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A sequel, Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II, was released in 1992, but never saw an official English release. Subsequent The Legend of Heroes games dropped their association with the Dragon Slayer series. In contrast to the action-oriented gameplay of most other Dragon Slayer titles, both The Legend of Heroes titles use turn-based combat.
Saint George slaying the dragon, as depicted by Paolo Uccello, c. 1470. A dragonslayer is a person or being that slays dragons.Dragonslayers and the creatures they hunt have been popular in traditional stories from around the world: they are a type of story classified as type 300 in the Aarne–Thompson classification system. [1]
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The Legend of Heroes, known in Japan as Eiyū Densetsu, [a] is a series of role-playing video games developed by Nihon Falcom.First starting as a part of the Dragon Slayer series in the late 1980s, the series evolved into its own decade-spanning, interconnected series with seventeen entries, including several subseries.
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A Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes Barcode Battler card set was also released by Epoch Co. in 1992. The PC Engine version was released in the United States for the TurboGrafx-CD and was the only game in the series released in the US until The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion , the PlayStation Portable remake .
Dragon Slayer laid the foundations for the action role-playing game genre, influencing future series like Ys. [7] [8] [9] Xanadu was an early real-time action RPG with full-fledged character statistics, and it introduced several innovative gameplay mechanics, such as the Karma morality system, individual experience for equipped items, [3] a heavy emphasis on puzzle-solving, [9] equipment that ...