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- Subject: RPG reviews cont.
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- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 16:16 EST
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- Scale:
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- A - great, the best
- B - good but not great
- C - average/typical
- D - bearly tolerable
- F - Hated it
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- Things rated:
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- Graphics - colors, size, flicker, animation, clarity, variety of monsters,
- background.
- Sound - variety, enjoyablility
- Manuel - clarity, descriptiveness, helpfulness, errors
- theme/story - story flow, explanation scenes, intro of new characters,
- ability to chose more than one route of progress.
- Length of game - very long, long, medium, short, too short
- level of difficulty - hard, medium, easy: mase difficulty, die alot?
- Control of battle - control over the actions taking place during battle
- Outstanding/Unique features - explained
- View - overhead, 3-d, combo
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- Magician
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- Graphics - B
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- large, some flicker, full animation, clarity, background at all times.
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- Sound - C
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- Nothing special
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- Manuel - B
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- Clear, helpful, tells you what items you need/will find for the next
- section, doesn't give things away though.
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- Theme/story - C
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- Story unclear, no explanation scenes, no new characters 1 person quest,
- no ability to chose more than one route to progress.
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- Length of game - too short
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- level of difficulty - medium
- Some parts of the game were very easy, other parts were more difficult and
- require thought. No mazes you walked from one scene of action to the next.
- Die alot in certain sections.
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- Control of battle - B
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- this was real time, more like a soul blazer you had to
- use your magic to shoot fire balls or lighting bolts at opponents, you had
- to float over obstacles, etc.
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- Outstanding/Unique feature:
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- All though you did the fighting it was not reflect based like a mario or
- zelda. I you hit a non enemy by accident he would hit you back until you
- killed him or left the area. The only Action/RPG I ever liked.
- Set amount of saves.
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- View - side scolling
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- Next up SNES
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