Game:

Dungeon Magic: Sword of the Elements (1989)

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Let's Play

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You'll have noticed me selling off that gear I was packing around forever.

I was hoping to keep it for liquidation stock in case I needed cash later. Well my experience has been that cash is not hard to come by later in the game if you aren't the type to cut your own head off with your own sword.

The other very sobering ingredient in this decision would be that encumbrance decreases your Def...Defense, in other words...which is a bad thing. It might also decrease your Attack. I wouldn't put it past them to work something sinister like that into the algorithm. If you know anything about this game, anything at all, you learn the value of your Def stat and the importance of keeping up your stats.

Remember, every hundred or so kills your Def drops significantly. Fair or not, intuitive or not, it happens, and it translates to suddenly taking a lot more damage than what you planned for. It has happened several times early in the game for me and it was the sort of reality check that you don't need when you are dungeon crawling and trying to survive and have no map to rely on. Back then I was watching my pennies and living literally off the land and the inns. I had no idea that there was a money cap, but I was confident that pretty much all armor and weapons were attainable just from the chests. I was right about that. And then some.

So all things considered, and given that I am reaching the most difficult stages of the game, I figure I would need as much advantage as I could get. The fact is that at this stage I have been actually paranoid that all my kills on those dragons might have decreased my Def. It's not really that reasonable to think, but that's just the mindset I've acquired.

It's not like they exactly hand you your enemies' heads on a platter and a bag of XP as a tribute. In this game, you fight for everything. This last batch of videos should illustrate that well enough, just you watch.

I'll just remind you that this is what I am thinking when you ever hear me rip on games for being short. Give this game a try; it either puts hair on your chest and crowns you a champion or gives your wet nurse more of your laundry to have to wash up. You either walk away from this game a god or leaves you a dejected loser curled up in the corner.

Yes, I like this game. Very much so.

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