Stormlord

Stormlord

Game No.	410
Voting	7.13 points, 16 votes
Developer	Nick Jones, Raffaele Cecco, Huges Binns
Company	Hewson
Publisher	Hewson
Musician	Jeroen Tel, Charles Deenen, Johannes Bjerregaard
HVSC-File	MUSICIANS/B/Bjerregaard_Johannes/Stormlord.sid
Release	1989
Platform	C64, Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad, PC-DOS, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Genre	Jump & Run, Action Adventure
Gamemode	Single player
Operation
Media
Language
Information	Follower: Deliverance - Stormlord II

Description[edit | edit source]

The Stormlord needs to protect the Stormland from the evil queen and free all fairies from her grasp. He starts with eight lives and can only pick up one item at a time. The current item is swapped by touching another item. A level is solved when all fairies have been freed. After that, the player is awarded with a bonus round where ten tears must be collected to get an extra life. Four levels need to be solved, then the knight inshining armour starts again with the first level. The difficulty grade stays the same.

Design[edit | edit source]

Colourful graphics with horizontally scrolling screen. Music accompanies the whole game. In the lower status area the following is shown: number of lives, time status, number of points, current item, freed fairies and the number of fairies that need to be rescued.

Beware: poisonous rainfall

The honey pot drives off bothersome vermin

Hints[edit | edit source]

Controls in the title screen

1 = steer with keyboard
2 = steer with joystick (port2)
start the game

Controls in the game

jump
walk left/right
duck
If you press the fire button additionally, a shot or a sword is fired, depending on how long the button is pressed.
With the key RESTORE the game can be aborted at any time.

the bonus round: when ten blue tears are collected there is an extra life

Tips

Look for the time. A completely visible moon in the status display means the premature end of the game!

Game elements

	Key	Opens a gate
	Gate	Can only be opened with a key.
	Umbrella	Protects you from acid rain
	Honey pot	By putting down the pot, insects are attracted.
	7-league boots	High jumps are possible.
	Fairy	It is rescued by touching it.

Solution[edit | edit source]

Level 1

walk to the left passing the ball, pick up key
further to the right, open the gate with the key
use spring board and free first fairy
use spring board, pick up umbrella, use spring board
through the storm, fire permanently and free the second fairy
go on firing and walk back to the spring board
go further to the left and pick up the honey pot
jump over the bees
swap honey pot with key and jump over bees
rescue third fairy, go quickly to the right until you reach the gate
rescue fourth fairy, spring board, walk past the umbrella at the right
pick up honey pot, swap pot with umbrella
swap umbrella with key
further to the right and open the lower gate
free the last fairy

Cheats[edit | edit source]

It exists cracks with trainer mode in the CSDb.

Voting[edit | edit source]

Voting of the C64-Wiki users (10=the best vote):
7.13 points at 16 votes (rank 412). You need to be logged in to cast a vote.
Lemon64	7,5	11th June 2011 - 52 votes
Kultboy.com	5,8	26th June 2011 - 5 votes
ASM	83%	Issue 9/89 (ASM-Hit)
ZZap64	80%	Issue 7/89

Reviews[edit | edit source]

Werner: "There is hardly anything to object on the technical side. Colourful graphics, good sound and precise controls. The intro music is a real treat. But as there are only 4 (graphically similar) levels, the diffculty grade was deliberately made very high. 8 points from me."

Robotron2084: "A very leasurely, scrolling platformer with the usual ingredients for an arcade adventure: pick up things and use them at the right places. Somehow this game has always left me untouched and assuming I played it "at that time", I probably have (rightly) forgotten about it again. Stormlord is in my opinion too unoriginal and sedate in speed. The graphics are really beautiful and the accompanying music also not bad but concerning the gameplay it is more a scarce meal that is supposed to be hidden with a high difficulty grade. 5 out of 10 points."

TheRyk: "With Maniacs of Noise Hewson hired the best SID music team money could buy for a visually nice game. There are some good ideas like the spring-board or the honey show with the insects. But the never ending respawn of enemy sprites increases the level of difficulty at some stages and is just enervating in a more harmless way elswhere which spoils longtime fun. However, audiovisual performance and atmosphere are just enough to rate this game 6 points."