Pocky & Rocky (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Natsume’s 1993 shooter for the Super Nintendo, Pocky & Rocky. Played through as Rocky on the normal difficulty level. Pocky & Rocky is a really neat shooter that tends to get overlooked a lot when people think about shooters with similar mechanics on the SNES. It’s very cutesy in its presentation, and it doesn’t feature the typical armed-to-the-teeth commando or spaceship that you’d usually associate with the genre. Developed as a sequel to Taito’s mid-80s arcade game Kiki KaiKai, you play as a shrine girl (Pocky) and/or her (apparently castrated) tanuki buddy Rocky as you blast your way through all-sorts odd enemies in atypical locations like a Shinto shrine, a dragon-shaped floating castle named Gorgonzola, and down-river on a raft, all in an effort to save the Nopino Goblins from extinction. It’s pretty goofy. If you are playing as one player, you get your choice of either character (both of whom have slight differences in their