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Crystalis

Crystalis (XSX) game cover art
Platform: NES
Tags: RPG, Action
Developer: SNK
More Platforms: Game Boy Color
AKA: God Slayer: Haruka Tenkuu no Sonata (JP)
Publisher
Region
Released
NA
07/??/1990
JP
04/13/1990

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Staff Reviews

Crystalis review

Reviewed September 11, 2012

Rob Hamilton says: "It's almost like you're playing an arcade game rather than an action-RPG when you're going against a guy like Mado, who regularly transforms into a giant sphere that erratically pinballs around the tight confines of his room. That’s especially true the second time you confront him, by which point he's added "moves at the speed of light" to his repertoire."
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Reader Reviews

Crystalis review

Reviewed June 08, 2023

JoeTheDestroyer says: "Go then, there are less grindy worlds than these."
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Crystalis review

Reviewed May 13, 2008

wolfqueen001 says: "Out from a hundred years of suspended animation, our hero steps into a world overrun by mutants and under threat of an evil which hasn’t fully presented itself yet. Journeying throughout the land, this prophesied savior seeks the respect of four wise men by collecting four mighty elemental swords. He will travel through labyrinthine caverns, and hostile lands, including the territory belonging to the impressive Draygonian Empire, which has oppressed its citizens and forcibly colonized its neighb..."
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