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Yeonghon Gibyeong Lazenca is an action role-playing game based on the Korean TV animated series Lazenca: Revival of a Myth. In a post-apocalyptic world, an overly ambitious Empire invades a nearby kingdom. A young man named Atin finds himself in the unlikely role of a hero when circumstances make him escape together with the princess. Atin joins a resistance organization and attempts to uncover the mystery of the ancient sentient machine Gairun in order to defeat the Empire. The game uses pre-rendered backgrounds with fixed camera angles for exploration and battles. The player controls Atin who fights enemies with his fists in a beat-em-up-like fashion, or throws boomerangs at them. As Atin gains experience points and levels up he gradually learns special powerful attacks that require the use of technique points. Lazenca suffers from some huge problems typical for release date critical licensed games: It feels unfinished and rushed. Family Production even tried to compensate its failings with a patch later, that added several enemey types and items to the game, and made some adjustments to the controls and balancing. Yet even the "complete" version is much too short for an action RPG, the 13 animated episodes didn't provide plot for more than 5 or 6 hours. There's little to no challenge to the combat either, with no room nor need for character customization. |
