The chronicles of Anar have long told the legend of a mystical sword, and its accompanying shield whose magical aura protected the inhabitants of Anar for many centuries. The sword and shield were supposedly guarded by the ancient Corsarians, but their existence, and possible whereabouts are now purely part of folklore.
The evil wizard Suzar has assembled a fighting force of mutated humanoids and plunged the kingdom into a state of fear. An entire army of brave warriors has already perished at the hands of the wicked wizard, and only with the combined power of the legendary sword and shield is it possible to defeat the dark forces that are suffocating the land.
Having been summoned before King Darius and the High Council of Anar, you and five other loyal men volunteer to find the enchanted sword and shield, and destroy Suzar before he is able to amass an army large enough to enslave Anar, and the rest of the world...
...and so you come to team up with motley band of hardened adventurers...
In what was a most unusual delve into what is arguably one of the oldest titles that is currently on offer over on Steam here, Legend of the Sword is an 1988 text adventure game released by Rainbird Software way back when Text Adventure games were starting to explore the early graphical side of things, something that the then-legendary studio Sierra...
This old adventure is a sort of a hidden gem. I remember it fondly in the nineties, I played it at a friend's place who had an Atari ST (I had Amiga at the time), the writing was very evocative, the illustrations modest, but contributing to the immersion, and the text parser - although not as impressive as the Infocom games - had a sensible answer to...
