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Wizardry Knights of Diamonds came out in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, published by ASCII Entertainment. It was part of that wave of early console RPGs, a time when you expected to spend a lot of time mapping dungeons on graph paper. The game felt like a direct port of a complex computer experience to the simpler NES controller.

You control a party of adventurers, choosing from classes like fighters, mages, and priests, and lead them into a multi-level dungeon. Your main goal is to delve deep, defeat monsters in turn-based fights, and gather enough power to challenge the final boss. The exploration happens screen by screen in a first-person view, and a big part of the game is manually mapping the labyrinthine corridors to avoid getting lost. Combat is menu-driven, where you pick attacks or spells for each party member every round. The pacing is slow and deliberate, with a high difficulty that punishes careless decisions. It feels like a methodical, grinding test of your patience and planning.