You are on the beta version of My Abandonware. The live site is still myabandonware.com. Your favorites and ratings here are copied to the live site. Comments and other changes are not — we delete them every morning at 08:00 Paris time, when this site goes down for about an hour. Leave feedback through this link to Pastel (email required).
The beta goes down at 08:00 Paris time, in a few minutes. We rebuild the database from the live site. It comes back in about an hour.
Trying to run the PC-88 version. Finally got it to boot using the M88 emulator. Even though there's an option to set the language as English, continuing from that point still shows a screen with two options still in Japanese: Press B or Enter. Since neither option has an effect, there must be an option to make a scenario disk. but that screen (just like the pc version - at the title screen) has a lot of Japanese too. The emu has a screenshot option, but I don't know where they go. Any takers?
0
CharaxS25 Oct. 2023
I used the wizardryarchives version... worked with no issues.
Wizardry V is similar to the first three versions but they finally did evolve the game (though, not much graphically).
Some spells were added/modified/changed and it was for the better. NPC interactions within the dungeon figured prominently and a layer of puzzles/quest items augment the traditional Wizardry experience.
While not hard to level your initial party, the game eventually became very challenging (not too bad on the mob side... except on level 7... puzzles and failed trap identification can be problematic).
Overall, I really liked this version compared to the initial trilogy.
0
gg13 May. 2023
crow and servo, that takes me back. Some quality nerd meta humour from the olden days
1
dfortae12 Jan. 2018
I review Wizardry 5 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-EGkF6Moz0
-2
darx fatalis09 Dec. 2016
the game maybe "graphically challenged" by today's standards but that is like saying an old man is weak, no, he is an old man, he was probably stronger than you in his youth and is stronger than you will be as an old man, now for the game subject. The time of the game's release it was given a very positive review and the graphics at the time(1988) were pretty good(though Dungeon Master already had close to VGA style graphics) the puzzles and introduction to colorized monsters were more than welcome for 1988. I remember wanting to get this game when I read about it in Questbusters magazin(Shay Addams) it appears old, but it does have an element of challenge. you need an imagination to like it. it begins in a pub(like classic fantasy always did in those days) you must choose your compainions to venture into a dungeon and rid it of evil. the attributes are much as Bane and Savant, and deciding your class, choice of weapons/armor is paramont, as is your race and skill. once you understand the nature of this, it is quite fun. no need for graphics, it is about character dev more than what story there is(though here in HotM it is a good one, better than just the usual solve DM riddle routine in the first 3) referenced under appendix "PC-88" meaning PC 1980's this is a MS-DOS only game, use Dos box!
-6
Seannachie15 Oct. 2015
Love/Hate this game. Great story, minimalist graphics, but a challenging difficulty required a slow pace at times and inventory space quickly becomes a premium. (O for the swag bag from Wiz 6!). One of my all-time favorites.
1
Nobuyu31 Aug. 2015
I remember playing Wizard V: Heart of the Maelstrom on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System when I was a young pup. I was new to RPGs, at the time, easily being enrage by the multiple deaths and character RE-creating when I was playing it. Ahh, those were the days...
1
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.
English 
Japanese 
Comments and reviews
Trying to run the PC-88 version. Finally got it to boot using the M88 emulator. Even though there's an option to set the language as English, continuing from that point still shows a screen with two options still in Japanese: Press B or Enter. Since neither option has an effect, there must be an option to make a scenario disk. but that screen (just like the pc version - at the title screen) has a lot of Japanese too. The emu has a screenshot option, but I don't know where they go. Any takers?
I used the wizardryarchives version... worked with no issues.
Wizardry V is similar to the first three versions but they finally did evolve the game (though, not much graphically).
Some spells were added/modified/changed and it was for the better. NPC interactions within the dungeon figured prominently and a layer of puzzles/quest items augment the traditional Wizardry experience.
While not hard to level your initial party, the game eventually became very challenging (not too bad on the mob side... except on level 7... puzzles and failed trap identification can be problematic).
Overall, I really liked this version compared to the initial trilogy.
crow and servo, that takes me back. Some quality nerd meta humour from the olden days
I review Wizardry 5 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-EGkF6Moz0
the game maybe "graphically challenged" by today's standards but that is like saying an old man is weak, no, he is an old man, he was probably stronger than you in his youth and is stronger than you will be as an old man, now for the game subject. The time of the game's release it was given a very positive review and the graphics at the time(1988) were pretty good(though Dungeon Master already had close to VGA style graphics) the puzzles and introduction to colorized monsters were more than welcome for 1988. I remember wanting to get this game when I read about it in Questbusters magazin(Shay Addams) it appears old, but it does have an element of challenge. you need an imagination to like it. it begins in a pub(like classic fantasy always did in those days) you must choose your compainions to venture into a dungeon and rid it of evil. the attributes are much as Bane and Savant, and deciding your class, choice of weapons/armor is paramont, as is your race and skill. once you understand the nature of this, it is quite fun. no need for graphics, it is about character dev more than what story there is(though here in HotM it is a good one, better than just the usual solve DM riddle routine in the first 3) referenced under appendix "PC-88" meaning PC 1980's this is a MS-DOS only game, use Dos box!
Love/Hate this game. Great story, minimalist graphics, but a challenging difficulty required a slow pace at times and inventory space quickly becomes a premium. (O for the swag bag from Wiz 6!). One of my all-time favorites.
I remember playing Wizard V: Heart of the Maelstrom on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System when I was a young pup. I was new to RPGs, at the time, easily being enrage by the multiple deaths and character RE-creating when I was playing it. Ahh, those were the days...
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.