Instructions for
Druid
Firebird, 1986
Written by Chris Owen, HTML'd by Arnt Gulbrandsen.
Controls
Keyboard, Kempston, Cursor
Note: Joystick controls for 2-player game only!
Aim of the game
Four skulls of immense evil power have been brought together by
the Princes of Darkness and placed in a tower. The skulls are now
spreading misery and decay throughout the land and you, as an aging
Druid, must destroy the evil skulls and thwart the Princes.
Game play
Like Gauntlet but with certain subtle differences. For
example, you can cast various types of spells. Offensive spells
available are based on Water, Fire and Electricity while other rarer
but more powerful spells include Key (opens doors), Invisibility,
Golem (creates magical assistant - of which more later) and Chaos
(smart bomb). Each time a spell is cast your capacity for casting
that particular spell decreases, and the counter under the respective
icon at the top of the screen will show this.
Around the castle are many demons of different types which will
attack you on sight (as you might expect). Each type of demon
requires a different type of spell to kill it - a Fire spell would
not kill a fire-resistant demon, for example. If they contact you
they will drain your energy. This can however be ragained by standing
on one of the Pentacles of Life that are scattered around the tower.
Cests are another source of useful power, but careful thought is
needed before selecting an item from a chest; they are magically
trapped and taking one item will destroy all the others in the chest.
Hint: a map might be useful...
If things are getting a bit too hectic, casting the Golem spell
creates a magical servant who can be controlled by separate keyboard
commands or a second player. The golem can be given three commands:
send, follow and wait and has its own energy bar which is drained in
the same way as yours. However, its touch is instantly fatal to
demons!
Comments
"A compelling demon-bashing game."
Rating
90% (CRASH #35, December 1986)
Now
Although the graphics are somewhat crude, DRUID is not a bad game.
Keys
Left - Z
Right - X
Up - K
Down - M
Fire - SPACE
Toggle Water/Fire - P
Electricity spells
Cast Key - 1
Cast Invisibility - 2
Cast Golem - 3
Cast Chaos - 4
Control Golem (keys) - A
Control Golem (joystick) - A + H
Nettverksgruppa, 10/9-94, sinclair@nvg.ntnu.no