/vr/ - Retro Games

The ship sequence in the beginning of the game is one of my all-time favorite moments in video games period.

What I really love about Dark Savior, and by extension Landstalker, are the settings and situations. The games always have a sort of high adventure feel to them that you experience when you watch a good swashbuckling movie. I'm also a fan of the isometric element present in both, and Climax really managed to give both games fluid controls that make navigation a joy.

Dark Savior in particular handles this well, nowadays I can go through Silver Castle at a near constant top speed. It's a lot of fun. The combat system is also interesting, instead of fighting enemies on the map which would probably be clunky at best, they added a fighting game sort of battle system which is simply yet fun since it adds special moves to characters. The capture system is what really sells the system, though it would have been nice if it were a tad easier.