Legend / 4 Crystals of Trazere

[raverdave2k]

Does any one else remember an old dos game (also on Amiga and Atari) called 'Legend' aka 4 Crystals of Trazere. It's An old mindscape title from 1992, this would be the first rpg I ever played and being around 9 or 10 at the time and not even knowing what an rpg was it's safe to say I sucked at it and never even completed the first dungeon yet still found it great fun.

I tried many times to find some info about it online but as I only knew the title as Legend at that point it was something of a needle in a hay stack as you can imagine. I finally found it's full title recently and armed with that I was able to track it down on one of the abandonware sites and have recently started a new play through.

I've read quite a lot of threads at various places talking about old RPG's and this is one I've never seen mentioned so I was curious to see if any one here has actually played it and if so if they had more luck than me back in the day.

Wiki page here

[Gene]

Played the heck out of the game when I was younger. Never could finish it though; mostly due to the time limit that kinda sneaks up on you.

I remember really digging the mutability of the magic system. The bard songs were good too!

There was actually a 'sequel' of sorts. It's more or less the same game engine but takes place in a realm with a more Asian bent to it. It was called Worlds of Legend; it had a subtitle, but I can't recall what it was.

[raverdave2k]

Played the heck out of the game when I was younger. Never could finish it though; mostly due to the time limit that kinda sneaks up on you.

I wasn't aware there was any kind of time limit, I hope thats not going to cause me a problem

There was actually a 'sequel' of sorts. It's more or less the same game engine but takes place in a realm with a more Asian bent to it. It was called Worlds of Legend; it had a subtitle, but I can't recall what it was.

Ah yes I completly forgot about that when I made my post, I actualy found out about the sequal at the same time and I have that here ready to play once (and IF) I complete the first one.

[Gene]

Played the heck out of the game when I was younger. Never could finish it though; mostly due to the time limit that kinda sneaks up on you.

I wasn't aware there was any kind of time limit, I hope thats not going to cause me a problem

From what I recall, the time limit was more than fair. The only reason I really ever hit it was because I tended to wander a bit overmuch on the overworld. I was a huge fan of the wandering encounters and so spent much of my time fighting them as opposed to dungeon delving like you were expected to do. I don't think it'd be a problem if you were playing to actually complete the game.

[realmzmaster]

Yes I have this game for both the IBM PC and the Atari ST. The Atari St version i have came from Mindscape UK were it was named Legend. The manual came in four different languages ( English French, Italian and German) with full color, quick reference and installation manual (also in the four languages) and a very nice box. The IBM version came from Mindscape USA with a black and white manual in English and a not so impressive box on 31/2" disks. The magic spell system is most definitely fun. A very nice cRPG.

[BasiliskWrangler]

...The Atari St...

I loved that machine. Many, many hours spent playing it.

[raverdave2k]

can we play this on pc?

Yeah it's avaliable on at least one of the abandonware sites listed under the 4 Crystals title (though off hand I can't remember which one I got it from) and it plays just fine under dosbox.

If any one is interested and can't find it let me know and I'll upload it to my website.