Madou Monogatari: Hachamecha Kimatsushiken (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Madou Monogatari: Hachamecha Kimatsushiken

Madou Monogatari: Hachamecha Kimatsushiken follows the same first-person dungeon-crawler format as most other Madou Monogatari games. It tells the story of Arle seeking out a mysterious doppelganger with power…

6 September 1996

What Madou Monogatari: Hachamecha Kimatsushiken is

Madou Monogatari: Hachamecha Kimatsushiken is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Compile and released in 1996. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game begins with a brief recap regarding the events of Arle's life prior to her final exam, she talks about encountering Schezo, Satan, and how she came to meet Rulue and Minotauros. Like her other exams, Arle must journey through the dungeon and clear it in order to graduate. However, unlike the rest, this exam is being taken alongside other students including Lala and Rulue. Deeper into the dungeon, Arle encounters her principal who forgot his mask, revealing himself to be Satan. She promptly fights him, only for Rulue to arrive once he's defeated and challenge Arle to another fight. Amidst the chaos, a new pathway reveals itself in the dungeon, a path that Satan was likely trying to…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Puyo Puyo series

Madou Monogatari: Hachamecha Kimatsushiken is the 31st of 102 entries we hold in the Puyo Puyo series. The next entry was Puyo Puyo Sun in 1996.

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What it launched against

Madou Monogatari: Hachamecha Kimatsushiken launched on 6 September 1996, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Die Hard Trilogy and Death Rally.

Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Die Hard Trilogy, Death Rally.

Madou Monogatari: Hachamecha Kimatsushiken — frequently asked questions