|  Howl To A Fullmoon Of Conversions: Knight Lore Plus/4! | | Posted by Luca on 2019-03-07 |
 First rule: respect the ancient lores. Respect'em along the years, and do anything in your powers to never let the scene forgetting about.
And which is the firmest tradition for any Plus/4 owner? Yes, the first one you've imagined: converting a game from another system! Did you think the old trend would expire by time? Absolutely not, just the opposite: the game porting has increased in quality. It's the year 2019, and Knight Lore candidates itself as the maximum expression into ye olde art of converting games to Plus/4!
Knight Lore directly comes to us from the ZX Spectrum tradition of Ultimate-styled isometric arcade adventure games, and is a fundamental chapter in the "Sabreman" series, the one which also includes Sabre Wulf and Pentagram. You are Sabreman, now cursed to constantly turn into a werewolf when the moon appears in the black sky, and you have forty days to collect objects throughout the Melkhior castle in order to brew a definitive cure. But any castle room has blocks to climb, obstacles to avoid, and puzzles to solve. Sabreman jumps higher when in werewolf form, but several enemies will attack you during his damned state.
 Behind the precious work of porting, there's Emu again, showing his coding skills at his best: Knight Lore is supported by full documentation and instructions, supports both PAL and NTSC machines, offers the music composed by Saul Cross both via SIDcard and TED sound (additional code by TLC of course!), shows a fantastic title picture drawn by a real supporting pillar of the Commodore, STE'86. Most of all, Emu fullfilled the game with all the possible customizations a player can wish for, and those settings can also be saved on disk in order to keep'em even during further explorations of the castle.
Play Knight Lore, as it is a milestone in the home computers' videoludic history, coveted by 6502 based machines' users since the heydays, and now playable reality on Commodore Plus/4! It's 35 years only after its release, and Sabreman is still searching for a cure, we hope that its 264 reincarnation would be the lucky one to save Sabreman's human nature. |
| Read comments |
| |
Copyright © Plus/4 World Team, 2001-2024 |
|
