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

I haven't really gotten into the older Dragon Slayer
games(older then LOH that is).  Even Sorcerian doesn't
inspire me much game-wise(music-wise, the Turbo
version is beautiful).  Dragon Slayer actually reminds
me of Tower of Druaga.  I didn't like that game
either.  Ofcoarse, the Falcom Classics versions of
Dragon Slayer & Xanadu are enhanced, so it inclines me
more to get into them.  Does Romancia work fine with
American Windows?  I'd rather have a console version
of it, but since there is none, I might have to find
it someday.  Do you know if it's on floppy or cd?  A
friend that was looking at that site with the list of
the Dragon Slayer series said he thinks that LOH 1 & 2
are Dragon Slayer 6, & then the Monarch "series" is
Dragon Slayer 7, & then LOX 1 & 2 is Dragon Slayer 8.
--- "Jake <xxxxxx@umn.edu>" <xxxxxx@umn.edu>
wrote:
> > 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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