The Speris Legacy

The Speris Legacy is a 1996 video game developed by Binary Emotions and published by Team17. It is an action role playing game,[1] with a top down perspective. It was released for the Amiga 1200 and Amiga CD32.

The Speris Legacy
Developer(s)Binary Emotions
Publisher(s)Team17
Platform(s)Amiga
Release1996
Genre(s)action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

The game was heavily inspired by the Legend of Zelda series, with other influences including Secret of Mana and The Secret of Monkey Island.[2]

Story

The plot involves an inheritance dispute between two princes—Gallus and Kale—in which the former murders his brother to secure his position as king. However, Kale had secretly made a pact with his friend, Cho, that would place him as king should Kale be murdered. Players assume the role of Cho, and adventure throughout the land of Speris.[3]

Reception

The Speris Legacy met with mediocre critical reception. Amiga Format's Steve McGill, while praising the game's graphics, described its gameplay as "relentless tedium", and gave it a score of 69%.[4] Martin Davies of CU Amiga complained that the game's lack of hints regarding the player's goals results in "endless meandering" and frustration, and scored it 74%.[3] Edge magazine called it "shamelessly derivative" of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.[1]

Nick Veitch reviewed Speris Legacy for Arcane magazine, rating it a 3 out of 10 overall.[5] Veitch comments that "It's slick and polished, it looks great, it is a great technical achievement, but unless you enjoy this particular sort of masochistic puzzlery, it is also a spectacular under-achiever."[5]

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References
  1. "ETCS heralds start of new console war". Edge (21): 10. June 1995.
  2. Davies, Jonathan (April 1995). "Speris Legacy". Amiga Power (48): 16.
  3. Davies, Martin (February 1996). "Speris Legacy". CU Amiga: 50, 51.
  4. McGill, Steve (February 1996). "Speris Legacy". Amiga Format (81): 45–47.
  5. Veitch, Nick (March 1996). "Games Reviews". Arcane. Future Publishing (4): 79.
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