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- From: ccastbh@prism.gatech.EDU (Brad Hamlett)
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- Subject: [TG16] Lords of the Rising Sun review
- Summary: Lords of the Rising Sun (CD)
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 18:38:40 GMT
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- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- Here's another in a series of TG/PC Engine game reviews.
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- Lords of the Rising Sun (CD)
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- Lords of the Rising Sun is the long awaited strategy game based
- in feudal Japan. This title appeared on both the Amiga and the
- IBM. Little has changed. You assume the role of one of three
- Japanese warlords. Your objective is to secure and consolidate
- your power as a Samurai. The game difficulty and objectives
- vary depending on which of the warlords you choose to play.
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- You and each warlord you command is rated on archery/siege/and
- swordsmanship. Archery determines how well you can protect a
- fortification. Siege is how well you can attack a fortification.
- Swordsmanship is how well you command an army in the field.
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- Each warlord commands a number of troops from 0-100. The longer
- a warlords remains in a city, the more troops will join. In cities,
- warlords replenish men and rest...in villages, warlords can only
- rest. Marching drains stamina from your troops and affects their
- combat abilities.
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- Each type of combat is represented by a action or strategy sequence.
- When defending a fort, you must shoot enemy soldiers that are
- scaling the walls. In a siege, you must kill enemy soldiers standing
- in your way while navigating a maze of buildings trying to find the
- main temple. Only the field battles require no arcade skills. You
- set troop orders and then watch them fight it out. You can sound
- retreat or change orders during the fight. If you are victorious,
- the scene changes and you try to chase down the enemy warlord on
- horseback. If you fail, the leader gets away...succeed and there's
- one less enemy commander to deal with.
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- Other options include sending ninja assassins to kill enemy warlords.
- and bribing other leaders to you cause. The game ends when you meet
- your victory conditions.
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- I'm not going to lie to you...this game sucks. The action sequences
- are out of place and the 'chase down the enemy warlord on horseback'
- one is just too damn hard. The actions sequences are fun a time or
- two, but the 100th time you siege a city, you don't want to have to
- run around finding the main temple again. The voice actors make me
- cringe...no emotion and some blatently fake Japanese accents (makes
- me cringe about as much as when Hollywood portrays Southerners).
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- The music and background effects are nicely done, but don't make up
- for a truly bad game. Avoid this one...MAYBE rent it.
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- Gameplay: 2
- Graphics: 7
- Sound/BGM: 8.5
- Challenge: 7
- Manual: 7.5
- Overall: 3
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- Key to my ratings:
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- Gameplay: How fun is the game? Do the characters/ships
- control well? Is there enough variety?
- Graphics: How does the game look? Are the intermissions
- interesting? (if any).
- Sound/BGM: Are the sound effects cheesy? Do they cover
- up the music? Is the music so bad that you
- wish the sound effects would cover it up?
- Challenge: Can the game be solved/won in a night? a
- weekend? ever?
- Manual: How is the manual arranged? does it tell you
- everything you need? Is it in color?
- Overall: Is the game worth buying? renting? feeding
- to your dog?
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- Some of my favorite TG games include: Military Madness, MotoRoader,
- Ninja Spirit, Cadash, Silent Debuggers, Ys(CD), Sherlock Holmes(CD),
- Cosmic Fantasy 2(CD), Valis III(CD), BomberMan, Order of the Griffon,
- and Aeroblasters. Some of my favorite PC-Engine games include:
- Dead Moon, Vasteel (CD), Super Darius (CD), Ranma 1/2 (CD), Lady
- Phantom (SCD), Spriggan Mk. 2 (SCD), and OutRun.
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- Brad Hamlett
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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