Anetto Futatabi
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| System(s): Sega Mega-CD | |||||||||||||||
| Publisher: Wolf Team | |||||||||||||||
| Developer: Wolf Team | |||||||||||||||
| Supporting companies: Madhouse (animated cutscenes) | |||||||||||||||
| Distributor: Samsung (KR) | |||||||||||||||
| Genre: Action[1][2] | |||||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||
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Anetto Futatabi (アネット・再び), commonly translated as Annet Again or Annet Returns, is a side scrolling beat-em-up developed and published by Wolf Team for the Sega Mega-CD. It is the final game in the Annet Myer and Earnest Evans series. The menus and game screens are in English, but the dialogue and ending credits are in Japanese.
Renovation Products was set to release the game overseas as Annet Again around May 1993[3], but cancelled the release for unknown reasons (probably due to the presumably poor quality of the original Japanese release).[4]
Contents
Story
The story takes place two years after El Viento. After being rescued from certain sacrifice by Earnest Evans, Annet travels across Europe and encounters a group that wants a pendant in her possession. After being ambushed by them she escapes and begins a quest to protect the world from destruction.
Gameplay
Unlike the first two games in the series, which are 2D platform video games, this game is a belt-scrolling beat-'em-up that closely resembles the Golden Axe or Streets of Rage games. As with the other games, the story is told through cutscenes between levels.
Annet walks with 
and 
and moves in and out of the plane with 
and 
. She dashes by pressing twice in any direction. She jumps with 
. She attacks using her Sword of Light (rather than bladed boomerangs) with 
. After landing three successive hits on a target, she does a more powerful attack that knocks the opponent down. While dashing, she does a dashing kick with , which also knocks opponents down, or a somersault with . She attacks with a kick while jumping or with a spinning sword slash while somersaulting. She grabs opponents by walking into them; after grabbing them, she can attack them with her knee with or throw them with combined with a direction.
Annet has five magic levels, which are regulated by a power meter that regenerates automatically. Each time her power meter fills, she gains a higher, more powerful level of magic. She uses her magic with 
, which attacks all enemies on screen. However, magic cannot be used against the bosses.
Her health is indicated by a bar at the top of the screen. When she loses all of her health, the game ends, but it can be continued from the beginning of the current stage. Her health is replenished by items and at the start of each stage.
Magic
| Last Temptation (ラスト・テンプテーション) | |
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| Wave Cut (ウェーブ・カット) | |
| Earth Cyclone (アース・サイクロン) | |
| Gravity Crash (グラビティクラッシュ) | |
| Ancient Dragon (エイシェント・ドラゴン) | |
Items
Items are found in destructible objects. Annet picks them up by standing over them and pressing .
| Soda | |
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| Heals a small portion of life. | |
| Apple | |
| Heals a large portion of life. | |
| Roast | |
| Fully heals Annet. |
Stages
| Stage 1 | |
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| Stage 2 | |
| Stage 3 | |
| Stage 4 | |
| Stage 5 | |
| Stage 6 | |
| Stage 7 | |
| Stage 8 | |
| Stage 9 | |
Music
Opening song lyrics
Free あなたは
風さえ つかむ 術を和ってる
Fly 飛ばして
心をもっと遠くへ
広い宇宙の中で 新たな生命
今も 誕生れていることでしょう きっと
すべてを 包みこむ 大地の
心昔きいたなら わかるはず
傷つけ 憎しみあうことは やめて
燃えるような 末来 その手に
アネット再び
Production credits
- キャスト
- シナリオ原案: 安藤 仁英
- 脚本: 西紀寺 史雄
- コンテ, OPコンテ, 演出: 清水 徹
- キャラクター原案: 藤田 圭一, 森山 大輔, 木村 まり, 石黒 久美子, 安藤 仁英
- 作画監督, キャラクターデザイン: 須藤 昌朋
- 企画: 安藤 仁英
- メインプログラム: 鈴木 道夫
- サブプログラム: 平地 慎二
- MEGA-CDプログラム: 徳弘 親昭
- ビジュアルシステムプログラム: 上野 和則
- ビジュアルプログラム: 木村 武晴
- ゲームグラフィック: 金田 将征, 鈴木健一, 木村 まり, 森山 大輔, 神原 雄二
- ビジュアルグラフィック: 石谷 由美子, 田尻 一直, 松島 正幸, 田島 清香, 木村 まり, 植平 宏樹, 神原 雄二, 柏木 礼二, 安藤 まゆみ, 石谷 久美子, 竹崎 英公, 森山 大輔, 渡辺 美由季, 蒲谷 明弘, 浜田 忠司, 永田 和宏
- 原画スタッフ: 北野 幸広, 佐藤 憲, 内田 学, 矢部 光吉, 星井 計一, 鈴木 信吾
- サウンドトラック: 桜庭 統
- ミュージックコンポーサー: 桜庭 統
- 広報: 場崎 順一, 村上 友子, 小林 恵美子, 白鳥 昭信
- 主題歌「アネット再び」
- 作詞: 中鳥 朋子
- 作曲: 田村 信二
- 制作協力: 株式会社エーワン・アド, 青山 靖基, 柳谷 義一, STUDIO SIGNAL, 株式会社青二プロダクション, 古市 利雄, タバック, VIDEO COMPANY
- アシスタント・プロデューサー: 奥田 岡司, 飯島 公人
- プロデューサー: 浅沼 穣
- エグゼクティブ・プロデューサー: 秋篠 雅弘
- スペシャル・サンクス: 福島 和行
- 制作: ウルフ・チーム
Magazine articles
- Main article: Anetto Futatabi/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Physical scans
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 Spinecard  Disc  Manual |
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Technical information
- Main article: Anetto Futatabi/Technical information.
References
- ↑ File:Anetto Futatabi MD JP Box.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://sega.jp/fb/segahard/mcd/soft_licensee.html (Wayback Machine: 2019-06-10 17:56)
- ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video/c/22cw_5wSca8/m/uu5_e4bDn6wJ (Wayback Machine: 2023-09-16 09:50)
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "June 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 98
- ↑ File:Anetto Futatabi MCD credits.pdf
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "April 1993" (JP; 1993-03-08), page 22
- ↑ Consoles +, "Avril 1993" (FR; 1993-0x-xx), page 98
- ↑ Famitsu, "1993-03-26" (JP; 1993-03-12), page 1
- ↑ Hippon Super, "May 1993" (JP; 1993-04-03), page 32
- ↑ Mega, "August 1993" (UK; 1993-07-15), page 54
- ↑ MegaTech, "June 1993" (UK; 1993-05-20), page 64
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
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Main page | Magazine articles | Reception | Technical information | |
| Annet Myer & Earnest Evans games for Sega systems | |
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| El Viento (1991) | Earnest Evans (1991) | Anetto Futatabi (1993) |