Okay, so Sorcer Kingdom is one of those Genesis RPGs that somehow flew under the radar back in the day—which is a shame, because it’s got this weirdly addictive mix of turn-based battles and exploration. You start off picking your hero (I always went with the knight first, but the mage gets way more interesting later), and suddenly you’re dumped into this pixel-art kingdom where everything wants to fight you. Like, even the bushes sometimes.

The magic system’s the real hook—instead of just picking spells from a menu, you collect these elemental orbs and combine them mid-battle. Took me forever to figure out that fire + wind actually makes a tornado, not just… hotter wind. And the dungeons? Classic ’90s maze logic, where you’re scribbling maps on notebook paper because one wrong turn means running into a boss way too early.

It’s janky in that old-school way (good luck figuring out what half the items do without trial and error), but there’s something charming about how ambitious it is for a 16-bit game. Just don’t expect the story to hold your hand—you’re basically thrown into a war between wizards and left to piece together why anyone cares. Still, tossing a lightning spell at a goblin horde never gets old.