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developed by

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, and later translated to English by G-Collections.

Gameplay

The game uses traditional turn-based battles as its gameplay base while telling its narrative though

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-styled story and momentary gameplay cutscenes. At various times throughout the game, the player can either instigate or fall victim of various

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scenes themed after

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eroticism.

Plot

Raidy, a wandering sword fighter roaming the land of Else, stops at the small village of Sadd to resupply. When she arrived, she notes as though she arrived at a grave town due to only elderly living in the area. The locals tell her all the youth, especially young women have all been abducted from the village and imprisoned by the monsters in the tower nearby. Raidy decided to help the people and investigates the tower to rescue the captives.

Characters

*: The protagonist of the game, a warrior with the mysterious power to control lightning.

Development and release

The game was first released in Japan under the title on September 20, 1994 for

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and PC-9821 was released on October 7 of the same year, and a

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edition came out on August 23, 1996. :ja:雷の戦士ライディ The game was remade for

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with the title on August 12, 2005. On October 26, 2012, a bundle for containing all three games in the series on

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for Windows XP,

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, and

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was released, entitled . On May 14, 2007, G-Collections, an affiliate brand of

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, announced that it had acquired the rights to release ''Lightning Warrior Raidy'' in English along with ''

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'', and that development had already begun. At that time, the release was planned for "mid- to late 2007". However, English production didn't finish until May 13, 2008, when G-Collections announced that the game had hit "

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" status. Even before ''Lightning Warrior Raidy'' was available for sale, G-Collections had already revealed their plans to translate the sequel, '' Lightning Warrior Raidy II''.

Reception

In a review for

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, Karen Gellender wrote: "So I'm probably not a good judge of this sort of thing, but my guess is that ''LWR'' is neither good hentai, or a particularly good dungeon crawler.... However, I couldn't in good conscience say that the title isn't entertaining. While it's very basic (think ''

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'' without the mapping features), the actual gameplay is solid enough, and the artwork is attractive."

Adaptations

A manga adaptation by Kazuma Sonsei was released in 2014.

Sequel

References

External links

* ZyX page
Windows 3.1 version

JAST USA page

* {{vndb, 158 *

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