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IQ Panic
IQ Panic is a quiz game with a backstory. A demon has kidnapped a girl from a peaceful village, and the elders send a boy named Gengorō to bring her back, defeating the demon's minions using his intelligence and knowledge. The game has a pseudo-RPG structure, with top-down navigation, overworld, villages, dungeons, treasure chests, random and boss 'battles', etc. However, the actual RPG elements are very light in the game: there is no leveling up, and the protagonist's health automatically increases after a plot-dictated boss encounter.
The core of the game is trivia 'battles' against randomly appearing characters. Each 'enemy' will ask the hero a question on a variety of topics (English language, geography, popular culture, etc.). Correctly answering the question within the time limit 'kills' the enemy, while giving an incorrect answer reduces the hero's HP by one point. Boss enemies offer a selection of topics and require several correct answers to be defeated. Some items can be used to restore HP, reduce the time limit, return to a village, etc.
Mateki Densetsu Astralius
It was an ordinary cruise ship performance for the four musicians. The band leader, known only as the Flute (the player names him and the other heroes before the game begins), never thought it would end that way. . . . Suddenly, a tornado engulfed the ship and the poor musician found himself in a magical world populated by angelic creatures and monsters. Naturally, this world, called Astralius by its inhabitants, is in need of salvation. Only the Magic Flute can avert the demonic threat. Apparently, our hero is the only flute player in all dimensions, as it is now up to him to take on the unlikely role of noble paladin, find other musicians to help him in his quest and prove to everyone that music can indeed save the world.
Despite the unusual choice of protagonists, Mateki Densetsu Astralius is an 'old school' Japanese style RPG. The player controls the unnamed flute player and other musicians (trumpeter, drummer, etc. ), who later join the party, exploring the world from top to bottom, visiting villages to buy weapons, armor and items, descending into dungeons, leveling up automatically, progressing through the story in a linear fashion, and fighting randomly appearing enemies in turn-based combat viewed from the first-person perspective. Casting magic spells is called 'acting' in the game, although it requires magic points, as in other games of this type. Those magic points must be purchased at special stores.
Unlike most other PC-engine (TurboGrafx) CD RPGs, there are no voiceovers or animated cutscenes in this game.
