Getting hit will cause you to lose your main weapon, reverting to your default attack, or will kill you if you don’t have anything equipped. And yellow is a spread attack, shooting little lightning bolts all around, though they’re quite weak. Blue is the water attack, which functions like a laser, firing in a straight line and piercing through enemies. Red grants fire, which does the most damage, as it blasts out in a consistent stream, but it doesn’t quite reach the entire length of the screen. Power-ups are dropped via storks, who will drop color-coded eggs.
The programming is also rock solid, as the game almost never slows down or flickers. There is a cheat mode to remove the fruit, making it more manageable to discern things, but conversely you won’t get nearly as many points, and it’s really just not quite as much fun to play. It creates a dazzlingly bright experience, as the screen is constantly flooded with enemies, projectiles, and fruit… but at the same time, it can get a little overwhelming, especially in trying to pick out what will give you points and what will kill you. They bounce at an arc and then drop to the bottom, so you need to be proactive to catch them, lest you miss out on some delicious points. Every defeated enemy will drop something, ranging from apples to watermelons, each with different score values. The crux of Coryoon‘s scoring system revolves around collecting fruit. There isn’t any hazardous terrain to dodge, and most enemies fly in assembled groups and patterns, but the backgrounds are attractive, with several layers of parallax, and usually change a few times per level.
The artwork was provided by Kenji “Moriken” Mori, who previously worked on Sunsoft titles like The Wing of Madoola, and would also illustrate the cover for Naxat’s later PC Engine shoot-em-up Burning Angel. These include designer Yoshiharu Takaoka, programmer Yuuichi Ochiai (who would later move to Raizing to work on games like Battle Garegga), and musicians Hishashi Matsushita and Daisuke Morishima. It was made by some of the same developers, many of who had worked on one of Naxat’s previous PCE shooters W-Ring. The game looks, sounds, and plays very similarly, and feels closer to Air Zonk than the actual Air Zonk sequel. The premise of the game, as shown in the introductory cutscenes, has this princess turned into a little girl by an evil magician, so the little dragon goes off to avenge her and remove her curse.Ĭoryoon is essentially the predecessor to Air Zonk for the PC Engine. Even the title is silly – it’s just a cutesy way of saying “Child Dragon”, as the subtitle implies. Each of the option menus is an opportunity to display a new piece of artwork showing the dragon and his beloved human princess. Right at the title screen, the protagonist, a tiny dragon, whose gigantic eyes take up approximately half of his body, holds up a sign, which acts as an option select. Naxat Soft’s Coryoon is a ridiculously cute little game.
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