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Summary

Risky Woods feels like a love‑letter to classic arcade shooters such as Turrican, Jim Power and Contra, but wrapped in a side‑scrolling platform shell. You guide Rohan through 12 sprawling levels across eight distinct landscapes, navigating roughly 150 screens while timing precision jumps over rivers and traps. Enemies drop coins that can be spent at the Ye Olde Shoppe for upgrades – fire, axes, chains, boomerangs and even extra health – each purchasable up to three times to boost their power. The Genesis version adds a musical twist: Eye‑toll gates require you to repeat a melody on the controller, and you can collect links to reinforce your armor. Random sky‑borne chests sprinkle both helpful bonuses and nasty setbacks, and the game limits you to just two continues, making every death a costly but sometimes recoverable loss of coin‑wealth.

Storyline

In Risky Woods you play as the young warrior Rohan, summoned to the Lost Lands to bring justice against the evil hordes. The ancient monks who preserve the realm’s wisdom have been frozen in stone by the dark antagonist Draxos and his minions.

Armed with weapons, Rohan must venture into the treacherous forest, free the petrified monks, and ultimately defeat Draxos, sending him back to hell so that the lost wisdom can be restored.