【Might and Magic】 Blind NES Reviews | Squiggy Seven: First Impressions (Episode #024/884)
14Hey friends, today we're doing a review for Might and Magic, a turn-based RPG in pseudo-3D for the NES. It looks like it has a bit of promise, but unfortunately we will only get to experience a small slice of it in this episode.
The main point of the game seems to be escaping the town you start in. At the gate is a classic RPG douchebag telling you that you suck and you'll never survive out in the real world, so you have to murder the Zubats and skeletons in everyone's closets until you're strong enough to leave home.
Other fine features of the starting town are more closets filled with random enemies, a food shop you can't buy anything from, a gallery of fine art and the Shadow of Death, who is constantly upon your party. No joke, you will die for no reason in this game.
I'm conflicted when it comes to these games. They're kind of my style of game, but I kind of get bored of them as well. It's really neat to play something like this on the NES though. I should have given it a higher score for that alone I think, but the rules of scoring are rigid and unflinching.
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Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum (also known as simply Might and Magic) is an early role-playing video game, first in the popular and influential Might and Magic franchise. It was released in 1986 as New World Computing's debut, ported to numerous platforms and re-released continuously through the early '90s.
The game is set on the world of VARN which features expansive outdoor terrain, castles, caves, underground cities and an Astral Plane.
The game centers on six adventurers who are trying to discover the secret of the Inner Sanctum: a kind of "holy grail" quest. While trying to discover the Inner Sanctum, the heroes discover information about a mysterious character named Corak and his hunt for the missing villain Sheltem. They end up unmasking Sheltem, who had been masquerading as the King, and defeating his evil machinations. At the end of the game they go through the "Gates to Another World" and travel to CRON, not knowing that Sheltem has also escaped to that world.
Although it appears to take place in a straightforward medieval fantasy setting of knights in armor, mythical monsters and magicians, a number of science fiction elements are revealed later in the game, down to the actual meaning of VARN (Vehicular Astropod Research Nacelle). This was a relatively common trait of early CRPGs, as also seen in the oldest Ultima and Wizardry titles. For example, the Sheltem plot is first introduced when the adventurers visit the site of a crashed space ship and are told by aliens that their prisoner is at large in the world.
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Squiggy Seven: First Impressions is a series where I blind review random NES games in an effort to learn more about the hidden classics on the system. I have gotten into retro collecting for the NES and I am on the hunt for those games I've never played that I'm missing out on.
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Sorry about the no uploads yesterday folks. I was just feeling lazy to be honest. I fell asleep Friday without getting a Saturday video ready and woke up with no motivation. Sorry friends!
We got this S7 episode coming out, maybe a VLOG of sorts tomorrow, possibly a SAA episode after that, then we should be on to some more RHR.
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