Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole

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Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Virtual Console, Steam
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
Genre: RPG

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
JP 		¥8,7008,700 G-5517
Sega Mega Drive
US 		$69.9969.99[2] 1353
Sega Mega Drive
DE 		3466-18
Sega Mega Drive
FR
Sega Mega Drive
UK 		£49.9949.99[4] 3466-03
Sega Mega Drive
AU
Sega Mega Drive
BR 		046140
Sega Mega Drive
KR 		GM1668JG
Sega Mega Drive
AS 		G-5517-11
Wii Virtual Console
JP ▼ 		700pts700
Wii Virtual Console
US ▼ 		800pts800
Wii Virtual Console
EU ▼ 		800pts800
CERO
Missing Parameter!

Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole, called Landstalker: Koutei no Zaihou (ランドストーカー 皇帝の財宝) in Japan, is a role-playing action-adventure game by Climax Entertainment released for the Sega Mega Drive in 1992 in Japan and in 1993 in the US and Europe, where it was also translated to French (Landstalker: Le Tresor du Roi Nole) and German (Landstalker: Die Schätze von König Nolo).

Story

Nigel (Ryle in Japan and Niels in Germany) is a treasure hunter working for pay. While receiving payment for a recent hunt, the wood nymph Friday flies in, asking for help, as she is being chased by thieves who know she knows something about the treasure of King Nole, a forgotten king who escaped his subjects's wrath and became lost with his treasure. Nigel sets out to find the treasure with Friday as a guide in the hopes of becoming richer than his wildest dreams.

Gameplay

The game takes an isometric projection where the player can only go in a diagonal (that is, only face the corners of the screen) by pressing the appropriate combination of D-pad buttons (Up-left, Up-right, Down-left, Down-right). Up or Left alone will move towards the top of the screen; Down or Right alone will move towards the bottom.

A and C swings your sword. B jumps. When near a person or sign, A and C talks to him/her/reads it. When near an object that can be picked up, such as a book (explained later) or crate, A and C once picks it up and again throws it (it cannot merely be dropped, but Nigel can jump while holding something). Some villages have a church where the priest asks the player to bring some books on a nearby shelf to him:

  • Awakening Book: cures hallucinations
  • AntiCurse Book: cures curses
  • Detox Book: cures poisoning
  • Record Book: saves the game's progress (this is the only way to save)

Pressing  START  opens a menu where the player may either use items picked up or equip different weapons collected.

Production credits

  • Chief Map Designer: Kenji Orimo
  • Chief CG Designer: Hidehiro Yoshida
  • CG Data Control Director: Hidehiro Yoshida
  • Chief Programmer: Kan Naitō
  • Sound Effect Programmer: Dōgen Shibuya
  • Original Story: Yoshitaka Tamaki, Kenji Orimo, Kouhei Nomura
  • Scenario: Shinya Nishigaki
  • Music Composer: Motoaki Takenouchi
  • Character Design: Yoshitaka Tamaki
  • Creative Director: Kenji Orimo
  • Executive Director: Kan Naitō
  • Monster/Trap Constructor: Yasuhiro Ōhori

History

Awards

  • 1992 GameFan Megawards[5]
    • Best Import Game
  • 1993 GameFan Megawards[6]
    • Winner:
      • Best Action/RPG (Overall)
      • Best Action/RPG (Sega)
      • Most Innovative New Game (Sega)
    • Nominee:
      • Game of the Year
      • Best Music (Genesis)
  • Mega[7]
    • Top Mega Drive Games of All Time (#5)

Magazine articles

Main article: Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

  • LandstalkerMCD JP PrintAdvert.jpg

    JP print advert

  • JP TV advert

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Print advert in Video Games (DE) #1993-11: "11/93" (1993-10-27)
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Digital manuals

  • Steam manual

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
94 №24, p121/122
83 №203
100 Vol.1, №3, p30/31[8]
99 Vol.1, №3, p11[9]
80 №52, p252[1]
84 №12, p106
98 №15, p86-88[10]
97 №34, p231[11]
96 №12, p16-19
92 №14, p32/33
85 №8, p10/11
94 №22, p82-85[12]
91 №2/94, p42-44[13]
93 №23, p76-78
94 №12, p102-105[14]
91 №36, p114/115[15]
91 №6/93
№12/93
89 №48, p52/53
84 №16, p24-26
№18, p66
85 №26, p56
91 №3, p36-38
90 №13, p38/39
93 №22, p6/7[16]
96 №6/93, p18/19[17]
80 №10, p11
Sega Mega Drive
 91
Based on
25 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
90
[18]
Aktueller Software Markt (DE)
80
[19]
Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J
80
[20]
Consoles + (FR)
94
[21]
Cool Gamer (RU)
60
[22]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)
90
[23]
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
83
[24]
GameFan (US) NTSC-J
99
[9]
GameFan (US) NTSC-U
95
[25]
Game Power (IT) NTSC
96
[26]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
80
[1]
Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J
80
[27]
Hyper (AU)
92
[28]
Igry Sega Luchshiye iz luchshikh. Vypusk 1 (RU)
80
[29]
Joypad (FR) NTSC-J
98
[10]
Joypad (FR) PAL
97
[30]
Joystick (FR) NTSC-J
97
[11]
Mega (UK) PAL
92
[31]
Mega Action (UK) PAL
85
[32]
Megablast (DE) PAL
84
[33]
Mega Force (FR)
94
[12]
Mega Fun (DE) PAL
91
[13]
MegaTech (UK) PAL
93
[34]
Marukatsu Mega Drive (JP) NTSC-J
85
[35]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL
94
[14]
Megazone (AU)
90
[36]
Player One (FR)
91
[15]
Play Time (DE)
90
[37]
Power Up! (UK)
91
[38]
Power Play (DE)
91
[39]
Sega Magazin (DE)
91
[40]
Sega News (CZ)
94
[41]
Sega Power (UK) PAL
89
[42]
Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-J
84
[43]
Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-J
84
[44]
Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-U
85
[45]
Sega Zone (UK) NTSC-J
91
[46]
Sega Zone (UK) PAL
90
[47]
Sega Force (SE)
96
[17]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
85
[48]
Sonic the Comic (UK) PAL
80
[49]
Supergame (BR) NTSC-J
93
[16]
Supersonic (FR)
97
[50]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
80
[51]
Video Games (DE) NTSC-U
80
[52]
Sega Mega Drive
 88
Based on
45 reviews

Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole

Mega Drive, US
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Cart
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Cart
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Chinese Manual
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Mega Drive, UK
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Mega Drive, FR
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Mega Drive, DE
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Mega Drive, DE (Alt)
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Mega Drive, KR
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Cover
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 fbbb5b97
MD5 04ae2b65f3a11a7504339e60735beed8
SHA-1 24345e29427b000b90df778965dd8834300a9dde
2MB 1993-07 Cartridge (US)
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 e3c65277
MD5 6397f7029f90f59881bdc4174eafb52f
SHA-1 9fbadc86319936855831ecd096d82d716b304215
2MB 1993-07 Cartridge (EU)
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 5de7d917
MD5 0bee733207842672479cc0f2775290ba
SHA-1 86db4b22b54e8583e35717927ad66b7535bf33b4
2MB 1993-11 Cartridge (FR)
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 10fedb8f
MD5 2b6ee5677a6233fd98f0b90b51684991
SHA-1 b0b447158cabb562e6bf4c0b829ed938b34afb52
2MB 1993-11 Cartridge (DE)
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 60d4cedb
MD5 d9a7922681a126653dc16a0d907d7f32
SHA-1 cdbc7cd9ceb181cad9e49b641ff717072546f0d9
2MB 1992-09 Cartridge (JP)
Sega Mega Drive
 ?
CRC32 70483d03
MD5 8411ed74c77f2282bb0cd9398027cdee
SHA-1 dfca19397479852584d4ac6fcbe27412f9bc1af0
2MB 1993-02 Page

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 File:GamePro US 052.pdf, page 258 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamePro US 052.pdf_p258" defined multiple times with different content
  2. ↑ File:GamePro US 052.pdf, page 213
  3. ↑ File:Edge UK 001.pdf, page 44
  4. ↑ File:CVG UK 151.pdf, page 62
  5. ↑ File:GameFan US 0103.pdf, page 70
  6. ↑ File:GameFan US 0202.pdf, page 54
  7. ↑ [Mega, November 1994, №26, p74 Mega, November 1994, №26, p74]
  8. ↑ File:GameFan US 0103.pdf, page 30
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 File:GameFan US 0103.pdf, page 11 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GameFan US 0103.pdf_p11" defined multiple times with different content
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 File:Joypad FR 015.pdf, page 86 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Joypad FR 015.pdf_p86" defined multiple times with different content
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 File:Joystick FR 034.pdf, page 231 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Joystick FR 034.pdf_p231" defined multiple times with different content
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 File:MegaForce FR 22.pdf, page 82 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MegaForce FR 22.pdf_p82" defined multiple times with different content
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 File:MegaFun DE 1994-02.pdf, page 42 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MegaFun DE 1994-02.pdf_p42" defined multiple times with different content
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 File:MeanMachinesSega12UK.pdf, page 105 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega12UK.pdf_p105" defined multiple times with different content
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 File:PlayerOne FR 036.pdf, page 114 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:PlayerOne FR 036.pdf_p114" defined multiple times with different content
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 File:Supergame BR 22.pdf, page 6 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Supergame BR 22.pdf_p6" defined multiple times with different content
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 File:SegaForce SE 1993 06.pdf, page 18 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SegaForce SE 1993 06.pdf_p18" defined multiple times with different content
  18. ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 111
  19. ↑ Aktueller Software Markt, "März 1993" (DE; 1993-02-08), page 127
  20. ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "November 1992" (JP; 1992-10-08), page 28
  21. ↑ Consoles +, "Octobre 1993" (FR; 1993-xx-xx), page 120
  22. ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 113
  23. ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 46
  24. ↑ Famitsu, "1992-11-06" (JP; 1992-10-23), page 1
  25. ↑ GameFan, "Volume 1, Issue 10: September 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 15
  26. ↑ Game Power, "Novembre 1993" (IT; 1993-1x-xx), page 63
  27. ↑ Hippon Super, "November 1992" (JP; 1992-10-03), page 45
  28. ↑ Hyper, "December 1993" (AU; 1993-xx-xx), page 53
  29. ↑ Igry Sega Luchshiye iz luchshikh. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 2000-12-07), page 79
  30. ↑ Joypad, "Décembre 1993" (FR; 1993-1x-xx), page 76
  31. ↑ Mega, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-21), page 32
  32. ↑ Mega Action, "Christmas 1993" (UK; 1993-12-02), page 10
  33. ↑ Megablast, "2/94" (DE; 1994-03-30), page 33
  34. ↑ MegaTech, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-20), page 76
  35. ↑ Marukatsu Mega Drive, "November 1992" (JP; 1992-10-xx), page 110
  36. ↑ Megazone, "October 1993" (AU; 1993-xx-xx), page 24
  37. ↑ Play Time, "10/93" (DE; 1993-09-08), page 94
  38. ↑ Power Up!, "Saturday, November 06, 1993" (UK; 1993-11-06), page 1
  39. ↑ Power Play, "12/93" (DE; 1993-11-12), page 134
  40. ↑ Sega Magazin, "September/Oktober 1993" (DE; 1993-09-01), page 76
  41. ↑ Sega News, "Leden 1997" (CZ; 1997-xx-xx), page 29
  42. ↑ Sega Power, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-07), page 52
  43. ↑ Sega Pro, "February 1993" (UK; 1993-01-14), page 24
  44. ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 66
  45. ↑ Sega Pro, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-11-11), page 56
  46. ↑ Sega Zone, "January 1993" (UK; 1992-12-xx), page 36
  47. ↑ Sega Zone, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-28), page 38
  48. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85
  49. ↑ Sonic the Comic, "October 2nd 1993" (UK; 1993-10-02), page 11
  50. ↑ Supersonic, "Avril 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 18
  51. ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 17
  52. ↑ Video Games, "2/94" (DE; 1994-01-26), page 45
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