Trivia / Wizards & Warriors

• Creator's Favorite Episode: Ste Pickford has stated that the third game was his favourite of the two he worked on and originally wanted Ironsword to be a Metroidvania like Kuros: Visions Of Power.
• Executive Meddling: The cover from the second game is a pretty infamous example that the Pickford brothers consider a classic case of "the lack of imagination of Americans". The third game's cover suffered from this as well, with Ste Pickford's original cover of a Knight in Shining Armor being thrown out for something similar to Ironsword's cover.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: This series isn't represented in Rare Replay due to being considered part of Acclaim's catalog, which were all auctioned off in 2005 following that company's bankruptcy.
• What Could Have Been: A fourth game, title Lasersword was planned, but never made due to the studio behind Ironsword and Visions Of Power going under. The third game's original ending had the three princesses finding out that they had all promised to marry the same hero.
  • Visions Of Power was originally going to be titled Silversword.
  • Malkil was originally supposed to have three forms in the final battle of Visions of Power; Kuros would have to fight him as a thief, then as a wizard, then as a knight. One walkthrough of the game (back when they were published in books) had a screenshot of the captive king telling you this (in the finished game he gives you some useless advice and then leaves).
  • In the aforementioned prototype, you fought an eye-monster instead of a dragon for the final gem.

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