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Record of Lodoss War (ロードス島戦記 英雄戦争) is an RPG that developed Kogado studio and published by Sega back in 1994, exclusively for the Sega CD home console add-on and the Japanese market.

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IMPORTANT NOTE : Because of copyright reasons...I had to remove 3 mins of content.
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The story is based on the 1990's OVA anime "Record of Lodoss War" . A young man with the name Parn, son to an infamous knight, will start an adventurous journey ~along with his friends~ in order to discover what really happened to his father and of course to restore his family's honor.

Record of Lodoss War is an old school tactical RPG where your main goal is to dominate your enemies during your fights. Unlike many other games of this genre , it has a linear world map and pre-set battles. Also, in some occassion you can control your charater in a top down view and explore places/areas,quite uncommon for a tRPG.
Other than these, the towns have menu-based first-person view navigation, you can buy items from merchants that can be used during your battles and also, you can unlock areas or even characters by interacting with npcs.
In general, it's a quite enjoyable tRPG experience with a cinematic taste as it borrows anime scenes from the original OVA, it has an interesting presentation/graphics and soundtrack. The same goes for the gameplay mechanics. If you like these type of games you will have a good time playing it.

Unfortunately, it's all Japanese so ...not an import friendly game.