SEGA recently opened the official website for SEGA AGES: Wonder Boy in Monster Land, which will soon arrive on Japan's Nintendo eShop. Brazilians may remember this game in its Master System version, adapted in Brazil by Tectoy and known as Mônica no Castelo do Dragão. On the same occasion, the new features in this version of the classic were described and the first images were released, as detailed below.
- A specific button on the controller will be available for the "Joystick Rattle" function. This was a kind of trick in the classic game in which the character deliberately increased the amount of gold obtained at certain points on the map whenever the player shook the directional control left and right. SEGA decided to make the system official this time and make it easier to use, allowing players to perform it with a single button, a function inherited from the game's previous re-release on PS3 and Xbox 360.
- A new game mode called "Money Hungry Mode", in which the benefit of "Joystick Rattle" will not be available, so the campaign must be completed as the programmers originally intended. In this mode, it will also be possible to compete with players around the world on the famous leaderboards.
- Leaderboards for Wonder Boy in Monster Land will involve the following challenges:
- Sphinx Challenge: face the challenge of defeating the sphinx (which can be avoided by answering a question correctly);
- Monster Castle Challenge: a kind of time attack in which players must overcome the game's final dungeon as if they were speedrunning;
- Fireball Challenge: a challenge in which fireballs are available infinitely, but the protagonist can die from a single hit.
SEGA has not yet confirmed when the game will launch in the West, but it will certainly be soon. Stay tuned to Epic Play for more news.
