~ KAGAMI NO KUNI NO LEGEND ~
Victor Musical Industries
CD-ROM
1989
Ah, the memories. This was my first PCE "teen idol" game, and it's a horrible one... at first. It casts you as some dude watching the star of the game perform a concert on TV. After the concert, she somehow gets teleported to some sort of alternate world, and since you have to save her, you get sent there as well.
But then it starts to play like a normal anime-style digital comic, and as a digital comic, it's actually not too bad. It usually keeps you exploring and examining your surroundings as opposed to just sitting through Japanese dialogue. You journey through jungles and caves; visit palatial towers and "scary" houses; and run into all sorts of odd people and creatures, including a friendly little dragon looking for its mother.
The "action" is relegated to the top-left quarter of the screen, but the cartoony artwork is decent enough, and the music is okay--the regular game music, that is. The girl's songs are terrible.
There's one of those first-person maze sequences that are usually downers in digital comics, and this one has these weird three-eyed-head things that ask you quiz questions, but they make the process easy on you by simply pushing you back a few steps and letting you try again if you respond incorrectly.
There are some Game Over spots, but they're all a cinch to get past, except for maybe at the last boss, where the necessary string of commands isn't all that easy to stumble upon.
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