5/20/2023 0 Comments The dark cryptReception īlack Crypt received an 83% from German reviewer Amiga Joker. The graphics mode used was called Extra Half-Bright, which allowed for a user defined palette of thirty-two colours, as well as an additional thirty-two colours which were half the brightness of the chosen palette, allowing for the game's gloomy atmosphere. Īccording to a pre-release blurb in The One, Black Crypt consists of 12 interconnected dungeons rendered in 64-colour extra half-brite graphics, and an EA spokesman purported that Electronic Arts "like to think of the game as a dungeon simulator rather than a game." īlack Crypt and came on three 880k disks (excluding a game-save disk, used if not installed on a hard drive). Black Crypt also features 'bosses' on several levels, the first of which is actually within twenty spaces of the start location.īlack Crypt was originally conceived by Brian Raffel and Steve Raffel in the late 1980s as a non-electrical game set for pen-and-paper role-playing games, although work began in April 1990 to eventually turn their idea into a video game. While most games of this type did not include maps of the dungeon (meaning players often mapped them out themselves on paper) the magic user has access to a spell called "Wizard Sight" which automatically maps the heroes movement and can be viewed in-game while the spell is active. When starting a new game the player must first create and name their four heroes, who are of set class (fighter, cleric, magic user and druid), as well as set their starting attributes. Unlike Dungeon Master, Black Crypt does not have pre-generated characters to select as possible heroes. The guilds of the country of Astera believe Estoroth is attempting to unseal his crypt, and send the four heroes to seal him away for good. Estoroth, a powerful cleric, had been banished to a black crypt for committing unspeakable acts. The player is given the task of creating four heroes to traverse the twenty-eight levels of the "Tomb of the Four Heroes" to defeat the evil Estoroth Paingiver.
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