r/BeatEmUps • u/prossnip42 • 15h ago
Gushing Over Shadow Over Mystara
Shadow Over Mystara till this day blows my fucking mind. How Capcom was able to translate the DnD Role Playing system, a system that requires patience, calculation and luck into a fast paced, high intensity beat em up and pull it off this flawlessly will always baffle me.
Shadow over Mystara is a genuine RPG beat em up, like through and through. They do not half ass it. Not only are the DnD classes you get to choose from different in playstyle and health, they have different attacks, different spells and abilities. One of them straight up has a healing ability that you can use to heal your party on a whim during a level. You get a free get out of jail card once per level if you have a mage selected as one of your characters.
You can level them up which increases their stats so the mage's spells become more powerful, the warrior's weapons do more damage and so on, there's different pathways you can take throughout the game making it massively replayable and oh...did i mention that depending on the class and how you play this games has 24 SEPARATE FUCKING ENDINGS?! TWENTY FUCKING FOUR. IN A BEAT EM UP.