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Alcahest (1993)

HAL Laboratory

Super Famicom

3.29 from 17 ratings

70 members have it in their collection · 1 playing now · 31 backlogged · 29 wish listed

How long? Main story 3h (from 1 logged playthrough)

Alcahest is an action role-playing game with a top-down perspective that plays similar to The Legend of Zelda. It is divided into 8 stages that are progressed by finding items that aid the protagonist Alen on his quest, and end with a boss battle. After specific boss fights, the player will gain the abilities of one of the four elemental … Read more
Alcahest is an action role-playing game with a top-down perspective that plays similar to The Legend of Zelda. It is divided into 8 stages that are progressed by finding items that aid the protagonist Alen on his quest, and end with a boss battle. After specific boss fights, the player will gain the abilities of one of the four elemental Guardians. Alen will also find five allies that will join him at predetermined points of some levels. They are the young wizard Garstein, the princess Elikshil, the knight Sirius, the android Magna and the shape-shifter dragon goddess Nevis. Though they cannot be controlled directly, allies will attack and use special moves when the corresponding button is pressed. Read less
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Details

Developers
HAL Laboratory
Publishers
Square
Genres
Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Action, Fantasy

Release dates

  • Dec 17, 1993 (Full Release) (Japan) Super Famicom
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Rating distribution

5 stars
2
4 stars
5
3 stars
7
2 stars
2
1 star
1
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OzuPlaysGames

Review OzuPlaysGames 3/5 · Sep 18, 2020

A reasonably entertaining couple of hours

If you like games like Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia/Illusion of Time than this is probably worth a few hours of your life. Alcahest is a pretty solid action-rpg/arcade style title starring a guy named Alen. Alen mostly just hits stuff with his sword, but he also gets elemental swords which can summon very powerful guardians (basically Stands from …

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If you like games like Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia/Illusion of Time than this is probably worth a few hours of your life. Alcahest is a pretty solid action-rpg/arcade style title starring a guy named Alen. Alen mostly just hits stuff with his sword, but he also gets elemental swords which can summon very powerful guardians (basically Stands from JoJo). He also gains a new ally in each stage and each ally has their own special ability to aid Alen. As others have said your character doesn't level up, but instead exp gives you continues. The game sports some charming 90s anime style portraits and also attempts to be cinematic at times, both of which help the game's presentation. Overall, it's entertaining enough for how short it is but nothing to write home about.

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akzak22

Review akzak22 4/5 · Aug 31, 2017

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Alcahest! This game is… different. It’s sort of an action/rpg, it’s sort of an arcade game. You play as this guy Alen who runs around slashing things with his sword and collecting other swords and stuff. You can collect power-ups that expire after a fairly short amount of time, and you can do a charge attack, all in standard arcade …

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http://i.imgur.com/FKma8Fg.png

Alcahest! This game is… different. It’s sort of an action/rpg, it’s sort of an arcade game. You play as this guy Alen who runs around slashing things with his sword and collecting other swords and stuff. You can collect power-ups that expire after a fairly short amount of time, and you can do a charge attack, all in standard arcade fashion. What makes Alcahest different from most arcade games is that it’s not nearly as maddeningly difficult as, say, Mars Matrix. You also get continues. Yeah, that’s right, you have -limited bloody continues- to beat the game with. But that’s okay, you can earn more, and the fewer you have the easier it is to gain more. You don’t really get experience or anything, your “EXP” is really just credits towards your next continue, and you lose all your “EXP” if you game-over.

Translation from Japanese by F.H.

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