[NEC_Avenue] Re: Dragon Slayer series, what all games are a part of it

> Wow, that's very interesting!  The 2 things that
> puzzle me, is why Lord Monarch is a part of Dragon
> Slayer, 

Yeah. It's a strategy game, and it has nothing to do with the rest of 
the series. I didn't really like the first game very much, but the 
newer version, "Monarch Monarch" is not bad.

>& why Legend of Heroes 2 isn't.  I mean,
> Legend of Heroes 2 says Dragon Slayer all over it, so
> it's an automatic assumption, to call it Dragon Slayer
> 7(or 2, if someone thinks that LOH 1 was the first
> Dragon Slayer game, which is what I used to think,
> until I noticed that Legend of Xanadu says Dragon
> Slayer 8, which confused me way back then). 

The problem is that they released LOH1 as basically just "Dragon 
Slayer" in the U.S. It only says "The Legend of Heroes" in a few 
places as if it were an unimportant subtitle. Most people who bought 
it probably didn't realize that it's from a large series. Even 
weirder, is that LOH 3-5 don't have the Dragon Slayer name on them at 
all, and are referred to as a separate entity known as the "Gagharv 
Trilogy", and they are nothing like the first two. Me, I like LOH 3-5 
much MUCH more than LOH 1-2.

>But, to get a copy of Romancia, it hasn't
> been re-made at all.

As I said in my previous post, it has been remade by another company 
for windows. The company is "Unbalance Software", who are a known 
Japanese software company, but mostly known for making mediocre 
games. I used to see it all the time at used stores in Japan. I'll 
have to pick it up next time I'm there. The game that's even harder 
to get a chance to play is the original Dragon Slayer, which is only 
available for PC-88. I had a chance to see it running on an old PC-88 
once. It's not much. It was made in 1984, so what do you expect? It 
seemed very difficult to play (no joystick support), and had 
extremely primitive graphics, even for a PC-88 game. (Star Trader is 
a much cooler PC-88 game by Falcom.)

Anyway, I've been getting into Xanadu (Dragon Slayer 2) a lot lately. 
I've been playing "Revival Xanadu" for windows, which is basically a 
graphically enhanced version of the same thing. It's good if you want 
to play a really hard-core old fashioned RPG, where there is no story 
and the only goal is bettering your character.


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