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Hydlide

a.k.a. Hydlide Special / ハイドライド・スペシャル

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published by Toshiba EMI / FCI in 1986-03-18, developed by T&E Soft, running on Nintendo Entertainment System
type: action/reflex, role-play
genre: Action-RPG
series: Hydlide
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player
languages: eng
1.9/5

Personal review

When Hydlide was released in 1989 in the US it surely had a big problem. Everybody expected another game like Zelda, but Hydlide's game design was already very old, considering the Japanese Famicom version was out three years earlier and even that was just a slightly modified port of the original Japanese homecomputer version from 1984. So what qualified Hydlide to be recognized by many as one of the worst Action/RPG ever? The graphics are not well done, but one could argue that its still an improvement over the original homecomputer version. The music is very repetitive. And I mean very very repetitive. After spending lots of dumb leveling up time (another negative point of the game) the music makes you go mad. Well, at least you can turn it off. Besides the leveling up there is not much to do except searching treasure chests which are hidden all over the 25-screen "small" world and in some of the mini-dungeons. You have to rescue some fairies, beat a dragon and finally the end boss. Problem is, there are no NPCs which give you clues about what you actually have to do or where to search. So the game can become very frustrating if you don't have a walkthrough. And if you have one you will instantly see how small the game actually is.

# 2009-04-12 18:09:02

Official description

The young knight, Jim, has a tough challenge: He must avenge the death of the king and save Princess Ann by destroying the devil Boralis and his monstrous companions. Jim comes face-to-face with many forms of evil - water dragon, vampire, zombie, sea monster, a moving forest, and fireballs. But the king's sword and shield are what he needs to conquer Boralis!

# 2020-09-18 11:10:35 - official description

Technical specs

display: raster

Editor note

The game can be saved and loaded at any time but the same game does not persist if the system is turned off. There is a course a password system for a more permanent type of save solution.

# 2024-08-10 12:52:03

External review - average: 55%

review sourceissuedatescore
Electronic Gaming Monthlyus21989-0722/4055%
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