Lu Ding Ji

Lu Ding Ji is a video game in the role-playing (rpg) genre developed by Soft-World and published by Soft-World originally released in 1994. It is currently playable on DOS.

The game is based on the novel The Deer and the Cauldron, by the popular Chinese wuxia (martial arts) writer Jinyong. The game is set in Qing dynasty China, during the reign of Kangxi, the second Qing emperor (late 17th century). The hero of the game is Wei Xiaobao, a young man whose mother runs a brothel in the city of Yangzhou. One day he accidentally encounters Mao Shiba (Mao 'Eighteen'), an escaped convict from the Tiandi martial arts school, who opposes the emperor's rule. Wei Xiaobao is brought to the capital, Beijing, and begins a brilliant career in the imperial court, gradually becoming embroiled in a web of intrigue.

This is a fairly traditional Japanese-style RPG, with 'super-deformed' character graphics and backgrounds reminiscent of SNES games. The battles are very similar to those of the early Final Fantasy titles. They are based on rounds: you assign commands to your party and watch the round unfold. Battles are viewed from a top-down perspective, with the player's party on the right and the enemy party on the left. You have standard HP and MP bars and can attack physically or cast a series of MP-consuming spells.

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