I've played both of them for a few days and gone past more then half of each games so I've seen where they strenght and weakness lies. Lands Of lore 1 is a solid Dungeon Crawler game that start with a simple but engaging story , some very fun dungeons are first but later on start throwing you rather frustrating level design , hidden switch , obscure riddle and puzzles , invisble walls and fake holes ... expect to have to look for a guide if you want to finish the game without spending weeks and months of going around because you've missed a little detail. The overall game is fun but could have been much better if the map where better designed. The fighting system while having nothing special is solid , Responsive and doing it's job and is what kept me playing the game for days and still willing to try to see the end of it. Land Of Lore 2 Guardians of destiny just aged badly , the presentation is fine , the story is also very good but the game itself will require you to sit down and rebind almost every single keys. it doesn't help the game has an extremely low field of view , it's claustrophobic and make the navigation around the map much harder then it's should. The game map design also doesn't care about your limited field of view and have holes and trap placed where you can't see them , I've died a lot's of time because I could not tell how far my character was from falling off a platform.
This trilogy is the original PC port of all games which at the time where very decent ports considering what was possible on MSdos PC. Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 use the ancient Adlib/synthetised instruments , 3 has CD audio music quality. 1 music was fine , 2 soundtrack on PC was bad but it does have the advantage of most home port of having the computer A.I cheat less often compared to the original Arcade game. all of the game Run fine , Gameplay is very close to the arcade setting. you might want to be using Anti-micro if Dosbox don't recognise your controller like it did with mine but otherwise this work pretty well.
