History VideoGame / SolomonsKeep

* DropTheHammer: Charles the Hammer.

The student wizard/witch has four elemental abilities available: [[NonElemental Magic Missile]], [[KillItWithFire Fireball]], [[KillItWithIce Frost Jet]] and [[ShockAndAwe Lightning]]. As Sirius levels up, he gets new upgrades to his abilities and magic. Furthermore, two elements can be "welded" together to create a new magic spell.

''Solomon's Keep'' is a free DungeonCrawler, released in 2010 for [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames IOS platforms]] by Raptisoft. The player plays as Sirius, a student wizard whose final test is to traverse [[BigBad Solomon Dark's]] Keep and defeat him.

Sirius has four elemental abilities available: [[NonElemental Magic Missile]], [[KillItWithFire Fireball]], [[KillItWithIce Frost Jet]] and [[ShockAndAwe Lightning]]. As Sirius levels up, he gets new upgrades to his abilities and magic. Furthermore, two elements can be "welded" together to create a new magic spell.

* [[WizardNeedsFoodBadly Wizard Needs Potion Badly]]: Said by Solomon Dark after you encounter him on a cleared floor, right after he whacks you hard.

* SpeedRun: One of the challenges. You need to complete all thirteen levels in under an hour.

* StandardStatusEffects: Poison, which drains your health for a set period of time but cannot kill you, and slow, which makes you slower.

** Could be just a coincidence- the fireballs that demons and Monculus throw bounce on the floor twice before exploding on the third. [[SuperMarioBros Where else have we seen bouncy fireballs]]?

''Solomon's Keep'' is a free DungeonCrawler, released in 2010 for [[IOSGames IOS platforms]] by Raptisoft. The player plays as Sirius, a student wizard whose final test is to traverse [[BigBad Solomon Dark's]] Keep and defeat him.

''Solomon's Keep'' is a free DungeonCrawler for the iPhone. The player plays as Sirius, a student wizard whose final test is to traverse [[BigBad Solomon Dark's]] Keep and defeat him.

Not to be confused with ''Videogame/SolomonsKey''.

** The game's ending has a kill count for each type of enemy. Usually done in AddedAlliterativeAppeal for most enemies, but for Ghosts, it says "[[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} Ghosts Busted]]"

* AirborneMook: Ghosts, who fly around very quickly and try to charge the player. Their airborne status allows them to fly over embers caused by Fireball. [[GoddamnedBats Quite an annoyance]].

** Inverted in ''Solomon's Boneyard''. You ''will'' learn to hate archers, as there are ''no walls to protect you'' from their arrows. If you don't have Magic Shield, ''you're toast''.

* DeathTrap: The GladiatorGames sort. When you enter certain rooms, iron gates immediately block all the exits to prevent your escape, and then a horde of monsters will spawn. The only way out is to destroy the monsters before they destroy you.

* HarderThanHard: Demigod Mode, no questions asked. Enemies move more than twice as fast and attack more than twice as fast. And '''ALL''' enemy mages have mana shields!

* {{Necromancer}}: Solomon Dark. He also knows how to summon flaming demons as well. He's probably very proficient at it -- in Solomon's Boneyard, he can summon skeletons, imps, zombies and ghosts from the edges of the screen... while he's busy digging a grave!

** When you first meet Solomon in front of the castle, he says "[[VideoGame/ImpossibleMission stay awhile, stay FOREVER!!!]]"

* AnnoyingArrows: The arrows used by the skeleton archers in the early floors of the game. They do hardly any damage.

*** Really, now? With Frost Jet equipped, you can block arrows if you even have ''one'' skill point invested to the secondary skill, Chill Wind. The best anti-archer strategy is to get one Chill Wind and as many Cone of Ice (increases angular firing width and nonangular length) as possible, repelling most (if not all) melee attackers and keeping archers from doing you any harm (unless they surround you, and even then, they're not too hard to deal with) and leaving only mages and bosses (and Putrid Zombie Guts (they poison you, by the way)) that can harm you if you get cornered.
**** Please note that this works best with Frost Jet, but it also works with Frost Missile (awesome) and Blizzard Beam (low width, oh well). Steam Jet doesn't block arrows for some strange reason...

* DemBones: Skeletons, which comprise a majority of enemy forces. Varieties include regular melee (with varying degrees of armour), archers, ''flaming'' archers, and the dreaded mages.

* FlunkyBoss: Most of them, to some extent. Charles The Hammer has mooks which periodically appear from [[BehindTheBlack offscreen]], Bone Daddy spits out poison along with maggots, Monculus can spawn two smaller copies of himself, and Solomon Dark can summon imps, armoured flaming skeletons, and even fire demons to beat the crap out of you.

* HeavilyArmoredMook: Skeletons start to appear in tougher and stronger armour as you progress up the tower. The strongest ones wear a full set... while on fire, no less.

* TheSlowWalk: You can do this with the Harden ability (an upgrade to Frost Jet). It makes you gain a lot of armour WHILE firing Frost Jet, to the point that most enemy attack will be unable to ''scratch'' you. Then all you have to do is walk towards the enemy (as Frost Jet has somewhat limited range).

* FragileSpeedster: Ghosts, which fly around you in circles and then charge you. VERY annoying, because they also slow you down on contact.
** Imps. Very fast and annoying, and they have one of the lowest hit points in the game.

** "Muahahahaha! [[{{Gauntlet}} Blue Wizard]] [[WizardNeedsFoodBadly needs potion badly]]!"

* ProjectileSpell: One of the four primary spells you may choose. It fires {{Homing Projectile}}s, as will any spells welded with it.

* MagicMissile: One of the four primary spells you may choose. It fires {{Homing Projectile}}s, as will any spells welded with it.