Fighting is done through projectiles only you can fire balls of spiritual energy or charge them up for a stronger attack, though the latter is rarely useful.
#Spellkaster 2 password#
To suit the adventure framework, dying only sends you back to Daikak’s Summit Temple, where you can choose to restart the level or take a break and resume your adventure later through a tedious password system. While Kane is a bit slow, he generally handles well, with none of the slippery controls found in many Master System platformers, though you do have to get used to aiming for the middle of platforms, as some jumps that seem like they should land will not. The other half of SpellCaster is the side-scrolling levels. Likewise, the Iwato appear to be wearing crude brown masks and armored skirts on the Famicom, and elaborate, colorful suits of armor on the Master System.
#Spellkaster 2 manual#
In fact, the Western release’s manual plays it off that way. The Famicom game clearly takes place in modern Japan, with skyscrapers and convenience stores, the Master System game is all rural villages and Eastern temples if it weren’t for small details like a TV in the background of a fisherman’s cabin, you might think it took place in some medieval fantasy land. While the two games feature the same characters and locations, they look completely different. Other than that, the translation isn’t bad by the standards of the time, but typos are still all too common. All in all, it’s a relatively intriguing tale with a few interesting twists, though there is one part of it later on that is either poorly-explained or poorly-translated and ends up being confusing as a result. But could there be something more behind it? The answer, of course, is “of course”. Kane quickly discovers the involvement of the Iwato clan, which seeks to revive its Serpent God to settle an ancient score.
#Spellkaster 2 series#
The late game is significantly different, and the mostly extraneous first chapter, in which Kujaku investigates a series of mysterious deaths in a fishing village, has been eliminated, but the story (and puzzles) are otherwise the same.įollowing a series of attacks against local temples, the wise Daikak sends Kane, his pupil, to investigate. Roughly half of SpellCaster consists of graphic adventure sequences, in which you move a cursor to examine things, speak to NPCs and solve simple puzzles these sequences are actually an abridged version of the Famicom game. Though the two were developed and published by different companies – Graphic Research / Pony Canyon and Sega, respectively – both were clearly based in part on the same script or blueprint. The story of SpellCaster‘s licensed origins has since spread, but it still isn’t widely known that it shares much of its content with a Famicom game also titled Kujaku Ou, released just two days earlier.
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