(World Record) The Lords of Midnight "IceCrown%" in 24m 20s | Speedrun [C64 ]
4The Lords of Midnight (1984) by Beyond Software
Destroying the Ice Crown
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Played by MilkToast
About the game:
The Lords of Midnight is a strategy/role-playing game hybrid. The player starts with four characters (Luxor the Moonprince, Rorthron the Wise, Corleth the Fey, and Morkin, Luxor's son), and then has the option to recruit up to twenty-eight further characters (such as Lords Blood, Ithrorn, Xajorkith, Shadows, etc. plus the Utarg of Utarg, Farflame the Dragon Lord and Fawkrin the Skulkrin) to join in the quest to destroy Doomdark, the evil Witchking who has locked the Land of Midnight in perpetual winter.
The game can be played in three ways, firstly as a straight adventure game, where the goal is for Morkin to destroy the Ice Crown, the source of Doomdark's power. The second is as a wargame, recruiting other lords and their armies until they are strong enough to defeat Doomdark's armies and storm his citadel in the far north. A third variation, referred to in the manual as the 'Epic', requires the player to complete the game both ways simultaneously.
The player has an advantage in that only one of the two objectives is needed to defeat Doomdark. The game is won whenever the Ice Crown is destroyed or when Doomdark's home citadel of Ushgarak falls. For Doomdark to win, he has to complete two objectives. First, he must kill Morkin, Luxor's son, since as long as Morkin is alive, the game continues. Also, he must subdue the armies of the Free, either by killing Luxor or by conquering Xajorkith, the capital citadel of the Free lands.
About the run:
Alright here is my strat:
I recruit The Lord of Shadows and send him forward to clear out the wolves in Ogrim. I advance with him further north to fight armies which can show up here.
Rorthron is send north to recruit Farflame in Dodrak. In the meantime Modrik is following the Lord of Shadows. As soon as Farflame is recruited he advances to the North in Lothoril killing Dragons which will block Modriks way. Modrik also goes to Lothoril to recruit the Lord of Lothoril. He goes directly east to lure potential enemy armies to the south to unblock the north passage in the Plains of the Lost. Modrik will get a Cup of Dream in the Henge and teams up with Farflame. Both go north and sneak through the Plains of the Lost. At the Cavern of Death Farflame will go east an kill the last Dragon guarding the Tower of Doom. Modrik will stop at hte Henge near the Cavern of Death to get another Cup of Dreams. He then follows Farflame through the Mountains and finally steals the Ice Crown which Farflame will destroy. Thats it.
After finishing I think I knew a faster route, will test this in the near future.
Awesome Game!
Btw there is no ingame music so I played some random C64 tunes while streaming.
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