"Son Shu Shi" is game of the month December at the ST Offline Tournament. First of all, this is an amazing jump and run game, with impressive graphics and love put into it.
But beside, this game also has a very interesting history, with quite some demoscene context. It was createdย by two talented and passioned Belgian ST demoscene brothers (The Raider Brothers), working on this "once in a lifetime project" back in the 90s, while at some point the French oldschool group "Next" was involved in a way (e.g. Lap/Next as musician). Evenmore, some of the other Next crew members also acted as Expose Software, a game publisher company that also published other games made by ST sceners! However, the story of the publishing process seems not to have a happy end in this case. Thus, the game was sort of lost and only an unstable cracked version existed many years.
Then the story continued with the Replicants suddenly returning in 2022, restoring the previously cracked version by replacing corrupted data with data found on a rare original disk and also adding many fixes and patches for all kinds of Atari 16/32 computers. Wow!
It's all a very twisted and interesting story with lots of connections. Highly recommended to dive into! And to do so, who could be more helpful than ST Graveyard from Atari Legend, who presented the whole story in a complete video feature on the game few years back, all in his dedicated and uniquely passionate kind of investigation! Quite a treasure.
This video takes you perfectly down into this rabbit hole. Soul food for the winter days!
Well, and of course, feel free to play the game itself. Personally, I played it the first time ever last week: it's impressive, tough and very colorful!ย
๐ ST Offline Tournament S07R12 - Son Shu Shi
๐ Son Shu Shi - Review on Atari-Legend
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so many years later, if someone knows ?