Mission: Thunderbolt (1992)---> Might and Magic V (1993)Abandoned Places 2 (1993)OrbQuest (1986)Perihelion (1993)Dragon Quest (1983)Infinity One (1993)Karkoth's Keep (1983). Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/secret-of-the-silver-blades, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). Sincerely, David Klein, President TSI". and he never touched the game to begin with. It's one of the most streamlined and intuitive systems ever developed for tactical RPGs. The heroes saved Phlan and there obviously was no others that was anywhere near as good as the heroes. Secret of the Silver Blades: Here There Be (Weak) ... Secret of the Silver Blades: Giant Problems, Secret of the Silver Blades: Final Rating, The need to choose "Move" before moving in a combat round, The need to constantly re-memorize "Cure Light Wounds" spells, cast them, and re-memorize them when healing, The need to choose the spells all over again when memorizing (i.e., the game doesn't remember what spells you had memorized the last time and use them by default). I didn't have to worry about that anymore. The Friends spell works well here. Choosing "Next" and "Previous" when targeting offensive spells in combat cycles through your own characters as well as enemies. If this had been a pen and paper module, they probably would have broken it up with a first module about the mysterious Black Circle and the Lich would only appear in the final module. I'm sorry if any D&D fanatics out there think I haven't spent nearly enough time playing this game, but it's my life and it's too short to waste any more of it on unadulterated rubbish like this. Ultima had a lot more other-than-combat interaction. I thought of trying to bring my current party from SSOB to Pools of Darkness, but 2/5 of the party are elves and I do not like playing without them. So I just roleplay that the party is paying income taxes on all the treasure that is raked in. Taxing and hoarding gold might be one way a town could cut down on inflation following a party's successful return. I like how I can adjust the icons to change the weapon or armor they are using. Some want to finish business quickly (there have been at least 7 resurrections in the game and constitutions are low) and some want to kill everything in the place. As we all know now, King's Bounty ushered in a golden age of pseudo-RPGs, the Gold Box series went down in flames, and there were no D&D games or tactical RPGs ever again.]. However, in a CRPG the problem builds until you probably could have just hired an army back in Plan army to stomp the Dreadlord's castle. I love Pool of Radiance, but i don't think Ruins of Adventure is a good module for p&p. "It's kinda silly I suppose to get nostalgic over some video games, but what can you do about it" is exactly why my blog exists. Unlike the previous games, there is no "world map" traveling in Secret of the Silver Blades. Secret of the Silver Blades was released in - you guessed it - 1990 and was supposedly the last Gold Box game to sell more than 100,000 copies. Funny how people experience things differently.A) I'd classify LoZ games as action/adventure games.B) Elder Scrolls has loads of plot and choices and immersion. I wonder if he'll show up hear to dispute your criticism of his review, as he's done more than once in the past? Oh, and for the anonymous commenter who said "I really don't get the praise..." First of all, screw you for breaking my commenting rules and forcing me to address you in this tortured way. As you mention in your review, leveling from lvl 11 to 15 just doesn't feel very heroic. I played on the DOS platform. Hate when your Fireballs only do half damage? Don't care. Then when the giant catapult was unveiled Robilar simply walked away, to Gygax's annoyance since he'd spent ages writing an adventure set on the moon. Special edition port of The Secret of the Silver Blades 1.27. I think that Krynn trilogy has the best character developement and influence of three moons of magic is very good idea. Glad it comes in at 50. Wasteland 2 is the perfect example of how not to create an open world, and though I found it mediocre at the time, the more I think about it the more I think it might be better described as terrible. SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc) was out of their comfort zone for the Gold Box series, I think. [He has a point on the featureless graphics, but how could he possibly have explored for HOURS and not found any combat? And in Curse, you can't keep playing after winning at all. You can't just run back and rest up as needed, either, because you'll just have to fight your way through again. I should have added something about the geography of this game. The Temple of Tyr is to the south. This page needs more screenshots. )I am very glad they took the risk, but I guess what I'm saying is, in that light, I am not surprised the series tailed off after the first two, unfortunately. 1) For me Secret of the Silver Blades is reminiscent of Pool of Radiance in that you are fighting to save a city from an ancient enemy. I felt bad, but I figured if he was that inept, he'd probably starve to death eventually anyway. Pool Radiance was first gold box I finished, it was great, but I' am not so interested on Forgotten realms world so much as Krynn and I was litle frustrated in Pool of Radiance, because world travel was little heavy footed, because its divided to sectors. If you parlay with this sphinx, then she'll offer you a deal. Allowing the party to work with one or the other could have helped make the game more interesting. I think the module FRC1 Ruins of Adventure was based on Pool of Radiance, not the other way around. I ask only $1 per month. I have played all the SSI Golden Box games, except for Neverwinter Nights. There is a bug in the program that reincarnates Derf after your visit.". ]After an hour spent ploughing through the manual and the interminable start-up sequence, I was no nearer to understanding the first thing about this game. The difference is that they reduced the overland to a long long long dungeon. Not fun at all.The first crevasse involves a ton of uninteresting and not very difficult battles, and feels like a placeholder much like the mines. Buy an army of what, exactly? One way I deal with the out of control economy in these games is by taxing the party. 6) The party lay encamped outside the Castle. The "it's my life" line is something I would expect to hear as a ten year old on the playground. I used to read Amiga Power when I was younger and yes, I recall that particular "review". Pfft.I agree that CRPG purists might turn up their nose at the hack n' slash label, and will use the term with a degree of sneer, but I think, particularly with the rise of indie and mobile games, the term has received a fair bit of positive traction. Goldbox games are endlessly fascinating and I try to play them like I am in a sandbox. GRAPHICS - Frankly I am used to boring backgrounds. About the term "hack 'n slash" - for me it means that an RPG has mainly combat and little other interaction or encounters. There's no discussion of the mechanics of the game, or a constructive argument in the successes or failures of the game engine. on December 22, 2014. In the orginal Dungeon Master's Guide, Gygax does indeed hold forth on player characters as "monsters", for example as a dragon. Not to mention that a map of the ruins from the town to the well comes with the game. Following the AD&D rules of role-playing, the player creates a party of characters (up to the maximum of six). I had the DOS versions. 2) The world does respond to your actions. Second, they reduced the opposition to one boss and his organization. But now I've installed Secret of the Silver Blades but cannot transfer my characters from Curse of the Azure Bonds. That wasn't even the first post on the game; it was the second. License: Abandonware Manufacturer SSi … Characters were allowed to advance to 15th level (18th in the case of thieves) and clerics and magic-users were … Turns out building a castle and hiring an army? Boss bought off on it,and we have two amazing games. In both the ruins and the eastern crevasses you meet enemies head-on with no warning. You did get to choose your favorite food, but Earthbound is still how Tristan describes it: Lots of random battles along a linear path and very much a JRPG. [So he's a bit of an idiot? D&D and it's offsprings are in essential pure hack & slash sure you can do more then just hack and slash but rules concern mostly on how to hack things to pieces.3ed tried to deviate from this but when your PHB has 1/2 dedicated purely on combat mechanics and the other half is combat spells you gereally end up with mostly combat since there aren't any other (satisfactory) rule mechanics to deal with challenges then to hack it to pieces.Though you can play a session without rolling a dice at all but (especially) younger gamers don't have much patience for those.As for computer games IWD's are a purest example of hack & slash that you can think of. Level 10 offered a whole new phenomenon, gaze attacks. OD&D had an entire castle building thing you were supposed to get into once you hit name-level. Not everyone sees this as a problem, but it isn't difficult to see why other people do. Meanwhile, Boss was also scrambling to get the Great Naval Battles series (1992) and Panzer General series (1994) out the door, the two that SSI is most well-known for. More and more I find these (Gold Box, Forgotten Realms) games fascinating in that you can put as much roleplaying in it as you want. Assassin's Creed 2 had some of these done well, but the problem is your upgrades gave you more money, so the money sink helped break the economy. Lastly - I like that you can change the difficulty. I am a fan of the game, but I can see its shortcomings. Please don't comment anonymously. At lvl 2, your mage can cast 2 sleep spells instead of just one. As such, all comment threads on this blog are live and active unless I specifically turn them off. Just go down the stairs, open the first door you run into, and it'll be on a table to your right. or C2 for that matter, but it does increase enemy saves and the frequency of wandering monsters. A couple more hit points and maybe a few more spell slots.Also, at low levels there is more danger and less margin for error. Still I found the Frost Giant village needed many retreats until we could subdue the place. Rationing spells really at the heart of the gold box game. Forget the well! The miners called upon the Well of Knowledge to send them a hero. 2.1 Recording; 2.2 Credits; 2.3 Game Rip; 3 Releases; 4 Links; Screenshots. Critic's assessment as well as advantages and disadvantages. I could be wrong. The gameplay is quite similar to that of the previous Gold Box games. Let me pay to upgrade things, or buy art for my house, customize my cloths and weapons, etc. Non-human characters can only be thieves and be effective. Given its heritage, SDS needs to set a new standard for the RPG genre. As it is you are locked in opposition to both.I will say that the game does make the villains more menacing than in either of the previous SSI games. 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Sincerely, David Klein, President TSI". and he never touched the game to begin with. It's one of the most streamlined and intuitive systems ever developed for tactical RPGs. The heroes saved Phlan and there obviously was no others that was anywhere near as good as the heroes. Secret of the Silver Blades: Here There Be (Weak) ... Secret of the Silver Blades: Giant Problems, Secret of the Silver Blades: Final Rating, The need to choose "Move" before moving in a combat round, The need to constantly re-memorize "Cure Light Wounds" spells, cast them, and re-memorize them when healing, The need to choose the spells all over again when memorizing (i.e., the game doesn't remember what spells you had memorized the last time and use them by default). I didn't have to worry about that anymore. The Friends spell works well here. Choosing "Next" and "Previous" when targeting offensive spells in combat cycles through your own characters as well as enemies. If this had been a pen and paper module, they probably would have broken it up with a first module about the mysterious Black Circle and the Lich would only appear in the final module. I'm sorry if any D&D fanatics out there think I haven't spent nearly enough time playing this game, but it's my life and it's too short to waste any more of it on unadulterated rubbish like this. Ultima had a lot more other-than-combat interaction. I thought of trying to bring my current party from SSOB to Pools of Darkness, but 2/5 of the party are elves and I do not like playing without them. So I just roleplay that the party is paying income taxes on all the treasure that is raked in. Taxing and hoarding gold might be one way a town could cut down on inflation following a party's successful return. I like how I can adjust the icons to change the weapon or armor they are using. Some want to finish business quickly (there have been at least 7 resurrections in the game and constitutions are low) and some want to kill everything in the place. As we all know now, King's Bounty ushered in a golden age of pseudo-RPGs, the Gold Box series went down in flames, and there were no D&D games or tactical RPGs ever again.]. However, in a CRPG the problem builds until you probably could have just hired an army back in Plan army to stomp the Dreadlord's castle. I love Pool of Radiance, but i don't think Ruins of Adventure is a good module for p&p. "It's kinda silly I suppose to get nostalgic over some video games, but what can you do about it" is exactly why my blog exists. Unlike the previous games, there is no "world map" traveling in Secret of the Silver Blades. Secret of the Silver Blades was released in - you guessed it - 1990 and was supposedly the last Gold Box game to sell more than 100,000 copies. Funny how people experience things differently.A) I'd classify LoZ games as action/adventure games.B) Elder Scrolls has loads of plot and choices and immersion. I wonder if he'll show up hear to dispute your criticism of his review, as he's done more than once in the past? Oh, and for the anonymous commenter who said "I really don't get the praise..." First of all, screw you for breaking my commenting rules and forcing me to address you in this tortured way. As you mention in your review, leveling from lvl 11 to 15 just doesn't feel very heroic. I played on the DOS platform. Hate when your Fireballs only do half damage? Don't care. Then when the giant catapult was unveiled Robilar simply walked away, to Gygax's annoyance since he'd spent ages writing an adventure set on the moon. Special edition port of The Secret of the Silver Blades 1.27. I think that Krynn trilogy has the best character developement and influence of three moons of magic is very good idea. Glad it comes in at 50. Wasteland 2 is the perfect example of how not to create an open world, and though I found it mediocre at the time, the more I think about it the more I think it might be better described as terrible. SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc) was out of their comfort zone for the Gold Box series, I think. [He has a point on the featureless graphics, but how could he possibly have explored for HOURS and not found any combat? And in Curse, you can't keep playing after winning at all. You can't just run back and rest up as needed, either, because you'll just have to fight your way through again. I should have added something about the geography of this game. The Temple of Tyr is to the south. This page needs more screenshots. )I am very glad they took the risk, but I guess what I'm saying is, in that light, I am not surprised the series tailed off after the first two, unfortunately. 1) For me Secret of the Silver Blades is reminiscent of Pool of Radiance in that you are fighting to save a city from an ancient enemy. I felt bad, but I figured if he was that inept, he'd probably starve to death eventually anyway. Pool Radiance was first gold box I finished, it was great, but I' am not so interested on Forgotten realms world so much as Krynn and I was litle frustrated in Pool of Radiance, because world travel was little heavy footed, because its divided to sectors. If you parlay with this sphinx, then she'll offer you a deal. Allowing the party to work with one or the other could have helped make the game more interesting. I think the module FRC1 Ruins of Adventure was based on Pool of Radiance, not the other way around. I ask only $1 per month. I have played all the SSI Golden Box games, except for Neverwinter Nights. There is a bug in the program that reincarnates Derf after your visit.". ]After an hour spent ploughing through the manual and the interminable start-up sequence, I was no nearer to understanding the first thing about this game. The difference is that they reduced the overland to a long long long dungeon. Not fun at all.The first crevasse involves a ton of uninteresting and not very difficult battles, and feels like a placeholder much like the mines. Buy an army of what, exactly? One way I deal with the out of control economy in these games is by taxing the party. 6) The party lay encamped outside the Castle. The "it's my life" line is something I would expect to hear as a ten year old on the playground. I used to read Amiga Power when I was younger and yes, I recall that particular "review". Pfft.I agree that CRPG purists might turn up their nose at the hack n' slash label, and will use the term with a degree of sneer, but I think, particularly with the rise of indie and mobile games, the term has received a fair bit of positive traction. Goldbox games are endlessly fascinating and I try to play them like I am in a sandbox. GRAPHICS - Frankly I am used to boring backgrounds. About the term "hack 'n slash" - for me it means that an RPG has mainly combat and little other interaction or encounters. There's no discussion of the mechanics of the game, or a constructive argument in the successes or failures of the game engine. on December 22, 2014. In the orginal Dungeon Master's Guide, Gygax does indeed hold forth on player characters as "monsters", for example as a dragon. Not to mention that a map of the ruins from the town to the well comes with the game. Following the AD&D rules of role-playing, the player creates a party of characters (up to the maximum of six). I had the DOS versions. 2) The world does respond to your actions. Second, they reduced the opposition to one boss and his organization. But now I've installed Secret of the Silver Blades but cannot transfer my characters from Curse of the Azure Bonds. That wasn't even the first post on the game; it was the second. License: Abandonware Manufacturer SSi … Characters were allowed to advance to 15th level (18th in the case of thieves) and clerics and magic-users were … Turns out building a castle and hiring an army? Boss bought off on it,and we have two amazing games. In both the ruins and the eastern crevasses you meet enemies head-on with no warning. You did get to choose your favorite food, but Earthbound is still how Tristan describes it: Lots of random battles along a linear path and very much a JRPG. [So he's a bit of an idiot? D&D and it's offsprings are in essential pure hack & slash sure you can do more then just hack and slash but rules concern mostly on how to hack things to pieces.3ed tried to deviate from this but when your PHB has 1/2 dedicated purely on combat mechanics and the other half is combat spells you gereally end up with mostly combat since there aren't any other (satisfactory) rule mechanics to deal with challenges then to hack it to pieces.Though you can play a session without rolling a dice at all but (especially) younger gamers don't have much patience for those.As for computer games IWD's are a purest example of hack & slash that you can think of. Level 10 offered a whole new phenomenon, gaze attacks. OD&D had an entire castle building thing you were supposed to get into once you hit name-level. Not everyone sees this as a problem, but it isn't difficult to see why other people do. Meanwhile, Boss was also scrambling to get the Great Naval Battles series (1992) and Panzer General series (1994) out the door, the two that SSI is most well-known for. More and more I find these (Gold Box, Forgotten Realms) games fascinating in that you can put as much roleplaying in it as you want. Assassin's Creed 2 had some of these done well, but the problem is your upgrades gave you more money, so the money sink helped break the economy. Lastly - I like that you can change the difficulty. I am a fan of the game, but I can see its shortcomings. Please don't comment anonymously. At lvl 2, your mage can cast 2 sleep spells instead of just one. As such, all comment threads on this blog are live and active unless I specifically turn them off. Just go down the stairs, open the first door you run into, and it'll be on a table to your right. or C2 for that matter, but it does increase enemy saves and the frequency of wandering monsters. A couple more hit points and maybe a few more spell slots.Also, at low levels there is more danger and less margin for error. Still I found the Frost Giant village needed many retreats until we could subdue the place. Rationing spells really at the heart of the gold box game. Forget the well! The miners called upon the Well of Knowledge to send them a hero. 2.1 Recording; 2.2 Credits; 2.3 Game Rip; 3 Releases; 4 Links; Screenshots. Critic's assessment as well as advantages and disadvantages. I could be wrong. The gameplay is quite similar to that of the previous Gold Box games. Let me pay to upgrade things, or buy art for my house, customize my cloths and weapons, etc. Non-human characters can only be thieves and be effective. Given its heritage, SDS needs to set a new standard for the RPG genre. As it is you are locked in opposition to both.I will say that the game does make the villains more menacing than in either of the previous SSI games. 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a small mining town is being threatened by monsters who were released from a glacial prison. In the mines, for example, you can talk or wait on the monsters and sometimes they will leave. I've seen discussions of the Baldur's Gate games and never understood why some people recommend skipping the first game. Wasteland 2 does one other cool thing (in my book) which is tempt one into replaying hours of content *for role playing reasons*. They do not bother me. However, please follow these rules:1. I found the bank to be a good innovation as it does save on encumbrance. Almost everything else is boring to read (except your blog, obviously). To me, "hack 'n slash" means the game is all combat or prep-for-combat (ie, which weapon should I equip now prep, not actual thoughtful prep). It might have been something specific to the system I played it on - a Tandy 1000 if I remember correctly.Anyways, when I first noticed that the monster's saving throws failed all the time, I was stoked at first. I think TSR was experimenting with cross-media entertainment, which Wizards of the Coast is continuing with today. The, But SSI has been curiously unable to improve upon the experience of, At least 25% of Patreon proceeds go to charity, including $30 to sponsor a child in Guatemala through, (c) Chester Bolingbroke. It is telling that even a "weak" entry in this series cracks your Top 20. This page is rather stubbly and could use some expansion. "Tedious" just doesn't even begin to cover it. Powered by. I have no idea what he means by the "interminable start-up sequence. There is no plot, no conflict, no villain, no point until the abrupt ending. Really expensive. It isn't hard to ease into this role because of Secret's game system. But would you waste time on such a spell if you had 5 fireballs and 2 delayed blast fireballs at the ready? Still the Dread Guards fell sooner than the others. Yeah. Of course It is just dropping the money, but you cannot get it back. Debug Modes. In other words - tactics matter.In higher level games like secret, it feels less like a matter of tactics and more of a matter of how many fireballs it will take to end the battle.2. I finished it much later (2011 I think) after I finished Champions of Krynn and transfer characters. 1 Screenshots; 2 Music. This made the battles very tedious because the only way I could lose is if the monsters managed to take out my priest and mages before they got a chance to cast a spell.I might go back and play it again. 32 Secret of the Silver Blades - Quick Reference Card.pdf 33 Treasures of the Savage Frontier - Adventurer's Journal.pdf 34 Treasures of the Savage Frontier - Clue Book.pdf :), I believe the 'start up sequence' he's writing about is the process of generating a new party. (D&D was filled with crazy stuff like that back then. Quite the contrary. It's been driving me crazy! IMO tactical options only count if they're genuinely necessary for victory, and here you can sleepwalk through any of these games. Need to be able to write save game file in order to play. There are only two or three significant choices, and most of the quests are boring, inane chores. Actually, a single character from Neverwinter (Nights) can take out that Lich & his army like an inconsequential side-quest.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5SI3sqhwsE, It wasn't so much an afterthought as Gygax thought the DMs would take care of it. Oh, you can *make* a non-human character in Pools of Darkness, there's just no point. Each area had a different way of handling the wandering monster. The economics in D&D have always been an afterthought, so it makes sense that a direct translation of those rules would lead to a CRPG with a broken economy. It's almost the perfect example of a hack&slash rpg. I keep revisiting this game and I think the reason is simple, the game has so many varied terrains and monsters and challenges that each calls for specific tactical changes over time. Racial level caps are one of the most glaring design issues in pre 3rd edition D&D. If you attack the sphinx, then every other sphinx in the dungeon will attack you on sight. They could have easily compressed that to 2 or 3 - you don't get much in the way of EXP or loot, and you can easily go back and rest after every level. combat is easier if you don't even initiate a dialogue but instead just head straight to combat fully buffed. The game contains one song at the title screen which was originally composed by John Halbleib but was ported to the DOS version by Rob Hubbard. It's not much, but its better than the villain simply waiting for you, no matter how long you take. My Magic-User thief has had to contend with a mundane model. I can promise you that the saving throw bug is not present in the DOS version with DOSBox anyway.Modern games seem to do a better job ensuring that leveling is still rewarding at high levels by allowing you to unlock perks and special abilities. They are not exciting, but at least you know where you are. It's also possible to play evil in this game. 2. Vse these rules to answer any ques­ tions during play. I really don't get the praise for Gold Box's "tactical" combat when the only tactic you ever need to use is "cast fireball", possibly switching to "cast stinking cloud, then shoot arrows" for fire resistant monsters. CotAB PC game definitely came before the module. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive, Also ForAmiga, Commodore 64, Macintosh, PC-98Developed byStrategic Simulations, Inc.Published byStrategic Simulations, Inc.Released1990, GenreRole-Playing (RPG)PacingTurn-basedPerspective1st-personMiscLicensedSettingFantasy. I think I will start with Secret of the Silver Blades, because I want firs finished EGA gold box games, after it I will go to VGA chapters (Dark Queen of Krynn, Pool of Darkness and Treasure of the Savage frontier. You don't need to level cap a thief, they can't do anything anyway ;). Also story is much better in Kynn games than Forgotten realms. Having shitloads of fun with that baby now. Good summary.One thing I missed is a mention of the interesting combat encounters to "trash combat" ratio, which is about 1 to 99, which is much lower than most other Gold Box games, and I think the reason why the game is not as fondly remembered as the other games in the Pool series. Very unprofessional and reflects badly on both the magazine and the reviewer. There is a separate background for each major area - town, ruin, mine, dungeon, ice crevasse, castle, temple. Exploration takes place in pseudo-3D environments, from first-person view. There was a Curse of the Azure Bonds module as well. There was a bug in the copy I played that caused all saving throws to fail. If the actual answer was "the door has a disintegration trap on it," then I am disappointed. This was before the internet, so this was a straight from the box installation. The interesting looking doorway probably would have been the well portal back to town. I turn moderation on and off and "word verification" on and off frequently depending on the volume of spam I'm receiving. [Well, he won. Secret of the Silver Blades stayed true to its predecessors in the series, offering much in the way of expansion on the old and little in the way of brand-new material. What would they have to say today about their work? It makes it impossible to tell who's who in a thread. Sometimes the lack of spells can create new opportunities. Download Secret of the Silver Blades . Battles (random as well as pre-set) take the player-controlled and enemy party to a top-down battle screen. I do not know yet if this removes the chance of meeting her in the western crevasse. Then again there was a module in AD&D where you actually played as a dragon if my memory serves. 3) Harland is right about the fixes SSI does in Pools. "As Bolingbroke prepares to rush the door, a bat flies past and strikes the door. In fact, when you read some of the review snippets on Mobygames, the contrast between the Amiga Power line and some of the other lines is stark. Once again I want to thank you for exploring these old gems and in the process bringing some found memories back to me. I only use either when spam gets out of control, so I appreciate your patience with both moderation tools. A standard that delivers a fresh, compelling and truly satisfying RPG experience. Accidentally aim that sleep spell too close to your cleric and the battle goes from routine to a fight for your life. We will continue to follow our progress by signing up for our newsletter on our website: http://www.tsi-games.com/ and by following us on social media. When revisting Derf's room after winning the game, he was gone and I instead got a message that with the Dreadlord's defeat he "had joined Tyr". Strategic Simulations, Inc. (Developer and Publisher), You expect games in the same series to get progressively better as the years pass and better technology becomes available. I found, for example that Stinking Cloud, that leftover from level 2, to be effective on dragons, worms and Remorazz! 1. Spell use is rather complex on its own. The mines gave you the chance to meet enemies at a distance. We were five headed into the crevasse. Secret of the Silver Blades; Developer: Strategic Simulations Publisher: Strategic Simulations Platform: DOS Released in US: 1990. Just because there is a lot of combat doesn't mean it is hack 'n slash, as long as there are other meaningful decisions in the game to make beyond inventory management. Still I might bring them through just the same. I haven't managed to finish it yet, but it's really fun when you're just starting out and have to depend on the companions you come across to help you survive. Oddly, Moorcock HAD non-human races (Elric and Corum aren't techncailly human if I recall right), but *shrug*. There were a couple of spells that I didn't see any use for all, like Restoration and Mind Blank.What I love about Pool of Radiance (and low-level games in general), is that gaining a level is a BIG deal. I haven't heard about any of the people involved in this. Style and humor can save a game with limited freedom or story, but a game with no style is going to be boring. To "pay" the taxes, I just drop off that amount of gold etc. Let me hire mercs to defend Megaton so they don't have to worry about raiders. First - thank you Chet for giving this game a fair shake. i remember derf (huh huh, fred) dying as well. All the exploration takes place in the 3D world. Except for the hobbit part, it was really obvious he never liked them. Anyway, just an idea. He also gave hero's quest 2 trial by fire 24/100 ;), The guy strikes me as an ass. Interesting! (1982)Might and Magic IV (1992)Siege of Darkwood (1993)The Amulet (1983)DragonMaze (1993)Seven Spirits of Ra (1987)---> Mission: Thunderbolt (1992)---> Might and Magic V (1993)Abandoned Places 2 (1993)OrbQuest (1986)Perihelion (1993)Dragon Quest (1983)Infinity One (1993)Karkoth's Keep (1983). Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/secret-of-the-silver-blades, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). Sincerely, David Klein, President TSI". and he never touched the game to begin with. It's one of the most streamlined and intuitive systems ever developed for tactical RPGs. The heroes saved Phlan and there obviously was no others that was anywhere near as good as the heroes. Secret of the Silver Blades: Here There Be (Weak) ... Secret of the Silver Blades: Giant Problems, Secret of the Silver Blades: Final Rating, The need to choose "Move" before moving in a combat round, The need to constantly re-memorize "Cure Light Wounds" spells, cast them, and re-memorize them when healing, The need to choose the spells all over again when memorizing (i.e., the game doesn't remember what spells you had memorized the last time and use them by default). I didn't have to worry about that anymore. The Friends spell works well here. Choosing "Next" and "Previous" when targeting offensive spells in combat cycles through your own characters as well as enemies. If this had been a pen and paper module, they probably would have broken it up with a first module about the mysterious Black Circle and the Lich would only appear in the final module. I'm sorry if any D&D fanatics out there think I haven't spent nearly enough time playing this game, but it's my life and it's too short to waste any more of it on unadulterated rubbish like this. Ultima had a lot more other-than-combat interaction. I thought of trying to bring my current party from SSOB to Pools of Darkness, but 2/5 of the party are elves and I do not like playing without them. So I just roleplay that the party is paying income taxes on all the treasure that is raked in. Taxing and hoarding gold might be one way a town could cut down on inflation following a party's successful return. I like how I can adjust the icons to change the weapon or armor they are using. Some want to finish business quickly (there have been at least 7 resurrections in the game and constitutions are low) and some want to kill everything in the place. As we all know now, King's Bounty ushered in a golden age of pseudo-RPGs, the Gold Box series went down in flames, and there were no D&D games or tactical RPGs ever again.]. However, in a CRPG the problem builds until you probably could have just hired an army back in Plan army to stomp the Dreadlord's castle. I love Pool of Radiance, but i don't think Ruins of Adventure is a good module for p&p. "It's kinda silly I suppose to get nostalgic over some video games, but what can you do about it" is exactly why my blog exists. Unlike the previous games, there is no "world map" traveling in Secret of the Silver Blades. Secret of the Silver Blades was released in - you guessed it - 1990 and was supposedly the last Gold Box game to sell more than 100,000 copies. Funny how people experience things differently.A) I'd classify LoZ games as action/adventure games.B) Elder Scrolls has loads of plot and choices and immersion. I wonder if he'll show up hear to dispute your criticism of his review, as he's done more than once in the past? Oh, and for the anonymous commenter who said "I really don't get the praise..." First of all, screw you for breaking my commenting rules and forcing me to address you in this tortured way. As you mention in your review, leveling from lvl 11 to 15 just doesn't feel very heroic. I played on the DOS platform. Hate when your Fireballs only do half damage? Don't care. Then when the giant catapult was unveiled Robilar simply walked away, to Gygax's annoyance since he'd spent ages writing an adventure set on the moon. Special edition port of The Secret of the Silver Blades 1.27. I think that Krynn trilogy has the best character developement and influence of three moons of magic is very good idea. Glad it comes in at 50. Wasteland 2 is the perfect example of how not to create an open world, and though I found it mediocre at the time, the more I think about it the more I think it might be better described as terrible. SSI (Strategic Simulations, Inc) was out of their comfort zone for the Gold Box series, I think. [He has a point on the featureless graphics, but how could he possibly have explored for HOURS and not found any combat? And in Curse, you can't keep playing after winning at all. You can't just run back and rest up as needed, either, because you'll just have to fight your way through again. I should have added something about the geography of this game. The Temple of Tyr is to the south. This page needs more screenshots. )I am very glad they took the risk, but I guess what I'm saying is, in that light, I am not surprised the series tailed off after the first two, unfortunately. 1) For me Secret of the Silver Blades is reminiscent of Pool of Radiance in that you are fighting to save a city from an ancient enemy. I felt bad, but I figured if he was that inept, he'd probably starve to death eventually anyway. Pool Radiance was first gold box I finished, it was great, but I' am not so interested on Forgotten realms world so much as Krynn and I was litle frustrated in Pool of Radiance, because world travel was little heavy footed, because its divided to sectors. If you parlay with this sphinx, then she'll offer you a deal. Allowing the party to work with one or the other could have helped make the game more interesting. I think the module FRC1 Ruins of Adventure was based on Pool of Radiance, not the other way around. I ask only $1 per month. I have played all the SSI Golden Box games, except for Neverwinter Nights. There is a bug in the program that reincarnates Derf after your visit.". ]After an hour spent ploughing through the manual and the interminable start-up sequence, I was no nearer to understanding the first thing about this game. The difference is that they reduced the overland to a long long long dungeon. Not fun at all.The first crevasse involves a ton of uninteresting and not very difficult battles, and feels like a placeholder much like the mines. Buy an army of what, exactly? One way I deal with the out of control economy in these games is by taxing the party. 6) The party lay encamped outside the Castle. The "it's my life" line is something I would expect to hear as a ten year old on the playground. I used to read Amiga Power when I was younger and yes, I recall that particular "review". Pfft.I agree that CRPG purists might turn up their nose at the hack n' slash label, and will use the term with a degree of sneer, but I think, particularly with the rise of indie and mobile games, the term has received a fair bit of positive traction. Goldbox games are endlessly fascinating and I try to play them like I am in a sandbox. GRAPHICS - Frankly I am used to boring backgrounds. About the term "hack 'n slash" - for me it means that an RPG has mainly combat and little other interaction or encounters. There's no discussion of the mechanics of the game, or a constructive argument in the successes or failures of the game engine. on December 22, 2014. In the orginal Dungeon Master's Guide, Gygax does indeed hold forth on player characters as "monsters", for example as a dragon. Not to mention that a map of the ruins from the town to the well comes with the game. Following the AD&D rules of role-playing, the player creates a party of characters (up to the maximum of six). I had the DOS versions. 2) The world does respond to your actions. Second, they reduced the opposition to one boss and his organization. But now I've installed Secret of the Silver Blades but cannot transfer my characters from Curse of the Azure Bonds. That wasn't even the first post on the game; it was the second. License: Abandonware Manufacturer SSi … Characters were allowed to advance to 15th level (18th in the case of thieves) and clerics and magic-users were … Turns out building a castle and hiring an army? Boss bought off on it,and we have two amazing games. In both the ruins and the eastern crevasses you meet enemies head-on with no warning. You did get to choose your favorite food, but Earthbound is still how Tristan describes it: Lots of random battles along a linear path and very much a JRPG. [So he's a bit of an idiot? D&D and it's offsprings are in essential pure hack & slash sure you can do more then just hack and slash but rules concern mostly on how to hack things to pieces.3ed tried to deviate from this but when your PHB has 1/2 dedicated purely on combat mechanics and the other half is combat spells you gereally end up with mostly combat since there aren't any other (satisfactory) rule mechanics to deal with challenges then to hack it to pieces.Though you can play a session without rolling a dice at all but (especially) younger gamers don't have much patience for those.As for computer games IWD's are a purest example of hack & slash that you can think of. Level 10 offered a whole new phenomenon, gaze attacks. OD&D had an entire castle building thing you were supposed to get into once you hit name-level. Not everyone sees this as a problem, but it isn't difficult to see why other people do. Meanwhile, Boss was also scrambling to get the Great Naval Battles series (1992) and Panzer General series (1994) out the door, the two that SSI is most well-known for. More and more I find these (Gold Box, Forgotten Realms) games fascinating in that you can put as much roleplaying in it as you want. Assassin's Creed 2 had some of these done well, but the problem is your upgrades gave you more money, so the money sink helped break the economy. Lastly - I like that you can change the difficulty. I am a fan of the game, but I can see its shortcomings. Please don't comment anonymously. At lvl 2, your mage can cast 2 sleep spells instead of just one. As such, all comment threads on this blog are live and active unless I specifically turn them off. Just go down the stairs, open the first door you run into, and it'll be on a table to your right. or C2 for that matter, but it does increase enemy saves and the frequency of wandering monsters. A couple more hit points and maybe a few more spell slots.Also, at low levels there is more danger and less margin for error. Still I found the Frost Giant village needed many retreats until we could subdue the place. Rationing spells really at the heart of the gold box game. Forget the well! The miners called upon the Well of Knowledge to send them a hero. 2.1 Recording; 2.2 Credits; 2.3 Game Rip; 3 Releases; 4 Links; Screenshots. Critic's assessment as well as advantages and disadvantages. I could be wrong. The gameplay is quite similar to that of the previous Gold Box games. Let me pay to upgrade things, or buy art for my house, customize my cloths and weapons, etc. Non-human characters can only be thieves and be effective. Given its heritage, SDS needs to set a new standard for the RPG genre. As it is you are locked in opposition to both.I will say that the game does make the villains more menacing than in either of the previous SSI games. 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