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INTRODUCTION:
One of the Taoism monks has refused to convert, and for this he has been imprisoned in one of the temple's underground dungeons, where he is waiting for his execution. His best friend Qi Wen Wei has managed to escape, and as a good Taoism monk and teacher of Wudang he value his friendship as the most important thing, and has returned to rescue his friend.

REVIEW:
You have to find the key to open up the prison cell where your friend is, but you also have to find a lot of other keys to open up locked doors in the temple. These keys is hold by the enemy monks, and you have to kill them to get the key. Some monks have a key and others have some energy refill you can use.

You can jump several screens up in the air, this works very well, just push up and then you can change direction in the air whenever you want. You can also run up of walls, and when you come near a monk you will enter combat mode. It is not possible to run away, you will stay in combat mode until the enemy is defeated.

When fighting you can strike high and low and block high and low. The best thing to do is to wait for the enemy to set in an attack, block the attack and strike back. This is a good tactical fighting system and it works very well. At the beginning of the game you can choose between Easy, Medium and Hard which sets the difficulty in these fights!

There are two types of enemies – The normal munks, and the elder ones that attacks you with fireballs. The fireball guys are tough ones and they might drain a lot of your energy, so it is recommended to find the subgames, where one of them is an impressive full color Arkanoid clone with textured background, and the other one a mice / labyrinth game. If you win in these subgames you will gain 3 extra points for your health bar system.

Your health bar system is the Yin & Yang symbol on the bottom left, while the enemie’s health bar is in the devil head to the right, and in the middle of these you can see what keys you have.

This game is participant in the Bytemaniacos Basic 2020 competition and therefore written in Basic. For a Basic game this is nothing less than fantastic, it plays better and faster than a lot of the old commercial games from the 80s. The graphics is stunning, highly detailed without any clash, and you don’t have to wait for anything when entering a new screen, this Basic engine is extremely fast!

The gameplay is also top notch, this is kind of an advanced Bruce Lee game, and it plays really well, it is easy to do the high jumping and run up of walls. The fighting is much more advanced than what to expect from a Basic game and might take some time to figure out, but once you master it this is a very cool and very good game.

The game is very good, and considering it is a Basic game just takes it to the top. This is candidate for being the best looking, the fastest, and the most awesome Basic game ever made for the ZX Spectrum.

The game was made by Ariel Ruiz in 2018.

Rating = 98%

Visit Ariel’s webpage and download the game here: http://www.worldxxisoft.com/

Ariel is far from unknown, he has made some of the best ZX Spectrum games ever made:

Red Shift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbYRxtoXT4
Carlos Michelis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ORIaBDd4s
Thieves School 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wnsX11Fp8Q
Thieves School 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unC119j2tQs

And also other games in Basic programming - The Max Pickles 1-3 saga:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHv3PPoKgxw
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmZ5HSVFlHU
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myC7N5jGx_s