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: Climax Entertainment

Genre: RPG^[1]^[2]

Number of players: 1

Official in-game languages:

日本語

English

Français

Deutsch

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1992-10-30^[2]	¥8,700 (8,961)8,700e^[3]	G-5517
US	1993-10^[4]	$69.9969.99^[5]	1353
DE	1993-10^[6]	DM 129.95129.95^[6]
FR	1993
UK	1993-11^[7]	£49.9949.99^[8]^[7]
AU	199x	$149.95149.95^[9]
BR	199x		046140
KR	199x		GM1668JG
AS	199x		G-5517-11
JP ▼	2007-09-25^[10]	700pts700^[11]
US ▼	2007-09-03^[12]	800pts800^[12]
EU ▼	2007-10-05^[13]^[14]	800pts800^[13]
AU ▼	2007-10	800pts800^[15]
US ▼	2011-01-26^[16]	$2.992.99^[17]	71118
EU ▼	2011-01-26^[16]	€2.492.49^[17]	71118
DE ▼	2011-01-26^[16]	€2.492.49^[17]	71118
UK ▼	2011-01-26^[16]	£1.991.99^[17]	71118
AU ▼	2011-01-26^[16]	$3.493.49^[17]	71118
US ▼	2019-02-01^[18]	$0.990.99^[19]	71118
EU ▼	2019-02-01^[18]	€0.990.99^[19]	71118
DE ▼	2019-02-01^[18]	€0.990.99^[19]	71118
UK ▼	2019-02-01^[18]	£0.790.79^[19]	71118
AU ▼	2019-02-01^[18]	$1.351.35^[19]	71118
US ▼	2019-02-01^[18]	$0.990.99^[19]	71118
EU ▼	2019-02-01^[18]	€0.990.99^[19]	71118
DE ▼	2019-02-01^[18]	€0.990.99^[19]	71118
UK ▼	2019-02-01^[18]	£0.790.79^[19]	71118
AU ▼	2019-02-01^[18]	$1.351.35^[19]	71118

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 (, , , ). or alone will move towards the top of the screen; or alone will move towards the bottom.

and swings your sword. jumps. When near a person or sign, and talks to him/her/reads it. When near an object that can be picked up, such as a book (explained later) or crate, and 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 opens a menu where the player may either use items picked up or equip different weapons collected.

History

Legacy

Landstalker was followed by Lady Stalker: Kako kara no Chousen in 1995, a Super Famicom exclusive that was not released outside of Japan. Dark Savior, also by Climax Entertainment, also shares similarities with both games.

Characters from both Landstalker and Lady Stalker would later appear in the Sega Dreamcast game, Time Stalkers (along with characters from Shining in the Darkness and Shining Force).

Versions

Localised names

Also known as
Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English (US)	Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole	Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole
Japanese	Landstalker: Koutei no Zaihou (ランドストーカー皇帝の財宝)
French	Landstalker: Le Tresor du Roi Nole
German	Landstalker: Die Schätze von König Nolo

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

Japanese cover artist: Yoshitaka Tamaki

Source: Sega TV Game Genga Gallery^[20]

Digital manuals

Steam manual
Mega Drive Mini US manual
Mega Drive Mini EU manual
Mega Drive Mini JP manual

Magazine articles

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

Promotional material

Play media

JP TV advert

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

Print advert in (CZ) #10: "Říjen 1994" (1994-10-01)
also published in:

(CZ) #11: "Listopad 1994" (1994-11-01)^[21]
(CZ) #12: "Prosinec 1994" (1994-12-01)^[22]
(CZ) #13: "Leden 1995" (1995-01-01)^[23]
(CZ) #14: "Únor 1995" (1995-02-01)^[24]
(CZ) #15: "Březen 1995" (1995-03-01)^[25]

Print advert in (JP) #1992-09: "September 1992" (1992-08-08)

Print advert in (JP) #1992-10: "October 1992" (1992-09-08)

Print advert in (JP) #1992-11: "November 1992" (1992-10-08)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication	Score	Source
(JP)	80	^[26]
(JP)	85	^[27]
(FR)	94	№24, p121/122
(JP)	83	№203
(US)	100	^[28]
(US)	99	^[29]
(US)	80	^[30]
(UK)	84	№12, p106
(JP)	80	№1992-11, p45
(FR)	98	^[31]
(FR)	97	^[32]
(UK)	96	№12, p16-19
(UK)	92	№14, p32/33
(UK)	85	№8, p10/11
(FR)	94	^[33]
(DE)	91	^[34]
(UK)	93	№23, p76-78
(UK)	94	^[35]
(FR)	91	^[36]
(DE)	91	№6/93 №12/93
(UK)	89	№48, p52/53
(UK)	84	№16, p24-26 №18, p66
(UK)	85	№26, p56
(UK)	91	№3, p36-38
(UK)	90	№13, p38/39
(BR)	93	^[37]
(SE)	96	^[38]
(UK)	80	№10, p11

	90
Based on 28 reviews

Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual PCB

Mega Drive, UK
Cover

Mega Drive, FR
Cover

Mega Drive, DE
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, DE (Alt)
Cover

Mega Drive, BR
Cover

Mega Drive, KR
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, AS^†
Cover
Cart Manual Chinese Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	fbbb5b97
MD5	04ae2b65f3a11a7504339e60735beed8
SHA-1	24345e29427b000b90df778965dd8834300a9dde

2MB

1993-07

Cartridge (US)

✔

CRC32	e3c65277
MD5	6397f7029f90f59881bdc4174eafb52f
SHA-1	9fbadc86319936855831ecd096d82d716b304215

2MB

1993-07

Cartridge (EU)

✔

CRC32	5de7d917
MD5	0bee733207842672479cc0f2775290ba
SHA-1	86db4b22b54e8583e35717927ad66b7535bf33b4

2MB

1993-11

Cartridge (FR)

✔

CRC32	10fedb8f
MD5	2b6ee5677a6233fd98f0b90b51684991
SHA-1	b0b447158cabb562e6bf4c0b829ed938b34afb52

2MB

1993-11

Cartridge (DE)

✔

CRC32	60d4cedb
MD5	d9a7922681a126653dc16a0d907d7f32
SHA-1	cdbc7cd9ceb181cad9e49b641ff717072546f0d9

2MB

1992-09

Cartridge (JP)

?

CRC32	70483d03
MD5	8411ed74c77f2282bb0cd9398027cdee
SHA-1	dfca19397479852584d4ac6fcbe27412f9bc1af0

2MB

1993-02

Page

External links

Sega of Japan Virtual Console pages: Mega Drive
Nintendo catalogue pages: US, UK, AU
Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole on Steam

References

↑ File:Landstalker MD JP Box.jpg
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-07-20 09:51)
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↑ GamePro, "November 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 258
↑ GamePro, "November 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 213
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↑ Score, "Leden 1995" (CZ; 1995-01-01), page 41
↑ Score, "Únor 1995" (CZ; 1995-02-01), page 41
↑ Score, "Březen 1995" (CZ; 1995-03-01), page 41
↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "November 1992" (JP; 1992-10-08), page 26 (28)
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 83 (85)
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↑ GameFan, "Volume 1, Issue 3: January 1993" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 11
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↑ Player One, "Novembre 1993" (FR; 1993-1x-xx), page 114/115 (114)
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↑ Sega Force, "6/93" (SE; 1993-09-30), page 18/19 (18)