Risky Woods

Evil has spread everywhere, rotting corpse are roaming the woods, children aren't safe, and the world is generally a scary place. A few good monks to scare away the evil (!) would sure help the neighborhood. Fortunately you, the young warrior Rohan, have arrived to deliver death and justice to the evil hordes. His mission is to free the old monks who are trapped in stone (became statues!) by the evil Draxos. With weapons in hand, you must enter the Risky Woods and free the monks from their petrified captivity. Once you've set the monks free and sent Draxos back to his evil home, wisdom will be restored for good.
You start with simple (and unlimited) knives, and whenever you destroy a Gatekeeper, you have a chance to pick up different and better weapons. Moreover, you'll often find bags or chest, and their contents will scattered on the ground. By collecting their contents you may get armor links, find magic items (such as immunity from monster's touch, more time or a fire spirit who temporarily follows you, killing enemies) or collect coins which can be used at the end of a level to buy more weapons.
When you kill a monster, it may also drop armor too. But whenever an enemy strikes you or you fall off a platform, you lose a number of notches off your current life. Lose all (11) notches and you lose a life.
Gameplay is incredibly unfair at times, killing you where you have no control, taking time away and punishing you for things that aren't your fault (too much luck is needed sometimes when you jump over platforms, above deadly pits and shooting incoming hordes of foes at the same time)
Risky Woods is a typical and rather difficult arcade action game, which offers a lot of nice visuals, great sound and furious gameplay!

The game runs here on VGA graphics hardware only and features very nice graphics, being superior to the original Amiga (OCS) version in terms of screen colors. The backgrounds look richer at times too. The sprite animation and background scrolling runs quite smooth too, without any major slowdowns, but in general the Amiga version runs smoother.
As far as the sound, the PC (MS-DOS) version features the original (Amiga) tunes and sampled effects (but, the intro music is better on the Amiga in terms of quality). Overall the PC version is superior to the ST and comparable only to the original (Amiga).