Ambermoon

Amber Moon is a role-playing game company Thailon, which was released in 1993 for the Amiga. It was the second part of the unfinished Amber trilogy. At the time of the appearance of the game, scrolling 3D graphics was revolutionary for the Amiga.

Story and expiration

In Ambermoon to play the grandson of the hero of Amber Star. The player's grandfather told at the beginning of the game, that have a dream to be believed dead companion spoke to him and warned of a new threat to Lyramion. So he sends the player on a journey to Newlake, so this ought to speak there with the companions.

During the adventure you go around not only the Lyramionischen islands, but also the moons of this world. The game world is huge for that time. You meet a lot of people, some of which are among the companions of the player.

Graphics and memory requirements

The artwork is a mix of 2D isometric perspective ( the external world and in many buildings ) and 3D first-person perspective ( dungeons, special buildings, cities). The fight takes place around is wise and in front of a static backdrop enchanting animated ( especially the spells ).

The very good graphics for its time, the large number of opponents, places, and the unusual size of the game world made ​​nine disks ( a storage disk ) are required. Since hard disks for the Amiga were not widespread, had while playing (especially before the fight scenes) many disk change and, accordingly, long loading times to be accepted.

References to other games

Connoisseur of games of Thailon could find many references to other games. So the main character could be recruited from Lionheart, as the main opponent of Amber Star. By a dimensional one arrives shortly into the world of the game Dragon Flight.

Reception

• Power Play 12/1993: 88 %
• Play Time 12/1993: 93 %

Thailon and the further career

Amber Moon was for Thailon a great success, but whose downfall could not prevent. For this reason, no third part of the Amber trilogy appeared. Part of the Thailon teams went to Blue Byte, where the graphically very similar game Albion appeared that therefore considered unofficial successor of Amber Moon.

Amber Moon appeared only for the Amiga. It was planned for DOS and Atari ST, but was never completed it. If you still want to play Amber Moon today, this is by means of an Amiga emulator possible (eg WinUAE ).