"The thing that ended up confusing later on is that Sorcerian, released in North America for MS-DOS in 1990, also skipped the Dragon Slayer branding."
Very interested if that was a deliberate move by Sierra head Ken Williams. He was instrumental in bringing it over, from what I've read, and Sierra adored big franchise installment numbers. You'd think he'd be fine with the DS4....but maybe he was concerned that people would look for the nonexistent prequels that they had no intention of bringing over.
Some friends of mine had Legacy of the Wizard for the NES back in the early 90s and I, as a US tween at the time, had no idea about Falcom or Dragon Slayer or anything else of that nature. But my _mind was blown_ by the tantalizingly huge world LotW laid out. The idea of multiple paths and different powers for different family members, each offering different routes, each of which would need to be explored, was so far beyond anything else I'd seen previously, even in my beloved Final Fantasy (no #, since we didn't need those yet). Incredible.
"The thing that ended up confusing later on is that Sorcerian, released in North America for MS-DOS in 1990, also skipped the Dragon Slayer branding."
Very interested if that was a deliberate move by Sierra head Ken Williams. He was instrumental in bringing it over, from what I've read, and Sierra adored big franchise installment numbers. You'd think he'd be fine with the DS4....but maybe he was concerned that people would look for the nonexistent prequels that they had no intention of bringing over.
Some friends of mine had Legacy of the Wizard for the NES back in the early 90s and I, as a US tween at the time, had no idea about Falcom or Dragon Slayer or anything else of that nature. But my _mind was blown_ by the tantalizingly huge world LotW laid out. The idea of multiple paths and different powers for different family members, each offering different routes, each of which would need to be explored, was so far beyond anything else I'd seen previously, even in my beloved Final Fantasy (no #, since we didn't need those yet). Incredible.