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Sword of Hope
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Picture a Game Boy RPG built like a pocket edition of Shadowgate, and you have the idea behind The Sword of Hope. Instead of a scrolling overworld, Kemco presents each location as a framed first-person scene you investigate through menus, picking out trees, doors, gravestones and suspicious rocks to examine before the next monster lunges into view. On a handheld with no keyboard and no mouse, it was a clever way to carry the feel of a point-and-click adventure onto a cartridge.
The story opens darker than most early Game Boy fare. Prince Theo was spirited out of the castle as a child after his father, King Hennessy, grew corrupt with power, killed Queen Remy, enslaved the kingdom and exiled the wise men who once kept it in balance. Rescued by an old sage and now grown into a capable warrior, Theo has to return to the castle where he was raised and face his father.
Combat is turn-based, and magic matters more than brute force: many enemies shrug off physical blows, and working out which spell a boss is weakest against is the key to every big fight. Between battles the adventure side takes over, and some of its puzzles are famously cryptic, the kind where examining an ordinary rock or revisiting a graveyard at the right moment cracks the path open. Part of the fun is the old-school ritual of poking at everything and keeping notes.
The Sword of Hope comes from the same company that brought Shadowgate, Déjà Vu and Uninvited to the NES, and that lineage shows in its presentation. It did well enough to earn a sequel, The Sword of Hope II, and both games later resurfaced on the 3DS Virtual Console. The original grayscale cartridge is where that hybrid of RPG and adventure game first took shape, a snapshot of how inventive Game Boy role-playing could be before the genre settled into its familiar handheld forms.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1989
- Publisher
- Seika Corporation
- Developer
- Kemco
- Players
- Single player
About the game
The player assumes the role of Prince Theo whose father, King Hennessy has become corrupt and maniacal with power. He has enslaved the kingdom and exiled the great wisemen who once maintained the balance and prosperity of the kingdom. Theo's mother, Queen Remy, was killed by Hennessy but Theo was rescued from the castle without harm with the help of an old sage. Now that Theo has reached his teenage years and become a skilled warrior it is time for Theo to face his destiny and return to the castle where he was raised and defeat his father.
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