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Zeliard – A classic metroidvania from the makers of
Zeliard – A classic metroidvania from the makers of Lunar & Grandia? (PC-88 Paradise) also on MS-DOS
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In this episode of PC-88 Paradise I play through Zeliard, a sidescrolling RPG from the makers of Silpheed, Lunar, and Grandia. The game was also released on the Sharp X1 turbo and in English on MS-DOS.
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Somehow the dungeons layout reminds me of Dragon Buster, except in this game it seems it is cranked up to eleven and beyond.
Up key jump for platformers never felt right, almost as comparable as QWOP.
Great nostalgia, thank you for this video!
I absolutely love Zeliard. I played the heck out of this game when it was first released for DOS. Japanese action / RPG games were few and far between for DOS gamers back in the day, and I was happy to have this when all my other friends were playing NES. (Sierra and Broderbund made a push to bring some Japanese computer games over to Western computers in the late 80s / early 90s but their efforts only resulted in a handful of titles.) The MT-32 soundtrack is among Sierra's best. If you play the game in EGA mode, it'll look more PC88-esque. 🙂
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✊Thanx for your work✊
I LOVED SYLPHEED on Sega CD! So much that I even bought the sequel on ps2.
The voices sound just like the voices in Celeste. Especially Celeste's hotel owner.
There's no shortage of japanese games that were like this (overemphasis on grinding). I remember even when FF7 came out in the US they had to double or triple the xp from battles so that you weren't forced to grind at points throughout the game. The MS-DOS version was big when I was in college and most people I remember enjoyed it.
Your show is of the height of quality. You should be very proud.
I remember this game being one of the pack in games on computers in the 90's and playing it on a store's demo computer
This is a central pillar of all of gaming from Zelda to sotn. This is the Rosetta Stone of gaming.
Duke… Garland? I think this game had a sequel after all, because I seem to recall a famous NES game where a duke named Garland tells people "I, Garland, will knock you all down!"
I first heard of this via Ancient DOS Games' review, and I really wish the DOS version wasn't so pricey so I could pick it up and give it a spin. Of those old Sierra releases of Japanese PC games, the only one I personally own is their release of Sorcerian, since I was a fan of Legacy of the Wizard on NES (and that's two games I hope you cover some day).
i miss ega graphics
LOVED THIS VIDEO!
I played this a little as a kid but now absolutely wanna replay it. Also, bit information that Almas means Souls (at least in Portuguese), so I imagine that the bank is exchanging how valuable the souls of the monsters are.
I love the sound of the PC-88 booting up. It's like the sound of old, giant gates opening into an ancient ruins.
In all honesty and fairnes, what I have heard of this games music and its sound design is pretty good.
This is right up my alley…I may have to find some way to get a pc 88
The game looks good. Good episode.
Needs a remake
I didn't play game, but Zeliard looked for me as a decent sidescrolling RPG when i first saw DOS version on youtube. And music was very catchy! I wasn't suspecting that original was for PC-88 and was so tedious in later half. Still i want to try DOS version sometime in the future. As always thank you for video.
Game Arts’ Zeliard to Nintendo’s Zelda II: “Senpai notice me.”
We need a hero team to translate PC88 games! The Americas need this ♥ I NEED THIS
It sounds like Stephen Hawkins 😂
Please, where can I get the japanese manual's scans? I'm trying to find it, but I can't find it anywhere.
When freaking Sierra On-Line decides they need to make your game easier to appeal to players, that's how you know you made your game unfair.
Picture disks: not just for records anymore! Actually, 8 Bit Show and Tell did a video a while back about a company that printed those sorts of disks for North American publishers. They were clearly expecting them to catch on a lot more than they did. Ironically the only example he had to show off was a demo disk that had was probably given away for free at the time.
I played Zeliard for the first time last year, and I was genuinely impressed with how much fun I had with it! I did have to use maps and I stopped around the 4th map I think? I can't remember, I definitely didn't finish it but it's a solid, fun, enjoyable experience. I loved the animations and music especially, the game was chock full of that 80s charm.
Pretty fantastic hidden gem!
For the time, this looks and sounds pretty amazing.
Sorry princess, i’ll be in another castle. 23:33
So, a game that is a metroidvania, has the hero named in the most 80s fashion ever, one step away from "Rex Magnum" or something, has Adol's red hairdo and stars in a game where he and the main bad guy look like Red-haired Seiya and Grand Pope Ares from Saint Seiya?
This is gonna be a good one.
Wow, shocked to see anyone talking about Zeliard. I loved this game as a kid. Played it on my Tandy 1000. Never finished it back in the day, but I beat it a couple years ago on my old original Tandy 1000TX. Was real fun. Challenging. Always happy to see anyone talking about.
I heard that the bad box art for the western MS-DOS version was done by Akihiko Yoshida (Tactic Ogre, FFXII) for Sierra, but I never found good proof of that being the case.
The Japanese girl who was in my school used to have one her older brother had a bunch of strange and unique games most I couldn't understand because of language barrier but damn they were entertaining as all hell even if I couldn't read Japanese
Really love your channel. But where you're bros?__?
Aaaaamen! congrats on finsihing it, how long did it take you overall?
Excuuuse me princess but your prince is in another castle
Does somebody still make those blank disks?
Those are some beautiful disks.