Overview
Energy is a sci-fi themed action/shooter game exclusive to the PC Engine in which the goal is to save various people in a dilapidated city crawling with mutated monsters. The game has something of a Metroid feel to it - not only in the weird and occasionally disgusting monster design, but also in that Energy will often require a bit of backtracking for necessary items before progress can be made.
The game is based on a PC-88 game from Quasar Soft named Ashe. Besides the big improvements to graphic and audio quality, the games seem functionally identical.
Energy was widely regarded by critics at the time as being one of the worst PC Engine games. The game is plagued with coding issues (such as very slow transitions between screens) and the requirements to proceed are often inscrutable. It does have something of a cult following to this day, however.
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