That's indirectly the same... consoles don't use the "up to jump" feature because of the gamepad


Probably because the RIGHT+UP+Z combination doesn't give the unintentional X pressing that happens with MSX machines/emulators

CURSORS+X+C is almost the same and the problem I mentioned doesn't happen

I love you, maki! Could we play pong together again?

It seems I opened the Pandora's Box with my comment. Feel kind of guilty now

I was just wanted to show my completely personal and subjective point of view; SPACE+M (or SPACE+GRAPH or SHIFT+Z) "smells" like MSX to me, so I found weird the use of other combination.
About "up to jump", it's very uncomfortable to me (it's comfortable on cursors but unbearable with joystick/joypad), so "button to jump" is fine for me.
What about having both keys at the same time? Z and SPACE for one trigger and X and M for the other? Would it cause key shadowing problems?

Thnx nenefranz! your comments about graphics, coming from you, are highly appreciated! Gommy gfx are really cool, keep up the good job! 

Btw, here you have a video from Vampier with a full speedrun of the game, with some helps from openMSX ;-)
spoiler alert: it is a full run with all stages and the final ending. I just share it for the lazyest ones ;-)

You can watch it here

What is the meaning of this!
I don't understand Espanol

Oh and ZX, is great for PC (and ZX Spectrum!)... we are more used to Space + Grph. But I really don't think it's a *that* big problem, even though i was a bit confused at the titlescreen, pressing Space, Space, Enter, and then thinking "huh? no keyboard support then?"

Needless to say that graphically Malaika is very attractive, the game genre is very appealing, and both the main character and the enemies are charismatic. But... most of this very positive aspects come from a previous game.

Besides, I think the game somehow fails in the gameplay. Maybe I should play a little more, but the game didn't challenge me. Not because it is too easy, but because all I have to do to go through the game is to shoot. If I just jump a little and shoot then I go through the game. No need of a strategy. No need to think. As I said, no challenge.

In my opinion, some more testing on the game, some more complex enemy behaviors, and some more complex screens forcing the player to think and to move a little more would lead to an exciting game. But as it has been presented, it is not. Very nice and colorful and charismatic, but not challenging and, thus, not as fun as it could have been.