Dragon's Earth

Dragon's Earth
Cover art of Dragon's Earth
Developer(s)	Human Entertainment[1]
Publisher(s)	Human Entertainment[2]
Composer(s)	Kouji Niikura[3] Hiroyuki Naka[3] Hiroshi Taniguchi[3]
Platform(s)	Super Famicom[2]
Release date(s)	JP January 22, 1993[2]
Genre(s)	Strategy[2]
Mode(s)	Single-player[4]
Media/distribution	Super Famicom cartridge (Physical)

Dragon's Earth (ドラゴンズ・アース^?, "Dragons Earth")^[5] is a Super Famicom strategy video game about defeating dragons, rival armies, and other monsters in order to save medieval European villages from utter destruction.

Gameplay

On the radar, protagonist characters are represented with green dots while the antagonist characters are represented with brown dots. Players must use peasants armed with swords in order to defeat these threats to the kingdom. The main objective in the game is to defeat the dragon that occasionally flies into the map. Peasants can be acquired after taking over a town by sending the player's army to the town center. The amount of peasants that can be acquired is dependent on how much karma you have. In addition to fighting, sacred items must be liberated from places that are occupied by enemy forces. These sacred items help increase the maximum amount of karma that the group has.

However, they must be protected from enemy forces. If the player has low karma, he can use his MP to capture and control a monster for a short time. Blood appears on the battlefield as a small red blotch whenever a peasant, a monster, or an enemy soldier is slain in battle.

Gallery

This is the title screen of the video game Dragon's Earth   This is an image of a dead monster with blood on his body. A North American or European release would have required Nintendo to re-color the red blood into grey sweat.

References

1. ^ "Developer information". Gamestats. http://www.gamestats.com/objects/663/663508/index.html. Retrieved 2008-10-28. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} "Release information". GameFAQs. http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/snes/data/581807.html. Retrieved 2008-04-29. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} "Soundtrack Information". SNESmusic.org. http://www.snesmusic.org/v2/profile.php?profile=set&selected=14251. 
4. ^ "Number of players". Ciao. http://www.ciao.com/Dragon_s_Earth_for_Super_NES__15509171. Retrieved 2008-10-28. 
5. ^ "Japanese title". JPSnes. http://miyabi18.hp.infoseek.co.jp/date/snes2.txt. Retrieved 2008-04-29.