Lady Sword

STORY / GAMEPLAY
OK, this is a non-licensed PC Engine dungeon crawler RPG with a rather interesting twist of confusion and mild adult themes. The game is written specifically in Japanese and some unofficial projects began much later in translating the game to English. This game follows the classic formula (introduced by the fantastic Dungeon Master) and it takes you to a magical world inside a dungeon style building. But unfortunately, if you don't speak Japanese, you won't be able to last long. So you wander through this maze until you meet a mid boss, after which you get a full screen picture of a dressed up woman. Then, if you manage to beat the main boss in that level of the dungeon, you get the same girl's picture but without her clothes. Be prepared for tons of random encounters though since you are literally attacked almost in every 2 steps. There are no puzzles involving items so you don't have to figure anything out. All you have to do is to find your way through the maze. The only thing that annoyed me was that there are some strange figures who pop up almost everywhere and talk to you.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The graphics are OK and have a nice selection of colors! The movement of your character is nicely performed and the enemies are quite large even though they are static! There is a ton of different types of enemies with some of them so large that they take up almost the whole playing window. The sound that covers the game consists of a nicely composed in-game music score and some minor sound effects.