History VideoGame / EightEyes

* KnifeNut: The Arabia boss is adapt at using a large knife as well as throwing knives.

* AfricaIsACountry: The entirety of Africa is represented by a single duke. The same goes for Arabia; if you define it as countries in the Arab League, it consists of ''twenty-two'' separate nations. Making that particularly weird is that Egypt gets its own duke despite being ''part'' of "Arabia".

* CreepyCoolCrosses: All over the place, which is very surprising given that this game was released at a time when Nintendo's censorship was in its peak. Most of them refill health or weapon energy, but some are used as decoration.

* AfricaIsACountry: The entirety of Africa is represented by a single duke. The same goes for Arabia; if you define it as countries in the Arab League, it consists of ''twenty-two'' separate nations.

* DemBones: Skeleton swordsmen show up in the Egypt and Arabia houses.

* AllThereInTheManual: You'd only know the setting is supposed to be in the post-apocalyptic future by reading the manual. In-game, the aesthetics borrow a great deal from the original ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'', and as a result the setting looks vaguely 17th-century.

* SinisterScimitar: A favorite of the boss of the Arabia house, as well as some of his soldiers.

* Each BossRoom in Ruth's castle has a hidden potion that completely restores your health. It'll be difficult to make it to the end without using at least one of them.
* Speaking of the House of Ruth, you'll notice immediately upon entering that unlike every other stage in the game, you start out at full power and with all weapons. Why would you need that? For the BossRush you'll have to deal with.

* AttackAnimal: Orin can use his falcon, Cutrus, to attack enemies he can't normally hit, or to uncover secret blocks he can't normally reach.

* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: Each BossRoom in Ruth's castle has a hidden potion that completely restores your health. It'll be difficult to make it to the end without using at least one of them.

* BossRush: The House of Ruth features rematches against six of the seven Dukes from the earlier stages before fighting Lady Ruth herself.

* AffablyEvil: The dukes all share tea with you after being defeated and surrendering their gem.

* WhipItGood: Ruth's WeaponOfChoice.

* AttackAnimal: Orin can use his falcon, Cutrus, to attack enemies he can't normally hit, or to uncover secret blocks he can't normally reach.

* AllThereInTheManual: You'd only know the setting is supposed to be in the post-apocalyptic future by reading the manual. In-game, the aesthetics borrow a great deal from the original ''VideoGame/Castlevania'', and as a result everything looks vaguely 17th-century.

* TheMaze: the Africa and Germany houses aren't straightforward like the other levels, and require you to enter rooms in a very specific order to proceed.

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''8 Eyes'' is an ActionAdventure game developed by Thinking Rabbit, published by Seta Corporation in Japan in 1988, and by Taxan Corporation in North America in 1990.