The game is progressively getting more difficult (although it hasn't really become 'hard' yet), with battles against numerous tough foes, including spellcasters and legions of undead. For instance, the scroll below talks about the cave where I am to find the uncle of Lord Wood.Īlas, it did not end well for the unfortunate uncle: Either way, it's fun to see the elements that now come naturally in CRPGs introduced game by game.Ī neat feature of the game is that as you explore new areas, you find scrolls that help explain the area, provide hints to your quests, and flesh out the stories. This could be part of the main quest, so I don't know just yet if it's a first. I believe we're also seeing the first 'side quests.' I received a mission in a dungeon to rescue a priest from some lizardmen. Well, Phantasie is the first non-'Roguelike' to do it, and the first for outdoor areas. I think Phantasie is the first CRPG to introduce the convention shown in the above screenshot: hiding the map and only revealing it as you explore. I'll try to educate myself, but if someone wants to summarize it in a comment, I'll owe you one. I've found various applications to change VGA palette, but as far as I can tell they only work in Text Mode, not graphics mode.I continue to only vaguely understand why the colors had to be so bad in the DOS version of this game. If anyone knows how to view all applications that use graphics mode to grayscale, I'd appreciate it if you let me know how to do it.

I wish I had a monochrome mode on my monitor so that I could switch it between color and grayscale when I needed to. I have a program called GMODE which will change the prompt screen into graphics mode, but I can't figure out a way to change a CGA program with 4 colors to grayscale, and I'm not sure it's even possible. What I've been searching for is a program that will change CGA, EGA, or VGA programs into monochrome (or grayscale) when they are in graphics mode. But I can run only a few programs in Hercules mode. With a TSR called SIMCGA, I could simulate a few CGA programs in black and white, which is also very helpful, because sometimes the colors of a program make it difficult for me to use them. I've also been experimenting with the Hercules emulation in DOSBox, which is totally in black and white. I found a DOS program called COLAP which will increase the contrast in DOS.

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