Slayers Wonderful

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Slayers Wonderful
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Developer(s) Banpresto
Publisher(s) Banpresto
Writer(s) Hajime Kanzaka
Platforms PlayStation
Release date(s) October 22, 1998[1]
Genre(s) Role-playing video game
Mode(s) Single-player

Slayers Wonderful (スレイヤーズわんだほ Sureiyāzu wandaho?) is a role-playing video game developed and released by Banpresto for the PlayStation in 1998 only in Japan. It features key voice actors from the Slayers anime versions and a story supervised by the Slayers author Hajime Kanzaka.

Gameplay

Slayers Wonderful is a Japanese role-playing video game featuring of a battle system reminiscent of Final Fantasy VII[2] (a mix of a real-time and turn-based, complete with Limit Break-style attacks), a 2D world map, and a rotatable 3D isometric-graphics exploration mode for navigating locations. Illustrated dialogue scenes and several animated cutscenes drive the game's story.[3]

There are up to three members of the player's party, standardly consisting of the protagonists Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev and an additional character. All characters besides the warrior Gourry can use both physical attacks and various magic spells of several classes (depending on the character), and Naga the Serpent is also able to summon monsters. The player's choices for the characters' relationships and actions in the game influence their performance in battle and party members can combine their powers for special attacks.[3]

Plot

One day, the young genius sorceress Lina Inverse and her faithful swordsman companion Gourry Gabriev discover that Lina's most powerful spells and Gourry's magical Sword of Light no longer work. They embark on a long journey to find the cause of their loss of power, reuniting with old friends and ultimately getting mixed up in a conflict much bigger than they imagined, a quest to save the world.

Release

Despite positive foreign previews,[2][3][4] Slayers Wonderful was not released overseas. Guide books for the game were published by Kadokawa Shoten's Dragon magazine department[5] and by Media Works as a special issue of Dengeki PlayStation.[6]

Reception

Slayers Wonderful was a commercial success in Japan, reaching #2 on Famitsu's all-platform bestseller chart upon its release.[7] The magazine's own reviewers, however, gave it a mediocre score of just 22/40.[8]

References

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  4. ↑ Hobby Consolas 86.
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  7. ↑ Hobby Consolas issue 87 (December 1998), page 8.
  8. ↑ http://www.famitsu.com/cominy/?m=pc&a=page_h_title&title_id=18248

External links

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