The graph below charts the compatibility with Gauntlet Dark Legacy since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.Ĭompatibility can be assumed to align with the indicated revisions. No configuration changes are known to affect compatibility for this title.
#GAUNTLET DARK LEGACY PC CODE#
Resolved prior to 5.0-12239.Įnhancements 16:9 Widescreen AR Code NA $16:9 WidescreenĠ43486A8 406CB800 NA Revision 1 $16/9 Widescreen And like a lot of PlayStation 2 games, Gauntlet: Dark Legacy features very quick load times.The emulation freezes on the first level of the Desert Land. What's really nice is that some of these little bonuses are found through original Gauntlet style mini games. On the bonus side, there is a bunch of hidden rooms and characters that can be found all over Gauntlet: Dark Legacy. If I'm fighting a boss, why can't one of my friends jump in and help me? You have to quit and start all over again with the new people. You need to know these things and the camera needs to cooperate.Īnd one major complaint I have is that unlike the arcade version, additional players can't just press start and jump right into the middle of the game. This doesn't happen often, but it's frustrating when the wall covers up items that might help you or might kill you if you pick them up. Also the camera sometimes wedges itself into a weird angle and the wall obscures a good part of the screen. The control is tolerable, but it should be better. You need precision controls to blast everything in your way, and sometimes that just doesn't happen as you get hung up in the wrong direction or turn too slow, and the next thing you know, you're monster food. The control isn't as responsive as a game like this needs to be. As a lot of games push the orchestral arrangements aside for a techno futuristic sound, it's nice to hear a return to the classics.īut there are a few minor gameplay problems. And we're also treated to a halfway decent swelling hero theme in the background. You have to love the Gauntlet voice as it basically gives a running commentary of everything you do in the game. The Gauntlet voice that mocked you when you were about to die ("Blue Archer is about to die") and when you were hungry ("Red Wizard needs food badly") now can mock you in the presence of your own home. And the bosses are all very detailed and appear very menacing in their giant monster way.Īnd then there's the sound. Magic spells and special moves light up the screen before everything gets dark and the smoking ground where the monsters were just standing is revealed. As you battle your way through the eight different worlds (Mountain, Desert, Forest, Castle, Ice, Town, Sky, and Dream) each has their own little personality, which shines through in the graphics.
#GAUNTLET DARK LEGACY PC PS2#
The graphics are recreated on your PS2 almost exactly as they appeared on the arcade version of Gauntlet Legends that is still probably at your local mall. This is not a game you'll play for hours on end, because it just gets too repetitive, but for shorts bursts, Gauntlet: Dark Legacy definitely has that old school blast everything in sight feel.īut Dark Legacy definitely has something on the old Gauntlet. Wave after wave of monsters come at you and you kill them, then repeat, then repeat again.
Whether I'm 9 or 19, it's great fun to be wailing away at all these monsters with the Archer (my personal favorite). And that's exactly the way Gauntlet should be. And if you don't destroy the doorway, they'll keep coming until you're dead. They come out of the ground, the walls, and thin air. So that means there are monsters everywhere. You also have to collect crystals that will break down the barriers keeping you out of the more advanced levels. After you choose your character you enter the world of Gauntlet where monsters are everywhere, and you need to find the keys, magic items, and food that will get you to the next level. But Dark Legacy introduces four more classes: Warrior, Jester, Sorceress, and Knight. And just like Gauntlet Legends before it and all the other Gauntlet games you are one of 4 classes of warriors needed to stop him: Valkyrie, Wizard, Dwarf, or an Archer. The evil Skorne has unleashed monsters on the land. The heart of Gauntlet is beating strongly in Gauntlet: Dark Legacy.
And now, Gauntlet is given the next generation home treatment in the form of Gauntlet: Dark Legacy.
Along with those other giants of the 80s gaming age, Gauntlet has a part in influencing games then, now, and who knows how far into the future. Gauntlet is one of those video game legends (did you think it was coincidence that the last Gauntlet game was called Gauntlet Legends?).