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Arkista's Ring
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An elven archer, a stolen ring and a castle full of ninjas: Arkista's Ring throws its fantasy ingredients together with a cheerful disregard for genre boundaries. The Shogun who leads the ninja clans has stolen the ring of Arkista, the treasure that keeps the elven nation prosperous, along with two other relics, and it falls to Christine, armed with a bow, to get them back. A female lead was still unusual on the NES, and Christine carries the whole adventure on her own.
Developed by NMK and released by American Sammy, it plays as a deliberate, almost puzzle-like top-down shooter rather than a frantic one. Christine moves tile by tile but can step back before committing to the next square, which lets you peek around corners and bait enemies into revealing their patterns. Monsters appear in set sequences, and clearing them makes a key appear that unlocks whatever blocks the way forward, whether that is a gate, a tree, a mountain pass or a sarcophagus. Defeated enemies drop bags that upgrade her gear: longer-range bows, harder-hitting arrows, armor for more health and bigger bags for tools such as the Cure Potion, the wall-piercing Wand of Fire, the screen-clearing Thunder Wand and the aptly named Ninja Stunner.
The journey runs across plains and forests, through a town, past volcanoes, into crypts and down to the docks before storming the ninja castle. The box famously boasted of 125 levels; in practice there are 31 stages that loop four times, with the Shogun waiting at the end of each cycle, which makes it a natural game for chasing one more lap.
Allgame called it "an extremely pleasant action-adventure game" and drew comparisons to The Legend of Zelda, and that is a fair way to think of it: a gentler, more methodical cousin to Nintendo's adventure, with a quirky mix of elves and ninjas you won't find anywhere else in the library.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1990
- Publisher
- Sammy USA Corporation
- Developer
- NMK Co. Ltd.
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Arkista's Ring is a game developed by American Sammy for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990. It utilizes the familiar top-down perspective featured in many action-adventure games, such as The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Shining Force. What sets it apart is the linear style of the game, as well as the limitation of one primary character. Interestingly, Arkista's Ring is an example of an early game with a female protagonist-an elf named Christine. The game is now considered to be a particularly rare NES title.
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