GeGeGe no Kitarō: Kiki Ippatsu! Yōkai Rettō

GeGeGe no Kitarō: Kiki Ippatsu! Yōkai Rettō (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎　危機一髪！妖怪列島, GeGeGe no Kitarō: Crisis on Yōkai Archipelago!) is a platform game, developed and published by Konami, which was released in Japan in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance.
It was part of the Shigeru Mizuki 80th Anniversary Celebration trio of games, along with, GeGeGe no Kitarō: Gyakushū! Yōma Dai Kessen and GeGeGe no Kitarō: Ibun Yōkai Kitan.
==About==
GeGeGe no Kitarō: Kiki Ippatsu! Yōkai Rettō is intended as an anniversary video game tribute to the Kitarō world, and so the game is filled with details from the manga series, from the highly-detailed, highly animated minor enemies to dialogue lifted straight from the manga. Like many GBA platformers, it consists of large, open stages with a compact layout in which the player must locate keys and switches to progress any further.
The main menu of the game has six options:
*Leave The House: After the first stage is cleared, the player can choose the next stage in the course of story, as well as any previous stage cleared.
*Save: As the name implies, this option allows the player to save the game outside of stages.
*Buy Items: Leads the player to a store in which they can buy consumable items with the in-game currency.
*Sell Items: Similar to the above option, the player can sell unneeded items in order to increase their money quantity.
*Status: Gives a briefing of Kitarō's status and its progression during the game.
*View Yōkai Encyclopedia: Shows a database of every Yōkai in the game, such as Kitarō, his allies, regular enemies, and bosses.
==Plot==
The story is based on Kitarō, a boy whose Yōkai parents died and now travels with an elderly one-eyed Yōkai named Medama-Oyaji. Long ago, the Yōkai had lived together in harmony on earth until humans were born. Afterwards, the humans forced the Youkai to go into hiding. As time passes, some remained peaceful and lived through their days quietly. But, some were not content with the way things were and decided to get vengence on human kind. It is here that we follow the adventures of Kitarō as he settles matters with his other Yōkai friends.
The origin of Kitarō begins, strangely, with a blood-bank. A hospital files a complaint that some blood has had a strange effect on one of their patients, and Mizuki, an employee of the bank, is sent to investigate. The patient is concious, but biologically dead. Rushing back to his office, Mizuki somehow traces the blood donation to his own address, where he finds an abandoned shrine near his house.
Approaching the shrine, he is invited inside and offered a meal of frog's eyes by a mysterious female Yōkai. Terrified, he turns to leave, but finds his passage blocked by the Yōkai's husband - a towering undead humanoid. The couple explain to their visitor that they are the last survivors of a Yōkai tribe known as the Ghost Tribe that was driven to near-extinction by the arrival of mankind. Living in poverty in their hidden shrine, the husband has recently fallen ill and the Yōkai woman, awaiting a child, is selling her blood in a desperate effort to raise money. Mizuki is unsure how to help these frightening beings, and flees from the shrine.
He returns eight months later, but finds only corpses of the poor couple. Feeling guilty, he decides to give them a decent burial himself, but the husband's body is too rotten to be moved in one piece.
Another three months later, the dead Yōkai woman gives birth to her baby who tunnels up from its mother's grave. Mizuki is horrified, but cannot bring himself to dispose of the unnatural child, and again flees the scene in fear and confusion. The father is awakened by the need to protect his son, but only a small part of him is fresh enough to be reanimated. Medama-Oyaji, the old man Eyeball, guides his baby - Kitarō- to the nearby house of Mizuki, who reluctantly decides to take responsibility for the "abandoned" child, unaware that the father is keeping a close eye, as it were.
Six years pass, and Kitarō has grown rapidly, but he is an outcast due to his bizarre appearance. Every night, he goes to the cemetary to play with Medama Oyaji, whose presence is still unknown to Mizuki. Increasingly disturbed by Kitarō's inhuman behavior, Mizuki tells the child that if he does not stop going to the cemetary, he is no longer welcome in his home. For Kitarō, the choice is obvious. Kitarō and his father spend the following years wandering Japan in search of adventure. Kitarō quickly gains fame as a hero to humans and Yōkai alike, and sets up base atop of a treehouse in a secret forest.
Meanwhile, an ancient seal is broken by an an overtly curious Nezumi-Otoko, unleashing two mysterious and sinister Yōkai who are not pleased to hear about the human-friendly exploits of a certain Yōkai-boy. They enlist Nezumi-Otoko as one of their henchmen, and set to work on a nefarious scheme like the world has never known.
==Characters==
===Playable characters===
*Kitarō
*Medama-Oyaji - Prologue only
===Allies===
*Neko-Musume - Joins in Chapter 1
*Ittan-Momen - Joins in Chapter 2
*Konaki-Jijii - Joins in Chapter 3
*Nurikabe - Joins in Chapter 4
*Sunakake-Babaa - Joins in Chapter 5
*Nezumi-Otoko - Joins in Chapter 7
===Sealed Allies===
Found sealed in rock in each stage. Once freed they will give Kitarō a new item.
See GeGeGe no Kitarō: Kiki Ippatsu! Yōkai Rettō#Stages
===Enemies===
See GeGeGe no Kitarō: Kiki Ippatsu! Yōkai Rettō#Stages
===Others===
*Mizuki - Appears in Prologue cut scenes.
*Iwako - Appears in Prologue and Final Chapter cut scenes.
*The Constable - Appears in Chapter 1 cut scenes.
*Karura - Appears in Chapter 1 cut scenes.
*Gyōbu-Danuki - Appears in Chapter 2 cut scenes.
*Japanese Style Tanuki - Appears in Chapter 2 cut scenes.
*Prime Minister - Appears in Chapter 2 cut scenes.
*Hat Tanuki - Appears in Chapter 2 cut scenes.
*Ōnamazu - Appears in the background during Chapter 2 Boss Battle.
*Senkichi - Appears in Chapter 4 cut scenes.
*Elder - Appears in Chapter 4 cut scenes.
*Salaryman Yamada - Appears in Chapter 5 cut scenes.
*The Housewife - Appears in Chapter 5 cut scenes.
*Dai-Tengu - Appears in Chapter 6 cut scenes.
*Yama-Jijii - Appears in Chapter 6 cut scenes.
*Hyōsube - Appears in Chapter 6 cut scenes.
*Kappa - Appears in Chapter 6 cut scenes.
*Enma-Daiō - Appears in Final Chapter cut scenes.
===Game list of all yōkai===
# 	Original Game Name	Romanized Name
1 	鬼太郎 	Kitarō
2 	目玉おやじ 	Medama-Oyaji
3 	ねずみ男 	Nezumi-Otoko
4 	ねこ娘 	Neko-Musume
5 	砂かけ婆 	Sunakake-Babaa
6 	子なき爺 	Konaki-Jijī
7 	一反もめん 	Ittan-Momen
8 	ぬりかべ 	Nurikabe
9 	海座頭 	Umizatō
10 	舟幽霊 	Funa-Yūrei
11 	化け火 	Bake-Bi
12 	くらげの火の玉 	Kurage-no-Hinotama
13 	磯女 	Iso-Onna
14 	さざえ鬼 	Sazae-Oni
15 	海坊主 	Umibōzu
16 	天狗 	Tengu
17 	牛鬼 	Gyūki
18 	狸 	Tanuki
19 	かまいたち 	Kamaitachi
20 	二口女 	Futakuchi-Onna
21 	たんたん坊 	Tantanbō
22 	団三郎狸 	Dansaburō-Danuki
23 	こう龍 	Kōryū
24 	信者 	Shinja [Believer]
25 	妖怪樹 	Yōkaiju
26 	妖怪樹（子） 	Yōkaiju (Small)
27 	ひでり神 	Hiderigami
28 	キジムナー 	Kijimuna
29 	カタキラウワ 	Katakira-Uwa
30 	ダイダラボッチ 	Daidarabotchi
31 	野狐 	Yako
32 	気狐 	Kiko
33 	空狐 	Kūko
34 	天狐 	Tenko
35 	水虎 	Suiko
36 	ぶるぶる 	Buru-Buru
37 	白山坊 	Hakusanbō
38 	雪ん子 	Yukinko
39 	雪女 	Yuki-Onna
40 	雪男 	Yuki-Otoko
41 	合体冷凍妖怪 	Gattai-Reitō-Yōkai [Combined Frozen Yōkai]
42 	ガイコツ 	Gaikotsu [Skeleton]
43 	頭ガイコツ 	Tō-Gaikotsu [Skull]
44 	邪魅 	Jami
45 	釜鳴り 	Kamanari
46 	土転び 	Tsuchi-Korobi
47 	骨女 	Hone-Onna
48 	赤舌 	Akashita
49 	妖怪ポリス 	Yōkai Police
50 	傘化け 	Kasa-Bake
51 	見上げ入道 	Miage-Nyūdō
52 	モウリョウ 	Mōryō
53 	だるま 	Daruma
54 	百々じじい 	Momon-Jijī
55 	中国天狗 	Chūgoku-Tengu [Chinese Tengu]
56 	黒怪物 	Kuro-Kaibutsu
57 	中国夜叉 	Chūgoku-Yasha [Chinese Yasha]
58 	一目坊 	Hitomebō
59 	かんばつ鬼 	Kanbatsu-Oni
60 	中国水虎 	Chūgoku-Suiko [Chinese Suiko]
61 	チー 	Qi
62 	九尾の狐 	Kyūbi-no-Kitsune
63 	万年竹 	Mannen-Dake
64 	妖怪竹 	Yōkai-Dake [Yōkai Bamboo]
65 	むじな 	Mujina
66 	おりたたみ入道 	Oritatami-Nyūdō
67 	毛羽毛現 	Keukegen
68 	輪入道 	Wanyūdō
69 	ぐわごぜ 	Guwagoze
70 	おぼろ車 	Oboro-Guruma
71 	蛇骨婆 	Jakotsu-Babaa
72 	ぬらりひょん 	Nurarihyon
73 	みやまのぬし 	Miyama-no-Nushi
74 	餓鬼 	Gaki
75 	妖怪酋長 	Mimizu-Otoko [Yōkai Chief]
76 	クモ男 	Kumo-Otoko
77 	さそり女 	Sasori-Onna
78 	首 	Kubi
79 	ぬるり坊 	Nururibō
80 	奪衣婆 	Datsue-Babaa
81 	がしゃどくろ 	Gasha-Dokuro
82 	夜行さん 	Yagyō-san
83 	人魂 	Hitodama
84 	黒こうもり 	Kuro-Kōmori [Black Bat]
85 	吸血こうもり 	Kyūketsu-Kōmori [Vampire Bat]
86 	こうもり妖怪 	Kōmori-Yōkai [Bat Yōkai]
87 	黄金こうもり 	Ōgon-Kōmori [Gold Bat]
88 	足まがり 	Ashi-Magari
89 	すねこすり 	Sunekosuri
90 	尻目 	Shirime
91 	小右衛門火 	Kōemon-Bi
92 	座敷童子 	Zashiki-Warashi
93 	丸毛 	Maruge
94 	オベベ 	Obebe
95 	山びこ 	Yamabiko
96 	あかなめ 	Akaname
97 	油すまし 	Abura-Sumashi
98 	シーサー 	Shīsā
99 	烏天狗 	Karasu-Tengu
100	死神 	Shinigami
==Stages==
;Prologue: The Birth of Kitarō
;Chapter 1: Curse of the Yōkai Gyūki
:Sealed Ally: Akaname
:Enemies: Bake-Bi, Funa-Yūrei, Iso-Onna, Sazae-Oni, Tengu, Umibōzu, Umizatō
:Boss: Gyūki
;Chapter 2: The 808 Tanuki Conquer Japan!
:Sealed Ally: Maruge
:Enemies: Dansaburō-Danuki, Futakuchi-Onna, Kamaitachi, Kurage-no-Hinotama, Tantanbō, Tanuki
:Boss: Kōryū
;Chapter 3: Giant Yōkai Daidarabotchi
:Sealed Ally: Kawauso
:Enemies: Believer, Gold Bat, Hiderigami, Katakira-Uwa, Kijimuna, Yōkaiju, Yōkaiju (Small)
:Boss: Daidarabotchi, Daidarabotchi's Brain & Nezumi-Otoko
;Chapter 4: Great Freeze! The Frozen Yōkai Yukinko's Trap!
:Sealed Ally: Yobuko
:Enemies: Black Bat, Buru-Buru, Hakusanbō, Hitodama, Kiko, Kūko, Suiko, Tenko, Yako
:Boss: Yukinko, Yuki-Onna, Yuki-Otoko & Combined Frozen Yōkai
;Chapter 5: Yōkai Akashita! Battle of Mount Osore
:Sealed Ally: Zashiki-Warashi
:Enemies: Hone-Onna, Jami, Kamanari, Kurage-no-Hinotama, Skeleton, Skull, Tsuchi-Korobi
:Boss: Akashita
;Chapter 6: Kitarō's Death Sentence! The Great Yōkai Trial!
:Sealed Ally: Abura-Sumashi
:Enemies: Ashi-Magari, Bake-Bi, Black Bat, Daruma, Hitodama, Kasa-Bake, Katakira-Uwa, Kōemon-Bi, Miage-Nyūdō, Mōryō, Shirime, Yōkai Police
:Boss: Momon-Jijī
;Chapter 7: Yōkai Cloth! The Chinese Yōkai Strike Back!
:Sealed Ally: Shīsā
:Enemies: Bat Yōkai, Chinese Suiko, Chinese Tengu, Chinese Yasha, Gold Bat, Hitomebō, Kanbatsu-Oni, Kōemon-Bi, Kuro-Kaibutsu, Shirime, Vampire Bat
:Boss: Qi & Kyūbi-no-Kitsune
;Chapter 8: Crisis on Yōkai Archipelago!!
:Sealed Ally: Karasu-Tengu
:Enemies: Ashi-Magari, Bat Yōkai, Guwagoze, Hitodama, Kasa-Bake, Keukegen, Kōemon-Bi, Kurage-no-Hinotama, Mannen-Dake, & Oritatami-Nyūdō, Oboro-Guruma, Shirime, Sunekosuri, Vampire Bat, Wanyūdō, Yōkai Bamboo
:Boss: Jakotsu-Babaa, Nurarihyon & Miyama-no-Nushi
;Final Chapter: Trip to Jigoku in Search of Mother
:Sealed Ally: Shinigami
:Enemies: Ashi-Magari, Bat Yōkai, Datsue-Babaa, Kubi, Gaki, Hakusanbō, Hiderigami, Hitodama, Kiko, Kumo-Otoko, Nururibō, Sasori-Onna, Suiko, Skeleton, Skull, Tenko, Vampire Bat, Yako, Yōkai Chief, Yōkaiju, Yōkaiju (Small)
:Boss: Gasha-Dokuro & Yagyō-san
==Trivia==
*Several players have compared it to Castlevania, a series of video games created by Konami, more precisely the entries for Game Boy Advance.
*A price of this game was 4,980 Yen.
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