Xuan-Yuan Sword
The game featured standard VGA 16-colored 640x480 screen, complete with party-members, round-based combat, full-screen sprite animation, various monsters, Chinese-styled AdLb music, sound effects, animated…
Xuan-Yuan Sword is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Softstar Entertainment Inc., released 13 October 1990 on DOS.
What Xuan-Yuan Sword is
Xuan-Yuan Sword is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Softstar Entertainment Inc. and released in 1990. It is available on DOS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the beginning of the world, the goddess Nüwa created two kinds of intelligent life: those of men, and those of monsters, who warred among each other all the time. The Sword was created by men in an attempt to end the everlasting war. Led by a single heroic figure, Xuan-yuan Swordsman (軒轅劍俠) who wielded the Sword, the war between humans and monsters ended with both sides suffering heavy casualties. Seventeen years later, the main character, He Ran (何然), a young swordsman left his mentor to set off on a journey into the chaotic world to carve his own path. The first game in the series, Xuan-Yuan Sword was also Softstar's first RPG product and was released in 1990. The time period the game…
How it plays
Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Xuan-Yuan Sword series
Xuan-Yuan Sword is the first of 12 entries we hold in the Xuan-Yuan Sword series. The next entry was Xuan-Yuan Sword 2 in 1994.
What it launched against
Xuan-Yuan Sword launched on 13 October 1990, within three weeks of The Secret of Monkey Island, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe and Review: Jashin Fukkatsu.
Released around the same time: The Secret of Monkey Island, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, Review: Jashin Fukkatsu.
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