Released in 1991, El Viento is the first and best-regarded game in a trilogy (sometimes called the "Earnest Evans series"), with sequels on the Genesis/Mega Drive and Mega CD. In this fast-moving action-platformer you play as Annet, a young woman who, with the aid of her trusty boomerang and magic powers, is attempting to save the world from the evil demon Hastur.

Like many Wolf Team games, El Viento is ambitious and sometimes sloppy. Set in the 1920s, the storyline offers up a bizarre mashup of H.P. Lovecraft, gangster culture, and American landmarks. If you've played other Wolf Team efforts on the Genesis, you'll recognize the game's visual style and sound design right away, with huge pixelated explosions that sound like whoopee cushions.

That said, El Viento is an uncommonly brisk and crisp game, with very smart level design and carefully tuned gameplay, and that makes it a pleasure to play. Only in the last stage, in which the player is pursued by incredibly irritating bats, does El Viento begin to deteriorate into more ordinary fare. Up to that point, it's probably one of the best and smoothest action-platformers on the Genesis. Highly recommended.

This is a patch for the USA version of El Viento that makes many improvements to one of the greatest games of all time.

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[li]Dozens of graphical glitches alleviated (only visible on real systems)[/li]
[li]Script rewritten/retranslated[/li]
[li]Dual-language feature added[/li]
[li]Font changed[/li]
[li]Text reformatted to avoid screen edges (better visibility on some displays)[/li]
[li]Disabled musical transition in ending (first theme plays all the way through)[/li]
[li]Fixed a bug in the intro (missing text when intro interrupted in some places)[/li]
[li]Fixed a bug in the ending (text truncated if Scene 7 skipped)[/li]
[li]Text printing routines enhanced[/li]
[li]Mouth animations in the intro tweaked and reverted to a more natural speed[/li]
[li]Tweaked credits slightly[/li]
[li]Sound test reordered[/li]
[li]Most songs in the sound test will now loop (override with the A Button)[/li]
[li]Menus are now slightly easier to navigate (top/bottom wrap around)[/li]
[li]Fixed a minor typo in the Japanese script I happened to notice[/li]
[li]Removed a (probably) unintentional delay after skipping Japanese scenes[/li]
[li]Stage 0 now accessible and with translated background (dual language!)[/li]
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Please see the readme file for more information.

File: El. Viento (USA).md (NOINTRO)
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