Burnin' Soul: Yellow Anchor Attack

The logo for Burnin' Soul: Yellow Anchor Attack

Burnin Soul: Yellow Anchor Attack is a 2D platformer game on PC. It is currently a work in progress, and non-profit, so development is slow. The game is made with the website Scratch, along with an addon known as Turbowarp, that adds features to scratch to make coding easier and such. This also allows the game to be made it's own individual .exe file for distribution on gamejolt.

Scratch as an engine is VERY limited, and the main developer, Aidenmash, is not too knowledgable about scratch coding. He has a co-developer, Yosherzz!, to help him with the harder coding. Yosherzz also provides some music for the game.

The spritework in the game is done by Aidenmash, in which mimics the Sonic Advance sprites.

The game is censored in the scratch version, due to Scratch's family friendly guidelines. Things like swearing and music is replaced in favor for more safe alternatives.

The game lacks a save feature, but has a "level select" option on the title screen, if a break from the game is needed. If you select a scene, the game starts you off with 15 rings, and 3 lives.

As opposed to usual sonic fangames, rings in this game act more like a health bar, where collecting them fills it, and taking damage removes a certain amount of rings (usually a random amount between 5 - 15), but other than that, it acts like the usual sonic system of "0 rings + hit = lost life."

Aiden possesses a dash ability in mid air, similar to Sonic's homing attack, where he curls into a fireball, and charges up. The player must hit a direction before the charge-up is over, to dash in that direction.

After the first 4 levels of the game, the game's progression style becomes more like Megaman, where you can choose which stage you play in any order, and when each is completed, a final stage is unlocked.

## Plot

Yellow Anchor Attack takes place shortly a few months after Aiden meets Sho.

During a friendly visit with Sho, a huge, almost island sized ship, crashes into the shore of the sacred sol kingdom, right next to the castle. The loud bang brings the attention of Aiden and Sho, and as they gaze towards the ruckus, The Sol castle's alarm system goes off. This alerts Aiden and Sho, and they quickly make haste towards the danger.

As Aiden runs through the forest towards the kingdom, He is stopped in his tracks by a mysterious yellow cat girl, who wields an scythe that resembles an anchor. She monologues about how she's gonna stop him dead in his tracks, and how her father will finally be in riches, Aiden is confused by all of this, but quickly realizes he's gotta fight when the girl throws said weapon towards him, he quickly flinches and dodges the giant anchor, and engages in combat with the girl.

After the girl is defeated, she exclaims "This won't be the last you'll see of the Yellow Anchor Pirates!", and quickly jumps off screen. After she does so, a loud ocean wave-esc noise is made.. The ship is departing! Aiden quickly rushes toward the direction of the ship, and sees it take off, Sho arrives a few seconds late, and exclaims that they should ask the queen what's going on..

Sho and Aiden waltz into the sacred Sol Castle, and ask the Queen on what happened. She tells them that The Sol Emeralds have been stolen by a huge crew of pirates, known as the Yellow Anchor Pirates. Aiden and Sho thank the queen, and quickly dart off to retrieve the sol emeralds back, and take down the Yellow Anchor Pirates

## Levels/Level Design

The level design in Yellow Anchor Attack is fairly simple, given that the game is a basic platformer. A few hidden pathways exist, and setpieces in some levels are present, but other than that, it's basic run jump attack-like level design

The first 3 levels of the game take place on The Sol Kingdom's island, while the 4th level is underwater. In this level, he wears a pair of blue goggles with orange lenses, that were made by the Queen of Sol in order to aid Aiden when traversing waters. The goggles provide a magical essence that lets him move and see freely in water, but his fire abilities don't work in water, until he gets an upgrade from Anne The Cat that allows him use his fire abilities underwater.

Most of the levels afterward take place on the giant island-like pirate ship that belongs to the Yellow Anchor Pirates.

## Music

Most of the music in Yellow Anchor Attack are either songs from Pre-existing sonic games (Sonic Rush, Sonic Advance, Sonic Battle), or GBA styled remixes of pre-existing songs. The original remixes for the game are made by Yosherzz!, and other music is made by various artists and remixers.