Posted on: August 8, 2020
AndrewGamePhan
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Still enjoy it, tough though
I rented this game as a Mega Drive cartridge back in the '90s and enjoyed it a lot, though I wonder how I was able to complete it, having to repeat so many puzzles and obstacles so often. I admit that this time around I gave up trying to levitate to the end of the "Hall of Webs" without getting swarmed by spiders. Just too hard to keep control of your floating body and get to the end fast enough. I got a password for the next level from someone's Youtube playthrough(was the Mega Drive version, but the password still worked!). From there I was able to complete the game again without too much frustration. So the game follows the formula of working your way down dungeon levels and each floor has much the same background, but I think the game has a very good story, progressing nicely. I particularly liked going from fighting the goblins to forming an alliance with them. Often goblins and orcs are ugly, evil creatures in fantasy fiction. This was something a bit different. It's interesting too, playing the role of an old wizard with a walking rod in one hand, sword in the other. There are some bloody death scenes, particularly in the final battle with the dragon, but this DOS version doesn't have the Mortal Kombat style fatality scenes at the end of each duel was exclusive to the Mega Drive version I believe. The last point is Rob Hubbard's excellent music. The Mega Drive music was very good, but I'd not yet heard the Roland MT-32 version(default music is the inferior Adlib version, but the Roland emulator MUNT allows you to hear the music in its best form). I'll note that the first three ports of this game, Apple IIGS, Amiga and Atari ST had different music, by Douglas Fulton. I believe the NES version was the first to have Rob's music. I'd like have had the choice of playing one of the first three versions too so I could hear the other music and also experience the differences in gameplay i.e the duels have a different perspective.
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