Uşas

Treasure of Uşas is a side-view platform game released by Konami for the MSX2 computer platform in 1987. Each of the game's five stages is divided into four sub-stages and a boss area. All four ruins need to be completed and their respective sub-bosses defeated before the shrine can be entered and the level's boss beat. Each sub-stage or shrine can be entered by only one of the characters at a time. If one of them perishes while attempting to clear a ruin, the other will have to come to his rescue. Both characters have unique abilities. By touching one of four special 'emotion' icons found in various places within the game, the character will change to the corresponding mood: happy, angry, sad or neutral. Each mood bestows special powers and attacks, different for both Wit and Cles. This requires a careful management of what ruin to play with what character in what emotion. Moreover, a happy character has an additional 'secret' power: Cles can walk over gaps and Wit can jump mid-air. The game has a graphic style that heavily borrows from Hinduism, Buddhism and South-East Asian art and architecture in general.