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Comments on: Sorcerian (PC) https://gamecola.net/2010/10/sorcerian-pc/ We Talk About Videogames Fri, 03 Nov 2017 13:23:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: John Jamey https://gamecola.net/2010/10/sorcerian-pc/#comment-4768 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:58:56 +0000 http://gamecola.net/?p=22059#comment-4768 Game looks nifty to me; will be checking it on YouTube, if it’s there. I am looking forward to watching the characters fight in unison; laughs shall abound, methinks.

]]> By: Mordecai Walfish https://gamecola.net/2010/10/sorcerian-pc/#comment-4767 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:41:00 +0000 http://gamecola.net/?p=22059#comment-4767 Oh and to comment on a previous post about Falcom remakes, a new version of Sorcerian titled “Sorcerian Forever” was released some years back, as well as a remake of the original with the Sorcerian Forever Scenarios included, they are both only in japanese though, with little hope of a translation.

]]> By: Mordecai Walfish https://gamecola.net/2010/10/sorcerian-pc/#comment-4766 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:36:04 +0000 http://gamecola.net/?p=22059#comment-4766 “Combat in Sorcerian consists of simultaneously holding the jump, attack, and magic buttons as flocks of barely animated sprites teleport around the screen like quantum particles.”

LOL oh so true.. I had just tried this game yesterday after not having played it for close to 20 years and boy the only thing I missed was the music.

If you can find the music to this game on the Roland MT-32, you’ll understand.. otherwise skip this one entirely, the gameplay is so bad for something they obviously spent alot of time on..

]]> By: Joseph Brooks https://gamecola.net/2010/10/sorcerian-pc/#comment-4765 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:35:15 +0000 http://gamecola.net/?p=22059#comment-4765 Ahh Sorcerian
Spending hours running around complex and confusing dungeons with a party of characters that bounce around like kangaroos.
Winning battles was as complicated as holding down the space bar whilst standing up against a wall.

Nevertheless, what was legendary was actually the sound. I was blessed with a Roland MT-32 MIDI Synthesizer and I have to tell you, the graphics look totally out of place when you get to hear it sound so awesome. The cheaper Ad Lib seemed more in par with the graphics.

The aging system was a novel idea, and made me feel a little sad, seeing the characters whittle and die over time. The spell system, and career system was ridiculous and 99% useless / redundant.

Summary: The gameplay was dull, although pioneering in some of it’s concepts. The music was well ahead of it’s time in the gaming world.

]]> By: Jeff Day https://gamecola.net/2010/10/sorcerian-pc/#comment-4764 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:17:52 +0000 http://gamecola.net/?p=22059#comment-4764 It’s no Faxanadu…

]]> By: David Donovan https://gamecola.net/2010/10/sorcerian-pc/#comment-4763 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:34:27 +0000 http://gamecola.net/?p=22059#comment-4763 Also, Squidi at “Three Hundred Mechanics” recently proposed an interesting Sorcerian-esque game concept:

http://www.squidi.net/three/entry.php?id=113

]]> By: David Donovan https://gamecola.net/2010/10/sorcerian-pc/#comment-4762 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:31:28 +0000 http://gamecola.net/?p=22059#comment-4762 It was definitely difficult for me to assign a score to the game. I don’t deny that it was innovative for its time; heck, I think it’s still innovative even by today’s standards. Falcom’s been reviving/reimagining a lot of their series lately, so with any luck Sorcerian will get the same treatment and we’ll get to see those cool ideas make a return.

]]> By: blob https://gamecola.net/2010/10/sorcerian-pc/#comment-4761 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 05:42:59 +0000 http://gamecola.net/?p=22059#comment-4761 Like Zeliard ( you re not the only one remembering this game and being tricked by the bearded art cover ), Sorcerian is a game best enjoyed if you had discovered it back when you were a kid. Both games still bring fantastic memories to me and its hard to accept such a bad score for any of those. Sorcerian brought a plethora of inovation and was especially brilliant and original at its time. Of course the balance is unperfect but the game never felt easy for me when I was playing it as a kid.
In the end, Sorcerian stays one of my all time favorite after 20 years of hardcore gaming.

-blob

]]> By: Paul Franzen https://gamecola.net/2010/10/sorcerian-pc/#comment-4760 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 01:16:51 +0000 http://gamecola.net/?p=22059#comment-4760 Oh man, this would’ve been so good for our podcast on “Age in Videogames” a few weeks ago! Great review.

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