Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. In Light Crusader, you play as David Lander, a swordsman who is summoned to Green Row to recover some missing villagers. A little more thought with regard to pacing would have made this easier to stomach, but it’s certainly not a fatal mistake. Rumours that he turned down a role in The Hobbit to work on Nintendo Life are, to the best of our knowledge, completely and utterly unfounded. As you can read, Light Crusader isn't original in the least, but it does have it's moments, and it offers a challenge to old school RPG gamers. Take the role of the brave knight in this action RPG and get to the bottom of the mysteries of Green Row as you fight enemies, solve puzzles and use your best combination of brains and brawn to save the kingdom. The similarly to Diablo is not merely cosmetic -- Light Crusader also operates from a central ‘hub’ (in this case a town) from which characters venture off into deep dungeons. Fun- May be too intellectual for some gamers! Published in the twilight years of Sega’s 16-bit machine, Light Crusader is often overlooked, and quite unfairly too. The game is presented in a 3/4 isometric psuedo 3-D view in which you venture through underground dungeons rescuing townsfolk. Whereas games like Zelda broke up the puzzle solving with exploration and interaction, Light Crusader never really moves beyond the relatively featureless environs of the dungeons. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2003. - No Fowl Play Here, This Is A Great Detective Adventure. Please Note: This review was originally published on vc-reviews.com. There’s also some (rather crackly) sampled speech thrown into the mix, and (in what I hope was a drive for authenticity) Treasure has opted for upper class English accents. The Best Black Friday Sales and Deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and Dell (Updated), Snyder Cut Will Reference Kryptonian “Mystery” Set Up in Man of Steel, Star Wars: Everything We Know About George Lucas' Abandoned Sequel Trilogy, Updated: The Best Black Friday Sales and Deals from Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, Batman Reveals the Ultimate Truth About Joker, Gears 5 Adds WWE's The New Day as DLC Characters, These are the Best Over Ear Headphones for Total Aural Immersion, Microsoft Working on Why PS5 Outperforms Xbox Series X on Certain Games, Things Ghost of Tsushima Doesn't Tell You. They’re not particularly special, but the game looks very ‘Western’ for a Japanese production. Along the way you hack away at enemies, cast spells, talk to numerous people, and pretty much everything else you can think of in a role playing game. In fact, some of the later conundrums are mind-bogglingly fiendish: this serves as both a blessing and a curse as many casual gamers will undoubtedly give up when they reach a seemingly impossible puzzle. The balance favours puzzles over brute force, especially as you progress deeper into the dungeons. As awesome as the combat and magic are, much of the game is built on logic. Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2003 Light Crusader was one of the last good RPG's to be released for the Sega Genesis before the system's demise, and while it is by no means perfect, it's still worth playing. Please make sure that you are posting in the form of a question. The name recounts so many found memories of goblin dismemberment, magic casting, and LOTS of puzzles. Thankfully, a VC release will rectify that situation. After dazzling Megadrive/Genesis owners with the likes of Gunstar Heroes and Dynamite Headdy (let’s forget Ronald’s McDonaldland Adventure for now), Treasure turned its talents to the Action RPG genre with this 1995 release.