Brain Lord (1994)

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by Produce, Enix Corporation

Genres:Role-playing (RPG), Puzzle

Themes:Action

Game modes:Single player

Story:ARE YOU THE BRAIN LORD? Beyond your memory lies a time filled with Dragons and men riding the skies together. The Dragon Warrior blood flows deeply through your family. Now. you are the only one left. Your father has spent a life time searching for the Ancient Dragons, a life lived in vain. It is up to you to find the Dragons. Before you lies a world filled with puzzles and riddles, enough to drive even the most 'rational insane. There are too many unanswered questions in your mind. What lies ahead? Where do I start? What will I find? There is a Dark Presence that awaits you. Can you unlock the secret? Are you strong enough to survive? ARE YOU A BRAIN LORD? We shall see...Show more

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@hatsukigraetz_9823

March 21, 2025

I’ve got a soft spot for hidden classics, and Brainlord is one that’s been nagging at me. Back in the SNES days, this game hooked me with its maze-like towers, clever puzzles, and that soundtrack that still echoes in my head. It’s not just another retro action RPG, it’s got a vibe all its own

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@Star_Sage

April 26, 2025

This game...this game is something special. It doesn't sound like much. It's a fairly basic plot, and the characters are thin sketches of themselves, more archetypes than actual fleshed out people. And yet, that helps them to design something great. This is the standard to which I hold Action RPGs in my life, and very few have ever measured up to it. To set the stage quickly, since I have limited character count, this is an RPG, with a party going on an adventure, while you play the side character who constantly shows up to hand off important items and things to help them get going, though here, you eventually turn into the real hero. Simple plot...but the mechanical complexities? There's 8 weapon types in the game, some weapons having several copies, some only one, but they all hit differently. There's...I think 12 magic spells, all of which do something differently, some are even used for the mind bending puzzles in the game, and that's awesome design, as they're still useful in combat. And then there's the fairies. Introduced early if you go looking, they are the only thing that can level up in the game, there's about 10 types(some have duplicates), that you can find in the world, with the ability to have two out at a time. Some attack. Some boost stats. Some heal. One even serves as a resurrection item by giving up a level. This is ENIX design at its finest, and they drag out every drop they can from it. From the Tower of Light where the Dragon Lives, to the Arena under a bar where you have to unalive(they say he'll recover...but he exploded so probably not) one of the other fighters to get a spot, to just a dozen other things. It's a treat, and I hope to play it again sometime...except for that one puzzle in the ice palace that seems to have no solution where you have to walk up to the door and press Y, which otherwise is never used on your SNES controller. That puzzle stank. But still, fun times.

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