Arcade owners, unaware that the players themselves were the cause of the troubles, would often shut down the machine for repair or simply remove the game completely.ĭwarf (default name Dimsdale / Hendel.): The Dwarf is a hardy character that has the most hit points in the game, and is able to deal the most physical damage in a short amount of time. This also has a nasty side effect of causing the game to have an incredible amount of visual bugs (flickering sprites, missing sprites and mistakes in the text) and often causes the game to, or worse, to.
Abusing this system using methods involving typing a space as the first character of the name, followed by a long string of repeated letters, cause the game to become incredibly, giving the players powerful items in the beginning of the game. The players can also come across a special village where the townfolk beg to be saved from a (the gnomes, unlike traditional Dungeons & Dragons gnomes, are very minuscule, standing about a foot tall).Shadow over Mystara contains a system which allows the players to name their characters. Players can sell items for gold and also trade special items found during boss battles with shopkeepers (by clicking on the shopkeepers head) to earn unique magical items. There are also many unique hidden items (for example, hidden near the end of the game is a treasure chest which contains the Staff of Wizardry when opened by the Magic-User: if the Magic-User wields the staff during the final boss fight and there are at least three players with a combined total of over 1 million, the Staff will glow and the team will be able to use the powerful Final Strike attack).In between many stages the players find themselves inside small town stores where they can restock on common items such as arrows, burning oils, throwing daggers and healing potions. The eighth slot is used for miscellaneous items, such as the 'Skin of the Displacer Beast' or the 'Eye of the ' many bosses drop rare items such as these and they either grant special abilities or can be traded in for special magical equipment. Magical boots (slot three), gauntlets (slot four), and rings (slot six) are all destroyed after the player is damaged a few times. While magical items in traditional D&D rules are practically invulnerable or tough, the magical items in Shadow over Mystara are very fragile. Due to this feature, characters that stand too close to loot while fighting will instead bend down and retrieve the nearby item. Treasure on the ground is picked up by standing near it and pressing the Attack button. Other treasure include weapons and equipment. Most treasure is gold and silver, which is used to buy simple items in shops (see below), or precious gems, which add to a heroes experience points. Treasure is found in chests, stolen from monsters, dropped from dead enemies and bosses, or even found simply lying on the ground. Most characters (again, with the exception of the Magic-User and also Cleric) also have a Megacrush, a move common to nearly all of Capcom side-scrollers, which damages all enemies standing close enough to the character but in turn also damaging the player themselves.Players, as they fight their way through each level, will come across an assortment of treasure. The characters (except for the Magic-User) have a Dashing Attack as well as a Rising Attack which can be used to combo monsters or even juggle them in the air. While the game uses the same as the previous game, the Select and Use buttons are reversed.Shadow over Mystara also introduced a selection of special moves which are executed by moving the and tapping the buttons in certain combinations, in a way similar to the series.
The Cleric, Elf and Magic-User also have two extra rings for their spells, with the Jump button used to switch from ring to ring. The two Clerics and two Magic Users also have subtle differences within their books.The controls use four buttons: Attack, Jump, Select (brings up a small inventory ring around the character allowing the player to choose what item is set in the Use slot) and Use.
Furthermore, with the inclusion of two separate versions of each character's set, the game allows up to two players to select the same character (in Tower of Doom each of the characters could only be selected once), effectively giving the game 12 'different' characters to choose from. Gameplay screenshot with Cleric and ElfIn addition to the original four heroes found in its predecessor, (, and ), Shadow of Mystara adds a and a to the selection.
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