Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole
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Developer: Climax Entertainment M2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributor: Tec Toy (BR) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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).
Contents
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 START opens a menu where the player may either use items picked up or equip different weapons collected.
History
Development
This is one of two games to have originated as Shining Rogue (シャイニング・ローグ)[25] (the other being Crusader of Centy), and thus intended to be part of Sega's Shining series of games.
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
Language | Localised Name | English Translation |
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English (US) | Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole | Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole |
Japanese | ランドストーカー 皇帝の財宝 | Landstalker: Koutei no Zaihou |
French | Landstalker: Le Tresor du Roi Nole | |
German | Landstalker: Die Schätze von König Nolo | |
Korean | 랜드스토커 |
Production credits
- Chief Map Designer: Kenji Orimo
- First Unit Map Designer: Yasuhiro Ohori
- Second Unit Map Designer: Yasuo Hayashi
- Third Unit Map Designer: Ritsuko Hisasue
- Map Assistants: Hiroyuki Sasaki, Ryushiro Miyazaki, Hiroto Nakashima, Mizuho Mochizuki
- Chief CG Designer: Hidehiro Yoshida
- First Unit CG Designer: Ryushiro Miyazaki
- Second Unit CG Designer: Hiroto Nakashima
- Third Unit CG Designer: Yojiro Hirashita
- Monster Obj CG Designers: Hirotada Kakusaka, Yojiro Hirashita
- People Obj CG Designers: Mizuho Mochizuki, Ryushiro Miyazaki, Hirotada Kakusaka
- Item Obj CG Designer: Yoshitaka Tamaki
- CG Data Control Director: Hidehiro Yoshida
- Chief Programmer: Kan Naitō
- Talk Unit Programmer: Yoshinori Tagawa
- Window Unit Programmer: Kiyoaki Matsumoto
- 3-D Graphic Tool Programmer: Yasuhiro Kumagai
- Logic Tool Programmer: Masumi Takimoto
- Compress Tool Programmer: Haruki Kodera
- Sound Effects Programmer: Dōgen Shibuya
- Original Story: Yoshitaka Tamaki, Kenji Orimo, Kouhei Nomura
- Scenario: Shinya Nishigaki
- Music Composer: Motoaki Takenouchi
- Testing Crew: Koji Sugimori, Masahiro Oguro, Satoru Kajihara, Yutaka Noguchi, Kentaro Orimo, Taro Miyazaki, Toshiharu Iwasa
- Special Thanks: Yoshiaki Wakino, Yutaka Kondo, Kunio Takayama, Tamotsu Nakamura, Hiroshi Sekine, Yoshimasa Arai, Tamoaki Ogawa, Gou Suzuki
- Character Design: Yoshitaka Tamaki
- Monster and Trap Constructor: Yasuhiro Ōhori
- Creative Director: Kenji Orimo
- Executive Director: Kan Naitō
- Original Soundtrack: Victor Musical Industries, Inc.
- Original Guidebooks: Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd., Shogakukan, Inc, ASCII Corporation, Futabasha Publishing Co., Ltd.
- Japanese cover & manual artist: Yoshitaka Tamaki
Digital manuals
Magazine articles
- Main article: Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Artwork
Physical scans
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Technical information
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)
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "November 1992" (JP; 1992-10-08), page 5
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 GamePro, "November 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 258
- ↑ GamePro, "November 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 213
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Mega, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-21), page 33
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Sega Magazin, "September/Oktober 1993" (DE; 1993-09-01), page 77
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "June 1994" (UK; 1994-05-15), page 62
- ↑ Megazone, "October 1993" (AU; 1993-xx-xx), page 27
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/software/05.html (Wayback Machine: 2018-03-05 23:22)
- ↑ http://vc.sega.jp:80/vc_landstalker/ (Wayback Machine: 2007-10-13 01:58)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/N0GapvSe3Y49drTMUDl7vsmv_PeZiUvl (Wayback Machine: 2010-11-23 02:24)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 http://www.nintendolife.com/games/megadrive/landstalker (Wayback Machine: 2017-06-14 12:47)
- ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Virtual-Console-Wii-/Landstalker-277820.html (archive.today)
- ↑ http://www.nintendo.com.au/index.php?action=catalogue&prodcat_id=41&prod_id=19752&pageID=4 (Wayback Machine: 2012-04-03 01:48)
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 https://steamdb.info/app/71118/ (Wayback Machine: 2016-07-30 06:15)
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 http://steamdb.info/app/71118/ (Wayback Machine: 2013-05-22 19:17)
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 18.7 18.8 18.9 https://steamdb.info/app/71118/history/?changeid=5755278
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 19.7 19.8 19.9 http://steamdb.info/app/71118/ (Wayback Machine: 2019-09-13 19:08)
- ↑ https://topics.nintendo.co.jp/article/c33d8753-7d81-46bd-80cb-1e0a80dbae98 (archive.today)
- ↑ @NintendoAmerica on Twitter (archive.today)
- ↑ @NintendoEurope on Twitter (archive.today)
- ↑ @NintendoUK on Twitter (archive.today)
- ↑ @NintendoAUNZ on Twitter (archive.today)
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "February 1994" (JP; 1994-01-08), page 34
- ↑ File:Landstalker MD credits.pdf
- ↑ Sega TV Game Genga Gallery, Graphic Sha, page 30
- ↑ Score, "Listopad 1994" (CZ; 1994-11-01), page 2
- ↑ Score, "Prosinec 1994" (CZ; 1994-12-01), page 23
- ↑ 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
- ↑ GamesMaster, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 106
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 111
- ↑ Aktueller Software Markt, "März 1993" (DE; 1993-02-08), page 127
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "November 1992" (JP; 1992-10-08), page 28
- ↑ Consoles +, "Octobre 1993" (FR; 1993-xx-xx), page 120
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 113
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 46
- ↑ Famitsu, "1992-11-06" (JP; 1992-10-23), page 1
- ↑ GameFan, "Volume 1, Issue 3: January 1993" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 11
- ↑ GameFan, "Volume 1, Issue 10: September 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 15
- ↑ Game Power, "Novembre 1993" (IT; 1993-1x-xx), page 63
- ↑ Game Informer, "November/December 1993" (US; 1993-1x-xx), page 24
- ↑ Hippon Super, "November 1992" (JP; 1992-10-03), page 45
- ↑ Hyper, "December 1993" (AU; 1993-xx-xx), page 53
- ↑ Igry Sega Luchshiye iz luchshikh. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 2000-12-07), page 79
- ↑ Joypad, "Décembre 1992" (FR; 1992-1x-xx), page 86
- ↑ Joypad, "Décembre 1993" (FR; 1993-1x-xx), page 76
- ↑ Joystick, "Janvier 1993" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 231
- ↑ Mega, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-21), page 32
- ↑ Mega Action, "Christmas 1993" (UK; 1993-12-02), page 10
- ↑ Megablast, "2/94" (DE; 1994-03-30), page 33
- ↑ Mega Force, "Novembre 1993" (FR; 1993-11-10), page 82
- ↑ Mega Fun, "02/94" (DE; 1994-01-19), page 42
- ↑ MegaTech, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-20), page 76
- ↑ Marukatsu Mega Drive, "November 1992" (JP; 1992-10-xx), page 110
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1993" (UK; 1993-08-28), page 105
- ↑ Megazone, "October 1993" (AU; 1993-xx-xx), page 24
- ↑ Player One, "Novembre 1993" (FR; 1993-1x-xx), page 114
- ↑ Play Time, "10/93" (DE; 1993-09-08), page 94
- ↑ Power Up!, "Saturday, November 06, 1993" (UK; 1993-11-06), page 1
- ↑ Power Play, "12/93" (DE; 1993-11-12), page 134
- ↑ Sega Magazin, "September/Oktober 1993" (DE; 1993-09-01), page 76
- ↑ Sega News, "Leden 1997" (CZ; 1997-xx-xx), page 29
- ↑ Sega Power, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-07), page 52
- ↑ Sega Pro, "February 1993" (UK; 1993-01-14), page 24
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 66
- ↑ Sega Pro, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-11-11), page 56
- ↑ Sega Zone, "January 1993" (UK; 1992-12-xx), page 36
- ↑ Sega Zone, "November 1993" (UK; 1993-10-28), page 38
- ↑ Sega Force, "6/93" (SE; 1993-09-30), page 18
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85
- ↑ Sonic the Comic, "October 2nd 1993" (UK; 1993-10-02), page 11
- ↑ Supergame, "Maio 1993" (BR; 1993-05-xx), page 6
- ↑ Supersonic, "Avril 1994" (FR; 1994-xx-xx), page 18
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 17
- ↑ Video Games, "2/94" (DE; 1994-01-26), page 45
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