It’s white, but it doesn’t look like a door… This guy requires an “action spell,” which of course I don’t know. The Way to open the white door is *Kasumaeramoterei* I’ve put the princess to sleep with my magic. South of the river I’ve encountered these guys, but otherwise everything looks the same. In the castle you can visit the king – if you know the password, which I don’t. I never managed to do anything at the pub. You start with 100 units, and it takes a long time before those are used up. As the other shop suggests, you consume food, but the game is rather generous with it. The weirdest thing: Once you selected “buy” to see the wares, you can’t seem to back out of the purchase again. At the “Store” you get matches, water tanks, fishing gear and tents.
It seems every weapons and armor you buy is equipped automatically, but I don’t know if they accumulate… “Trans” is for transportation, and you can buy a bicycle, a horse, a boat, a coach, a car, a ship and a magic carpet. In the towns you can of course get equipped. I don’t know if this game has a dungeon, but it does have towns and castles, which fit on a single screen, like in the very first Ultima. Oddly, the game doesn’t quit when you lose all your hit points, but you’re stuck in the next fight, cause you cannot type in “0,” but also no more than the amount of your hit points. The only problem? Even if enemies look exactly the same as others you’ve met before, their strength fluctuates wildly. So if you fear you might lose the fight, typing a low number might be wise, but you’re only getting loot if you take out the enemy entirely (which is typically 10 hits). If you type “100,” it’s 100 rounds, if you type “1,” it’s just a single one, and so on. Whenever you’re confronted by a randomly appearing “army,” you chose the number of rounds to be fought, before the opposing parties proceed to whack each other on the head. This is especially annoying on the laptop I’m using to play it, cause I have to switch the right part of the keyboard to turn into the numerical keypad, and “M” is inside that area, so I have to switch back and forth for every step.Ĭombat is weird as hell, but also somewhat interesting.
Even getting around is a pain in the ass, though, because you have to press “M” before every single step. This one was actually from Compaq – yes, they published a few games in the ’80s – and like Dungeon very much inspired by the early Ultima games.Īfter creating your character (you can freely distribute a set amount of points between Strength, Agility, Charisma, Wisdom and Intelligence), you’re dropped at this spot on an overworld map. No, this has nothing to do with Square’s popular Mana series, despite the identical Japanese title.
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