The Magic Candle 3 is the third and final installment in the Magic Candle franchise, all of which loosely follow a plot where the heroes of the tale must traverse a fictional and fanciful expanse of ground in search of pieces of magical artifacts that will save the land. It was developed by Mindcraft Software Incorporated and published by Electronic Arts in the early nineties. Releases of the franchise were each roughly one year apart, and they were created only for play on the MS-DOS operating system.
It plays from the top down perspective.
The entire Magic Candle series, especially this installment, bear some resemblance to the Ultima role playing games. To begin with, the gaming worlds are really huge. The quests generally involve some feat for moral good. In this particular game, the party of heroes is trying to thwart the spread of the “blight,” which is basically a catch-all term for the evil that is spreading across the land of Terlermain. The king of the land is away fighting other noble battles, and you have been left in charge of the task of defending the land and the rest of the royal family in case of danger.
The characters
in the Magic Candle 3 are very interesting. To begin with, the user is able to import characters from previous games into the Magic Candle 3. The gamer is also able to create several different types of characters if he is interested in starting afresh. The game will begin with three volunteer adventurers and can become as large as a party of six, depending on the users choices of recruiting. Another very fun portion of the Magic Candle 3, which is also new to this installment, is the improved realism in the weapons and armor system. For example, weapons will wear out and break…sometimes at inopportune times if the user is not careful with them.
The graphics in this version are VGA and improved over the previous installments. The controls are really easy to master. The interface is simple, and the game is mostly keyboard driven by simple commands, all of which work together to make the game play pretty smooth and a lot less frustrating than other role playing games of this era.
Overall, this is purists role playing game, with a lot of emphasis on leveling up and completing quest to become bigger and better heroes. It is a lot of fun for this reason, and the massive gaming environment and fun characters really add to the play. This isn’t an eye-popping graphical RPG, but it is certainly a challenging, solid play.
