Empire of the Angel

Empire of the Angel description

Empire of the Angel is the first part of the series Empire of Angels (天使帝國), anime T-RPG and tactical turn-based strategy with bleeding men, pretty reminiscent of the series Shining Force, Langrisser (Warsong), Tactics Ogre and Fire Emblem. It was developed by the Taiwan team DOMO Team in traditional Chinese and published by the company SoftStarв 1993 on PC-AT under DOS platform. Also, the game was reprinted in 1994 in Korea in Hangul, and in 2013-m Chinese version was produced for the Apple iOS.

The plot of the game although quite simple, but original. Vast Empire, where lived some of the girls (!), was the head of the goddess Vesta (維絲塔). One day she summoned his faithful assistant – NIJ (妮雅). The current international situation was disturbing, the constant clashes on the borders have seriously harassed the Empire. Vesta conceived finally to establish good neighborly relations with the neighboring country of Lanaro (拉那洛). Now NIJ was waiting for a very important mission – to be a messenger of peace and stop the prolonged war. She enthusiastically agreed to participate in a dangerous mission. Because for a long journey it will seriously interfere with all kinds of opponents who do not want peace. And it will not be tough orcs or goblins are disgusting, but very real girls – all are as beautiful as Nia...

All the game figures designed in the style of anime, made by dithering in 16-color 640x350 graphics mode. For the sake of otaku-fan-service all the characters in the game there are exclusively female than she is strongly reminiscent of Power Dolls, released a year later, another Japanese Studio. In battle, every troop is very interesting are animated in a comical Chibi style, and every event of the battle is accurately reflected in the scene.

Music good melodies presented in a rhythmic and nostalgic-epic rock marches under typical anime symphonic motifs, made on the Adlib FM synthesis. After the turn of the player, the melody gives way to another: first track of the enemy, then new music the player - only 3 different for each party. Tracks here that is no longer than 1 minutes and fixated on constant repeat, even though many cycles are poorly thought out: one feels a sharp cliff and a click at the end of each of them. Most of the action in the game is voiced, whether the menu or hit in combat.

After starting in the start menu we have the choice to load one of previous saves out of a possible 5 slots or to start a new game, which will begin with the history.

Before the fight, we can choose those who will go to battle, - a limited number of our garrison troops, who survived in previous battle; also, there is a mandatory completion of the beginners of the support units, and key characters who we will not be able to exclude from combat. We start with a small garrison of leader-rider, one of the magician-physician, and a dozen of ordinary soldiers, but with each mission choice will be more. We manage a squad of blue soldiers, and the objective of each level is to destroy enemy troops red, and the defeat will come, if you die our voenachalnika that looks like a horseman.

Controls in battle mainly with the mouse, but you can switch to the keyboard via button K. there are Also a few key shortcuts: E - terminate the current course; M - map; X, Alt, or Enter - menu, Z, Ctrl, or Space - menu of the unit; S - the following unit. Pointing at one of our units, you can send it to a different position or to attack the enemy. Magical troops you can use one of the spells in the book throughout the course. Builders in contact with water cell can build a bridge, and if there would be a forest, it is permissible to burn. It is also possible to skip the unit rested and got on the next turn +10 to health. You can prematurely end the all the units, so they rested, then the move goes to the opponent. There is a small selection of options to modify the design of the frames menu, disable the music and sounds can also be saved or loaded.

Fight card is a terrain of medium size, which is divided into cells; each of them is one of surface types, which may be only one of the units. Different type of surfaces gives different advantages and disadvantages in battle, and can also be an obstacle or slow down the movement of troops depending on their type. Flying units don't slow down its movement on any of the types of terrain and is bounded only by mountains. Water restricts movement of almost all types of troops, but the builders for to build bridges that will accelerate their progress.

The game is fairly broad selection of units. They gain experience for every successful action, whether taken from health points from the enemy or just use spells. Pumping is almost endless, and after getting some experience gradually - unit - increase power and protection units. So long and much procatalyse even a mage or cleric may be able to compete in combat characteristics and is easy to defeat in close combat almost any warrior. Perhaps even to exercise his troops, and built himself an artificial training pitch to save at the end of the battle a few enemies that will gradually regenerate (it is desirable to leave for a snack a couple of enemy doctors, priests, innocent, but knows how to quickly heal), and to surround them with your units, to attack or just defend and wait, gradually gaining unlimited experience for the spoliation of their health - but it will take a lot of time and patience to accidentally severe blow to destroy the enemy. Most of the early types of troops when you reach a certain amount of experience get the opportunity to change your type to a higher rank to the player's choice. For example, an ordinary infantryman can be transformed into units of virtually any branch - warrior, Archer, mage, knight or Builder.

The warrior is the strongest type of units, well protected and causes more damage; he can be quite strong or fast fighter. The final transformation when pumping from any of the branches will be a warrior in blue armor with a fiery sword. Rider has the highest speed on the ground; it can be a volatile ride a Pegasus or a pterodactyl and get the maximum advantage in moving around the map or to become a stronger rider on the dinosaur, which can then be transformed into Summoner dinosaur in green armor, a successful call pretty badly injuring the enemy, pressing a paw on top of, so that the enemy will not be able to answer; although, if the paw hits the enemy, the Summoner will fight hand to hand, that will only hurt him. In the end see only a single (final) type of transformation for both branches: warrior with a kite-dragon - more armor and a pretty good analogue of a warrior, but, unfortunately, loses its flying ability, if they were at the previous levels.

The magician is the most weak in melee and very slow; in turn, can become either a battle mage - damage dealing spells more range or more power, or a priest, the one who spells of treatment, but it will be able to treat a group of units with a high radius of action, although after the pumping to the last type of priest, one receives a powerful combat spell; can also be a white mage-druid, but this is a dead-end branch, combining the average and the spell of the doctor and Battlemage. The choice of spells is not rich: it's either combat, dealing constant damage, ignoring the level of protection, or healing - distinguished only by the different radius of action, range of their use and power.

The shooter is a relatively efficient unit support: it is useful only to those that can shoot from a distance at the enemy immediately after the movement and not get retaliation, although almost useless in melee and completely loses its meaning before more pumped fighters in the later stages of the game, as his arrows always strike the same level of damage; also it is only one new type of transformation where he becomes a little more powerful and long-range shooter.

The Builder can build bridges or burn trees, thus creating on the ground the aisles, not limiting the movement of troops, but he was unavailable for further transformation. He also quite effective in melee, has a lot of health and power, but rather weak protection. The enemy's army have almost the same set of soldiers, except that differ in appearance and slightly - sets basic characteristics: for example, instead of riders on Pegasi - harpies.

After victory or defeat in battle, the story of our heroine, the leader of the troops will change. Even if we lose, the end game will not come, but the level will be different, so that the game can be called a very non-linear, with forks storyline. Between missions there will be many colorful narrative of scenes and dialogues full of emotional exchanges between characters. There is also present a copy protection, presented in the form of colouring pages, where you must specify the correct color of the original figure, apparently in the manual.

Recommend this thing is fans T-Rpg genre tactical role-playing games, although many will find the complexity quite simple but with interesting rich chips. Also it is worth to recommend to otaku fans of the anime culture, since the game is focused entirely on them. Of course, without the knowledge of the traditional Chinese would not understand the plot and you will lose half the fun, but the gameplay part is easy and quick to understand at random.

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