Kuro no Ken (1995)

Developer

Forest

Publisher

CD Brothers, Forest, Interlex

Platforms

PC-9800 Series, PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation, PlayStation Portable

Genres

Role-playing (RPG), Adventure

How it feels

A standard, unembellished journey through familiar JRPG conventions of world-map exploration, random battles, and steady level-based progression.

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About

Kuro no Ken is a rather standard Japanese-style RPG with all the familiar ingredients: top-down locations, navigation on the world map, random enemies, turn-based combat, automatic leveling up, etc. The battles are viewed from a third-person perspective, using much larger character sprites than during exploration. Shinobu and Kayes can use physical attacks or magic spells (learned automatically when leveling up), which deplete MP.

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