Customer Reviews

The Guardian Legend - Nintendo NES

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Take the best parts of Legend of Zelda, Metroid, a vertical space shoot-em up, very smooth and fast responses to the controls, make a single game out of it, and then fail to advertise it at all.

That is "The Guardian Legend". This game has excellent music, a variety of bosses, a map that actually tells you where you need to go for the next major boss (ignoring dozens of minor bosses on the Zelda-like walk-around map), and also serves as your special weapon selection screen.

As an RPG, your score also doubles as experience, meaning your shield strength goes up at certain scores. You use energy chips to power special weapons, and as a side effect the more chips you have, the more powerful (and faster) your main gun shoots.

Look up this game on Youtube to get an idea of what it is like, and you will realize what a disservice Broderbund did to this game. As far as I can tell, there was no advertising done for it anywhere. Once you've played through the start of this game, you will understand why this is a shame.

The only nitpick is that the password to continue your game is 32 characters long, composed of upper case, lower case, numbers, and symbols. Fortunately, it includes a password check screen, where you can test the password you just wrote down to make sure it is correct, without that affecting your game in progress. Other than that, you will get hours of enjoyment out of this game.

If nothing else, hold down A+B, then reset the NES. You will get to the music test screen, and can enjoy that for BGM for another game (and there is a lot of music to choose from).

A Zelda-like experience with a level-up system. It would be easier to list the flaws of this game... I've got nothing. If you play this game and beat and want a real challenge, try putting in the password TGL. Good luck.