Magic Sword

Magic Sword is a side-scrolling arcade game released in 1990. The game casts the player as Brave One, a hero who must journey to and fight his way through a mystical tower in order to confront the dark lord, Drokmar, and destroy a magic orb which he plans to use in order to rule the world. The player can use a sword or magic, and can also rescue potential allies of various character classes, each of which has his own special abilities. A port of the single player game was released for the Super NES and the arcade version is included in Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. An enhanced version with HD graphics, online co-op play and packaged with Final Fight called Double Impact became available for download in April 2010.

Characters

Protagonist

Brave One - the main protagonist of the game, Brave One is a barbarian-type hero armed with a sword.

Allies

The allies who can join the player during the quest include:

Amazon: A talented archer, her crossbow fires 2 bolts at a time. Low firepower but high speed. At Level 8, her bolts are engulfed with flame.

Ninja: Fast but not so powerful; throws 2-5 shurikens that bounce around floors, walls, and celings to hit enemies.

Thief: Armed with a dagger and 1-3 bombs; can detect hidden or booby-trapped treasure chests.

Priest: Slow and weak; creates holy bullets into a rotating barrier around him and can be launched to seek enemies and deal double damage to the undead.

Big Man: A strong and endurant ally. He uses a slow but powerful boomerang-axe that returns to him when thrown.

Wizard: Has the strongest attacks but is slow and frail; conjures magic missiles that rotate in a barrier around him and can be fired in multiple directions. The wizard lowers his hood from Level 4 and above.

Lizardman: Strong and quick; an enemy that can be bribed into an ally only if the player holds a diamond ring as his special item; throws 3-4 swords that pierce through enemies. The lizardman can also be found as a prisoner, but only on a few floors.

Knight: Strongest ally; throws 1-3 spears that pierce through enemies; found in the upper levels of the tower.

Tower Bosses

Chimera - Tower Entrance (Beginning)

Gold Dragon - 4th Floor

Skull Chimera - 12th Floor

Emerald Dragon - 17th Floor - (29th Floor in the SNES version)

Celestial Twin Serpents - 24th Floor

Hydra - 36th Floor

Queen Chimera - 49th Floor

Lord Drokmar - 50th Floor : The game's ultimate antagonist and bearer of the Black Orb.

Trivia

The game has been suggested as a spiritual successor to Black Tiger.

After defeating Drokmar, the player is able to choose whether or not to use the magic orb to become evil, giving the player a choice of two endings. Taking the orb results in the "bad" ending, where the hero becomes the new Dark Lord, while choosing not to take it shows a scene where the hero destroys the orb and defeats Drokmar once and for all, restoring peace to the land. The "bad" ending counts as an automatic Game Over.

On Floor 38 and secret Floor 45, The Creation of Adam can be seen in the background, but not in the SNES version.

These characters, including Lord Drokmar, returned in the Japan-only release Capcom World 2.

Credits

Arcade Version [Staff]

Game Design: Y.Ohnishi, T.Sadamoto, Y.Okamoto
Character Design: Kurisan, K.Kitayama, E.Nishihara, T.Saramoto
Art: Y.Fukumoto, M.Kawamura, Y.Maruyama
Title Design: S.Yamashita
English Story: S.Maxwell
Sound: M.Gotoh
Program: Y.Egawa, Y.Tsunazaki, S.Okada, Y.Oronishi
Special Thanks: Poo, A.Yasuda, Nin Nin, K.Yokota, H.Minobe, Y.Ohji, T.Kuhara, T.Matsunaga
Presented by: ©Capcom