A total eclipse of the heart

Upon occurrence of a full moon, cursed by a millenarian spell, Bully is transformed into a fish, while his girlfriend, Monica, switches back from a hawk to her human self. Next cycle, the scenario is vice-versa-ed, guaranteeing that the lovers can never reunite in their human form. To reverse the spell, Bully must free Monica from her cage and together head towards the submarine temple of the sun to await a solar eclipse or Sol Negro in Spanish.

A grandiose scheme encapsulating a melancholy, tethered plight of fancy that distils to a feeble platformer, realistically completable in under fifteen minutes once the player is familiar with the layout and enemy attack routines. Sol Negro's most accomplished feature is its unofficial association with the medieval dark fantasy film, Ladyhawke, starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Which explains why the majority of my article focuses on that instead. Not an award-winning piece by any means, but you know, it's all relative. One of the key differences you'll notice between the two mediums is the animal substitution situation in the game; there's no sentient fish in Richard Donner's movie. Instead, Rutger Hauer alternatively appears in lupine form. Introducing an aquatic species was no doubt as an excuse to shoehorn in some underwater levels to add a splash of much-needed variety.

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