Robin Hood: Legend Quest

STORY / GAMEPLAY
The game involves guiding Robin Hood through the Sheriff of Nottingham's trap-infested castle, taking down all the soldiers with your crossbow and avoiding any creatures that mill around, to finally rescue lovely Maid Marion. It is crucial to spot all (hidden or not) keys in order to open doors and further progress, so you need to go around and search for them. You will also need to activate certain platforms (moving or static) to reach higher places inside the castle, otherwise Robin will circle again and again inside the castle's premises. You'll find energy bonuses that will help increase your energy bar. The gameplay is rather simple and follows the same style of the genre: jumping and crawling, avoiding traps and fighting incoming foes. The action is fun, mindless and absorbing and the huge range of enemies, traps and bonus pods keeps it that way for hours.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The graphics are fine, although they have 16 colors, and it is obvious that a great deal of care and attention has been taken over them, apart from a few glitches in their scrolling. Even he Amiga version suffers at times from low framerates, especially inside the catacomb areas in which the backgrounds are partly animated and things get crowded. Bad programming? An Atari ST port? Maybe! As far as the game's sound, the Amiga version has a variety of sampled sound effects, like a spot effect for every single arrow fired, explosions and the like. The game includes an introductory music but there is no music during gameplay!