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Dark Wizard
- $102.99
- Regular price
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- $102.99
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Item Condition
Complete in box: the disc, the manual and the original case, all original; anything beyond that is included only if you can see it in the photos. Look over the photos for condition, packaging and details. Discs are professionally resurfaced when they need it and tested before listing. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Dark Wizard is the Sega CD game for players who wanted their new CD drive to offer substance rather than grainy video. A Sega-developed tactical RPG directed by Kenji Terada, the writer behind the stories of the first three Final Fantasy games, it was released in Japan in November 1993 and reached North America in 1994, and it hands you nothing less than an entire kingdom to win back.
Its backstory has real weight. Three centuries before the game opens, Cheshire sealed the dark god Arliman inside a magical jewel, and the high wizard's apprentice Velonese, caught practicing forbidden magic, was cursed with immortality and left to guard it on the Island of Raven. Arliman's essence slowly corrupted him into the Dark Wizard, who has now summoned four demon generals to bring Cheshire to its knees. Every campaign begins the same way, with the king of Quentin dead and the realm's last stronghold without a ruler, and then you decide who steps forward: Prince Armer IX, the cavalry leader Robin, the sorceress Krystal or the vampire Amon.
That choice reshapes the whole game. Each hero has distinct attributes, abilities and units, and each follows a largely separate storyline, so the four campaigns play out as four different wars rather than one story with a new face on it. Armies and magic move across a hex map, clashes resolve in turn-based battle scenes, and sending your heroes into towns and villages turns up side content that GamePro singled out for praise. It is a slow, thoughtful campaign game, closer in spirit to a grand strategy board game than to a corridor of scripted fights.
The CD format earned its keep here too, since Dark Wizard was among the first console games with a fully orchestrated soundtrack. Japanese critics were reserved, but American magazines embraced it: GamePro called it "an essential CD game of substance and depth" and Sega Visions described one of the most massive, all-encompassing role-playing experiences a gamer could get. Released only on the Sega CD, it is a deep cut worth seeking out once you have worked through Shining Force and want to see Sega's other early answer to battlefield fantasy, with four heroes' worth of reasons to keep coming back.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1993
- Publisher
- Tec Toy
- Developer
- Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
- Players
- Single player
About the game
These are epic times for the people of Cheshire. The kingdom of Quentin is the last stronghold in all of Cheshire against the forces of darkness. But Quentin's king has been killed in battle. Cheshire desperately needs a successor to come forward and lead the warriors of light against the forces of darkness and, eventually, against the Dark Wizard himself. If you fail, darkness will rule Cheshire - forever!
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