------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves from Virgin/Sculptured software walkthrough by |tsr (k.gifford) 1998.5.20 "Arab dungeons, sunset" Notes ~~~~~ Sculptured Software was actually already working on a Robin Hood game before press releases on the movie "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" were made available. So, they had little choice but to license the movie and remake the plot of the game. This is also the reason why the game was nearly half a year late in getting to shelves in 1991. It's a good game, and I still think it's one of the better American-made NES releases (not like there's a lot of competition there; the Japanese and Euro software houses had us beat pretty soundly). I like the music, and that's half the battle with US made games. Items ~~~~~ You start out with a sword, whose first use is in bonking the shit out of the not very Arabian looking guard at the start of the game. Later on you'll get some bows (from Long to Cross to Locksley bows). Bow and arrow is the best weapon for Melee Mode; I find that you can get by with a sword pretty well the rest of the time. Your friends also have some other weapons, like Little John's staff. There's also armor (leather, and Locksley varieties), and gold. You only need gold once in the game, but strangely they don't take up any weight so stock up anyway. Oh.. There's also levels and experience points, but this is pretty much pointless in an action game like this. EXP buildup is completely unnecessary. Here's the rundown on food: Food HP recovery ==== =========== Apple 8-30 Loaf of bread 8-20 Leg of meat 8-20 Yellow potion 100 Red potion 50 + faster running speed for awhile Bandage 1-10 (best to use immediately upon getting them since they have a tendency to build up in your inventory) The walkthrough ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You start out in an Arabian dungeon at sunset, 1194. Your friend Peter is getting beaten up by a surprisingly English-looking guard; take the sword and kill the guard to free Peter. By the way, you'll notice that none of the characters in the game look remotely like the movie characters (I know it's difficult to make a character look worse than Kevin Costner, but Sculptured did it). Search the guard to find a key to open the door, and have Charles Barkley (oh, i mean Azeem) join your party. Search where he says to find another door key. Open the door and start your first duel. Arab guards look amazingly merrie olde English, don't they? The duels in this game are easy peasy, especially since so few duellers seem to have perfected the "attack *crouching* duellist" technique. Yeah, some of your fellow duellers crouch on occasion, but if you keep crouching, you will simply not get hit at all. This guard swings his axe 3 times then rests in a pattern. Obviously, hit him when he's not swinging. Search this body for a torch. Walk to the lower right corner and search to find a staircase. Go down it. Inside the catacomb These sewers have you going through a gauntlet of English Arabian guards. It may be wise to stock up on things like food now; to do this go north until you find a narrow passageway. Stand in the passage facing the way of the nearest intersection. Enemies will come to you and basically run into your sword over and over, leaving lots of goodies for you. Bear north to hit the exit. When you get near, you'll get surrounded and enter Melee mode. Again, this is pretty easy; just be sure to avoid dudes firing arrows all around the joint if you want to live. After the battle, Peter dies and gives you a ring to give to Marian. Near hadrians wall Talk to the old ugly bint. She disappears after you talk to her, the old hag! Go down and look around until you find a chest key, then go back and to the west. Eventually you'll run into Guy of Gisbourne and enter another Melee. Talk to the kid at the tree, open the chest for a yellow potion, and go left. In sherwood forest Keep on going.... Outside locksley castle Walk around the castle to get the schwag lying around. Go in the castle. After a truly touching Nintendo drama (Robin uses FIVE exclamation points), Robin enters. Inside locksley castle Go ahead north and look for Duncan, your keeper or something. He'll give you the medallion of Locksley. (After more hot blooded drama, though) Outside, head left and you'll go through some forest, then.. Outside dubois manor Replace your armor with the Locksley medallion and the guard will let you enter Marion's pad. Walk right to find her, picking up the armor first (you can give the leather armor to Azeem). After some chat, Robin will get attacked and will have to run out of the castle. Find the horses to the left of the entrance and bridle them for another action scene! In this scene you're riding a horse with some other horses with men on them following you. Just jump over the rocks.. or DIE! It's not so difficult. Afterwards you'll be in.. In sherwood forest Go north and you'll come to a bridge guarded by a Mr. Andre the Giant (I mean John Little). Duel his ass. Just stand on the rock to the left of the log and turbo the B button. He'll die so easily. At "his" camp After some swarthy words, you'll be at the official camp of the merrie crew. This camp will grow in size as you complete quests, so be sure to check it out thoroughly after each quest, and now, for that matter. The man standing right in front of you will be the one giving you your orders. Your first job is to break up a wedding between a baron and some chick. Walk south out of the fort, and through some forest, to... In the church Enter the castle-like church and start kicking ass. Walk due east to go up stairs, then enter a Melee. Woo! I wonder how well Duncan will do in this! Once over, head northwest for the letter. Go back down and discredit the wedding! The evil Baron will give you a very easy duel. You're on the ground, the baron's on the table, you'll repeatedly slash his legs. After the smoke clears, fell free to return to base. That guy whose girl you saved has joined the crew, and he'll be the one giving you missions from now on. This one he now gives you involves a huge wild boar killin' nearby villages and tearin' up their fields. Go south, and... Inside the boar's lair Head due northeast to find the cave the boar is in. Killing the boar is easy enough. Just equip the bow and get to the far left of the screen. Eventually, the boar will get stuck on the top left side of the screen, and you can just shoot arrows at him until he dies. Upon his death, search the skeleton four times. You'll uncover a bandage, gold, the Locksley Bow, and the Locksley armor! Go ahead and equip the armor. The Bow uses five arrows per shot, so keep it for later. Go back to camp. This time, some huts have been built; search them for items. Your questmaster has noticed that some of your men have right vanished; let's check it out.. Deep within a musky well Go as far south as you can. You'll find the well and a dead guy; search him for a threatening letter. Go a little to the right and you'll get a rope. Go down the well with it. Go north and east until you find an exit and Little John tells you nicely about he can smell druids. Go through the doors to find some more letters, including a credits list. Go up until you have a conversation with Mortianna. You can't fight the skeleton yet, so leave and return to camp. In a small chapel Back at camp, Duncan mentions that Marian wants to see you. Go through some forest and head for the chapel. Marian is at the left side and she'll give you the druid's dagger, which you need to beat that skeleton dude. Be sure not to throw this away! Back at camp, Mr. Assignment tells you about some tax wagons that you could plunder. Let's go! In sherwood forest The carts are being held up by your friend Guy of Gisbourne. Talk to Friar Tuck, then duel with Guy. After the duel, Tuck will join you. Clear out anything you want from Duncan's inventory, then go back to base. Marian will be there, take Duncan away, then leave herself. This time Mr. Piss Boy rags on you on how untrained your men are. Tuck suggests visiting a local weaponmaster, and we're on our way... Go to the northwest corner of the map to find the man (who I guess is Mr. Assignment's twin brother). He'll duel him. It'll be the same background as with Guy before. Try trapping the dude on a rock and he'll be easy. After killing him, he'll take 200 gold from you (you'll have a lot more than that by now). After killing him, enter his pad for some potions, then go back to camp. (You can climb down the swordmaster's well too, but there's nothing down there) This time Mr. Ass (ignment) well tell you that everyone is sick, and you need to go to this enchanted lake to get some magical water that's unfortunately guarded by evil green jobbies. Still in sherwood forest Head due north to the pond. The pond has a bunch of green jobbies in it that throw arrows! Stay at the lower end and wait for about half the monsters to kill themselves, then whip out your locksley bow and start firing like a flamethrower... the water will turn blue upon killing all the monsters; then you can take a flask and use it to fill it up. With it in hand, return to camp to hear the news. This time, that baron from before is about to destroy a village, and you have to stop him before he does. Duu du duuuuuu.. Once again in sherwood forest Go to the northeast corner of your map to get the rapid fire crossbow, which is probably the best one to use. The village is in the northwest corner. In a small village The Baron is in the north end of the village and he'll Melee when you get near. After THAT, he'll duel with you again. Once again, force the baron on some rocks and beat the crap out of him. There's a ball and chain in the northwest-corner hut, and a old chick in another hut who'll sell you a chest key for 20 coins. Back at camp, Duncan will be a dumbass and get the camp attacked. After a melee, the celts will set the camp on fire and you'll regroup elsewhere. Still again in sherwood forest Go right until you get to a guy. Enter his house and take the Disguise (black hat thingy) inside. Continue along until you return to camp. Your huts are all gone, but lucky for you that Mr. Assignment survived! He'll tell you about how the sheriff is going to hang some of your dudes. Azeem feels it's time for the final battle, so you all head to town... Follow sherwood until you find 2 horses. Put the disguise on (it goes on your chest, not your head as you might surmise from its shape) and put a bridle on a horse. After another exciting horse racing scene, you'll be... In town square In town, equip the Locksley Bow in one hand and the locksley sword in another, so that you can use both. Attack the castle guard and a mega-melee will take place. In the castle The sheriff's in the upper right hand section of the castle. There'll be a melee, and then you'll need to get past Mortianna's skeleton first! Fortunately, since you still have the druid's dagger (you do, right?), you can attack and kill the skeleton. It's very easy to dodge his sword strikes, but swig those yellow potions you've been saving up.. Right behind her is the sheriff. He'll challenge you to a duel, of course. There'll be tables here, though, so you can just slash the fuck out of his knees and he'll die easily. Congratulations! Passwords ~~~~~~~~~ It's technically a secret, but you can access a password screen by hitting A 8 times, then B 8 times on the title screen. Here are the passwords you can enter: CATACOMB - outside Arab jail WALL - Hadrian's Wall LOCKSLEY - Locksley Castle DUBOIS - Dubois Manor CHASE - Horse race to Sherwood CATHEDRA - Rescue the maiden... BOAR - Battle the boar MASTER - Search for Master Trainer CHAPEL - Meet Marian at chapel WELL - Search for haunted well TAX - Attack gold wagons POND - Search for healing water VILLAGE - Defense of Sherwood Village CELTS - Battle Celts TOWN - Journey to town TOWNHANG - In town, by gallows CASTLEIN - Inside Sheriff's castle WEDDING - View the ending ---