Dragon Slayer (video game)

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Dragon Slayer began the Dragon Slayer series, a banner which encompasses a number of popular Falcom titles, such as Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu, Sorcerian, and Legacy of the Wizard. It also includes Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes, which would later spawn over a dozen entries across multiple subseries.

Gameplay

Dragon Slayer is an early example of the action role-playing game genre, which it laid the foundations for.[1] Building on the prototypical action role-playing elements of Panorama Toh (1983), created by Yoshio Kiya and Nihon Falcom,[10] as well as Namco's The Tower of Druaga (1984),[11] Dragon Slayer is often considered the first Japanese action role-playing game.[1][2] In contrast to earlier turn-based roguelikes, Dragon Slayer was a dungeon crawl role-playing game that was entirely real-time with action-oriented combat,[2] combining arcade style action mechanics with traditional role-playing mechanics.[11]

Dragon Slayer featured an in-game map to help with the dungeon-crawling, required item management due to the inventory being limited to one item at a time,[7] and featured item-based puzzles similar to The Legend of Zelda.[1] Dragon SlayerTemplate:'s overhead action-RPG formula was used in many later games.[6] Along with its competitor, Hydlide, Dragon Slayer laid the foundations for the action RPG genre, including franchises such as Ys and The Legend of Zelda.[7][12]

References

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  1. ↑ a b c d Kamada Shigeaki, レトロゲーム配信サイトと配信タイトルのピックアップ紹介記事「懐かし (Retro) (Translation), 4Gamer.net
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  6. ↑ a b Kurt Kalata, Xanadu, Hardcore Gaming 101
  7. ↑ a b c Kurt Kalata, Dragon Slayer Template:Webarchive, Hardcore Gaming 101
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  10. ↑ Sam Derboo (June 2, 2013), Dark Age of JRPGs (7): Panorama Toh ぱのらま島 - PC-88 (1983), Hardcore Gaming 101
  11. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  12. ↑ John Szczepaniak (2016), The Untold History Of Japanese Game Developers, Volume 2, pages 42-49

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