Fun Game Friday - The Legend of the Ghost Lion

Hello everybody! It's time for Fun Game Friday!

This week, I have been playing the shit out of an often overlooked gem for NES; The Legend of the Ghost Lion. I've been trying to keep with an RPG theme because of the Super Immortal Role Playing Engine and everything, and I stumbled upon this goldmine of a game.

Here's some footage!:


Now, I am a huge fan of the Dragon Warrior series, and I'm not going to lie--TLotGL is a rip off of it. But it's done in such a way that I can't stop playing it.

The story is your standard "my parents got lost exploring a cave, and I got lost in the cave trying to find them after then ever returned and now I'm in a strange world with fairies and kobolds and towns named Bread--and mushrooms everywhere." It's enthralling in a silly way.

But I have to mention this: The battle system. In normal RPG's, you have HP, MP, and Levels. Not in the Legend of the Ghost Lion. Nope, you have Courage for HP, Dreams for MP, and Hope for levels. And if that isn't cool enough, you don't gain experience points at all. Then how do you level up you ask? You find "fragments of hope" in chest in dungeons that raise your Hope points.

This brings up an interesting dimension of the gameplay of Legends of the Ghost Lion. There is no reason to fight besides for making money. Just like real life. :P Yep. I found myself having to break my old habits of going to level up before venturing further. This has its Pro's and Con's. You never feel like you're getting stronger, but you do feel like you are testing your own personal strength to see if you have the courage enough to venture further into the dungeon. (get it? courage? as in you don't have HP)

Other than that, Maria can use items to summon Warriors and Magicians and Elfs and stuff, but you still are left feeling like battles were just thrown in. The battle music starts to get really annoying--in fact you almost want to avoid fights if it wasn't for the fact that you get to see a cute girl wink when you win.

I like it in a kinky way. It's a little bit broken on the edges but it's a generally captivating game. Give it a try. You will be addicted.

EDIT: Oh man! I didn't notice that I recorded sound in the wrong way. I had it set to microphone instead of input. So you get to hear our conversation about Food Party instead of the in-game music. I will leave it for funny sake, because after all, it's Fun Game Friday! Sorry for the mix up though!