A fantasy RPG mixed with a trivia board game? What could possibly go wrong? Well, for one, this game was released in 1992 and I was born in 1999. Meaning a lot of the trivia here is completely out of my wheelhouse. Some are still probably bullshit even if you're the "appropriate" age for this (the sports questions in particular).
In the land of Capconia there is a Knowledge Tree which grants infinite knowledge (go figure) but this evil guy, Gordian, takes a few seeds from the tree so he can plant his own Knowledge Tree. He also gave a few seeds to some of the dragons of the land. The king of Capconia sends out four warriors to stop Gordian and his minions, but really, he only sent one, the ninja. Each character has a skill that could randomly activate during the trivia battles and the ninja's ability so happens to be the best one. The ninja does double damage meaning less questions you have to answer correctly.
Before you can challenge Gordian's minions, you are given a predetermined dice roll. In order to defeat a monster you must meet the correct answer requirement, and this starts off small enough. In the first chapter or two you only need to correctly answer two to four questions per enemy, but as the game goes on this quickly goes up to six, then eventually eight. This is where my main problem with this game comes in; it's too long. The game has seven stages, and by the fourth one I wanted this slog to end. To make things a bit worse, about halfway through you get rematches with the boss dragons on the board and they're not skippable if you happen to walk by them and you will. There's even a boss rush as you're approaching Gordian. Not all hope is lost however, as there are friendly spaces you can land on. You just have to pray to the predetermined dice gods you land on them. But you thought you could just get an easy heal by landing on an inn space or a helpful item when landing on an elf space? You still have to correctly answer a question. Losing all your HP on these "friendly" spaces still results in a game over.
Update: As I was writing this, I found out that Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 has a version of this game that's all Capcom trivia. Wish I knew about this beforehand!
In the land of Capconia there is a Knowledge Tree which grants infinite knowledge (go figure) but this evil guy, Gordian, takes a few seeds from the tree so he can plant his own Knowledge Tree. He also gave a few seeds to some of the dragons of the land. The king of Capconia sends out four warriors to stop Gordian and his minions, but really, he only sent one, the ninja. Each character has a skill that could randomly activate during the trivia battles and the ninja's ability so happens to be the best one. The ninja does double damage meaning less questions you have to answer correctly.
Before you can challenge Gordian's minions, you are given a predetermined dice roll. In order to defeat a monster you must meet the correct answer requirement, and this starts off small enough. In the first chapter or two you only need to correctly answer two to four questions per enemy, but as the game goes on this quickly goes up to six, then eventually eight. This is where my main problem with this game comes in; it's too long. The game has seven stages, and by the fourth one I wanted this slog to end. To make things a bit worse, about halfway through you get rematches with the boss dragons on the board and they're not skippable if you happen to walk by them and you will. There's even a boss rush as you're approaching Gordian. Not all hope is lost however, as there are friendly spaces you can land on. You just have to pray to the predetermined dice gods you land on them. But you thought you could just get an easy heal by landing on an inn space or a helpful item when landing on an elf space? You still have to correctly answer a question. Losing all your HP on these "friendly" spaces still results in a game over.
Update: As I was writing this, I found out that Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 has a version of this game that's all Capcom trivia. Wish I knew about this beforehand!
Reviewed on Jan 23, 2023
4 Comments
*four-answer, not four-question
Me knowing Alfred Hitchcock appears with a baby on his lap in the film Torn Curtain will finally come in handy!
I'm kinda wondering how many of the questions in the Capcom version have changed over the years. I always liked to think the Innkeeper guy punched you in the face every time you answered wrong. I've had at least one time where I got solo'd by that mustached asshole through two credits and I did all that to sleep at his damn establishment. Thanks for the broken nose jerk!
BlazingWaters
1 year ago