I finished BT1 with a friend - again his C64 - and I'm fairly sure we cheated our stats as this game can be boring to hell. "999 ghouls attack!", "You kick down the door but find nothing" etc. The Amiga version has some smooth scrolling but after I had finished it on the C64 I had no intention to ever play something like that ever again.
The only Phantasie game I played was III on my Amiga and it was pirated and lent to me. I don't know if I finished it but it's title was very appropriate: It left everything to your imagination. Running a colored dot, less detailed than Pac-Man, through the dungeon corridors was to me not even as immersive as a good text adventure (or "interactive fiction" as it is called nowadays). The very stylized combat graphics were apparently a predecessor of J-RPGs with their combat poses, individual attack strikes etc.
I don't remember any big plot but the colorful city was only a simple graphics screen for some menu points like guild, armourer etc.
Disappointing to me and certainly not nostalgic.
I finished BT1 with a friend - again his C64 - and I'm fairly sure we cheated our stats as this game can be boring to hell. "999 ghouls attack!", "You kick down the door but find nothing" etc. The Amiga version has some smooth scrolling but after I had finished it on the C64 I had no intention to ever play something like that ever again.
The only Phantasie game I played was III on my Amiga and it was pirated and lent to me. I don't know if I finished it but it's title was very appropriate: It left everything to your imagination. Running a colored dot, less detailed than Pac-Man, through the dungeon corridors was to me not even as immersive as a good text adventure (or "interactive fiction" as it is called nowadays). The very stylized combat graphics were apparently a predecessor of J-RPGs with their combat poses, individual attack strikes etc.
I don't remember any big plot but the colorful city was only a simple graphics screen for some menu points like guild, armourer etc.
Disappointing to me and certainly not nostalgic.
take care,
Calibrator
take care,
Calibrator