This is followed by an oddly animated sequence showing the hero riding his horse through a forest, en route to the task at hand. Coincidence?) Upon starting a new game, the player is treated to a text introduction illustrated with shockingly poor stills, badly drawn in the aforementioned Western-influenced art style. (As a side note, the first sword available for purchase in the town shop is called the “Relayer”, which was actually the original title for this game – it also shares the name of an excellent 1976 Yes album. Light Crusader actually begins promisingly, with the game’s title written in a cool font that appears to have been inspired by Roger Dean of Yes album cover fame. Rather than being anime-tinged like Capcom’s Dungeons & Dragons arcade games, or even Vallejo-esque, the art is disappointingly amateurish. It has a very European Fantasy/ Dungeons & Dragons feel as opposed to something like Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Quest designs, and lamentably, it doesn’t quite work.
The aforementioned Landstalker is thought to be its greatest inspiration, but rather than plucking a whimsical realm from HAN’s Treasure-land for the game’s setting, the development team chose to frame it in a grittier motif that would be more at home on the Amiga or IBM PC. Light Crusader is a dungeon exploration/spatial puzzle game along the lines of the Landstalker series by Climax.
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