The MSX2 version of Dragon Slayer IV: The Drasle Family is heading to the Nintendo Switch as part of D4 Enterprise's EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues, which is comprised of games originally released for classic Japanese computers (thanks 4Gamer!).
It is scheduled to arrive on April 11th in Japan and is expected to land on international storefronts shortly after (with Japanese text) if other EGGCONSOLE releases are anything to go by.
The fourth installment in Nihon Falcom's Dragon Slayer series, Dragon Slayer IV was originally released back in Japan in 1987 for MSX and MSX2-compatible computers, as well as the Nintendo Famicom.
In 1989, Broderbund released a localized version for the NES under the title Legacy of the Wizard, with this port of the game already being available on the Nintendo Switch via Namco Museum Archive Vol. 2
Dragon Slayer IV sees players take control of a family of woodsmen (called the Drasle family or the Worzen family depending on the source), as they embark on a quest through various dungeons to find the legendary "Dragon Slayer" — a mythical sword capable of defeating dragons. Each of the five characters is equipped with their special strengths and weaknesses to help them accomplish this and can also be switched out at any time by revisiting the family's house.
Notably, Dragon Slayer IV will be the first MSX-related release distributed as part of the EGGCONSOLE series, with all of the previous entries having previously been released for the PC-88 series of personal computers.
[source store-jp.nintendo.com, via 4gamer.net]
Comments 7
That's more playable than previous releases for non Japanese speakers. To the wishlist it goes.
Very interested in every EGGCONSOLE release (though I wish somehow they could throw English in!) but this one I might skip because it is already available in English looking pretty much the same on the NES version
Really cool that we're finally seeing MSX games on Switch. The last time they were on Nintendo systems was Wii U Virtual Console in Japan and due to the shutdown of the eShop all those games are inaccessible not to mention being Japan exclusive. Great to finally see these re-releases again albeit under EGGCONSOLE rather than Nintendo themselves.
@Moroboshi876 I've realized now that, if the previous releases were PC-88 and PC-98, maybe it is understandable they wouldn't be translated.
(though I do recall one PC-98 fan soliciting donations from fan-translations. I would think, depending on how well they did, maybe it would be mutually beneficial for Eggconsole to hire them?)
However, I thought have read that Project Egg (by the similar name, I assume this is the same company?) HAS taken to the effort of localizing Japanese MSX games before on which ever platforms it has previously released games on, so maybe there's a chance.
@Bro3256 I only remember hearing about a few of those on the Japanese Wii Shop. Though one of the games released being Space Manbow (Mambo?), which was supposedly one of the technically better side-scrolling shooters on the hardware (would hope so of a Konami game), would hope it would get released.
I do remember the Japanese Wii Shop even got a port of the X68000 version of Phalanx, though sold as a WiiWare game.
boatie wrote:
Yeah, same here. Unless someone can explain why Legacy of the Wizard is inferior in some way?
I was like, wait a minute, isn't that lewd game Knights of Xentar part of this series? But that was Dragon Knight.
Phew!
This looks cool but not too interesting for me personally.
Leave A Comment
Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...