Rings of Power
Rings of Power is a console role-playing game (RPG) released in 1991 for the Sega Mega Drive game console . It was developed by Naughty Dog and distributed by Electronic Arts. It was one of the most extensive role-playing games of the 16-bit console era. The game world was extraordinarily large for the time, the development time was over two and a half years. Although the game was sold out within 3 months, was due to the then company policy by Electronic Arts - one wanted to the Sports Games - Genre concentrate - to dispense with a new edition.
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In Rings of Power, the player plays a young wizard named Buc, whose task ( quest ) is to find eleven rings of power. With these, the rod of creation of the good god Nexus can be restored and consequently the evil demon Void can be defeated in order to bring about the legendary Golden Age again.
Game mechanics
Unlike many other console role-playing games of the time, such as Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest , Rings of Power has many features that it shares with PC role-playing games, such as: B. Dungeon Master , Wizardry and The Bard's Tale . The game is designed very openly (non-linear), so you can pursue the various storylines as you like, and you are not tied to a given sequence. Furthermore, the game contains more than 30 explorable cities and villages, hundreds of non-player characters (NPCs) with many different dialogues, dozens of side quests and random events.
The party
In the course of the game, up to five different NPCs join the player and thus become so-called party members. The player himself represents the leader of this so-called "party" (adventurer group), and the individual members of this party can be z. B. limited control in combat mode. Each member of the party collects experience points independently and can learn several spells (there are over 100 in total).
The 11 rings
A great battle took place between the sacred Nexus and the demonic Void, both battling for the staff of creation. At the height of the battle, the staff broke in two, and both gods fled with their half.
The parts of the staff eventually took the shape of 11 rings:
| ring | Level of difficulty | opponent | Quest length | required objects |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thought | light | no | short | Ruby, whip |
| Evocation | light | barely | medium | - |
| division | medium | medium | medium | - |
| mutation | medium | no | short | image |
| variation | medium | differently | Long | - |
| Advancement | medium | medium | Long | - |
| Blood | medium | many many | Long | - |
| Want | difficult | medium | very complex | - |
| Bile | difficult | quite a few | medium | - |
| Perfection | very difficult | medium | very complex | - |
| intuition | very difficult | medium | very complex | - |
Game world
Practically every location in the Ushka Bau game world is available at the start of the game; the representation of this fictional world is 2D - isometric , similar to the game Populous or the early Ultima Online . Due to the fact that the built-in map (with top view representation) does not mark any positions and there is no quest journal, many players criticized the level of difficulty, since the goal of the game is achieved through attention to details and constant exploration.
Tips and Tricks
- Money: you buy gems in Mind and then sell them again in the city of Commerce , which is further north. The purchase price is around 50, and you sell for around 300. It takes around ten trips to reach the cash maximum of $ 15,000 and / or 99 gems.
- Increase experience points: go to a cellar at () and show the sorcerer's symbol to the red priest who is there. This process can be repeated as often as you like until you reach the maximum empirical value of 13,000.
- Buy spells : the magical shopping center Magic'B'Us , in the Kingdom Magicnia , all are available.
- You can set off from a ship with a small boat.
- Easter Egg
If you hold down the following buttons on the second controller at the same time: DOWN, RIGHT, A, B, C and START and then restart the game, the woman appears unveiled in the intro sequence.
Web links
- Rings of Power at MobyGames (English)