Game:

Solomon's Key (1986)

Duration: 1:29:28

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Played by: Reinc

When the world was still in a state of chaos, evil spirits roamed the world freely and rioted. The magic document "Key of Solomon" was the product of great King Solomon's magical research. It described how the evil spirits were confined to the underground constellation Miya. Centuries later, one man sought to prove the existence of Solomon's Key. He discovered constellation Miya at last and arrived at Solomon's Key. He took the magical document, and in the next moment, evil spirits overflowed and the world and time were torn! The world reverted back into its earlier chaotic state, and became a kingdom of the darkness, governed by evil spirits. The king of the lilac garden fairies Yutora ordered magician Dana to perform the restoration of the world. Dana has now broken into the unexplored region of the dangerous constellation Miya where the Solomon's Key was stolen.

Solomon's Key (known in Japan as Solomon no Kagi) is a puzzle game developed by Tecmo in 1986. Solomon's Key is generally recognized as one of the most difficult games on the NES. The player must overcome unlimited enemy spawning, challenging level designs, a countdown timer, Dana's fragility, and limited ways to dispatch enemies. In addition, it's easy for players to unintentionally make levels impossible to clear while playing them. Solomon's Key also has many hidden items and secret levels that are hard to find. There are three endings depending on which secret levels the player finds and completes, if any.

The main character, Dana is sent to retrieve "Solomon's Key" to restore the world to light from demons that were accidentally released. The objective of the game is to advance through the 50 rooms of "Constellation Space" by acquiring a key to the door that leads to the next room before a timer runs out. The game incorporates elements of the action-platformer genre. Dana can run, crouch, crawl, jump, create or destroy orange blocks near him as well as create fireballs to destroy demons. The orange blocks can also be destroyed by jumping into them twice. Along the way Dana can acquire items to upgrade his firepower and extra lives as well as items that award bonus points and unlock hidden rooms. To get hidden items, Dana must make, then break blocks (sometimes in a certain manner) to make these appear.

There are 64 levels in total, with 15 secret ones. The main levels are divided into groups of 4 with one group for each Zodiac constellation (in order, Aries, Taurus. Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces). The final level is called Solomon's room. Each constellation has a secret bonus room which can only be accessed by finding a seal for the constellation in the last room of the group. The other three levels are Page of Time, Page of Space and the Princess Room, which occur only if the player has acquired the hidden Seals of Solomon.

I get the best ending, which combines all animations and messages from the two other endings and adds new ones. I try to get all items but I'm sure I've missed a few things, nothing important though. -
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