Alundra (PS)

===INTRODUCTION=== As a life long fan of Climax's Landstalker, I was intrigued when a team of people broke away from Climax to form Matrix Entertainment. The product that came shortly after was a game known as Alundra. Very remeniscent of Landstalker, mixed with a modern-day story telling motion of a "Dreamwalker" appropriately named "Alundra", the game takes you on a journey into an immersive world with plenty of twists, turns, scared and awe inspiring moments from the very beginning. Needless to say, Alundra sets the standard for modern day adventure RPG's. Alundra is a real-time action-adventure role playing game for the Sony ...  Read the complete review

Here I am again, reviewing another RPG, and on the Playstation. This time the game is Alundra. An RPG from a small developer called Working Designs, which is published by Psychnosis. It came out just over two years ago for the Playstaion and although isn’t well known, it is a truly excellent and enjoyable game. You can pick a copy up now for a very good price, somewhere around £20 or lower. Initial impressions The game starts with a general opening sequence showcasing the game with added cartoon movies in the usual Japanese style. The look is good, but clearly not in the same league as Final Fantasy. The music is good though, with ...  Read the complete review

Alundra is an action RPG, which owes more than a little to Zelda on the Super Nintendo. You take the role of Alundra, an outcast who finds himself a new home in a small village after his ship is wrecked at sea. The village is bright and friendly, but a dark and ancient evil is preparing to destroy it and only Alundra, with his power to enter the dreams of the people he meets, can save the day. The game is set roughly half and half in the real world and the dream world. As the game progresses you will find yourself tossed into a greater variety of locations and dreamscapes, each one offering a greater difficulty of puzzles and plenty of bad guys to ...  Read the complete review

i have to agree with some of the opinions that this game is like zelda. but being a zelda fan it was definately enjoyable. its a long game,but then that makes it worth the money. you will start out on a boat which eventually leads you to being washed up on a beach. here is where the adventure begins. the game is based around talking to people for clues,and solving puzzles. some of the bosses are hard to defeat,and i have to admit some of the puzzles had me stumped but then you always have the hotline number available if you are really getting annoyed.this can be found in the manual and can give you a complete walkthrough of the whole game,at a ...  Read the complete review

...are just some of the (printable) words that spring to mind when I think of this game. I bought it on the recommendation of various Playstation magazines who hailed it "Zelda for the Playstation". If Zelda is anything like this, then it's no wonder the N64 failed. Without mincing words, Alundra is rubbish! I played it, and got fed up with the lengthy cut sequences with no interaction. If you die at the wrong time, you have to sit through the whole sequence again (and again and again). The sprite detection is poor. One part of the game, in the mine, had me scratching my head working out how to get passed a certain point. The ...  Read the complete review