Mugen Senshi Valis: The Fantasm Soldier (1986)
FM-7 · PC-8800 Series · PC-9800 Series · Sharp X1
3.55 from 20 ratings
77 members have it in their collection · 1 playing now · 22 backlogged · 14 wish listed
How long? · 100% 1h (from 1 logged playthrough)
Yuko Ahso was once an ordinary high school girl. Or least her life used to be ordinary. Her friend Reiko went out on a date with a Dark King named Rogles, and has vanished. Immediately, monsters attacked her. She thought she would die for sure, but a mystic sword named Valis appeared before her. Using the sword, Yuko defended herself …
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Yuko Ahso was once an ordinary high school girl. Or least her life used to be ordinary. Her friend Reiko went out on a date with a Dark King named Rogles, and has vanished. Immediately, monsters attacked her. She thought she would die for sure, but a mystic sword named Valis appeared before her. Using the sword, Yuko defended herself against the monsters, and was whisked to a strange land, where she was told that she was the chosen Valis Warrior and must defeat Rogles, or the human world and the dream world would both be plunged into chaos.
Valis: The Fantasm Soldier is a side-scrolling platformer. Yuko can jump and attack enemies with her Valis sword, which can be upgraded and used as a ranged weapon by collecting power-ups found in the stages. She can also find and use items that grant her powerful all-screen attacks or temporary invincibility. Each stage culminates with a boss battle, after which Yuko's hit points and attributes increase.
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Release dates
- Dec 1986 (Full Release) (Japan) PC-8800 Series, Sharp X1
- Mar 1987 (Full Release) (Japan) FM-7
- Apr 1987 (Full Release) (Japan) PC-9800 Series
Also available on
- Mugen Senshi Valis: The Fantasm Soldier (1986) · MSX
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- Mugen Senshi Valis (2024) · NSW
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Bundled in
- Renovation Products Collection 1 (Mar 2022) · EVER
- Valis Collection · GEN
Remakes
- Valis (Dec 1991) · GEN
- Mugen Senshi Valis: The Legend of a Fantasm Soldier (Mar 1992) · PS3, PSP, VITA, TGCD
- Mugen Senshi Valis: The Fantasm Soldier (May 2005) · Mobile
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Review GigaDeathNullGolem 3/5 · Apr 18, 2022
Easy and Short anime platform fighting/shooting very mediocre gameplay but the CD feats are nice
Valis is overall a pretty nice looking and sounding game for a few consoles but I had been alerted to this looking for PC Engine Super CD games to play. There are a whole slew of games like this too that are light on the gameplay and heavy on the anime cutscenes and CD music. Valis: The Fantasm Soldier features …
Valis is overall a pretty nice looking and sounding game for a few consoles but I had been alerted to this looking for PC Engine Super CD games to play. There are a whole slew of games like this too that are light on the gameplay and heavy on the anime cutscenes and CD music. Valis: The Fantasm Soldier features a 3 minute intro with some generic mystery-person backstory before greeting you with a rock-oriented title screen (the whole soundtrack is similar to this and not bad at all) and then the game 'story' extends itself into the gameplay just outside the high school where you start your adventure fighting roaches and supernatural monsters with a spirit sword as it has clearly turned into THAT kind of sailor-moonish tokusatsu fighting/shooting game.
Valis has some cool looking monsters that look like they came from Contra or Castlevania.
Gameplay itself is somewhat meh and basic. you can swing your sword and 'shoot' with it as well as cast magical 'bombs' you also have a slick sliding attack that is more helpful reaching certain hard-to-get areas later in the game (hint)
IMO, it looks and feels a bit like Contra IV the Alien Wars but not as good in any respect and is quite frankly too easy (a rare complaint i make about any game) Pro-tip: if you play just be sure to get the H (Homing) weapon and you will have a cake walk the whole time with the exception of the rare jumping puzzle or a botched boss fight (Though most of these you can just turtle up in a corner and fling your homing and call it day) Also you upgrade your weapons Gradius-style.
Cutscenes are the main attraction, and just like many PCE CD game, the featured part of the game
Anime cutscenes greet the player after each level to elaborate on the 'story' none of which is in English but i don't think it even matters as it is just so very generic stuff that if you've seen any anime from this era you will pick up on 80% of it! It's pretty goofy mindless stuff.
Even though the game behind this stuff is a bit soft, the rest of the package does make up for it and overall it's a good time, looks and sounds nice and is short. Pretty much exactly what you'd expect and this is the stuff I tend to expect/enjoy from PC Engine type disc games. 3.5/5. (Were it either a bit longer or a bit more substance i'd easily give it 4.)