Mystical

STORY / GAMEPLAY
The game's hero is a powerful magician who must travel across hostile lands from the Marsh of Eternal Stench to Eden Garden and look for the Great Wizard's missing potions, phials and scrolls. On the way, he must confront various enemies from monks, trees, animals to even other evil magicians. To help you recover the missing magic, the Great Wizard has allowed you to use his magic against the natives of each location. Each spell found and used along the way has a different effect: some will turn people into frogs while others may transform them into stones, ashes and more! Mystical is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up, with tons of humor and nice effects. The screen moves automatically and all you have to do is to control your hero in every direction and shoot the bad guys or cast spells at them. You can collect a variety of potions and magic books that will help you in many different ways. Mystical is a nice game but it gets boring after a while due to its repetitive gameplay and its lack of innovation.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The graphics on the Atari ST version are quite good with a nice color palette and smooth enough (considering the absence of a blitter) sprite animation. But the background scrolling suffers at times, without rendering the game frustrating. The game's nice opening music is mainly composed and based on a flute and the sound effects are all sampled from the basic shooting effects to the "blah blah blah" our magician talks while reading the spell books.