Video: Get Cosy With Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara's Fighter Class

Fight club

by Damien McFerran Thu 11th Apr 2013

Capcom has released the first in a series of video profiles for each of the character classes in Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara.

This initial video focuses on the Fighter class, a no-nonsense warrior who excels in melee combat and represents an ideal starting point for newcomers.

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara is actually two titles for the price of one, and contains Capcom's coin-op games Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara. You can read about the making of these two titles in our in-depth feature.

The game launches on the Wii U eShop later this year.

[source youtube.com]

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media's sites from an editorial perspective. He's also the editor of Time Extension, the network's newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming's past glories.

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Damo
Thu 11th Apr 2013

@mudjo Trust me, it's anything but a "bad" beat em up.

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Reddaye
Thu 11th Apr 2013

I'm so glad these are finally getting a release on home consoles. Heres hoping for Alien vs Predator sometime in the future.

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Kirk
Thu 11th Apr 2013

I wish they'd actually make proper new versions of games like this with graphics that look just like the full color Fighter character art seen at the start of the video.

I want modern games that look like that (you know, aesthetically pleasing, upbeat, colorful visuals and with lots of soul, charm and indeed character etc)...

Still, this is a cool little "re-release", that's appreciated, for now...

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Shiryu
Thu 11th Apr 2013

My favourite class. Used to play with the secondary colour Gold armour all the time at the arcades. Sometimes I would be really lucky and find a secondary sword that I would use instead of the shield right on the first level. Great game, I'm glad Capcom managed to sort the license to re-release it.

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snoox
Thu 11th Apr 2013

Uuuuhh... they shudda updated the graphics. These retro graphics shud be an included bonus or something, but if they remade it with Trine 2 level graphics they wudda blown it outta the water. I don't think I'd even pay $5 for this ghetto version #truth :[

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cornishlee
Thu 11th Apr 2013

I'm really looking forward to this,

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cornishlee
Thu 11th Apr 2013

@Kirk @snoox
They're releasing this with options to play with the original graphics or an HD makeover.

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Araknie
Thu 11th Apr 2013

@mudjo Please go retro for a year then return. You need it.

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snoox
Thu 11th Apr 2013

@cornishlee truly?? Well how HD do they mean? I'm not liking the graphics on that video. Sure, retro is charming, but enuff already lol

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cornishlee
Thu 11th Apr 2013

@snoox

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undomiel
Thu 11th Apr 2013

Personally I'm glad it isn't remade into 3d graphics as I love the hand drawn stuff. There's not enough around these days.

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nik1470
Thu 11th Apr 2013

Do I want this? reads in-depth feature Yes, yes I want this.

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Ryno
Thu 11th Apr 2013

The game I am most excited about this year!

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vicviper
Thu 11th Apr 2013

@Reddaye They were released on the Sega Saturn on one disc, although loading times were frustrating and it only released in Japan. They were still very playable, apart from a little Japanese text on in game menus. A pretty pricey game to import nowadays.