The game also takes advantage of Windows' built-in help feature to provide the game's back-story, as well as explain all of the game's mechanics in considerable detail, which is quite handy. The sprite-based graphics grant it a simplistic, but charming visual style, with each of the various character sprites and traps represented by a small tile drawn in the 16-bit color style emblematic of the era.
Of course, being a relatively late comer to the game and built for a mouse-driven operating system also gives the game some advantages. Of course, as the player's abilities grow and they earn more spells, the overall experience becomes much more fluid and fun - traps that provided a serious obstacle before can now be easily evaded or dispatched, and enemy groups can more easily be dealt with area-of-effect spells or avoided altogether with enemy detection skills. Thankfully the game does allow the player to save their game at any time, so one can simply "save-scum" their way to victory in the early stages if luck is simply not on their side. The going is also very tough at first, particularly on the higher difficulties - the player gets only the most basic of equipment out of the gate (whatever they can buy on a handful of gold and scavenge from the first floor) and a single spell, and early encounters generally just come down to repeatedly swinging/firing spells at an enemy and hoping he dies first. Of course, one of the beloved classics in the genre was Rogue, a randomly-generated adventure with simplistic ASCII graphics whose popularity was such that it went on to inspire an entire genre of games ("Roguelikes").Ĭastle of the Winds shows heavy influences from Rogue in its overall design - the dungeon the player explores in the game is randomly generated, with a sizable number and variety of enemies, items and pieces of equipment (some enchanted, some cursed) to encounter. and their complex layouts and challenge provided a high amount of longevity for the asking price.
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Dungeon crawlers were a very common sight on the various computer platforms available in the 1980's and early '90s they could get by with relatively simplistic visuals and a minimal storyline (generally relegated to the manual due to limitations of machines and storage media of the time).
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