The Legend of Heroes IV: Akai Shizuku (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Legend of Heroes IV: Akai Shizuku

The Legend of Heroes IV: Akai Shizuku is the fourth entry in Falcom's Legend of Heroes RPG series and the second installment in the "Gagharv Trilogy." The game was originally developed and published by Falcom…

24 May 1996

What The Legend of Heroes IV: Akai Shizuku is

The Legend of Heroes IV: Akai Shizuku is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Nihon Falcom and released in 1996. It was published by GMF. It is available on PlayStation, DOS, PC (Microsoft Windows) and PC-9800 Series.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Long time ago, two gods, Bardus and Octum, fought for dominance in the world. The benevolent Bardus defeated the evil Octum, but as a result has lost his power and had to be dissected into six parts, which were since watched over by the goddess Durga. Many years later, two young people - Avin and his sister Eimelle - are working for the Church of Bardus. One day a mysterious man who calls himself Belias arrives and murders Avin's old mentor. The two youths embark on a journey to find the murderer and eventually discover the truth about their own role in events that will decide the fate of the world...

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Legend of Heroes series

The Legend of Heroes IV: Akai Shizuku is the fourth of 68 entries we hold in the The Legend of Heroes series. It arrived 2 years after The Legend of Heroes III: Shiroki Majo. The next entry was The Legend of Heroes V: Umi no Oriuta in 1999.

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