Hillsfar

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Description

Play a would-be hero in the city of Hillsfar, where action and adventure await the daring adventurer. Join the local guild and complete missions from the guild master in a quest for glory and gold!

Hillsfar is a single-hero role-playing game (in comparison to other Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing games, where the player usually controls a group of characters). A combination of first person perspective (when traveling in the city of Hillsfar) and third person perspective (usually in some action-style mini-quests) viewpoints.

As a would-be-hero, four classes are available in a randomly generated mission-based plot: fighter, thief, cleric, or magic-user. Each class to a certain extent, have different assigned quests given by each respective guild.

In Hillsfar, gameplay usually consists of various mini-games that are needed to complete the quests or missions provided at the local guild by the guild master. These mini-games (and their viewpoints) include:

• Fighting in the arena (third person).
• Competing at the archery range (first person).
• Exploring buildings or mazes (top-down).
• Riding a horse outside Hillsfar while avoiding obstacles (third person/side-scrolling).
• Locking picking doors and chests (first person).

Unlike most role-playing games, there aren't any randomly generated monsters to battle. In Hillsfar, combat only occurs in the arena.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Setting: Forgotten Realms
• Dungeons & Dragons (D&D / AD&D) licensees
• Fantasy Creatures: Dwarves
• Gameplay feature: Horse riding
• Gameplay feature: Importable characters
• Gameplay feature: Lock picking
• Games with code-wheel copy protection

User Reviews

A unique and groundbreaking game me thinks. These are the stuff games were made of...	DOS	Indra was here (20905)
It's all about whether you liked the mini-games...	DOS	John Lucas (13)
its not that great.	DOS	Wolfang (168)

Critic Reviews

ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Amiga	Nov, 1989	750 out of 1000	75
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Atari ST	Nov, 1989	750 out of 1000	75
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Commodore 64	Jun, 1989	732 out of 1000	73
Amiga Format	Amiga	Dec, 1989	72 out of 100	72
Atari ST User	Atari ST	Dec, 1989	7 out of 10	70
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	DOS	1992	54 out of 100	54
Questicle.net	NES	Jan, 2011	C-	42
Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the NES Library	NES	2016		20
Game Freaks 365	NES	2006	2 out of 10	20
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	DOS	Sep, 1989	Unscored	Unscored

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Trivia

Cover art

The cover artwork, by Clyde Caldwell, was first used two years earlier as the cover to the 1987 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Gamebook #15: The Vanishing City.

Pools of Radiance

While not part of the Pools of Radiance series, you can import your characters from those games into this game.

Awards

• Power Play
  • Issue 01/1990 - #2 Best Role Playing Game in 1989

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