Wolfling (Nintendo NES)
This is a homebrew platformer game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Wolfling is about a young woman, called Ling, who transforms into a wolf like creature whenever she steps out into the moonlight. Baron Baranov is fearful of werewolves and the unnatural powers they possess. So he has Ling captured and thrown into one of his dungeons to rot away for the rest of her life. It is up to you to take control of Ling and help her find a way out of her cell and the Baron’s castle.
The game starts off with a brief scene showing Ling being thrown into the dungeon. It is at this point that you take control and spend sometime familiarising yourself with the control mechanism, including the process of transforming from human to wolf when standing in the light of the moon that shines through sections of the Baron’s castle and back to human again when away from the moon’s illumination.
The two character modes have their own distinct advantages and restrictions. Ling is capable of jumping up at greater heights as a human but as a wolf can achieve a longer horizontal jump distance. While in the wolf form, you also have the added advantage of being able to move around faster and also invoke a ground-roll attack that is used to eliminate or disable enemies and to demolish weakened sections of a wall that will grant you access to areas of the game map that would otherwise be restricted.
-Genre: Platformer.
-Region: NTSC, USA.
-Works on all North American Nintendo Systems with no modification needed.
-May not be compatible with Retron 5 hardware.