Miracle Warriors: Seal of the Dark Lord for Sega Master System - Review | hungrygoriya 

Miracle Warriors was my first RPG and it started a life-long love for the genre. It's always nice to find another fan of this game. Thanks for making this video!

Man, this was one of my favorite games as a kid. Super punishing, but super rewarding!

Jeez. If there was ever a review to watch before starting a game, it's this one. Excellent as always Goriya!

I looked outside and thought there was a fire outside, it was the sun coming up. I stayed up all night playing this game. It was my first RPG game. A memory I will never forget.

The Rush description at the start was so amazing, I would play that game! Watching all of these Master System reviews makes me want to play my Master System games again.

All I can say is: The memories!!! I was never good at this game but my brother and dad were. This was the first game system we got as a family. The NES came later. This and 'Double Dragon' got lots of play.

I remember getting stuck on finding the final dungeon way back in the day. I was completely lost, so I wrote a letter to an address that was in the manual asking if there was any way I could get a hint. About a month later, I received a package from the studio/publisher. Within it was a *hand-typed* manual filled with every hint and tip imaginable. It gave actual HP/MP stats for every creature, strengths and weaknesses, locations of secret items, and full maps of every dungeon. I couldn't believe it. Bear in mind this was a time when PCs with printers wasn't a common thing. Still have a huge amount of respect for whoever typed all that out for me. I wish I still had it.

It’s a little-known fact that Miracle Warriors is the true story of how Rush became famous, I’m glad you documented this important part of the band’s lore :)

The music in this game is also great!!!

You have the most comprehensive reviews on everything but it is very impressive how many under the radar games get the treatment

Similar to a lot of people commenting here, this was my first RPG. I wanted Phantasy Star, but it was sold out everywhere. I really liked this game and was convinced that most would not. I have never finished this game, but recall getting super close twice (the last time being on a jailbroken IPhone which crashed on me right before the last cave). Great review - a tip I had was to grind to get your main character to the top level before you get your second character as each successive character starts at a level below. I just recall how recall how fulfilling it was to expect a death blow from an enemy only to see that they “deftly miss.” I ended up finding Phantasy Star as a flea market years later - two awesome must plays on the Master System.

Ok the thumb nail shot at the start, looks like the band spinal tap lol

Ah - HERE’S tge Miracle Warriors review. Awesome, as always! :D

That's a great group of games there. Wonder boy 3, Lord of the sword and miracle warriors were well ahead of their time. Spellcaster was crazy immersive

You referenced Rush, you are now my favorite channel.

Great review. You got me good with that Rush bit. I paused the video in mid description cause I was like "what?! Rush? I gotta look into this". You got me good

This was my first RPG. Then Phantasy Star and then Final Fantasy 1. Love how well you covered this game. :)

SpellCaster and Miracle Warriors were my first games and still all time favorites.

Awesome review. I highly enjoyed this game after watching your play throughs. Those Rush pictures were a great tough!

It's a wonderful game! Just hilarious in many ways. The language, for example: "Thou art sourrounded". "What can I do for thee". The music is fantastic also!

I recently got the Japanese Sega Mark III version of Haja no Fuuin 100% complete in box . The map included is actually made of cloth instead of paper and also comes with a small die cast figure that is used to mark a destination on the map. Yeah we westerners kinda got jipped a bit.

Just recently started playing this one if only to get a screencap of a SMAG!

I was way too young to realize all of these things! I want to play it again!

I was like, wait a minute.. Rush?! You totally got me.

When a system doesn’t have too many RPGs, it’s good to know the few it does are solid! This is definitely a good challenge after beating Phantasy Star. Another nostalgic favourite my friend had that we tried after beating PS 😊 at first it we didn’t like it because we wanted more of what PS had to offer, but then my friend just had to see it through to the end. Good times

Great review. I really enjoyed watching. You touched on a lot of the games finer details. You really know your stuff. This is also one of my favorite Master System games. I was pretty young when I beat it and I did it without the Internet. I was very determined and I loved every moment.

Another fantastic review! Thou Art Surrounded!

Did anyone else think that the mountains on the left and their height corresponded to something? Like the chance of encountering a harder enemy in a particular environment? The lack of information pre-google/internet gave in to so much more of a mystical and exciting gameplay where at least I filled in the gaps with my imagination.

I played this as a kid but really had no idea what I was doing. I just walked around killing things. I knew about rpgs because i played Dragon Warrior on the NES but that came with all kinds of info in the booklets. My mom got this and the master system from a pawn shop with no booklets at all. Zillion, Ghost House and Gangster Town are my favorite SMS games.

So great to see you cover more of this classic! Both my wife and I played it separately in our youth, and we hold a lot of affection for this one. I feel like the obfuscated riddles (compounded by the shoddy translation) and the very grind-y nature of the game have prevented it from being included on more greatest SMS games lists, but I will forever treasure it as a personal favorite. If you think about it, how much more epic can you get than an adventure whose sole focus is to gain strength and gather items of legend in order to face the ultimate evil?

My first RPG, and replaying it now. Thanks for the thorough review, and for reminding me of all the pitfalls!

An interesting game (and very rare) for the nes (old nintendo system) was Blaster master :) you had to back track through zones and levels once new powerups are obtained to reach the new levels, this was YEARS ahead of its time :)

Ow wow you weren't kidding. You made the Rush comment right away. It's funny that we both had that reaction to it but with different bands.

Wow. My first RPG on my first gaming console. I never got very far. (I was 5) But I enjoyed walking around fighting the monsters and listening to the music. When I tried playing it again when I was older I managed to get the first companion and defeat the skeleton I saved the game. The next day I turned it on and found out the battery had died. 😞

Excellent review! Like I said on your other video, this is the first game I have actual memories of seeing/playing. I was 5 or 6 at the time and played this at a neighbors shortly before I got my NES. It took me many, many years to figure out what "that one first person rpg" was, and I did finally some years ago. I only picked this up a few years back finally.

My most loved game. I remember at Christmas I knew it was under the tree and carefully opened the wrapped present and took the PCB out of the cart shell and swapped it out with Hang On. Played the game for a week before Christmas. Christmas finally came and I was actually able to use the map.

Another great review. I beat this game when I was younger. I really like it back then. Might have to play it again.

Even though I had SMS, this game avoided me for a long time. When I finally found about emulator, I spend sleepless nights with ATARI,AMIGA and mostly SMS games. We played this a lot with my friend - great memories (but very tedious grinding).

Thank you for a great review.

The PC88 version of this game has always captured my imagination since I first saw screenshots of it, but watching playthroughs of it it seems like the visual style was the best thing about it. Well, not that many RPGs of this vintage can be said to be compelling in the modern age, and maybe I'm being a bit harsh. Systems like the Talons and the ideas behind the blacksmith and weapon degradation, xp gain and counter attack combat are all pretty strong. Still, this was a fantastic overview of the game and despite all the grinding, it actually makes me want to try and maybe undertake the quest myself some day. Also I had to immediately send this video to my friend who is both a big Rush fan and loves older games like this. I hope he gets a good laugh out of it too!

I can't wait to play this game (this winter). And, btw the Rush bit was classic and brilliant. :)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer Trilogy album cover plus a new female band member.

Another good vid. I'm busting out the Master System right now!

I love how you're talking about Rush at the beginning of the video and show yourself having $420 in game.

Great review. It was my first real RPG as a preteen kid. Brutal game, but I had a lot of fun with it. I LOOOOVE the music. I also had the RPG/adventure Golden Axe Warrior.

Now I know they went through a few members early on, but there were only 3 people in Rush. RIP Neil. (Best band ever by the way 😉).

This is defo a game I want to play however, I want it with a map and that aint cheap! Maybe one day! Good review loving these thanks ;)

That mustache can defeat a dark lord with a single hit.

By the way I Subscribed!!! Love your style.

Awesome Rush reference. Never be able to not see that now.

Nice review! I just beat this game and I love it. (spoilers below!) First of all, I *really* like how the game's plot is "connected" to the Pandora's Box story. Don't know exactly why but I love the plot just because of this (and I also love when RPGs have female villains!). Second, I'm a huge fan of early computer RPGs (Ultima, Wizardry, Might and Magic, Ys and even the Hydlide games!) and since this game was ported from the PC-88 (and it actually seems to be much better than the original version) it was a great experience. I was able to beat the game without looking anything up online and I'm so happy about this. I only used the manual, the included map and the in-game clues. The only thing I couldn't figure out was where the "Magic Spheres" were sold but thankfully this was not required to finish the game. Since I had to walk around so much, I finished the game with over 400000 guilders and two of my characters at their maximum level. And, to be honest, I love grinding in RPGs anyway! Terarin was also really easy to beat (although I did use the "Magical Nuts" and "Staff of Earthquake") thanks to this! However, I do have one big complaint to make about the game. The clue from the "Merchant" who tells you that "Medi's town was once called Saria" is TOTALLY misleading! I've lost so many hours trying to follow Iason's path starting from Doris (since THIS is the town where you find Medi) but it turns out that "Saria" was actually Tegea (in the desert), not Doris! Why did the merchant say this then?! I was able to find the three keys only because I found the first key dungeon by myself since its location was kinda obvious (one tile of sand in the middle of the mountains...) and then I just kept pressing the "2" button in the desert until I found the other two and the final one. Only after doing this I was sure that this clue was, indeed, incorrect! It's a shame because the whole "follow Iason's footsteps" concept was great but it was ruined thanks to this... Overall, I'm really glad I finished this game! Took me about 22 hours to beat it (it could have taken less if not for the issue mentioned above...) and it's now one of my favorite Master System games! It may not be as polished as Phantasy Star or Ultima IV, but it still is just as good as these two in my opinion! Also... did anyone else notice that there's a portion of desert in the included map... which is actually NOT in the game itself? Instead, there's just water there in the game! I actually thought that there was a hidden town submerged there somehow (since one NPC says that "one town was lost") but it was not the case (it could have been a great idea though!)

The first RPG I ever played. I worked on it for years, but never finished it for some reason.

I recently played through this, it took me quite a few months, I think the constant grinding and being stuck for ages kept me away a lot, but I got there! I was so confused by that 'curse black monk retainer' thing, I even went looking for black monks after seeing if anything was different with them (and yeah I eventually realised my blacksmith was gone too) now watching this video I understand what it meant! Also that scroll meant nothing to me, I think i tried to follow the instrcutions once and gave up, the only way I found all the keys and final boss was the tedious pressing button 1 on every single square of that desert till i found something, by this point I was soo determined to get it over with, i'd spent most of the end parts of the game stuck for weeks at a time! Still for its time it's quite good. great graphics and soundtrack, and I understand the tedious grinding and cryptic puzzles are nessesary as back then games were small so they had to be made artificially longer! nothing worse than shelling out $70 for a game you breeze through in a weekend.

Insane difficulty in an rpg was a great feature back then. The carts couldn't hold game worlds that take 50-80 hours to explore like we have now, so grinding & difficulty spikes extended the play time greatly. In a world with no digital downloads & games just about always being full price, this was important since that game you got for your birthday might have to last you until Christmas.

Hidden pathway sfound in this game fun?

Great game and the first true RPG I played in the 80's. I don't know if gamers now a days will be able to enjoy it. I couldn't put it down when I played it as a teen.

Have you ever played Zillion for the Master System? I think you would like it. It's very challenging and something you would enjoy.

i played a bit of this once and it seemed really good but its kinda a tough one to start out with. especially when you have no idea what your doing. has some great ideas and the talking system is alot like an SMT game wish is cool in my books

"What willst thou do" :D

I rented this game as a kid back in the day of the video store... Remember years later grinding the main hero high, knowing Guy would join 1 level under me. There was a maximum start level though, so wasted a lot of time :( Also the first rpg game on the master system I ended, and the last boss was topless, which was a WOW.

"What dost ye desire of me" :DD

That PC88 Cover of this game looks way more badass than our western version.

I about flipped out with that Rush reference lol because I just bought this game and didn't know what it was about

I remember this, it was the poor mans Fantasy Star. But a damn good game.

Though their black monk is not for rent, to any man or government :D

I'm not sure if I'll play the game but that map got me looking around for a physical copy for D&D 👀👀

This game is a masterpiece and the music was epic. And i can say very proud i finished. And the music go whit you for ever.

My brother still blames me for losing the map that came with the game. Got a kick out of the description of the physical game map as lackluster. He shoulda kept grinding!

Why couldn't you let me continue thinking it was about RUSH!?!?!?

"Thou has failed in thy quest". LOL.

My gosh, you had me going with the RUSH story. 😅

This was my first intro to RPG's and it wasn't a good one ,as it was incredibly difficult and frustrating. After this encounter, it took me years to muster the guts to attempt other RPGs.

The thumbnail made me think it was a game about ABBA.

I broke the weapons and armors because of that, lucky the kings can give to you again and you can drop from the bosses although not all of them will be available

I just got myself a copy of this game and I would love to play it, but I'm finding that the white square you use to move around the map doesn't respond very well at all. Sometimes I have to press a direction on the d-pad multiple times just to move ONE square! I've tried 2 different controllers and it's the same with both. Does anyone else have this problem? It's making what looks like a pretty decent game, virtually unplayable!

I could never figure out the end puzzle…. 2 steps etc…. Loved this game tho

2nd companion friend can unlock things, notes

this game rocks and is well. thx. A. E1.

How in the world did I figure out this game at eight years old?

When I was a little kid, I was somehow obsessed with this game. I didn't have it nor played it I just keep coming up with it on sega magazines etc. And I remember wondering why their hairs, moustaches etc. were like that. It was kind of too characteristic. When I watched this video and I heard that Rush thing, I completely believed and started googling it and I was like "Well that explains those characters! after 20 years!" then I kept watching and well it was just a joke. Lol. Let's keep wandering then.

Hanjs and ... Senpai? I guess this is one game where you don't want senpai to notice you. I wish Master System games got as much love from modders and romhackers as Nintendo titles, because I feel a retranslated English patch would make this game way more approachable

Classic games.... #Memories

The mountains moving and nothing else bothers me. Feels like an incomplete visual feature.

How come when I download your videos I can't turn off my screen? I am on RU-vid premium. No prob with the game grumps.

I was like "Hold on...................did I just hear Rush?" XD

I love RPGs like this, but this one sounds like a huge pain to play. The unique strategy elements and cool sprites might keep me engaged, though.

What the heck?! The blacksmith can die?! I've played this game over and over again since I got it as a kid in the early 90s, but never has my blacksmith died.. Guess you learn something new each day. lol

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Lmao It is Rush!

#wholesomeyoutube

Rush 😂😂

Wow this game seems like it has a very poor localization, that certainly wouldn't stop me from playing it though lol.

1:00 bOOba 😊

Nice box art that's unfortunately wasted on a bad game

But you are american... What do you know about SMS? Go play your Nintendon't. ;) Or maybe you are a Canadian since you mentioned Rush? I love Rush. I will forgive you since you mentioned them.

Great review!! Just curious who the ignorant fool disliked it. I’m sure just to be an ass smh....