[PS1] Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom (New Age of Llylgamyn) - gameplay

New Age of Llylgamyn is the second set of Wizardry remakes for the Playstation(Llylgamyn Saga was the first and encompassed the original trilogy). It consists of the classic and arrange versions of the notoriously hard Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna as well as a remake of Wizardry V: Heart of Maelstrom. Sporting improved visuals, new orchestral soundtrack, auto-mapping, quick-saving and a nifty feature which allows the player to switch back to the wireframe graphics and 8-bit sprites, it is arguably the best way to enjoy these classic dungeon crawlers.

Like most things Wizardry outside of the original games produced by Sir-Tech, New Age of Llylgamyn was released exclusively in Japan. Thankfully, the developers of these remakes from Thunder Stone Japan left in an option to play them in English which can be toggled in the config menu(achieved by moving the top four settings to the right). The spell descriptions and the map legend will remain in Japanese, but the rest will be in English. The arrange version of Wizardry IV lacks this option, however.

There exists a PC version of New Age of Llylgamyn, but it is inferior in many respects and can be quite difficult to get to run properly on modern systems.

In this video I'm showing off some endgame gameplay from Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom.

How to turn on wireframe dungeons and original sprites: 13:35

[PS1] Wizardry: Dimguil:    • [PS1] Wizardry: Dimguil - first-person dun...