Crystal Warriors

Crystal Warriors ( originally Ariel: Crystal Densetsu ) is a strategy role-playing game, developed by Sega and released in Japan in 1991 for the Sega Game Gear. In 1992, an English version in the United States. It was the first strategy game that was released for the Game Gear.

The game is based heavily on playing Fire Emblem, that is, you control a group of several heroes through a series of turn-based battles that are presented in a top-down graphics. The game story is told here in the always identical equipment and Anwerbepausen between battles in the form of town meetings, greater interaction with the environment does not exist in this game.

In the battles you control of the quantity available, which one controls around by way of a structured into squares card up to nine freely selectable heroes. There are no hard and fast in this game round sequence, each figure can therefore be moved independently. Confrontations are presented in the form of attack / counter-attack in a side view. Here, a simple rock-scissors- paper is used, which is represented in this game by the four elements that are assigned to the individual hero classes. Certain elements have advantages and disadvantages over the others. Opposing figures are depicted with a preform of the fog of war, which hides their skills and class. Another special feature is neutral animals that are after their defeat as tamed, and can be used by the character in combat. Death of a character in this game, his death is final.

A novelty for the time was the two-player mode, the game offered. With him are two Game Gear via a link cable could connect, and a game of two heroic groups of nine characters from a predefined Hero pool play against each other.

The game is also available as a download for the Nintendo 3DS since June 2013.