Card Master: The Seal of Rimsalia

a.k.a. Arcana / Card Master: Rimusaria no Fuuin

created and published by HAL Laboratory in 1992-05-01, running on Super Nintendo

type: role-play, turn-based
genre: Manga, Fantasy
perspective: 1st person
player options: single player

languages: eng jpn

3.5/5

Personal review

Taking advantage of the times of unrest, Galneon, one of the court magicians, launched a coup against King Wagnall. The King was killed in the conflict, and the evil Galneon ascended to the throne. In the conflict the King's two daughters disappeared. Their whereabouts are unknown.

AndreaD # 2013-07-21 04:32:45

Official description

# 2020-03-29 13:39:02 - official description

Comment

Game description taken from Peter Karsanow's walkthrough (db.gamefaqs.com/console/snes/file/arcana.txt)

Arcana is a non-real-time RPG. Movement occurs in steps or turns, and combat also occurs in phases. No arcade action, or running and jumping here. The graphics are reasonable, but minimally animated. Sound is good. Story suffers the old translation blues, and there are annoying jumps, but almost no spelling errors. This is the only RPG I've ever seen with a first-person point of view that generates graphics for 45 degrees in each 90 degree turn, so it doesn't look so abrupt!

Apparently, this game was butchered during the translation. It is said that there are many differences between the Japanese (Card Master) and American (Arcana) versions--graphics, script, names, gameplay... I guess just about everything. Oh, and many things were deleted from the American version as well.

(cjlee001) - # 2006