NSFO: Not Safe For Orcs.

November 28, 2010 6:19 PM

Sunday evening Flash frivolity: Meaningless Violence, an old-school medieval brawler of the Rastan/Golden Axe/Magic Sword variety, complete with a fully-stocked Ye Olde Weapons Shoppe and a period-accurate MIDI prog-metal soundtrack.
posted by Strange Interlude (9 comments total)

Not to be too much of a geek (I hope), but those three games are actually all quite different.

Rastan is a platformer. Golden Axe is a brawler. And Magic Sword is nothing less than Barbarian Bubble Bobble.
posted by JHarris at 6:44 PM on November 28, 2010 [2 favorites]

I love this genre (Golden Axe is one of my favorite oldschool games) and I'm a sucker for any opportunity to outfit my character with new and better implements of destruction. To be honest though I found the graphics boring, the gameplay rather monotonous, and the difference between the aforesaid implements to be rather hard to discern. It all just seems a bit uninspired.

Definitely a rockin' soundtrack, though.
posted by Scientist at 7:21 PM on November 28, 2010

Not to be too much of a geek (I hope), but those three games are actually all quite different.

Point taken. I guess I'm referring more to the overall "D&D, with GUITAAAAAAAAARS!" atmosphere of certain mid-to-late '80s/early '90s arcade games than their actual gameplay.
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:22 PM on November 28, 2010

Wow, that's pretty generic!
posted by tehloki at 7:27 PM on November 28, 2010

This guy read some Marx (and he liked it).
posted by phenylphenol at 7:51 PM on November 28, 2010 [4 favorites]

I played that about 3x as long as it warranted. Oops.
posted by aubilenon at 8:31 PM on November 28, 2010

This guy read some Marx (and he liked it).

That is so awesome.
posted by XMLicious at 8:55 PM on November 28, 2010

Wow, that's pretty buggy. I was in the middle of the second level, and my dude disappeared, never to be seen again, while the enemies sat around and attacked thin air.
posted by fnerg at 2:15 AM on November 29, 2010 [1 favorite]

Man, Golden Axe had charm and cheesy digitized sound samples to spare.
posted by HeroZero at 6:14 AM on November 29, 2010