| Credits | |
| Published: |
1993, Thalion
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| Design: | Erik Simon |
| Coder: | Erwin Kloibhofer, Michael Bittner |
| Graphics: | Henk Nieborg |
| Musician: | Matthias Steinwachs |
| Sound Effects: | Matthias Steinwachs |
| Box Art: | Dieter Rottermund |
| Information | |
| Hardware: | OCS, ECS |
| Disks: | 4 |
| License: | Commercial |
| Language: | English |
| Players: | 1 Only |
| Categorization | |
| Genre: | Platformer |
| Subgenre: | Scrolling Screen |
| Tags: | basher, fantasy, multidirectional, platform, sideways |
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Amazing title. The controls are more complex than usual but it's great once you get used to it, no matter the input device. Level design is in my opinion the best of any Amiga platform game, carefully leading you from one challenge to the next - which is a big contrast to the random feeling of most Amiga platformer levels.
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Perfect show off of Amiga OCS/ECS (1MB) graphics and sound. When it comes to controls it's a skill game and you need a joypad/gamepad to enjoy it. People giving it low ratings, because of controls are crazy. You can perfect the controls which is proven on Youtube videos. Similar games on consoles are getting high scores and Amiga community is so harsh.
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A triumph of style over substance, great visuals and music but it plays like a dog unfortunately.
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The game that showed the humble Amiga 500 could compete with the 16-bit consoles of the time. Incredibile in every aspect, it is one of the most underrated games for the Amiga.
Just awesome.
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Masterpiece and one of the very best Amiga games ever.
Controls offer a lot moves and possibilities including jumping over the head of enemies, sword slashes in various directions, crouched combat, you can jump and grab ropes, climb turrets etc. Some people consider this too complicated but it's not: controls are great and offer a lot of possibilities. Amazing graphics, sound, music, plenty of enemies and great level design with a remarkable variety including ambient puzzles, secret areas, and flying sections (!)
Technically outstanding, great gameplay.
I read a few absurd reviews saying "bad controls and level design" (????). Those who criticize it probably have not even scratched the surface of this game and exploring platforms are not of their liking.
10/10
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Technically incredible, it is ruined by poor controls, bad collisions, and a bad level design.
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Yes, nice graphics, good music.. And worse control. But it's still only jumping platformer for kids. Nothing interesting. And especially nothing for a man 35+
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Lionheart is a fantastic technical and artistic achievement on the OCS / ECS Amigas. It is also a very good hack'n'slash platforming experience, albeit it is at times affected by bad controls. Even with the 2-button controller options, stiff combinations of button and d-pad or stick are required to perform vital moves such as a low kick. The game would have greatly benefitted by having a more simple and powerful attack system a la Strider Hiryu. Sadly, european computer games designers at the time could not apparently understand that challenging players with unnecessarly bad controls was a bad thing to do. Said that, one can actually learn and master controls and then enjoy a great classic game (8/10).
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LionHeart is my favorite A500 game. A must have
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Awesome game. The music and the atmosphere are beautiful. 10/10
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Amiga at its FULL POWER. I just had some issues with the controls, but it's a GREAT game. Vote 8/10
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Not only did this look and sound great but the contol and gameplay was so well designed as well... 9/10
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A jaw dropping game with a soldi gameplay..one of the bets on the Amiga
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Technically a very good game that has some good playability to match. Good colourful graphics (especially some of the backgrounds), sound, level design and story. The bad points can be resumed to some of the animations (including that of the main sprite), the colour of some of the baddies/platforms that blended with the backgrounds sometimes rendering them invisible and a few issues with the weapons system. Everything else is top notch!
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Nice graphics. But I do not understand why I can not use the sword if I'm kneeling. In short, good looking but bad to play.
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About a year ago, I tried out Amiga via emulation and Lionheart was the very first game I played. I immediately took to it, and knew I had to get a real amiga to play on. The game alone sold me on the entire format. Flash forward to today - I'm a US gamer, who has imported a PAL Amiga CD32 AND a PAL Amiga 1200, bought a PAL->NTSC converter, and I have an Amiga collection of 53 games spread across CD and disk. I just purchased a boxed copy of this game from a dude on Amibay and I'm anxiously awaiting its arrival. This game started my path to Amiga, and it'll sort of close my year-long journey getting into the format.
Fantastic game all around. It'll make a believer out of you.
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Simply one of the best amiga games of all time!!! Does play like a rastan saga ripoff but i found on real amiga hardware at the time that with certain monitors it just would flicker and or be unplayable after a while.. Also my version did crash at a certain point too...Although i have played another version till the end..Awesome graphics and sound that really push the old amiga to its limits!!
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A tribute to the famous "Rastan Saga" game.
The graphics are top notch, and so is the sound.
Gameplay is a little hard but that's how the arcades play.
An Amiga classic. 10/10
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One of the best jump-n-run games on the Amiga. Admittedly, the character was a bit awkward, though. I did not complete it because it crashed in one of the later levels but some day I will give it another try...
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Lionheart is probably one of the best games I have ever played. It is certainly on of the best games ever to be released on the Amiga.
Graphics, music, gameplay - all of them so good that you could almost call them perfect. Add to this an actually rather well told story and a continually rising difficulty level that never becomes too frustrating and you got an instant classic here.
Two thumbs way up!
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The Ultimate Amiga Epic.
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Lionheart is polished, musically and graphically, but I'm in the camp that says, it's not my type. Nonetheless, I appreciate this one for its finesse and artwork--it just doesn't work for me--the graphics and organ music are a little too dark.
Notice the 'Info' section on the options screen at the start: Thalion called the Amiga a "...pirate-tormented..." [machine], and I wonder if this aspect of the Amiga's existence had any part in its demise a short time later...
If you haven't already, check out the title 'Jim Power in Mutant Planet': it has graphics which might be considered the inverse of this one--they're super-bright and super-colorful in comparison.
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This was awfully good. I played it endlessly for months and months. The backgrounds look as if they still stand up...very sharp looking. I was never happy with the player character though... I think that's the games biggest weakness. A small weakness...but glaring because everything else is excellent.
9/10
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Reading the comments makes it clear that some of you have not really played the game. The controls are great. But you need a 2 button joystick/pad. Imho lionheart is the only platform game on amiga that could be compared to the greatness of turrican 2. Its that good. This should be way higher on the top 100 list. It is definitely better than ruff n tumble.
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I would rate this in the top 3 of the best all time looking and sounding games for the good old amiga...i was impressed when i first got it on my old a500 and its still impressive after all these years...game played good too but was a little buggy for me...would crash sometimes...
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Lionheart was one of those games that made you proud to be an Amiga owner. Henk Nieborg's detailed pixel graphics were a sight for sore eyes, and so were the many layers of parallax scrolling and the Copper color transitions in the background. A gem of a game.
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Somehow i missed this one, and recently played it... And WOW! Its hard to believe this is running on an A500... Very impressive graphically and the sound is not to bad either! The game is just old fashioned platform slashing action.. And there is nothing wrong with that! Runs silky smooth and is great fun to play
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Wow, this game easily has the best graphics on the Amiga. Loads of parallax scrolling, detailed backgrounds, giant sprites - everything's incredible!
It has more than good graphics, though - the levels are huge and full of secret areas (and there are two sets, giving the game loads of replay value), the gameplay is nicely varied (especially in the airship level), and Valdyn, the main character, has lots of moves at his disposal.
However, it does have its flaws. Valdyn's a bit too slow, and his attacks are unwieldy (think The First Samurai in slow-motion). It doesn't help that he's one of the fruitiest game characters ever - look at his gimpy outfit and walk cycle! The sound is also a missed opportunity - the music occasionally sounds like a C64 chiptune, and Valdyn inexplicably screams like a chicken when he dies. In addition, there's a bit of slowdown, although that's forgivable, given the quality of the graphics.
Still, it's a great game. It shows off the Amiga's power better than any other title, while actually being fun to play - take that, Brian the Lion! It's a shame that the developers left the Amiga because of software piracy - can you imagine what a sequel would have been like?
After this, the same people went on to make a Sega CD game called The Misadventures of Flink. It looks and plays even better than Lionheart, and it really brings out the best in Sega's hardware. It was also ported to the CD32, for us Amiga fans.
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One of the best game I have played on Amiga 500 , and this game is not like Turrican. This plattform game use real true Graphics of an Amiga 500.
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Impressive graphics and very cool gameplay.... Nice nice game....
Graphics: 10
Gameplay: 8
Sound: 8
Addictive: 9
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The graphics were great and very colourfull, the music was nice as well, but I think the gameplay wasn't that special. Games like turrican and other jump'n'run/platform - games did a better job years before. Especially the animations seemed to be a little amateurish I think. It was okay and the programmers wanted to design one of the best games of its kind I think, but there was nothing you haven't seen three years before (technics - beast, gameplay switchblade 2 for example) in my opinion.
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Great graphics and a good game. The lava world looks the best.
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True. Nia.
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Best visuals you can find in an amigagame, but the control is average. And I hated the sword. It was the only weapon and it was boring. 9/10
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Simply THE BEST graphic you'll ever find on Amiga in a platform game. Really shows what a bare Amiga 500 was capable of. Unforgettable.
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One of the best Platformers for the Amiga. Amazingly colourful and rich graphics, wonderfull controls and an astonishing soundtrack. You simply can't ask for more here.
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Visually impressive; but Gameplay is mediocre unless you're crazy about mind numbing jumping puzzles. Fighting mechanics are frustrating as most creatures attack low to the ground and your sword hardly does you any good.
Music is great but sound effects sound like an old atari.
I gives this one a 5.
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Superior platform game with wonderful visuals.
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This game reminds me the tv series "Beauty and Beast" which includes Ron Perlman playing Lionman Vincent. I think developers of this game were inspired by Vincent character or the other lionman from Flash Gordon , maybe both. And it also reminds me of the music video of Meat Loaf "I'd do anything for love" which has also a Beauty Beast theme. Well it is funny to think "Meat Loaf" as the hero of this game a fat man jumping and singing around beating critters .
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A great epic platformer as good as the best Megadrive and Snes ones.It can not have better graphics and special mention for the best Amiga parallax scroll ever.A lot of work behind this game in every way.However,the screen size is small to avoid slowdowns,anyway reasonable for the limited A500.
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Unbelievable and stunning graphics for the good ole A500. The screenshots barely do the graphics justice. If only so much care was put into today's games. Pretty good gameplay and sound. 9/10 overall, WOW.
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More information can be found at graphic artist Henk Nieborg's website: [www]
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The most artistic game, the most beautiful Amiga game!
Also, playability is just brilliant, very smooth, the original is needed
a bit because of the special move needed to complete some game
parts.
If only they had made this game distributed by ubisoft for example
instead of doinf it themselves, the game would have been a financial success. And the piracy had for this no excuses.....
I paid my copy in 1993 few bucks, 99 francs!
I own today the 2 retail version of the game, each having beautiful
package.
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Great visuals (parallax scrolling, colourful copper effects etc) but some playability problems.
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Technically stunnig, great gameplay and lastability, gorgeous GFX and musics! The best platform ever, with Turrican2 and Robocod AGA.
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An excellent Arcade-Adventure, technically superb, but with some strange colours and weird graphic, still great by the way, 9 for me (just for the effort of the programmers).
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Very good, certainly one of the better platformers for the Amiga. And it was made in 1993, at that time the Amiga was dying(I hope they did sell some copies of this game, after reading the end text) ...
Some of the controls are hard, otherwise I would have given this game a 9.
8/10
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Awesome, 9.9/10 for me. This one is the best in it's category over Beast, Wrath of the demon; etc.
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Even when you finish the "long version" you just cannot but feel sad for this wonderful adventure is over. A dream.
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Excellent game. Fantastic graphics and animation. However the game is a bit difficult and a lot of patience and good level knowledge is required.
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Excellent! One of the last worthy games! I m giving it a go once in a while just to remember tha catchy music and the awesome graphics!
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This was truly a good platform game with nice GFX, good collsion detection & yet good music. It should be re-released!
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Awesome game: incredible graphics, excellent packaging (the box is probably the best in my collection), good sound, excellent playability, I finished the game at all difficult levels (the game change its paths and it is more difficult), shooter sections are gorgeous, it supports extra power-memory and two button joypads, Lionheart was a dream come true
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This was a totally gorgeous game but damn near impossible to play. It was marred by pixel perfect jumps and generally difficult baddies. If they tightened this up it could have been a classic.
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[here was some crap]
Visually an outstandig title. Impressive intro and a jaw dropping first level. On a common A500! I am not a fan of the music, but it let you dive into the atmosphere of the game. I like the sound effects.
I always found the controls awkward. And i started to get a bit bored in later levels.
For me it is a good game with fantastic graphics and really good atmosphere.
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I'm excited. Why, I remember playing a demo of this game back when I was 13. We were amazed at how well animated the character was how wonderful it looked and the amount of veriety it had. Now I have a Rom of this so when I have time I'm gonna go through it and see the rest of what I missed out on.
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It is a shame that this game is not mentioned along with other true classics of Amiga such as Turrican, Lemmings, Cannon Fodder etc. With its gorgeous graphics, awesome music, huge levels, great plyability and technical superiority it is not any less good than Turican2 and it really deserves to be mentioned as one of the top 10 games of Amiga history.
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The legendary last ditch effort to keep Amiga users from defecting to ms-dos. An amazingly well-designed and technically superb game that easily ranks among the best platformers ever conceived!
the sad truth is, however, that only a handful of games had ever fully exploited the amiga's actual capabilities, which had made it much too easy for consoles and vga/486-based games to cut into the amiga's consumer base. Even the highly spirited "lionheart" could not turn the tide anymore...
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"little classic from Thalion" ?!?
THIS IS THALION inferno...This is the reason to remember Thalion for.
Great, great game!
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This had awesome graphics, nice sounds, enough variety to avoid growing stale and was quite playable too, being hard without becoming unfair. Another little classic from Thalion, that's it.
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Altough I didn´t like playing of this game much, I played it because of its beautiful graphics. It could be compared to Jim Power, maybe. Graphics is really a masterpiece.
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Great graphics, for what is essentially a fantasy version of Turrican.
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Entertaining game that stands out because of its beautiful graphics. Nice intro.
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