There are 3
Knightmare games. The series starts with Knightmare. In this
game Popolon has to rescue Aphrodite, the queen of the
castle. Aphrodite was captured by the evil Hudnos, he took
her to mount Atos. After Popolon rescued Aphrodite they went
back to the castle. At the moment they arrived the two
noticed something fishy was going on. Later they realized
that the castle was invaded by Galious. This high priest
lured Popolon out of the castle by letting Aphrodite being
captured by one of his servants. Galious also captured the
brave couples future baby from heaven. After Popolon and
Aphrodite succeeded in defeating Galious and his evil
servants, peace returned to the kingdom which is mainly
inhabited by greek gods. Popolon was rewarded with the
crown. Soon Popolon and Aphrodite got married and Pamperse
was born. After years of peace Pamperse had become the new
king. This is where part 3 starts. I don't know the rest of
the story, because shalom is not translated to
english.
KNIGTHMARE
II: THE MAZE OF GALIOUS
The Maze of Galious is an
adventure game with platform action. It has many puzzles and
secrets. As usually in adventure games, you can find items
which will help you on your quest. You start the game in a
huge castle, this is the main section of the game. There are
10 portals in this castle which lead to the world areas.
Each world has a guardian which must be defeated. You are
able to play with 2 different characters: Popolon and
Aphrodite. Both heroes have their own advantages and
disadvantages. Although the worlds may all look alike, they
all have their own characteristic puzzle. After lost of
years playing games, I still think this is one of best games
ever.
THE NES VERSION OF KNIGHTMARE
II
There are a lot of differences
between the MSX version and Nes version. First of all, all
the rooms are different, the nes version has no item icons
and there are no rocks in the game. The worlds are bigger,
the castle is only twice as big as some of the worlds.
Another big difference is that you can't explore the whole
castle from the start, this makes the castle more just an
area between the worlds then the main area as in the MSX
version. One of the only improvements is that the enemies
have more colors, some of them definitely look better. The
nes game is a nice game for the real MoG fans because it
still some MoG elements, but it sure can't beat the MSX
version.
KNIGHTMARE
Maze of Galious is the sequel
of Knightmare. This game was released in 1986 on the MSX
platform. Knightmare is an up scrolling action, shooting
game which is pretty tough too. This game was actually the
trap of Galious to let Popolon leave the castle. After this
brave knight left the castle he sets out to free Aphrodite
who was captured by Hudnos. The game style is totally
different from MoG, but it also guarantees lots of
fun.
PARODIUS
Popolon also appears in the
MSX version of the weird shooting game Parodius.
Unfortunately he was removed in the other Parodius versions.
Parodius is a parody on the Nemesis games. The game play is
much the same. You can choose between different konami
characters.
KNIGHTMARE III:
SHALOM
I don't know much about this
game because it's 100% Japanese. The game starts when the
main character warps through his TV (just like that captain
N dude) into another world, one with knights and wizards.
The king of that world is Pamperse, who was the captured
baby in MoG. I think the pig which appears in this game also
appears in Gokukyou Parodius for the snes, he's called
Michael in that game. It's more a RPG game than The Maze of
Galious and reminds me sometimes to the original The Legend
of Zelda game. I think it's quite fun when you can read
Japanese. I hope someone will translate it someday, just
like King Kong 2.
