You run horizontally along, throwing out your spikey shield weapon (that only goes forward in this version- no spinning it around yourself) and taking down the headless guardians, rhinos, dragons n such, jumping over holes and breaking open boulders with hidden points and power ups.
Its simple gameplay, but I like the fast reaction high score test. Gripes are, that the enemies appear much less randomly than in the arcade, AND in much less numbers, although that is to be expected. My anticipation to get my hands on a conversion of my favourite arcade game on the humble Spectrum was so high that it could have all gone horribly wrong… I ignored the mediocre review in my chosen mag Sinclair User… I ordered the game… I got my hands on it… I loved the blood thirsty cover illustration and… You only get 3 lives so you may find, as I do, that you get nowhere near to the last 23rd level… not yet anyway… but your endurance, high score and general endorphin rush are the important things… good old Rygar, you never fail me. I firmly wore my rose tinted specs forever!! The fact that my memory of the arcade game had grown a little hazy probably helped cause I didn't notice all the glaring differences and omissions, what I did notice was the gameplay was there. It is a frantic slash em up with a host of beasties coming from all sides getting obliterated by a unique spiked shield on chain weapon with loads of bonuses, fast scrolling, platforming action and loadsa levels. The graphics are a bit small, there's not a lot of variation n the sound is, well, rubbish BUT I loved it, and I still do. Despite now being able to emulate the arcade game on my PC I still fire up the Speccy version too. Its a different game, yet has enough of the same elements that I like.
The mythical theme, the score challenge, and more than anything, the speed of action. For some reason I am drawn to the fast reflex games more than any others, and this is one of the best examples.
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