This time it's a dangerous situation: an entire Japanese family has disappeared miysteriously while travelling to an unknown place to on board of an odd ark.

A peasant spread the voice first, then from mouth to mouth it reached every single villeger. He swore he'd seen a monstruos creature coming out of the underworld and take the ark away!

Actually the smallest child of the kidnapped dad didn't join the family on the journey, because he had to keep on cultivating their land. He's been toched by the hand of luck and survived the kidnap and he's the only one capable of saving and taking them back home.

Two centuries ago in Japan, many stories were told filled with mysteries and supernatural events: monsters coming out of darkness were ready to dominate the human race by the power of their strenght. This happened in Kiki-KaiKai's story too - and we don't know the reason why spirits from the underworld kidnapped the poor family...

At first sight, game looks similar to Ikari Warriors and Commando, but with an "ancient Japanese folk" atmosphere. The main character moves around eight directions, trying to defend himself by the attacks of opponents coming from the underworld: he throws cards/scrolls with obscure magician runes written upon them. Monsters will explode when touched by the powerful magic - well, a few enemies (those nasty human-headed snakes for example) require to be hit many times before going back to where they came from.

Player can control an additional weapon by operating the secondary action button. An odd flag appears, waving back and forth and blowing foes away - this is very useful when they are able to avoid our "bullets" and come closer to our hero!

Magic cards/spells are a short-range weapon at first, and their offensive capability is quite low too, but can be powered up by collecting runes which can be found on the floor after destroying a complete formation of red flames-shaped enemies, or waving the flag in front of small green temples.

Pearls can be collectd too, and activated by pressing both action buttons at once: they are "smart bombs".

Game takes place in mystical places which scroll in any directions. It's a classic multi-directionally scrolling shoot'em up. Enemies are in the shape of ghosts, skeletons, ogres, crawling creatures, spectres as fast as light. At first they will try to knock our hero down by simply touching him, then they will also shoot against him, so beware of them!

And what about the completiong of each area... wouldn't you wish to pass levels without having to smash down a giant odd and funny guardian? The more he gets hurt by the cards/spells, the more he appears as falling into pieces - in pure "manga" style!

As soon as he's defeated, a member of our hero's family is free and goes safely at home.