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Amberstar
Sign in to saveAmberstar is the first installment in Thalion Software's never-finished role-playing video game trilogy. Although considerably more advanced, the game has numerous similarities to Thalion's earlier game Dragonflight, and was thought to be a sequel by many fans. As with most of Thalion's other releases, the public interest was somewhat limited. A sequel, Ambermoon, was released in 1993.
Game data
- Released
- 1992-01-01
- User rating
- 0.00 / 5
- Genres
- RPG
- Platforms
- PC, Commodore / Amiga, Atari ST
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Thalion, the innovative developer of fantasy role playing games, presents Amberstar, the follow up to the successful epic Dragonflight. Part one of the Amber trilogy is set One thousand years ago, when the world of Lyramion was almost destroyed by a mortal man. A man who had combined his mortal being with a demon lord; Lord Tarbos, God of Chaos. No one could match his power, until the twelve magicians, using the magical amberstar, cast a great spell, forever banishing Tarbos to the third moon of Lyramion. Now the black magus Marmion is trying to free Tarbos from his eternal prison, and has…
- Released
- 1992
- Genres
- Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
- Platforms
- Atari ST/STE, DOS, Amiga
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Thalion Software
- Publisher
- Thalion Software
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- 1992-01-01
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Amberstar is the first installment in Thalion Software's never-finished role-playing video game trilogy. Although considerably more advanced, the game has numerous similarities to Thalion's earlier game Dragonflight, and was thought to be a sequel by many fans. As with most of Thalion's other releases, the public interest was somewhat limited. A sequel, Ambermoon, was released in 1993.
== Plot == The game is set in the fictional world of Lyramion and begins with the player situated at the graves of his parents. As the player sets out for adventure, it becomes apparent that an evil entity named Lord Tarbos, who was imprisoned a thousand years earlier, is about to be released again to wreak havoc upon Lyramion. The player, helped by the various adventurers who join the party along the way, must recover the thirteen missing pieces of the Amberstar, the talisman that initially banished Lord Tarbos, to defeat the demon once again.