#zeliard

Pixel art for today based on videogame Dark Ages volume 1 prince of destiny for computer system PC MS Dos. Before our eyes, some fantasy adventure. And this is main hero runs somewhere forward. He is crawling through the forest and field. Bridge. Water. Everything is so different. And fantasy. Ahead -it is magic and spells! Time of fantasy. Or somewhere near, is it a Jill from Jungle? A little looks similar.

Zeliard

In 1986 Ken Williams travelled to Japan to sell licenses to Sierra On-line games, and during the stay he acquired the rights from Game Arts to publish a MS-DOS port of their action platformer Thexder. In the coming years, Sierra would port a number of a Japanese games including three additional Game Arts titles: Fire Hawk:Thexder 2, the shoot-em-up Silpheed, and the action-RPG Zeliard. Common to all of these titles are that they are microcomputer games (and stayed on those systems with the single exception of a Thexder port for the Famicom) that play and feel a lot like console games. Zeliard is a side-scrolling action-RPG with a leveling system and a lot of focus on experience point grinding. It was Game Arts third game and their first RPG, and in many ways their first step towards their later RPG productions such as the Lunar and Grandia series. Zeliard was released more or less exactly in between two of the seminal examples of the genre, Zelda II (January 1987) and Ys III (1989), but has remained in the shadow of more popular games due to its computer exclusivity and relentless difficulty curve. 

To the World of Darkness (Zeliard)

The Ultimate Show (Super Dimentio) (Super Paper Mario)

DAY 1261) Zeliard - World of Decay

Composer: Fumihito Kasatani, Hibiki Godai, Masakuni Mitsuhashi, Mecano Associates, Nobuyuki Aoshima

Even if this is mostly just 4/4 it is VERY WEIRD 4/4. So many different possible interpretations “start points” of different lines and tonally this is weird as fuck.

Zeliard (1990, Sierra On-Line)