Hayato's Journey Longplay (Sega Genesis) [Homebrew] [2024]

Game Info
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Developer: Master Linkuei
Year of Release: 2024
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Game Review & Impressions
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One of the most prominent homebrew developers for the Genesis in recent years, Master Linkuei ( / masterlinkueibr ) has finally released Hayato's Journey for the classic Sega console. Powered by Erik Hogan's (Earok) Scorpion Engine, the game is a love letter to the classic Shinobi arcade and home console releases, plus a few sprinkles of Ninja Gaiden for good measure.
You must hack and slash through multiple levels of non-stop action, rescuing hostages and taking down end-of-level guardians before proceeding to the next zone. It's all remarkably impressive, runs almost flawlessly, and aside from some ill-fitting and occasionally unaligned level scenery tiles, you wouldn't necessarily know this wasn't an original title. It also has some suitably fitting music by Edmo Caldas, which sounds really cool.
What makes the game even more interesting is the way combines assets from other classic games and repackages them into a a new form which, if you weren't familiar with the source material to begin with, you probably wouldn't realise. Some backgrounds are clearly taken from Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi III on the Genesis, while others -- and I can't be 100% sure about this -- look similar to The Astyanax. Leave comments if you recognise which games the sprites and other art assets are from - it would be cool to figure it all out.
Overall, this is a really solid release and a lot of fun. My only complaint is the collision detection on some of the bosses feels a little bit off, but this is seriously impressive stuff - definitely worth checking out.
Information & Trivia
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Developed using Earok's Scoprion Engine
Chapters
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TBC

[@MasterLinkuei]

Woah thanks for playing my game!!! This is the best longplay by far (without bad sound emulation)

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

The game is a seriously impressive achievement! Probably the most layers of parallax scrolling I've seen on the Genesis!!

[@MasterLinkuei]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Thats a honor and i assume: i LOVE paralax scrolling ❤️

[@guillermoconesa5549]

WHAT A GREAT JOB, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND CONGRATULATIONS FOR THIS ACHIEVEMENT, I HOPE YOU CONTINUE TO GIVE MORE JEWELS LIKE THIS BECAUSE WE ARE SICK OF "METROIDVANIA" AND GAMES THAT SAY THEY ARE CALLED "RETRO" BUT DO NOT REALLY HAVE THAT "SOUL" OF THE 80'S AND 90'S !!! EXCUSE ME, THE GAME ONLY IS 4MB? OR WHERE SHOULD I GET IT SO THAT IT IS COMPLETE? THANK YOU A THOUSAND🙇‍♂🙏🙋‍♂

[@ironhell813]

Just don’t try and sell it…. At least not without an agreement. I planned on making something like this back in 2008, but didn’t have anything like the scorpion engine… My country doesn’t allow plagiarism to be consider a civil offense it’s criminal so I can’t make anything like this without permission

[@MasterLinkuei]

@@guillermoconesa5549 THANKS! yeah it only 4MB play it with a SEGA Genesis emulator.

[@persona83]

Great gameplay. You didn't mention it in your review but in case you missed it, this is like a spiritual sequel to the classic Master System game Kenseiden, even if it borrow elements from the Shinobi series.

[@jordanjackson6151]

26:05 That line is just badass.

[@natalironaldo]

Kenseiden was one of my favorite games to play on my Master System. So many good memories beating all the stages, bosses and training rooms

[@ironhell813]

When it came out almost nobody bought it because in the 80s nobody cared about samurai, only ninjas.

[@otherreality]

Wow this really is a good top notch homebrew game!! Congrats to the developer, it feels like a golden original of the past. Also, great playthrough!

[@Andrea-gb7ei]

1:38 the Princess room in Sengoku 2 (arcade) 4:38 the hall on fire in Kabuki Z (arcade) 28:41 the dragon in Kabuki Z (arcade) 34:39 the giant dog in Willow (arcade) 37:53 the giant dragon in Sengoku 2 (arcade) 40:00 the temple in Shinobi (arcade)

[@HydrogenMist715]

dont forget, the fire graphic of TMNT Arcade

[@stonetic2515]

43:45 The hostages that get rescued and the wood post stage are both off Shinobi

[@sockpuppet4716]

First big samurai boss is from Revenge of Shinobi. I think the horse riding background is from Shinobi III.

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

The most impressive thing than this title, is that you mastered the boss patterns so quickly.

[@damonadams7199]

All i can say is wow im so impressed i thought i was watching a neo geo game sometime definitely got the most outta that Genesis chip...

[@CurtindoAqueleDrama]

0:38 Trilha sonora do Jiraiya! 😀

[@devonwilliams5738]

This blows a lot of official releases out of the water. Incredibly impressive.

[@arp2010]

1:15 ESPADAAAAA OLIIMMMMMPICAAAAA 2:34 THE LEGEND OF KAGE

[@DevilRaptorB]

hard to believe this is a 2024 game , well done

[@ashtar4413]

46:22 Direct reference to Musya on SNES

[@WillieTroxler]

This game looks awesome

[@vectororbitex7866]

Oh the Original Kenseiden title music! This brings me many memories playing Master System. Also memories playing Revenge of Shinobi as a kid! Seems that this will be an awesome Kenseiden Fan-Sequel.

[@ecu4321]

Legend of kage level! Nice!

[@guillermoconesa5549]

Hello friends ! This great bro always gives something good... SUPPORT with your like, comment, share and leave the complete video from start to finish, please 👍👍

[@seeworldcopyright152]

46:15 Shinobi X

[@mikejohnson699]

Colorful for a Genesis game

[@sockpuppet4716]

The graveyard environment and a couple of enemies (e.g. floating ghost) are from some CC0 art released by Luis Zuno, from his "GothicVania" stuff. I tried to post a link but I think that comment got censored for containing a link.

[@richardslotboom9250]

I see enemies from the Dungeons & Dragon games and i see Valis 3 backgrounds

[@vitalimocanu5221]

From Sengoku 2, Kabuki-Z too. All the sprites seem to have been ripped from other games.

[@duduspol6082]

música do Jiraiya no começo ficou top demais!

[@jordanjackson6151]

Final verdict.... Hayato: Kicks a lot of Demon Ass. Gets a lot of thanks from rescuing the weak. Gets the girl in the end. And of course....if he gets sick of your shit....DIE. This seems better than the game it was based on (Kenseiden).

[@stevearbogast8556]

Damn .... this homebrew is awesome!!!!

[@jayk9435]

Buen juego que desconocía. Visualmente una joya

[@teddychu1177]

"Thank you Hayato-san!" :D

[@HydrogenMist715]

"Thank you Hayato San!"

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Pretty amazing homebrew game! Wow. 🙂 I won't comment on the minor wonky details--this thing is pretty awesome! Such fantastic design work.

[@ironhell813]

Yeah… except it rips off over five different games and toriyama.

[@jordanjackson6151]

Damn! Y'all even sampled other classic game music. I hear Taito references.

[@RaposaCadela]

That music... this is a sequel to Legend of Kage??

[@evilash570]

This game looks kick ass, I loved the original Kenseiden

[@TCgamerboy2002]

34:38 Not sure if anyone knows this, but that boss right here is actually a boss from the Willow arcade game by Capcom.

[@ManuelMotion]

I think there´s no original sprite in this game. A pity.

[@jordanjackson6151]

I always wished someone would have elaborated on the world of Kenseiden in a MegaDrive/Genesis form.

[@DenisExgardian]

27:35 - Listen well, specially for those people that are 40 yo. This is a song from a tokusatsu called Jiraya

[@mauriziomorales5303]

The music of Legend of Kage.

[@batoceragames4828]

That's Shinobi 😮

[@Robotron2084psn]

A Rastan level!

[@ironhell813]

It seems a combination of other games….

[@Umbrellamax.]

GG bellissima partita 😊

[@joshbrekke6374]

Reminds me of SEGA Master System Shinobi for some reason

[@retrocatalog]

11:26 This track is from Musya on the SNES. What an odd choice!

[@sockpuppet4716]

Bear enemy is from Magic Sword

[@Chiavaccio]

👏👏👏👏💯🥇🔝

[@Sut1978]

Like this game, but fuck me the bosses are rock hard

[@linogroff841]

Uno Smilodon? Da dove è stato tratto fuori?

[@peacefulscrimp5183]

Is there a list somewhere that tells where each graphic asset was lifted from ❓ The worm things in the second part of level 1 are from rygar and I he boss in the thumbnail is from the willow arcade. It would be fun to find out more 🤷

[@sockpuppet4716]

These comments will eventually!

[@Diego-jf4nt]

0:40 Jiraiya's soundtrack?

[@AustTheAvatar]

Willow enemy and sledding level!

[@sockpuppet4716]

Backgrounds from Kabuki Z, especially the dragon

[@sockpuppet4716]

Only the dragon captive in the temple though. When riding/fighting him, idk where that's from.

[@sockpuppet4716]

Most of the final boss fight is also from Kabuki Z.

[@ira-mp3qh]

It s loke like Shinobi! 😮 Same team?

[@philb9015]

OMG!!!! This is KENSEIDEN!!!@

[@ironhell813]

No it isn’t, it’s at least five different games…

[@bosshog9372]

Will there ever be a cartridge version or just download only?

[@ironhell813]

I doubt anyone except the Chinese will touch this given it rips off so many games… Limited Run Games would never be able to touch this because of that. If this things gets a LRG release I’ll officially quit the games industry.

[@hajimenohippo8066]

C est un beau jeu, mais je regrette le système progressive de l' ancien jeu pour gagner des armes. Cela rendait le jeu plus intéressant.

[@gabrielepasquali5479]

It look likes Kenseiden for sega master system

[@marioangeletti2413]

Sengoku 2 Snk Dragon .

[@nmpltleopardi]

This game is dank

[@ironhell813]

More like jank

[@anavernal9777]

😂😂😂Gōkū in Shinobi 's game😊😊😊😊

[@paperplane123...]

I love this game will it ever come out for steam deck???

[@FadkinsDiet]

No, it uses copyrighted assets.

[@ironhell813]

It uses content from over 5 different games from over 4 different companies or more, it isn’t being released anywhere legally…

[@omg_wtf_not_now]

So....Scorpion Engine isn't just for the Amiga?

[@shannonbirt9267]

Amiga, MD and NeoGeo , basic suppprt for 32x also.

[@damonalbarn1184]

Hiii does it work on an everdrive ?

[@MasterLinkuei]

Sure!!

[@wingedhussar5528]

Kenseiden redux.

[@iwanttocomplain]

Is this ai interfacing with SGDK? Why would someone make something so unimaginative?

[@baalfgames5318]

Just an overly gorey human-sue game where not even the goodguy dragon could be anything besides something for the oh-so glorious human protag to prove their dominance over.

[@sockpuppet4716]

Retro arcade games probably aren't for you.

[@baalfgames5318]

@@sockpuppet4716 Except Human-Sue syndrome is extremely prevailant in modern games, especially.