I completed the game and now I'm sorta sad. MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD and Questions for experts?

[NOBLE SIX]

I got the game quite early and prior to getting it... I had not seen RoLW but now I have and the ending has left me pretty sad. Has Deedlit lived on into the future while all her companions have died of old age?

Also is this more in line with the OAV version of RoLW or the other series'?

Also, who was the kid who turned up at the end of the epilogue?

[iriyap]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1203630/discussions/0/3077621289886818832/#c3077621289888997505

Originally posted by Sandarken:

The guy at the end is Prince Lyle from the most recent Record of Lodoss war book "The Pledged Diadem" (Seiyaku no Hōkan). The book came out in 2019 and was the first entry into the series in 12 years. Diadem takes place 100 years after the end of the previous book, long after the deaths of Parn and Spark. Basically him collapsing in the ending there is the start of the book (well, very close to it)

[NOBLE SIX]

Originally posted by iriyap:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1203630/discussions/0/3077621289886818832/#c3077621289888997505

Originally posted by Sandarken:

The guy at the end is Prince Lyle from the most recent Record of Lodoss war book "The Pledged Diadem" (Seiyaku no Hōkan). The book came out in 2019 and was the first entry into the series in 12 years. Diadem takes place 100 years after the end of the previous book, long after the deaths of Parn and Spark. Basically him collapsing in the ending there is the start of the book (well, very close to it)

Thankyou.

I'm really in awe of how much effort the devs put into the game to make it fit into the universe.

[TekFan]

Its a shame the west will probably never get the books. The hard cover of Grey Witch was released years ago, it's unlikely the rest will be released.

[NOBLE SIX]

Originally posted by shrap:

Its a shame the west will probably never get the books. The hard cover of Grey Witch was released years ago, it's unlikely the rest will be released.

I discovered Chinese animay cartoons in the 90s and for the large part most of it remained in Japan and completely inaccessible for some time. Because the internet didn't get popular till later in the decade after that, most of the best stuff goes ignored/undiscovered. I only saw Lodoss for the first time this year.

[JAC0907]

Ya, there have been some efforts by the community to translate the book into english. You can find them in the record of lodoss war subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/recordoflodosswar/

[Mirania]

If your looking to learn more about the world of the game. Id suggest watching the 1990 Anime, there is a novel that takes place like a year after this game but it has not been translated into english. Im one of the mods of the reddit for lodoss.

Check it out!
https://www.reddit.com/r/recordoflodosswar/

[NOBLE SIX]

Originally posted by Mirania:

If your looking to learn more about the world of the game. Id suggest watching the 1990 Anime, there is a novel that takes place like a year after this game but it has not been translated into english. Im one of the mods of the reddit for lodoss.

Check it out!
https://www.reddit.com/r/recordoflodosswar/

Like I said I've not long since watched it [the ova] and loved it. The animation was beautiful... I've seen some clips of some later anime and gosh it was awwwwful. Guess they came after Japan's economic melt down

[Ghostel]

Originally posted by REVENANT:

Like I said I've not long since watched it [the ova] and loved it. The animation was beautiful... I've seen some clips of some later anime and gosh it was awwwwful. Guess they came after Japan's economic melt down

Yea... Japan's animation quality took a nosedive at the end of 90s... Then middle of 2000s till mid of 10s was a time of numerous expirements with 3D to cut production costs and for the same reason there were tons of "fast cash grab" titles (for example tons of harem comedy titles).

Only in recent years they kinda got used at handling 3D properly so it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb and overall trend shifted to animating any Isekai media you can find.
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Overall I just enjoy Ladybug games - such good sprite animations. Not just characters but user's interface too - Touhou Luna Nights had this awesome spinning iron letters animation, this adventure has wonderfully animated dice being thrown on the table (Which is just a big reference to origins of the whole franchise - it started not even as a book but as a record of events of Dungeon and Dragons 1st edition campaign)

[NOBLE SIX]

Originally posted by Ghostel:

Originally posted by REVENANT:

Like I said I've not long since watched it [the ova] and loved it. The animation was beautiful... I've seen some clips of some later anime and gosh it was awwwwful. Guess they came after Japan's economic melt down

Yea... Japan's animation quality took a nosedive at the end of 90s... Then middle of 2000s till mid of 10s was a time of numerous expirements with 3D to cut production costs and for the same reason there were tons of "fast cash grab" titles (for example tons of harem comedy titles).

Only in recent years they kinda got used at handling 3D properly so it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb and overall trend shifted to animating any Isekai media you can find.
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Overall I just enjoy Ladybug games - such good sprite animations. Not just characters but user's interface too - Touhou Luna Nights had this awesome spinning iron letters animation, this adventure has wonderfully animated dice being thrown on the table (Which is just a big reference to origins of the whole franchise - it started not even as a book but as a record of events of Dungeon and Dragons 1st edition campaign)

Yeah, it wasn't even technically Lodoss originally!

They created some great characters with Lodoss though, it's really really stuck with me and made the game all that much better.

I do take umbrage with one part of the game though... Deed's legs look funny, a bit too straight or something

[Fortunato]

I mean yeah, but if you read the Mangás you know that Deed would live way more than everyone else, thats one of the reasons why the Elfs didnt wanted her to live in the "Human World", she would see everyone dying and etc, but staying on her village and doing "nothing" is not living at all(its more or less what happens in one of the mangás), so when i saw it, i was sad, but since its so fitting to the Lodoss Universe, i'm fine with that.

[daviddesjardins1]

ok so now im at loss here. i saw lodoss war ova and the tv serie. as for legend of crystania, it confusing on google. i know for a fact that ashram get possesed in crystania and so on, but, id like to know a watching order: legend of crystania and lodoss after or vice versa.

And yeah for thoses that did not know this, both anime are related and are not some other universe mumbo jumbo.

Anyway, pretty awsome game and a killer soundtrack :)