Slayers is a role-playing video game adaptation of the Slayers light novel series developed by BEC and published by Banpresto for the Super Famicom (SNES) exclusively in Japan in 1994. Powerful, avaricious sorceress Lina Inverse travels around the world, stealing treasures from bandits who cross her path. Her latest victims, a band of thieves, wait in ambush in a forest, thirsting for revenge. When Lina is about to effortlessly pummel her would-be attackers, the swordsman Gourry Gabriev suddenly announces his presence. Assuming Lina to be a damsel in distress, the foolish yet magnanimous man confronts the brigands in order to rescue her. After defeating them posthaste, the oblivious cavalier decides to escort Lina to Atlas City. Though not very keen on this idea, she ends up accepting his offer. However, without realizing it, Lina has chanced upon a mighty magical item among her most recent spoils. Now two mysterious men are hunting the young magician and her self-proclaimed guardian to obtain this powerful object for apparently nefarious purposes. This way they begin their adventure, one where the fate of the world itself may be at stake.
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Games based on anime series are, as a rule, pretty damn painful. Slayers Wonderful for PS1 was a wonderful example of this, a Final Fantasy VII ripoff with subpar graphics, a crazy encounter rate, and not much fun (but very pretty cutscenes). Course, most people say this describes FFVII itself pretty well, but that’s another pointless argument best reserved for Jumpstation.
Anyways, anime games suck. A lot. Fortunately, this Slayers game was released before the anime came out. So, really, this is a game based on a manga series. Games based on manga seem to be pretty good, only no one’s ever heard of them. Played any Mahoujin Guru-Guru lately? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Course, this means that this game has no rockin’ Megumi Hayashibara songs or anything, but I guess no game is truly perfect. The game seems to be (from a very quick first glance) a pretty standard RPG, with serviceable graphics and whatnot.