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Ikachan
Sign in to saveis a freeware video game created by Japanese developer Daisuke Amaya, under the art name Pixel. In the game, the player plays a squid named Ikachan, who swims through a cave, meeting and helping other creatures. The game was later released by Nicalis for the Nintendo 3DS eShop on January 31, 2013. On November 30, 2016, Japanese publisher Pikii released the game on the Japanese eShop.
Game details · IGDB
In Ikachan, you control a squid in an underwater cave system. This game uses what is assumed to be an early version of the Cave Story engine. The controls are built around the use of momentum. The caverns are cut off from the sea, there are food shortages, and a fish named ironhead rules the tunnels with an iron, uhh.. head. You must set things right.
- Released
- 2000
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie, Arcade
- Platforms
- Nintendo 3DS, PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Studio Pixel
- Publisher
- Nicalis, Inc., Pikii, Studio Pixel
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Genre
- Metroidvania
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Developer
- Daisuke Amaya
- Platform
- Microsoft Windows
- Game mode
- single-player video game
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- copyright license
- freeware
- input device
- computer keyboard
- publication date
- 2000-06-23
- distributed by
- Nintendo eShop
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
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- Gameplay
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- Reception
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is a freeware video game created by Japanese developer Daisuke Amaya, under the art name Pixel. In the game, the player plays a squid named Ikachan, who swims through a cave, meeting and helping other creatures. The game was later released by Nicalis for the Nintendo 3DS eShop on January 31, 2013. On November 30, 2016, Japanese publisher Pikii released the game on the Japanese eShop.
==Plot== Ikachan takes place in Ironhead's realm, an underwater cave system. A series of earthquakes had recently caused cave-ins that cut off Ironhead's realm from the open sea. As such, the inhabitants of the cave ran out of food and were required to carry pearls marking their allegiance to Ironhead. Ironhead himself remains stuck in a private cave, spreading paranoia and encouraging violence against non-citizens to keep the population of the cave from overthrowing him as their leader. Ikachan wakes up inside the cave and swims around, searching for a way to escape.
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