Stream: Umihara Kawase Shun (PSX)

I take a look at Umihara Kawase, a cult classic surreal platformer series about a girl with a bouncy grapple hook avoiding legged fish. I briefly showed the 1994 SNES original and the third instalment, 2014's Sayonara Umihara Kawase before going deeper on the second game Umihara Kawase Shun, released in 1997 for PSX. I played through a pretty standard route and got to the easiest ending on the original release, which oddly features commercials for real products in between some levels. Afterwards I messed around, trying for some alternate routes which are much harder to find and traverse, but didn't get too far (partly because the map I was referencing was made for a subsequent revision with more fields, which I didn't realise during the stream). Oh well! Further reading on the series: The excellent fansite Kawase Fan:
The HG101 article series:
This series was also printed in their book on Strider & Bionic Commando, available in a Storybundle for the next two weeks:
A scan of Volume 1 of the manga:
EDIT: Here's some backstory from the creator's old website (in Japanese):
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