Comments on: Souls (Retrobytes Productions)

By: Dock

Dock — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:45:07 +0000

I kept on getting stuck on ladders. Had to stop playing because I was trapped somewhere that I couldn’t get back because of the ladder bug.

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:05:56 +0000

Thanks!

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(And I hadn’t realized magic could be used offensively. I’d only been using it to get through the gravestones.)

By: Noyb

Noyb — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:31:33 +0000

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Stabbing the hands is the way to kill it, the game weirdly doesn’t display an enemy health bar for the final boss, and it does take an long time even when you use magic and do quick stabs at full stamina.

By: nobody

nobody — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:47:37 +0000

This is neat, especially how — at least for me — progression mirrored that of Dark Souls, in which increased facility with the game systems lets you breeze through areas that previously took a significant amount of care and attention. (The shield/stab controls are much more responsive than I had at first assumed!)

But I’ve reached what I think is the final boss and I could use confirmation that

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stabbing its hands is having any effect at all? I haven’t picked up on any other way of interacting with anything on that screen, and after (I think) 30 or so hits it’s growing tedious in a way that makes me suspect I might be missing something?

By: Auto

Auto — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:38:03 +0000

Same thing happened to me. I was fighting the boss when it froze, and I had to start over. Otherwise it was just what the doctor ordered.

By: Auto

Auto — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:37:21 +0000

I used Fuse, it worked pretty well.

By: Noyb

Noyb — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:18:54 +0000

They’re like experience points. Fill up the right side of the screen and you level up, making most of your actions a bit faster. You lose all souls upon death, unless you’re able to revisit the screen where you last died.

By: Jack McNamee

Jack McNamee — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:57:49 +0000

What are souls good for?

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:27:26 +0000

I got stuck and accidentally started grinding. I got to level 12, then the game started freezing…

Super fun until then though.

By: Aquin

Aquin — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:09:42 +0000

I’d recommend Speccy (on linked page, though I have 1.7). Start wspeccy, pick a tape (game), and it should give you an in-screen menu.

Press enter on that menu to select Tape Loader. Then go to Hardware in the file menu above and select “Rewind and Start Tape”.

Then just wait a bit. If you want to switch games, remember to do a Hardware Reset (in the file menu). Also Spectrum 128K from the Hardware->Computer Model menu probably works best.

F9 speeds up the emulator, which helps a lot with loading screens.