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Pisthetairos
Since: Apr, 2018
27th May, 2019 06:06:31 PM
Found it! Nekketsu Oyako - I just plowed through every list of Beat 'Em Ups I could find for mentions of whales.
I remember playing a 16-bit (or maaaaybe 32-bit) Beat 'em Up where each level followed the previous one in a weird way - there was a amusement park level, then a whale eats the character, leading to a Womb Level. Afterwards, the character gets out of the whale and fights atop it, even using the blowhole strategically: if an enemy was on top of the blowhole when it shot water, the enemy would fly off.
I think it was some sort of fighting anime or manga license, too. Anyone knows what I'm talking about?
Edited by Pisthetairos