Good news for Sega fans is that Virgin Mastertronic, the company responsible for U.K. marketing, has unleased a plethora of games on to the market. In this first article we look at Golvellius, Altered Beast and Time Soldiers.

I have no idea why the first game is called Golvellius, since it is all about the kingdom of Aleid, a drought, a princess who goes missing, the king retiring to his deathbed and the adventures of a youth called something or other. You play that youth, on the quest for the herb to save the king, to find the princess and save the kingdom from the water shortage.

To kick off you have smooth sideways scrolling, with little furry animals gently wandering up to you. You chop them to little furry bits with your sword. That is easy enough and before you know it you are out and on to the second section. Trapped in a valley of your own making, or something tike that, we go to command-style perspective, with four-way scrolling and four-way sword play, which is irritating since there are eight-way monsters. Pop into the little holes scattered around, suffer some cute vignette of something small and furry and usually helpful then out hacking again, until you have collected seven crystals, whence the gate to the valley of Golvellius opens and you are off again. It has average gameplay but pleasant graphics and reasonable sonics.

Rating

73

Reviewer

Popular Computing Weekly magazine

Region

UK

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