Spirit of Excalibur (1990)
Genres:Adventure, Strategy
Themes:Action, Warfare
Game modes:Single player
Story:Spirit of Excalibur drops the player in to a power vacuum in England following the death of King Arthur. You control Constantine, who is King Arthur's successor, and any knights he is able to recruit. Real-time combat, one-on-one and between armies, are required to defend the realm of Camelot.
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I want this on GoG because I remember never beating it. I never got far, and after a long while I just kinda gave up on it. Seeing it listed here for voting reminded me that its still taunting me for failing. I'll win yet!
This game was so much fun way back when, I want to play it again so bad. Super early action/rts. I was to young to beat this game as a kid but want to try my luck now. Been begging GoG for years on this one.
Gameplay-wise, it's nothing to write home about. Single combat is either automated, or performed manually via a very rudimentary quick thrust or slow overhand blow. Broader battlefield combat is strictly a numbers game-- if you have superior numbers, you win.
But this game kindled my love of Arthurian Legend because it goes surprisingly deep with its lore. It's also set on an open world map which, for a 1990 game was virtually unprecedented. Although each location exists as little more than a single screen, there are a TON of castles, cities, and smaller hamlets.
The true game is in micromanagement of your various knights. You have to send them individually, or in small groups in several different directions at once in order to accomplish every task in the game, and for people that have that fastidious nature of several events taking place concurrently, and having to oversee all of it, it does scratch an itch.
You have to pay attention to the text-based narrative, as you're expected to follow clues from location to location in order to complete the quests laid out across the game's five chapters. Spirit of Excalibur takes place in the wake of the Battle of Camlann, and the new ruler, Constantine, is trying to pick up the pieces of the kingdom after Arthur's demise. The story is surprisingly adept for such an early adventure game.
If you like Arthurian Legend, or are interested in learning about it on a moderate level, this is a great game to get you going. The sequel is not nearly as good, but this game is worth it, as long as you understand it's NOT about the combat (which, again, barely exists).
In the early 1990's, I had an Amiga 1000 that I very fondly remember playing Spirit of Excalibur on for hours hours on end after finishing up my homework. There was this huge map of England on one of our walls that contained shields both at the top and along the left side; each shield depicted a kingdom crest. The Amiga version of SOE had this passlock where I had to match-up two shields (one from the top and one the side) to find the name of a Castle, villiage, town or Church to play the game.
I remember that every single night, I'd finish or at least try to finish at least 1 of the 5 chapters before my 8p bedtime and get permission to leave the Amiga on but the monitor off so it kinda acted like hibernation in today's PC's.
Unfortunately for me however, all that game play hard work was all for not since dad if I recall correctly had to move the Amiga 1000 from on top of our living room table into another room, and so I lost all my progress since I was not allowed to save the game for some reason.
I also remember the Amiga version of Spirit of Excalibur came on 3 2.5" floppy disks which as a kid I found to be quite a pain to switch between just as it was with Psygnosis's Awesome.
Please GOG, please add Spirit of Excalibur to your online storefront so this most memorable game is preserved for generations to come.
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