First trailer for The Rise, the sequel to The Cure

In 2005, the game The Cure was presented to the MSXdev contest, which would later become the winner of that edition. The Cure was a full-fledged tribute…

In 2005, the game The Cure was submitted to the MSXdev contest, which ultimately won that edition.

The Cure was a full-fledged homage to Konami's legendary Vampire Killer , where its protagonist brandished a whip to kill bugs, just like Simon Belmont did. But The Cure also had its own personality. XL2S Entertainment managed to pack into just 48Kb a great action and platform game for the first generation MSX that surprised us all almost 20 years ago. How time flies!

Now, the first trailer for the sequel to The Cure is coming to our screens, which this time is called The Rise , also by XL2S Entertainment, picking up on the previous story a few years later.

And it does so with the same successful recipe of platforms, exploration, jumping and fighting . During the adventure our character will visit different scenarios within a vast interconnected world. He will have to face common enemies and other larger and more complicated ones, but he will have the help of his whip and also a secondary shot. During the exploration process, it will be necessary to activate mechanisms to open new paths and also engage in conversations with some key characters in the story.

The Rise runs on virtually any MSX (with a minimum of 64Kb of RAM) although it has some slight differences if run on MSX2, such as, for example, the limitation of the number of sprites in line and the change of the color palette.

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The trailer shows the wonderful work done on the graphics, with outstanding enemy and scenery design . But in addition to the great graphics, the soundtrack promises much joy once you hear the melodies composed for SCC+ that play during the presentation in the video.

There is still work to be done, so I don't think The Rise will be released anytime soon. However, with what we've seen already, the bar is set very high.

If you haven't tried The Cure yet, what are you waiting for? You can download it from the MSXdev website .