<<<>>>==**==<<<>>>==**==<<<>>>==**==<<<>>>==**==<<<>>>==**==<<<>>>==**==<<<>>> Shadows of Malquidious FAQ - Final Version For the mobile phones Skye7707 aKa Devon Kerkhove _______________________________________________________ / _____________________________________________________ \ /_| | |_\ | Mobile Games Completion Project | MGCP | | | | | 6th guide of the MGCP | | \¯|__________________________________________|__________|¯/ \_______________________________________________________/ <<<>>>==**==<<<>>>==**==<<<>>>==**==<<<>>>==**==<<<>>>==**==<<<>>>==**==<<<>>> Table of Contents 01. Legal Information 02. Version History 03. Introduction 04. FAQ 05. Fiends 06. Review 07. Credits ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ 01. Legal Information ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ This guide is complete as it is marked final, if you have some extra information, strategies, items, ... you can mail me at: skye7707 @ gmail . com This may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. Copyright (c) 2005 Devon Kerkhove All rights reserved. ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ 02. Version History ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ April 19, 2005 Final Added a nice review, fixed typos. March 14, 2005 1.2 Corrected a few things, added some info. March 13, 2005 1.0 Added most of the things. ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ 03. Introduction ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Here's another RPG game. As many among you don't know, there are a ton good games for mobile phones. This is also one of them, it's a dungeon crawler, the graphics are Zelda Oracle of Seasons & Ages like but the battle system is more like Final Fantasy. Here's the story of the game: From the diary of Luitentant Dio Benetti (main character) "These are hard times. Our brave efforts to contain the invasion of Malquidious acolytes in the southlands weren't enough. Everyday, more monsters joins his undead armies and together they are unleashing hell to our beautiful land. In despite of our victories in the south, when I went backto my village in the north, I found it destroyed. I think the reason for this invasion are the legendary mistical powers sealed in a forbidden cave, inside the city walls. Maybe they will try to summon Malquidious using these powers. I'm still wounded and tired, but there's no choice. I have to enter there and put an end to this nightmare. I claim the gods to give me strength to imiment battle." ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Details: Vibration: No Sound: Yes Highscore: No Help: Yes Multiplayer: No Please note that the above details may vary depending on your handset. °Genre: RPG °Audience: All °Size: 64-190 KB °Developer: PalmSoft Tecnologia (www.palmsoft.com.br) °Publisher: Nyx Entertainment °Platform: Java/J2ME ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ The last years was tough for your kingdom. The invasion of Malquidious and his armies of living deads spreaded plague and death on your people, that now hope for an era of peace. After fulfiling your duties in the war, all you want is to go back to your village where you were born in the far lands to the north. But the view couldnt be worse. Nobodys in your town,except for Brann the old drunk which is badly wounded. After taking care of him, he tells that the townsfolk were kidnapped by running away followers of Malquidious and remain hidden in the forbidden cave to the north. The royal armies will never be able to make it in time, thats for sure. It looks like fate once more puts the sword in your way.May the gods give you strength for the battle to come. ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ 04. FAQ ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ The following handsets can run Shadows of Malquidious: Nokia Series 40: 3100, 3200, 3300 5100, 5140 6100, 6200, 6230, 6560, 6610 6800, 6820 7210, 7250i Nokia Series 60: 3600, 3620, 3650, 3660 6600, 7610, 7650 Nokia N-Gage Nokia N-Gage QD Samsung SGH-S100/105/108 Samsung SGH-S200 Samsung SGH-S208 Sony Ericsson F500i Sony Ericsson K500(i) Sony Ericsson K700(i) Sony Ericsson T610 Sony Ericsson T616 Sony Ericsson T618 Sony Ericsson T628 Sony Ericsson T630 Sony Ericsson Z500 Sony Ericsson Z600 Sony Ericsson Z1010 ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ What about the features? From the website: - amazing graphics and visual effects; - 7 great maps; - many enemies; - RPG evolution system; - many weapons; - many items; - many skills; - high quality original soundtrack. - There are 15 different skills you can learn to defeat the evil acolytes. - Over 25 items and weapons. Swords, armors, potions and a lot of magical artifacts. You can recover stuff and trade it to the villagers for items. - You have to find survivors in the dungeon. - Explore the village and a cave with 7 dangerous levels. - Classic rpg gameplay. What are the requirements? Nokia Serie 60: - 260 KB of free memory for install; - 1 MB of avaible memory to run. Nokia Serie 40: - 64 KB of free memory for install; - 200 KB of avaible memory to run. Other plataforms version: - 64 KB of free memory for install; - 200 KB of avaible memory to run. ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ 05. Fiends ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Killer Branch Slug Level 1 Level 3 Health Points 9 Health Points 35 Defense 6 Defense 21 Maximum Damage 5 Maximum Damage 8 Goblin Goblin Master Level 4 Level 11 Health Points 55 Health Points 155 Defense 21 Defense 25 Maximum Damage 18 Maximum Damage 20 Dark Knight Skull Level 20 Level 8 Health Points 180 Health Points 60 Defense 45 Defense 45 Maximum Damage 42 Maximum Damage 23 Gargoyle Orc Level 24 Level 10 Health Points 150 Health Points 115 Defense 150 Defense 20 Maximum Damage 30 Maximum Damage 30 Green Dragon Level 45 Health Points 896 Defense 100 Maximum Damage 75 ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ 06. Review ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ The last few years have seen the proliferation of RPGs on the mobile platform. You have your standard dungeon crawlers to tactical strategy and even to the lone hero hack and slash type of games. Shadow of Malquidious falls in the latter category. Shadow of Malquidiousstarts off with your hero returning from the battle against the Evil Malquidious and his army of the living dead - only to find his entire village has been kidnapped save for the village drunk. Your mission can be summed up in three words - save your village. As you start playing the game, you will notice the game is unbalanced and starts off extremely difficult. Essentially, you have to run through a series of cave levels. Each level you complete allows you to save a certain character from your town. In one example, you save the town innkeeper and he reciprocates by allowing you to recoup your health at his inn for free. All you need to do is keep going lower into the caves and saving more people to unlock more extras. Game combat is strictly one-on-one with no group teamkills. You and your enemy each take a turn executing actions. However, I found the lack of information on attacks to be suprising, as I would have expected such a game to give me information such as attack value as well as hit percentages. I just felt the need to see these numbers, if only to pacify myself. As for sounds, I felt they were well done. The developers have put in effort to ensure that the sounds arent just your standard fare of beeps and bloops. Graphics used reflect that of an old school RPG with a picture of your enemy and animations of your attacks across his potrait. One bad point is that the game is relatively short. Once you have attained a high enough level, the game is easy enough to complete as well. Also, a minor bug that drove me nuts was that everytime my character died, the game would exit and you would have to restart it. This really drove me up the wall at times. All in all, I would recommend Shadow of Malquidious if you were a casual gamer, seeking out five minutes of fun every now and then. However, if you are like me and simply cant put your phone down then it may be wise to hope that the game's developers decide to work further on it. Review by Midlet ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ 07. Credits ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ CJayC Still the same as ever, good work! Palmsoft For delevoping such a good game You For reading this guide Midlet For some information Thanks, Devon End.