Post by lambsmarch on Feb 5, 2008 12:19:36 GMT -6
Awhile back I made a post about Hercules: The Legendary Journey for Nintendo64 and I can't find it except under my profile. Well thank goodness for that at least. Anyway, here is an update I just finished the game today FINALLY. teh whole strategy and review is too big to copy over here, you can find it here:
There's also stuff on there relating to Xena for Playstation and Gameboy for those of you that haven't seen it yet. Enjoy!
My review on Amazon.com
Here's what I wrote before:
I can't get past this game heeeeeelp!
« Thread Started on Jun 8, 2007, 11:55am »
There's also stuff on there relating to Xena for Playstation and Gameboy for those of you that haven't seen it yet. Enjoy!
My review on Amazon.com
Hercules: the Legendary Journeys for Nintendo64
This game is a 2000 release, for Nintendo64, it is a cartridge inserted into the game console. Original N64 games stored their played or saved games on the cartridge itself, later you had to insert a pak into the controller to save a game; for Hercules you need a pak.
Story: Ares, son of Zeus, has poisoned and imprisoned Zeus and is running joyfully amok throughout earth and Olympus. Hercules, half-human son of Zeus and half-brother to Ares, must battle and riddle and do everyday household errands, on his way to defeat Ares, release Zeus, and restore both worlds to their usual dysfunctional state. He gets help from his friends the Golden Hind, Ioleus, the god Haephestus, and his friend Salmoneus (for a price, of course).
The graphics are somewhere between Super Nintendo and Playstation. It is 3D, you run around inside a world with different levels, and is similar to Zelda 'Ocarina of Time' or 'Majora's Mask'. The music has a Celtic feeling, a little less structured than Xena Playstation but more than Xena Gameboy. Hercules is accompanied in the game by Ioleus, but they don't play together like Gabrielle and Xena do in Xena Playstation; they trade off so you get to be one at a time. Hercules mostly punches, or buys and uses potions, while Ioleus uses his fighting staff similar to Gabrielle in Xena Playstation. Later in the game you can play as Serena the Golden Hind, who uses bow and arrow. You have no choice who to play as, it is assigned by the game programmers who you play as, and where and when.
Gamesave is done by 'Scribe', a pretty lady who has houses in various cities throughout the game. She saves everything including your strength level and dinars, and even switches you've thrown, so save wisely and often. There are three slots to save a game. When you save with Scribe, and leave the game and return (or return after dying) you will reappear at the last place you saved, in whatever town she was in.
You start the game with a hundred dinars, and you find a few chests with more dinars.You need money to buy things, and you get it either by playing a scarecrow game at Cheyron's training center, or beating up minions (and sometimes their tents) for five or ten dinars. You can hold at least 3000 (and maybe more) dinars in your purse and you can hold at least 25 spells (and maybe more)in each space (earth, fire, ice, and lightning) for a total of at least 100 spells. You need about a thousand dinars to get through the necessary parts of the game,('donating' a hundred dinars to each of five temples, and buy a coat for two hundred and another for three hundred dinars) it took about five minutes to get enough dinars for one spell, or one temple donation.
Your major weapon will be Herc's fists. There are a variety of minions to defeat, plus some bosses: the Cyclops, the three Minotaurs, the Titan, and Ares himself. You need dinars, and the only way to get them is with Herc's fists or Iolaus' fighting stick, or play the scarecrow game.
Herc and Ioleus refill their health meters by breaking open barrels containing different kinds of food. After you use them, the barrels reappear after you duck into a house or another area and return. There are apples, beer, bread and in just two places, poultry. Herc HAS to pick the barrels up and throw them, and Ioleus HAS to use his fighting staff, and they both do it really slowly. The Golden Hind doesn't refill her health.
There are a number of locations, plus paths in between them
Cheyron's training grounds
Traycus
Temple area (no name)
Village with no name that's always nightime
Thrace
Alpsius in the mountains
San Tominicus by the beach
Olympus
And the lairs of a Cyclops, three Minotaurs, and a Titan
Thrace is the main stomping grounds, it's kind of a hub which gets passed through on the way to and from other places. Aside from the obvious defeating of minions and bosses, Hercules must also take time off from saving the world to do mundane chores such as finding a girl's lost cat , delivering a pie to a hungry girl, finding a spare fishing net, recovering a watchtower guard's lost teddy bear that his mother tried to hide from him, and getting an oyster shucked.
There is one hard part in this game, and that is a difficult jump across a chasm on the journey to Thrace. I only did it myself a few times, all of them accidental. It seems as if you have to RUN don't walk, toward the edge in a STRAIGHT line and then jump with the right foot.
I only had a few gripes about this game; (1) You can't copy or name a game, which is kind of stupid since you could do it with earlier Nintendo games(2) that difficult jump mentioned earlier and (3) the lamest end credits I've ever seen in a video game so far. Just a note: When you get to Olympus, and you save, it is a one-way trip and you can't get back to earth. I discovered AFTER I had saved in Olympus, and so had to play the whole game through a second time to get more stuff.
The game is full of humor, and moralizing in the style typical of both Nintendo and the Hercules TV show. You''ll realize by the time you get to Traycus that you are actually playing Zelda with Hercules substituting as Link, but if you like Zelda you'll be fine. I'm not aware of an official strategy guide, but I made one and so did another gamefan and you can find both online.
The game is definitely a collector's collectible. It is worth buying, worth playing and worth having, especially for the show fans.
This game is a 2000 release, for Nintendo64, it is a cartridge inserted into the game console. Original N64 games stored their played or saved games on the cartridge itself, later you had to insert a pak into the controller to save a game; for Hercules you need a pak.
Story: Ares, son of Zeus, has poisoned and imprisoned Zeus and is running joyfully amok throughout earth and Olympus. Hercules, half-human son of Zeus and half-brother to Ares, must battle and riddle and do everyday household errands, on his way to defeat Ares, release Zeus, and restore both worlds to their usual dysfunctional state. He gets help from his friends the Golden Hind, Ioleus, the god Haephestus, and his friend Salmoneus (for a price, of course).
The graphics are somewhere between Super Nintendo and Playstation. It is 3D, you run around inside a world with different levels, and is similar to Zelda 'Ocarina of Time' or 'Majora's Mask'. The music has a Celtic feeling, a little less structured than Xena Playstation but more than Xena Gameboy. Hercules is accompanied in the game by Ioleus, but they don't play together like Gabrielle and Xena do in Xena Playstation; they trade off so you get to be one at a time. Hercules mostly punches, or buys and uses potions, while Ioleus uses his fighting staff similar to Gabrielle in Xena Playstation. Later in the game you can play as Serena the Golden Hind, who uses bow and arrow. You have no choice who to play as, it is assigned by the game programmers who you play as, and where and when.
Gamesave is done by 'Scribe', a pretty lady who has houses in various cities throughout the game. She saves everything including your strength level and dinars, and even switches you've thrown, so save wisely and often. There are three slots to save a game. When you save with Scribe, and leave the game and return (or return after dying) you will reappear at the last place you saved, in whatever town she was in.
You start the game with a hundred dinars, and you find a few chests with more dinars.You need money to buy things, and you get it either by playing a scarecrow game at Cheyron's training center, or beating up minions (and sometimes their tents) for five or ten dinars. You can hold at least 3000 (and maybe more) dinars in your purse and you can hold at least 25 spells (and maybe more)in each space (earth, fire, ice, and lightning) for a total of at least 100 spells. You need about a thousand dinars to get through the necessary parts of the game,('donating' a hundred dinars to each of five temples, and buy a coat for two hundred and another for three hundred dinars) it took about five minutes to get enough dinars for one spell, or one temple donation.
Your major weapon will be Herc's fists. There are a variety of minions to defeat, plus some bosses: the Cyclops, the three Minotaurs, the Titan, and Ares himself. You need dinars, and the only way to get them is with Herc's fists or Iolaus' fighting stick, or play the scarecrow game.
Herc and Ioleus refill their health meters by breaking open barrels containing different kinds of food. After you use them, the barrels reappear after you duck into a house or another area and return. There are apples, beer, bread and in just two places, poultry. Herc HAS to pick the barrels up and throw them, and Ioleus HAS to use his fighting staff, and they both do it really slowly. The Golden Hind doesn't refill her health.
There are a number of locations, plus paths in between them
Cheyron's training grounds
Traycus
Temple area (no name)
Village with no name that's always nightime
Thrace
Alpsius in the mountains
San Tominicus by the beach
Olympus
And the lairs of a Cyclops, three Minotaurs, and a Titan
Thrace is the main stomping grounds, it's kind of a hub which gets passed through on the way to and from other places. Aside from the obvious defeating of minions and bosses, Hercules must also take time off from saving the world to do mundane chores such as finding a girl's lost cat , delivering a pie to a hungry girl, finding a spare fishing net, recovering a watchtower guard's lost teddy bear that his mother tried to hide from him, and getting an oyster shucked.
There is one hard part in this game, and that is a difficult jump across a chasm on the journey to Thrace. I only did it myself a few times, all of them accidental. It seems as if you have to RUN don't walk, toward the edge in a STRAIGHT line and then jump with the right foot.
I only had a few gripes about this game; (1) You can't copy or name a game, which is kind of stupid since you could do it with earlier Nintendo games(2) that difficult jump mentioned earlier and (3) the lamest end credits I've ever seen in a video game so far. Just a note: When you get to Olympus, and you save, it is a one-way trip and you can't get back to earth. I discovered AFTER I had saved in Olympus, and so had to play the whole game through a second time to get more stuff.
The game is full of humor, and moralizing in the style typical of both Nintendo and the Hercules TV show. You''ll realize by the time you get to Traycus that you are actually playing Zelda with Hercules substituting as Link, but if you like Zelda you'll be fine. I'm not aware of an official strategy guide, but I made one and so did another gamefan and you can find both online.
The game is definitely a collector's collectible. It is worth buying, worth playing and worth having, especially for the show fans.
Here's what I wrote before:
I can't get past this game heeeeeelp!
« Thread Started on Jun 8, 2007, 11:55am »
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I finally got ahld of 'Hercules the Legendary Journeys' it's very nice. I'm at a place in Thrace where you have to throw five switches in order to get to the next level. The third switch is across a chasm and I cann't get Herc across it. One online strategy guide and a bunch of different discussion forums have noted this jump but I have found nothing helpful. 'Just stand there and jump' well I've been doing this for SIIIIX DAAAAYS with no success this is really frustrating and it's so early in the game. It looks like there's another 'near impossible jump' later in the game oh wonderful....
So please put the word out maybe someobdy knows somebody who knows somebody etc etc who could help me. As a last resort I can get a gameshark which lets you do a 'moonjump' but I've never had to use cheats to get through a game.
Review so far:
The graphics are great, the controls are okay. I put it somewhere between Xena for Playstation and Xena for gameboy. The music is great...somewhat Celtic-inspired--lots of different tracks. You probably can get by without a stategy guide although i'm fortunate enough to have one (though not much help with super-jumps). Quite a bit of action--Hercules and Ioleus punch and kick, Serena uses bow and arrow although I haven't played with her yet--but lot s of puzzles and personal errands to run for people. It's been mostly compared to the two Zelda 64 games which I think is fair although the Zeldas are a little better (graphics and more gameplay).
Note: you will need the Controller Pak to store/save your game. I got one online and it wasn't a genuine Nintendo product. The game system does recognize a Pak is there and it will save the game but if I turn the system off I lose the whole game and have to start over aaargh. For this particular game I strongly recommend a genuine Nintendo Controller Pak.
This is a year 2000 game which goes to show har far behind I really am in gameplaying. Working for a living sure interferes with my social life....
Thanks in advance everyone.
I finally got ahld of 'Hercules the Legendary Journeys' it's very nice. I'm at a place in Thrace where you have to throw five switches in order to get to the next level. The third switch is across a chasm and I cann't get Herc across it. One online strategy guide and a bunch of different discussion forums have noted this jump but I have found nothing helpful. 'Just stand there and jump' well I've been doing this for SIIIIX DAAAAYS with no success this is really frustrating and it's so early in the game. It looks like there's another 'near impossible jump' later in the game oh wonderful....
So please put the word out maybe someobdy knows somebody who knows somebody etc etc who could help me. As a last resort I can get a gameshark which lets you do a 'moonjump' but I've never had to use cheats to get through a game.
Review so far:
The graphics are great, the controls are okay. I put it somewhere between Xena for Playstation and Xena for gameboy. The music is great...somewhat Celtic-inspired--lots of different tracks. You probably can get by without a stategy guide although i'm fortunate enough to have one (though not much help with super-jumps). Quite a bit of action--Hercules and Ioleus punch and kick, Serena uses bow and arrow although I haven't played with her yet--but lot s of puzzles and personal errands to run for people. It's been mostly compared to the two Zelda 64 games which I think is fair although the Zeldas are a little better (graphics and more gameplay).
Note: you will need the Controller Pak to store/save your game. I got one online and it wasn't a genuine Nintendo product. The game system does recognize a Pak is there and it will save the game but if I turn the system off I lose the whole game and have to start over aaargh. For this particular game I strongly recommend a genuine Nintendo Controller Pak.
This is a year 2000 game which goes to show har far behind I really am in gameplaying. Working for a living sure interferes with my social life....
Thanks in advance everyone.
