Rings of Power (video game)

Rings of Power is a console role-playing game ( RPG) that was released in 1991 for the Sega Mega Drive game console. It was developed by Naughty Dog and distributed by Electronic Arts. It was one of the most extensive role-playing games of the 16 - bit console era. The gaming world was exceptionally large for its time, the development time was about two and a half years. Although the game was sold out within 3 months, was due to the former policy by Electronic Arts - you wanted to concentrate on the sports game genre - to dispense with a new edition.

Action

Add Rings of Power, the player plays a young wizard named Buc, whose mission ( quest ) is to find eleven rings of power. These can be used the rod of the creation of the good God to restore Nexus and defeat so that, subsequently, the evil demon Void to bring about the legendendäre Golden Age again.

Game mechanics

Unlike many other console role-playing games of the era, such as Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest, has Rings of Power many features that it shares with the PC role-playing games such as Dungeon Master, Wizardry and Bard 's Tale. The game is very open design ( non- linear), so you can pursue any of the various plot lines, and is not set to a predefined sequence. In addition, the game includes more than 30 explorable towns and villages, hundreds of non-player character ( NPC ) with many different dialogues, dozens of side quests and random events.

The Party

During the game close to the player up to five different NPCs, and are thus called party members. The player himself in this case represents the leaders of these so-called "party" ( adventurer group), and the individual members of this party can be eg limited in Battle mode control. Each member of the party collects independently of experience points and can have multiple spells (there are over 100) learn.

The 11 rings

A great battle took place between the holy and the demonic Void Nexus, both fighting for the staff of creation. At the height of the Battle of the rod broke in two, and both gods fled with their respective half.

The parts of the rod eventually took the form of rings 11:

Game world

Virtually every place of the game world Ushka construction is already available at game start; the presentation of this fictional world is 2D isometric, similar to the game Populous or early Ultima Online. Due to the fact that the built-in map ( with top view illustration ) not selected any items and there is no quest journal, many players criticized the level of difficulty as the game objective is achieved through attention to detail and constant exploration.

Tips and Tricks

• Money: it buys precious stones ( gems ) in Mind to it in again in the city of Commerce to sell, which is located farther to the north. The purchase price is about 50, and it sells for about 300 about ten trips are necessary to achieve the monetary maximum of $ 15,000 and / or 99 gems.

• Increase Experience: go into a basement on () and the icon of the wizards show the red priest, who was living there. This process can be repeated as often until you reach the maximum experience level of 13000.

• Buy Spells: in the magical shopping center Magic'B'Us, in the Kingdom Magicnia, all are available.

• One can take from a ship by a small boat.

If you hold the following keys simultaneously pressed on the secondary controller: DOWN, RIGHT, A, B, C and START and then start the game again, so the woman in the intro sequence appears undisguised.