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[[File:ufouria_the_saga_cover_front_2765.jpg|frame]] '''''Ufouria - the Saga''''' is a cult game made by Sunsoft for the [[NES]] in 1991 under the title ''Hebereke''. It was ported to Europe and Australia one year later (but [[No Export for You|not in the US]]), where it received slight modifications to graphics, text and plot, but keeping its distinctive [[Widget Series|Japanese-ness]].
Plot for the Western version: on a distant world, there live many strange creatures, including Bop-Louie and his friends Freeon-Leon, Shades and Gil. One day, the friends fall down a crater, Bop-Louie climbs down there to save them, but faints and later finds himself in a weird world... Okay, it [[Excuse Plot|doesn't make much sense]], but the original Japanese story isn't much better.
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* [[Anvil on Head]]: Enemy crows drop 16-ton weights on you. [[Bowdlerise|In the original game]], they dropped their poop.
* [[Blob Monster]]: Jumping green jellies that are about the most common and easiest enemy you can find.
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* [[Chain-Reaction Destruction]]: Because one explosion is not sufficient for bosses.
* [[Cool Shades]]: ''Shades'', natch.
* [[Cute Kitten]]: Freeon-Leon the dinosaur was originally O-chan, a cute kitten, or at least somebody dressed as one.▼
** At least two of the three key guardians are kittens. The third key guardian, the UFO boss, is probably an alien kitty.▼
* [[Death Throws]]: Bop-Louie falls outside the screen, eyes closed, when his energy drops to zero.
** Every character has his unique death animation: Freeon-Leon shrinks to nothing, Shades curls into a ball and Gil just stands there, looking at the player and drooling.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: When Bop-Louie finds his friends, who have become amnesiac after having fallen down the crater, they will attack him on sight. When defeated, they will regain consciousness and join him on his quest to leave the strange world.
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Averted. Shades carries around a hammer, but never uses it as a weapon... at least not against the enemies.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Not that the other ''
* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]]: Bop-Louie was originally the titular Hebereke, who looked like an albino penguin with tiny eyes and beak. There are also, among the enemies, guys dressed as penguins.
* [[Eye Pop]]: One of the weirdest things in the game is Shades' special ability. He uses the hammer he finds to whack his own head, after which his eyes pop out of the sockets and ''start floating around the screen'', hitting and killing every enemy as if they were heat-seeking missiles!
▲* [[Cute Kitten]]: Freeon-Leon the dinosaur was originally O-chan, a cute kitten, or at least somebody dressed as one.
▲** At least two of the three key guardians are kittens. The third key guardian, the UFO boss, is probably an alien kitty.
▲* [[Eye Pop]]: One of the weirdest things in the game is Shades' special ability. He uses the hammer he finds to whack his own head, after which his eyes pop out of the sockets and ''start floating around the screen'', hitting and killing every enemy as if they were heat-seeking missiles! Unfortunately, it is the least useful ability and there are no places where it is really needed. But it sure is weird!
* [[Gender Blender Name]]: In the original version, Gil was named Jennifer, but his gender is always listed as male. And Leon is still female... we think.
* [[Harmless Freezing]]: Enemies frozen by Freeon-Leon's breath turn back to normal after a few seconds.
* [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests]]: Where the items are found.
* [[Invisible Monsters]]: In the second phase of the fight against the alien (one of the three bosses you need to defeat to find the keys to escape), he will turn invisible for a while after you hit him.
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* [[Pun-Based Title]]: It's a pun on "euphoria" and the fact that '''u''' have to control '''four''' characters.
** There's also an actual UFO, and everything looks rather alien.
* [[Sequence Breaking]]:
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** By using the [[Good Bad Bug]] mentioned above, you can get a few (non-required, but making it useful for [[One Hundred Percent Completion]] [[Speed Run|Speedruns]]) items that require Gil's bombs early, rather than backtrack to get them later. More useful is reaching the knight boss by bombing a wall before picking up the bombs, as that saves a detour later. Sadly, exploded brick walls return when you enter the character select screen
** Even without using the bug, Freeon-Leeon's Secret Weapon can easily be skipped by using Shades to bounce on the enemies hovering over the lava on the way to the knight, get hit by the last one, switch to Gil and use the [[Mercy Invincibility]] to get out of the lava before it starts sapping ten hit points per second.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Some wall-crawling enemies have [[Mickey Mouse]] ears (they are called Mickeys in the Japanese instruction manual).
** The [[Anvil on Head]] example above of [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|the 16 tonne weights
* [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World]]: Some areas are frozen and covered in snow, and only Freeon-Leon can walk over them without slipping and falling over.
* [[Spikes of Doom]]: They appear, but are rather underused for a NES platform game of [[The Nineties]].
* [[Super Not-Drowning Skills]]: Even the characters who can't swim (Bop
* [[Unique Enemy]]: The large, stationary, square-shaped red slime only exists in one single room in the game.
* [[Waddling Head]]: The first enemies you meet look like hooded heads with feet.
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[[Category:Fantasy Video Games]]
[[Category:Nintendo Entertainment System]]
[[Category:Wide Open Sandbox]]
[[Category:Ufouria]]
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