Zook Hero Z (Chinese title: 路克英雄 Z) is a platform game developed for the Game Boy Color by Vast Fame based off of Capcom's Rockman/Megaman series. It is the first title in the Zook Hero trilogy.
Story
The following is a summed translation of the intro in-game and back of the box:
Zook is a policeman for a city. One day, Doctor Mit deploys his evil army of robots on the city, his first step in conquering the world. Zook tries to stop the robots, but ends up getting shot and in critical condition. With his life at risk, Dr. Meki chooses him for a robotic human project, thus giving him a new life. Continuing with his fight to protect peace, Zook Hero is then born.
Overview
The game is a basic Megaman clone, with twelve stages in total. The main hub has six selectable stages, each with a robot master that gives you different abilites once defeated. Once three stages are passed you are taken to three other stages that must be beat in order to finish the final three, which then leads to another final three stages before the final boss.
Trivia
- The soundtrack from the game was used to replace the soundtrack in a hacked version of Zook Hero 2 called Rockman X3.
- All text in-game is in Japanese, despite the box and titlescreen using Chinese. The majority of the text is also incomprehensible, with incorrect characters, grammer and constant miswriting of words.
- In addition, the Japanese in-game always refers to the hero as Rock.
- Though officially written and now commonly known as "Zook" due to Zook Hero 2 first translating the name as such, the Chinese name for Zook, 路克, actually translates to Luke.
