Like Søren Grønbech's other game Datastorm, Sword of Sodan was most noted on the technical side, as the sprites were large and distinctive-looking. Your task (as either a hero or heroine) is to dethrone the tyrannous Zoras the Necromancer, and avenge his killing of your father.

There are 11 levels to take on, with indoor and outdoor settings. Your character has a range of sword-slashing and jumping moves, which must be used to their full effect if you are to make progress. The game features digitised sound and speech, as well as an action-replay feature, an unusual concept outside sports games at the time.

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Alternate Titles

"ソードオブソダン" -- Japanese spelling

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User Reviews

Slow difficult side scrolling action game.

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The Press Says

Mean Machines	Feb, 1991	59 out of 100	59
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Mar, 1991	57 out of 100	57
Sega-16.com	Jul 15, 2004	3 out of 10	30
HonestGamers	1998	3 out of 10	30
Power Play	Apr, 1991	25 out of 100	25
GameHall	Mar 13, 2006	1.2 out of 10	12
SEGA-Mag (Objectif-SEGA)	Sep 23, 2010	1 out of 10	10
The Video Game Critic	May 10, 2003	F	0

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Trivia

Cancelled ports

Sword of Sodan was advertised as "coming soon" for both IBM and Apple IIgs, as seen in this ad, but was released for neither format. The version for the Apple IIGS was in development at Visual Concepts, Ltd and only a non-playable demo was released.

Cancelled sequel

Though they never released their promised royalties for Sword of Sodan, Grønbech and Larsen set about making a sequel for Bethesda Softworks. Sword of Sodan 2 was never finished, but a screenshot may be seen in a an old newspaper article.

German index

On April 29, 1989, Sword of Sodan was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games.

Message

The first Amiga disk contains the following message from the authors of the game to all potential crackers:

hi, strange place to meet?? i guess it's ok for you to peek around in my boot block, but if you are out to crack this program, may the worst curse be on you forever!

Information also contributed by B.L. Stryker, Игги Друге and Kabushi.

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This entry was contributed by Kabushi (104290) and Martin Smith (63223)