Crystalis ROM

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Crystalis is a 1990 action role-playing action-adventure video game produced by SNK for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The original Nintendo Entertainment System version has been re-released via the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows (via Steam), and Xbox One. Crystalis takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, in 2097, one hundred years after “1997, October 1, The END DAY”, when a global thermonuclear war began that reverted civilization to a primitive, medieval existence populated with fierce mutated creatures.

Science and advanced technology have been abandoned, with the survivors deciding to study the ways of magic. The survivors of the destruction built a floating “Tower” to prevent any future cataclysms, as its occupants would have the power to govern the world, due to the Tower’s weapons systems. A man known as Draygon, however, revived the forbidden ways of science and combined them with magic.

With these skills, he controls the world’s last remaining military power and seeks to conquer what is left of the planet by attempting to enter the Tower. Crystalis is an action role-playing game. The world is presented in a top-down perspective so the player character can be moved in eight directions using the control pad. One action button is used for attacking with a sword while the second is mapped to either an equipped magical power or an item from the player’s inventory. 

The start and select buttons bring up the status screen and the inventory menu, respectively. In addition, the player can equip various suits of armor and shields. Defeating monsters allows the player to gain experience points which increases his level thus boosting his health, defense, and attack strength. The primary means of defeating monsters is through the use of four elemental swords scattered throughout the game (the fifth sword, Crystalis, is obtained in the final dungeon). The swords are capable of both normal slashes and powered-up attacks that launch elemental projectiles.