Blackthorne

STORY / GAMEPLAY
The story begins at Sarlac's keep, located in a place called Tuul. The Lord of this dark world orders an attack by the time King Vlaros is at Stonefist with his people. The Evil Lord demands from his monsters to kill and steal the Lightstone, a valuable artifact with great powers. The game's hero is left in awe finding a destroyed world and people killed or imprisoned by the Evil Lord's loyals. Now he is called to fight his way through to avenge the so many deaths, free the prisoners and finally retrieve the artifact before the cruel warriors do. His only hope are his his bombs, his shotgun and his climbing skills.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
After a nicely done intro sequence, the game takes you to a dark and detailed environment that offers good graphics, multiple stereo sound FX and an atmospheric music score. The game's mechanism and style are mostly based on the Prince of Persia games since you have to climb on platforms, kill enemies and avoid gaps and traps like in the aforementioned games. BlackThorne is among my favorites and a particularly good and addictive game for the SNES (and the MS-DOS of course).