| Deliverance: Stormlord II | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Hewson Consultants |
| Publisher(s) | Hewson Consultants |
| Designer(s) | Raffaele Cecco (8-bit), Kim Goossens and Peter Verswyvelen (16-bit) |
| Composer(s) | Bent Nielsen (Amiga) |
| Platform(s) | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh, ZX Spectrum |
| Release date(s) | 1990, 1993-1993 |
| Genre(s) | Platformer |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Media/distribution | Casette tape 3½-inch floppy disk |
Deliverance: Stormlord II (also known as Deliverance: Stormlord 2, or just Deliverance in Europe) is a 1990 sequel to the 1989 video game Stormlord.
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The begins after the warrior Stormlord's victory over the demonic invasion in the first game. Badh, the Black Queen may be gone, but her surviving followers live on, dedicated in her memory and her ways: pure evil and obsessive desire to rule over The Realm. To this end they combine their powers and captured all the fairies again, and so Stormlord has to rescue them for the second time, fighting his way through six levels from the depths of Hell all the way to the Heaven.
The gameplay did have marked differences to the first Stormlord game. There are fairies to free and monsters to mash all the while avoiding the platform traps, but the game becomes more of an action sideways game. Divided into three levels divided into two sections each, it feature bosses and bonus levels in the end of each. All of the original's puzzle gameplay elements are gone in the sequel.
The Amiga and Atari ST (1992) and Macintosh (1993) versions are very different than the 8-bit ones, bearing similarity in its graphical style and gameplay to the 1991 game Gods but with better visuals than it. The final section of the game involves riding on back of an undead dragon.
The story is also a bit different: in the first game Stormlord succeeeded in his mission to free The Realm's fairy guardians from the clutches of the wicked Queen Badh, however he was unable to slay her and so she managed to escape with her life intact to lands unknown. Eventually, after many years of peace and harmony, she has returned to ravish the world, this time in league with the Satan himself. Together with his many minions, the witch has again snatched the fairies and plans to use their lifeforce to restore her body to that of a young woman. Now, Stormlord has to return and finish the job he originally set out to do. His task is locate, free and then deliver the imprisoned fairies from Satan's Palace, through the Pits of Hell and the Enchanted Forest, to the devil-ridden skies of Heaven, where the amassed power of the rescued fairy-folk can join to once and for all overcome the forces of evil.
The game was well received,[1] including the monthly awards Gamer Gold by Amiga Computing and CU Screen Star by CU Amiga.[2]