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Crystal Warriors
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Fire beats wind, wind beats water, water beats fire, and earth answers to nobody. Learn that rule and you understand the heart of Crystal Warriors, a tactical RPG Sega built for the Game Gear and released in North America in 1992. Arriving before Shining Force had reached Western players, it gave Game Gear owners a pocket-sized taste of grid-based strategy that console players would soon be raving about.
The kingdom of Arliel has kept the continent of Tyramus at peace for nearly a century, thanks to four elemental crystals. Then the Jyn Empire of Emperor Grym invades and seizes three of them. You play as Princess Iris, a sorceress who escapes with the last crystal and must defeat the Jyn's elemental governors one by one to take the others back. The story is mostly told at the start and the finish, which leaves the spotlight on the battles themselves.
Each map lets you field a squad of up to nine units, fighters, healers, rangers and mages, all tied to an element. When two units clash, the fight plays out across two short rounds, and that is where the elemental triangle decides everything: send the wrong unit and it gets crushed, send the right one and it shrugs off the attack. The cleverest twist is the monster command. Beaten monsters can be tamed and brought into future battles, so a sharp commander builds a menagerie that covers every elemental weakness. Between fights you visit towns to buy new units, weapons, armor and spells, and two Game Gears linked by cable could even battle each other with custom squads.
Crystal Warriors earned strong reviews on release and was later re-released on the 3DS Virtual Console, and it spawned a Japan-only sequel, Royal Stone. Playing it now shows just how ambitious Sega's early handheld RPGs could be: a complete strategy campaign with real tactical bite, built for an 8-bit screen in your hands.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1991
- Publisher
- Sega of America
- Developer
- Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
- Players
- Single player
About the game
The continent of Tyramus has lived in peace for almost a century, thanks to the four elemental crystals of the kingdom of Arliel. However, peace is threatened by the invading armies of the Jyn Empire, led by Emperor Grym, who wants to use the four crystals to rule over Tyramus. Fortunately, Princess Iris can escape with one of the crystals and now the player has to protect her and the crystal and somehow find a way to drive back the hordes of Jyn. Gameplay in Crystal Warriors is quite similar to Shining Force. The player fights in turn-based battles controlling different characters like fighters, healers, rangers and mages, all with different strengths and skills. Whenever two units engage in battle, they enter a duel mode lasting for up to two turns. In this mode the player can choose between four commands: "battle" (attack), "retreat", "spell" and "monster". While the first three commands are quite self-explanatory, the "monster" command is interesting. Whenever a non-human enemy is defeated, it can be tamed and be used in battles.
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