The Legend of the Condor Heroes

a.k.a. Shediao Yingxiong Zhuan

created and published by Soft-World International in 1993, running on MS-DOS
type: adventure
genre: Point-and-click adventure
perspective: 3rd person
player options: single player
languages: chi

Description

This is the first game adaptation of the first part of the popular literary trilogy "Condor", written by Hong Kong writer Jin Yong (English name - Louis Cha ). The game uses the engine of the previous colorful RPG creation of Soft-World - Legend of Power Book. The plot of the first part of the trilogy tells us about the beginning of the invading army of the Jurchen Jin on the ground of the Song Dynasty in northern China. First, a strong male friendship between two soldiers - Jan Tesin and Guo Xiaotian. They fought shoulder to shoulder with the army Jin invaders. The friendship was so strong that they have agreed that if their future children will be of the same sex, they will be named brothers (or sisters), and if they are of different sexes - that they will be a married couple. Then Guo Xiaotian died and Yang Tesin went missing. The main part of the book is devoted to their children (both boys), whose names are Guo Jing and Yang Kang. The first was honest, kind, truthful, but a bit rustic, and the second is intelligent, cunning and vindictive. Over time, fate brings them together like this and like their fathers. But throughout the novel, the treacherous Yang Kang is revealed to be getting stronger and stronger. He planned to Jurchen invaders seize his native land Sung. But with the help of Guo Jing Jing army of Mongols break, and Yang Kang overtakes the punishing hand of fate. You will play a character Guo Jing, along the way meeting friends and other characters from the literary work. Many people mistakenly classify this game as just another RPG but in fact it is not. This is a typical genre of Adventure, since there are no RPG-parameters of the character. You just need to walk, to talk to people and take action. Main action is very short: talk (icon "conversation"), walking (the icon "man") and do (icon "hand"). There are more icons - a sword and a rag to wipe something. Discussions are displayed in the window with the image of the person speaking. If it is a thought to oneself, the text is enclosed in angle brackets. If it's just overheard conversations from the side it will not be a portrait of the speaker. For each correct action sequence made, ​​gaming events will be transferred to the new state. In the story, you can move from one locality to another. In this case, you will be presented a general plan of the settlement and its individual species near buildings or on the streets. Learn the purpose of a house on the same map, you can use the menu item "eye". Gaming mouse will be painted in three different colors (red, yellow and green) when you hover over objects, people or animals. Green color means that the action is possible. Graphics resolution is the same as in the game Legend of Power Book and uses a similar method of vectorization: Chinese style and a limited set of contrasting colors. Actors in the frame can be a lot and they are pretty well animated.

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