List of Slayers video games

Slayers

Cover art of Slayers for the PC98
Genres Japanese role-playing game
Tactical role-playing game
Developers AIC Spirits
BEC
Onion Egg
TamTam
Publishers Banpresto
Kadokawa Shoten
ESP
Platforms NEC PC-9801, Super Famicom, Sega Saturn, PlayStation
Platform of origin NEC PC-9801
Year of inception 1994

The Slayers video games are a series of single-player role-playing video game adaptations of the comic fantasy light novel, manga and anime franchise Slayers, released exclusively in Japan between 1994 and 1998. There are two different 16-bit games released in 1994 and titled simply Slayers (including one for the Super Famicom), followed by three 32-bit console games: 1997's Slayers Royal, and 1998's Slayers Royal 2 and Slayers Wonderful.

Role-playing games

Slayers (PC98)

Slayers (スレイヤーズ) was developed by AIC Spirits (additional development by Oniro and Studio Orphee, graphics by Studio Kuma) and published by Banpresto for the NEC PC-9801 on March 25, 1994.[1] It was written by Yōsuke Kuroda, art-designed by animator Masayuki Hiraoka, and composed by Shiori Ueno.

Slayers is a first-person view dungeon crawler role-playing video game in the tradition of Wizardry. Its simple story, loosely based on the light novel series, follows the adventures of Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev, aided by up to two companions of their choosing (Naga the Serpent, Zelgadiss Graywords, Amelia Wil Tesla Saillune, Philionel El Di Saillune, Lemmy Martin and Meena, as well four original characters: Kim, Marin, Junon and Lass) in several dungeons surrounding a city of Wilnan. The player directly controls only Lina and the characters do not level up. In Wilnan, the player can rest and heal the party, change or revive characters, and visit stores.

In 1996, it was ranked the best RPG on the system in PC Engine Fan reader poll.[2] An English fan translation for that game is in progress.[3]

Slayers (SFC)

Main article: Slayers (video game)

Slayers Wonderful

Main article: Slayers Wonderful

Tactical role-playing games

Slayers Royal

Main article: Slayers Royal

Slayers Royal 2

Slayers Royal 2
Developer(s) Onion Egg
Publisher(s) Kadokawa Shoten
ESP
Platform(s) Sega Saturn, PlayStation
Release date(s)

3 September 1998[4]

PlayStation
1 July 1999[5][6]
Genre(s) Tactical RPG
Mode(s) Single-player

Slayers Royal 2 (スレイヤーズろいやる2) is a tactical role-playing game developed by Onion Egg and published Japan by Kadokawa Shoten and Entertainment Software Publishing in 1998 for the Sega Saturn and in 1999 for the PlayStation. It sold well but its reviews were mostly only moderately positive.

Slayers Royal 2 retains its precedessor's overall gameplay of a tactical RPG with exploration phases, but with some differences. Notable changes include simplification of town navigation system (which no longer resembles adventure games), introduction of a day/night cycle, and the presence of freely explorable dungeons throughout the game. The combat system has undergone a radical overhaul: instead of the pseudo-real-time-turn system of the first episode, it is now purely turn-based. Its novelties include a new magic system that demands an uninterrupted invocation before being cast, taking a time proportional to the spell's power, and a necessity to keep the player's party fed for them to perform well in battle.[7]

Slayers Royal 2 was commercially successful, having remained on Japan's Sega Saturn's top 10 list five weeks after its release,[8] but received slightly-above-average review ratings of 25/40 from Famitsu[9][10] and 18/30 from Japan's Sega Saturn Magazine.[11] In the West, French magazine Joypad scored the Saturn version a 7/10,[12] Spanish magazine Superjuegos verdicted that "while Slayers Royal 2 is not Vandal Hearts it should please the fans of the series" and noted "spectacular" animation,[13] and the website RPGFan gave the Saturn version a score of 78%, praising its graphics and recommending it for the fans of the anime.[14]

Related games

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Slayers Release Information for NEC PC98". GameFAQs. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ PC Engine Fan 2/1996 p.56.
  3. ↑ "Slayers (PC98) English Translation Project". Esperknight and Filler's Video Game Translation. Retrieved 2013-12-16.
  4. ↑ "Slayers Royal 2 Release Information for Saturn". GameFAQs. Retrieved June 11, 2009.
  5. ↑ p.ink. "ゲームチラシコレクション プレイステーション ロールプレイングゲームチラシ". Gamedic.jpn.org. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  6. ↑ "Slayers Royal 2 Release Information for PlayStation". GameFAQs. Retrieved June 11, 2009.
  7. ↑ "スレイヤーズろいやる2公式攻略ガイド | 中古 | ゲーム攻略本 | 通販ショップの駿河屋". Suruga-ya.jp. 1999-06-30. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  8. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine (Japan) 35/1997 (17 October 1997) p.14.
  9. ↑ "スレイヤーズろいやる2 まとめ [セガサターン] / ファミ通.com". Famitsu.com. 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  10. ↑ "スレイヤーズろいやる2 まとめ [PS] / ファミ通.com". Famitsu.com. 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  11. ↑ "File:SSM JP 19980911 1998-25.pdf" (PDF). Sega Retro. 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  12. ↑ "Photographic image" (JPG). Download.abandonware.org. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  13. ↑ Superjuegos 90 p.148-149.
  14. ↑ "RPGFan Reviews - Slayers Royal 2". Rpgfan.com. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  15. ↑ ""Slayers" Teams Up with "Granblue Fantasy" Smart Phone Game". Crunchyroll. 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  16. ↑ "The Crossover Cast In Heroes Phantasia Unleash Their Special Attacks". Siliconera.com. 2011-08-16. Retrieved 2016-01-14.

External links

Slayers Royal 2

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