Abandoned Places - A Time for Heroes

by: ArtGame

Publication date: 1992

Also For
Amiga
Developed by
ArtGame
Published by
International Computer Entertainment Ltd.
Released
1992

Genre
Role-Playing (RPG)
Pacing
Real-Time
Perspective
1st-person, Top-down
Setting
Fantasy

Description

In this RPG, you play the role of four heroes whose mission is to save their world, Kalynthia, from the evil arch mage Bronagh. Most of the time, while exploring the over world, the game is shown in a 2D top-down view. It gives you much freedom: there's more to do than just stick to the main quest. Towns have a static interface where you reach the wished location by pressing the according symbol. e.g. a church for healing up or a sage for hints.

During dungeon crawls the game switches to a 3D view and plays similar to Dungeon Master. As usual for this kind of games you see the dungeon in a small windows while your characters are shown on the right hand side of the screen. Dungeon sequences are completely in real-time. This includes combat which basically consists of clicking on a character's weapon or magic spell and then clicking on the monster. After every usage of a weapon/spell you have to wait a certain time until you can use it again.

From Mobygames.com. Original Entry

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Addeddate: 2014-12-22 07:17:25

Emulator: dosbox

Emulator_ext: zip

Emulator_start: Abanplac/START.EXE

Identifier: msdos_Abandoned_Places_-_A_Time_for_Heroes_1992

Mobygames: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/abandoned-places-a-time-for-heroes

Mobygames_also_for: Amiga

Mobygames_developed_by: ArtGame

Mobygames_genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Mobygames_pacing: Real-Time

Mobygames_perspective: 1st-person, Top-down

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Reviewer: conversatron - - September 12, 2015
Subject: Instructions unclear

I also couldn't get past the character select screen. So, I can only offer these tips for selecting characters, cribbed directly from the manual:

Looking at the screen you will see twelve portraits. The top line are all warriors. The three in the bottom left are all Clerics and the rest Mages.

To choose your hero first click on the window underneath the character class you wish to pick (the button will "depress") and then click on the portrait of the hero you require.

To move on, you are supposed to click the small button in the lower right. When I tried, it fades to black and nothing seems to happen...

If you manage to get past the intro, though, you can reference the manual for the game here:

http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/docs_print.php?id=17

Reviewer: RegalP - - September 8, 2015
Subject: I couldn't get it to work

I chose new game, picked and named party members, clicked the little square in the bottom right, and got a blank screen that reflected my face giving me time to wonder why I am up this late trying to play random games I've never heard of that are as old as I am.

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