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In this game, the player takes the role of Adol (Aron in the English-language Sega Master System version) Christin, a red-haired adventurer and expert swordsman. One day he encounters a fortune teller who sends him on a quest to find information about the six books of Ys. It appears that there was once an ancient … Continue reading “Ys I: The Vanished Omens”
Year: 1987
Platforms: Apple IIgs, DOS, FM-7, MSX, NES, PC-88, PC-98, SEGA Master System, Sharp X1, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG, Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
Ys: The Oath in Felghana is an action role-playing game in the long-lasting Ys series. It is a heavily re-imagined remake of Ys III: Wanderers from Ys. Adol Christin and his friend Dogi are travelling to Dogi’s hometown of Redmont three years after the events of the first two games. Upon arriving, they discover that … Continue reading “Ys: The Oath in Felghana”
Year: 2005
Platforms: J2ME, PS Vita, PSP, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG, Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
The events of Ys Origin take place 700 years before those depicted in Ys: The Vanished Omens; it is the first game in the timeline of Ys, and a prequel to the entire series. It is also the first Ys game in which the main protagonist is not Adol Christin, the red-haired swordsman and recurrent … Continue reading “Ys: Origin”
Year: 2006
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG, Japanese-style RPG (JRPG)
Ys: Memories of Celceta is re-imagined and retold story of Ys IV games. Adol Christin, the protagonist, finds himself in the land of Celceta, suffering full amnesia. He soon teams up with Duran, who claims he can help him regain memories. But that will require to venture into the dangerous and uncharted lands, which task Adol more than … Continue reading “Ys: Memories of Celceta”
Year: 2012
Platforms: PS Vita, PlayStation 4, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG
X-Morph: Defense – Complete Edition is a compilation of:X-Morph: Defense (base game).X-Morph: Defense – European Assault (DLC).X-Morph: Defense – Last Bastion (DLC).X-Morph: Defense – Survival of the Fittest (DLC). Unique fusion of a top down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the X-Morph – an alien species that invades Earth to harvest its resources … Continue reading “X-Morph: Defense – Complete Edition”
Year: 2017
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Windows Apps, Xbox One
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Tower defense
Xanadu Next is an entry in the Xanadu series of action RPGs. It casts you as a young adventurer recently arrived to the outskirts of the abandoned kingdom of Xanadu, there you hope to raid the dungeons and make a name for yourself, however you get tricked early on and now a curse lays over … Continue reading “Xanadu Next”
Year: 2005
Platforms: Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG
The Avatar, the Earth-born hero of the magical realm of Britannia, has discovered a mysterious black moonstone there. He returns to our world and asks his friend, the natural museum curator Dr. Rafkin, to analyze it. A reporter named Jimmy Malone is eager to cover the story and joins the two. However, the experiments triggers … Continue reading “Worlds of Ultima: Savage Empire”
Year: 1990
Platforms: DOS, Macintosh, PC-98, Sharp X68000, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
It’s World War II and you are B.J. Blazkowicz, the Allies’ most valuable agent. In the midst of the German Blitzkrieg, the Spear that pierced the side of Christ is taken from Versailles by the Nazis and secured in the impregnable Castle Wolfenstein. According to legend, no man can be defeated when he has the … Continue reading “Spear of Destiny”
Year: 1992
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Action
Theme: Dating simulation, Shooter
Wolfenstein 3D is an episodic first-person shooter and a follow-up to the top-down infiltration game Castle Wolfenstein. The game puts the player in the boots of B.J. Blazkowicz, an allied spy. There are six episodes: the first distributed completely as shareware; the second and the third available after registration; and the three final missions (which … Continue reading “Wolfenstein 3d”
Year: 1994
Platforms: Acorn 32-bit, Browser, DOS, Game Boy Advance, Macintosh, PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Wizard’s Crown is a fantasy role-playing game in which the player creates a party of up to eight adventurers and takes them on a quest to retrieve a magical crown from a wizard named Tarmon, who sealed himself and the crown in his laboratory five hundred years ago. The game features tactical battles, during which the … Continue reading “Wizard’s Crown”
Year: 1986
Platforms: Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy