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INTRODUCTION (From retrobytesproductions.blogspot.dk):

Grupp is a handsome and womanizer Knight, but the King, already tired of his love affairs with his 9 daughters, decided to reject him from the army and lock his 9 daughters in a dungeon for a long time. Grupp then decides to kidnap all of them in order to get his revenge, but this task is not going to be that easy, as the King has alerted all his army against you.

HOW TO PLAY (From retrobytesproductions.blogspot.dk):

Screen display:
FU (STRENGTH) Your attacks will be more powerful.
DEF (DEFENSE) Your shield will be more effective.
VEL (SPEED) Necessary for a better attack.
RES (RESISTANCE) Necessary for a better defense.
SU (LUCK) Get a random number below this attribute to be able to runaway from a battle.

Battles:
ATTACK You will attack your enemy according to the normal attributes.
DEFEND You will defend yourself from an attack, according to the normal attributes.
RETREAT Leave the battle if you get the right number.
ITEM Casts a powerful lightning against your enemy.
ATTACKING POWER At the beginning of the adventure, your attacking power is 3 points high, and as you manage to raise level or defeat enemies, this power will get higher and therefore you will cause bigger damage in your enemies. At the beginning of a battle, you will always start with 3 points of attacking power even if your maximum power is higher at that moment. To reach maximum power, you will need to use the Defense, but that will cause you some damage.It is your choice to prioritise attacking or defense, specially depending on the consequences.
If you visit the shop at the beginning of your adventure, and you possess some rubies at that moment, then you will be able to buy some items. Think carefully to determine what you really need to buy, so you will not run out of items in your quest.

REVIEW:
At the start of your quest your strength, defense, speed and resistance is 0 (zero) which means that you will get your ass kicked if you try to battle anyone. You have to walk around and find a lot of power ups to increase these skills, and you have to find out what the strength of each of your enemies is, because you have to battle the weakest first until you get strong enough to battle the toughest ones.

It is a RPG maze game where you have to find the right way so you can find the power ups you need to be strong enough to battle the enemies that is guarding the roads. You will also need keys to unlocking doors and shovels for removing rocks that are blocking the roads. You can buy keys, shovels and magic (item) from the shop. You use the diamonds you find to pay for the goodies, and you will soon be familiar with the shop because at the very start you will find yourself trapped beside the shop and you will need to use the two diamonds you just have collected to buy a shovel to remove a rock.

This is a really great way to make a RPG game, it works and plays nice, and the characters is big and colorful. It is a ZX Spectrum 48k game and for that it is quite impressive, but a nice AY soundtrack would have given this game some extra atmosphere. The battle system is really good, but when you are moving Grupp around it is quite annoying that when you are moving him in any direction he will walk by himself until he can not go any further or you change the direction. The text is Spanish but it is quite easy to play anyway.

if I had to review this game for Your Sinclair I would give it 92%.

When playing the game you will find that a map would be quite useful. There is a map here: http://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=TalesofGrupp&sort=3&part=9&ath=

The game is made by Retrobytes Productions and can be downloaded here: https://retrobytesproductions.blogspot.dk/2015/02/the-tales-of-grupp.html