Arabian Dream Scheherazade (アラビアンドリーム シェラザード), launched 9/3/1987, developed and revealed by Tradition Mind
That is the sport that was launched in English (2 years later) as The Magic of Scheherazade. I rented that sport as a child and loved it, nevertheless it seems that it was quite closely modified from the unique Japanese launch.
First off, the graphics had been modified — as typical, the comical anime-style artwork for the protagonist was modified to a extra “severe” model, and the stat show beneath is totally different as nicely.
Japanese unique
English, courtesy of Wikipedia
There are two different massive modifications, moreover some extra minor ones. The English model makes use of a standard XP/stage system, whereas the unique Japanese model permits just one stage up per chapter (5 chapters). You do that by gaining a specific amount of XP after which discovering a trapped princess in a dungeon — these dungeons had been utterly faraway from the English model. For the primary chapter you want 400 XP for the extent up, which might put you at stage 4 within the English model.
The second change is that the sphere and dungeon maps had been made significantly smaller and easier to navigate. Some dungeons had been eliminated completely.
Right here’s the backstory copied from Wikipedia:
A few years previous to the opening of the sport, the land of Arabia was taken over by the malevolent demon Goragora and his military of minions. A magician named Isfa, harnessing the ability of the blue star Airosche, vanquished the demons and sealed them underground. Peace briefly returned till the evil wizard Sabaron freed Goragora and the demons from their captivity and imprisoned the Arabian princess Scheherazade and her household.
The participant character takes on the position of Isfa’s unnamed descendant, who unsuccessfully makes an attempt to save lots of his lover Scheherazade from Sabaron. Consequently, the participant’s recollections are erased, his magical powers are sealed, and he’s thrust into a distinct time interval. He’s rapidly greeted by the catlike spirit Coronya, who possesses the flexibility to open a passage to journey by way of time. With this, the amnesic hero traverses by way of 5 worlds to be able to regain his recollections, study new magic, recruit a number of allies, and defeat the demon overlords.
You start close to a city, which is useful. One factor that’s bizarre is that you must hit choose after which use the directional keys to choose what actions the A and B button will do. I couldn’t determine at first why I used to be simply leaping round however you must assign “speak” to the B button. The townspeople give numerous recommendation, and you should buy some therapeutic objects however no weapon upgrades or something of that nature. You additionally want to purchase the “Magical Voice” merchandise as a way to discover hidden staircases on the map.
In case you are enjoying this with out assist, in all probability what you need to do first is wander round and map the realm, discovering the second city and the varied dungeons, and constructing XP and cash. You’ll be able to simply earn sufficient cash to make use of the inn within the first city and purchase additional breads (they’re rather more costly within the second city).
One different unusual side to this sport is that you just typically struggle RPG-style flip battles. Right here you should use some companions.
These battles are type of pointless; I really feel like they only put them in to make it appear to be the system is extra diversified and sophisticated, however they might have been omitted. Finally in case you hit 400 xp (which is quite a bit) you need to discover the dungeon with the fairy that may enhance your stage, and allow you to use the Rod (which you begin with within the English model). Lastly, you must find the door to the previous (every chapter has a “previous” model) and return there.
That’s the extent of what I performed. Given the time this got here out, I don’t assume it’s a horrible sport. The English model is far friendlier to play and might be total a greater sport, regardless of the vastly diminished map content material (though perhaps that’s a great factor?) The Japanese model follows the sample of most of the video games from this era the place it’s actually arduous to even get began due to how complicated the areas are and such — it’s not as unhealthy as among the video games the place you’ll be able to barely even play it, nevertheless it’s a kind of video games the place you’ll not really feel like you’re making a lot progress in any respect for some time.
