Reviewer: Dos-Games-Online
In Mystic Towers you're playing with Baron Baldric. The graphics are nice, the gameplay and sounds too. It's a real Apogee game. Everything is nice. And as always, the game has a good story in it.
The Lazarine Towers are taken over by dark forced and weird creatures. An evil shadow is over te whole land. As you can guess, your task is to set the tower free and to give the country its freedom back again.
Reviewer: Dos-Games-Online
Mystic Towers is a role playing game that was created by the Australian gaming company, Animation F/X. It was released in Australia by a local publisher, Manaccom, and was globally released by Apogee Software. It is the sequel to the platform game, Baron Baldric: A Grave Overture, which was released a few years earlier in the early nineties. While Baron Baldric: A Grave Overture was originally created for the Amiga, and was later ported to the personal computer, Mystic Towers was developed with the DOS operating system in mind. It makes for a smooth play and better visual displays.
Mystic Towers is not a role playing game that takes itself too seriously. The concept is very simple, and there is an ample amount of humor found in the game, mainly in the form of Baldric’s snide remarks and the game’s running commentary. The game’s premise is very simple. There are several towers which Baldric has been commissioned to rid of various monsters. Each tower has forty-five rooms of monsters to explore, five levels with nine rooms apiece. Once Baldric kills all of the monsters in a tower, and also destroys the tower’s monster generator, he will be given a key that will allow him to exit the tower and move on to the next.
The rest of the game is also quite simplistic. There is a health bar that shows how close Baldric is to death. There is also a bar for each thirst and hunger. When Baldric does not find enough food to eat or water to drink, his status will begin to effect his health. Of course, he will earn coins by clearing towers of monsters, and these can be used to purchase better items and spells. Most of his offense comes in the way of some pretty fun spells. He has everything from an ice spell to a sulfur spewing spell. There are also other spells that will help him in ways that are not offensive, such as levitate and teleport. Baldric will be able to find power-ups to boost his magic. Monsters also have their own individual magical properties, and there are thirty unique monsters in the game.
Mystic Towers is a fun little play that is a nice easy tutorial for bigger role playing games, or could even be suited to younger audiences. It is not complex in any way, making for a very short learning curve. It should be a quaint, satisfying play for most any gamer.
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