Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure

Players control as an seemingly unremarkable peasant who was minding his own business when sent a fowl beast in an attempted kidnapping. A good wizard completely deck-out for battle just happened to be watching over the peasant while standing in a tiny boat in a nearby water (hmmm), and foiled the kidnapping. The High Council knows of the group responsible but not the reason, nor why they have such a specific target. The unremarkable present is charged to investigate and stop them.

Individual item skill is gained by using said item. Spells can be learned. For battle, commands are selected and the player then clicked on the target. There is a great deal of talking to be done to complete the investigation. There are many puzzle to be solved. All done with the mouse or keyboard shortcuts.

Conceived as a complex real-time adventure game with dialog and combat but with contrastingly simplified interface that is still "more than click-click-click". It does not take place in the same Universe as the main Wizardry series and gameplay has nothing in common with the main Wizardry series (even critics who loved the game gave it poor ratings for calling it "Wizardry").

zerothis # 2019-05-11 11:46:52

software: DOS 5.x,

hardware: VESA, Video Graphics Array, Keyboard, Mouse, AdLib SPU, Adlib Gold SPU, Sound Blaster AWE32 SPU, Ensoniq Soundscape SPU, General MIDI, Gravis Ultrasound SPU, Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16, Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum Plus SPU, Roland RAP-10 SPU, Sound Blaster SPU, Sound Blaster 16 SPU, Sound Blaster Pro SPU, WaveJammer SPU,

display: raster

ported to
Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure (Saturn)