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The reason this game is called Heartbroken, when the cover depicts a werewolf salivating over a gravedigger and his soap-on-a-rope is that the gravedigger's fiance, who happens to be a princess called Mertha, has been kidnapped by the local warlock. Naturally, our love-lorn hero is a bit upset, perhaps even "heartbroken", so so he's off to the rescue.

Basically, this is a flip-screen clone of Capcom's shoot-'em-up Ghosts 'N Goblins, with similar monsters and spooky scenery, but the layout of the landscape is mazey rather than simply platformy. The blasting of similar, but there's no leaping around platforms so you have to find ladders to get over obstacles. Get a spellbook and cauldron and you can shoot all sorts of fireballs.

All fairly standard stuff really. Not many frills but certainly good for a few plays. Check it out.

A playable, but not overly adorned platform shoot-'em-up.