase
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I am playing the GB version. It's a really nice game! Loving the music and sprites! Puzzles so far are quite good too!
I am playing on my DSi using gameyob emulator
However, I have a couple issues
Title screen is broken (1st picture) but after that, it's fine so it's okay
My other issue is that the game crashes after the tutorial when going back to the beginning (2nd picture). It happens going either way, bottom or left.
About the title screen, it's really likely a Gameyob issue since everything is fine on my phone emulator
About the crash, I don't know, I will try to move the save to my phone/computer to test
EDIT : After further testing, it's indeed a Gameyob issue because everything is fine on vba-m on linux
EDIT2 (sorry) : Tried Lameboy on the DSi, title screen even more corrupted but no crash !!
https://imgur.com/a/s2oiD7e
Title screen on GB color (and GB Color emulation) use high colour routine to display more colours, Maybe Gameyob & Lameboy are not accurate enough for this ?
About the crash, I don't know how it occured but my advice is to never use savestates as the game rely heavily on the content of the data saved on SRAM. If there is a discrepancy between what is stored in SRAM and what is in RAM, I cannot guarantee the game will work (we just discovered this recently on Analogue Pocket and Lynx version)
Playing the Lynx version here, and this is a really, really nice game. My only objection so far is that the waterspout that you use to elevate yourself in water form seems to function or not function very arbitrarily based on what the game wants you to do. I feel like in a game like this, it's important to design levels so things like this aren't an issue.
But don't take that too hard, because as I said, I really like it.
Thanks you for the comment. I am glad you like it.
Water flooding only works if you are between 2 blocks (or tunnel block)
Oh, thanks. I was probably a bit unobservant not to realize that.