History VideoGame / MysticTowers

''Mystic Towers'' is a video game created by Australian developer Animation F/X and published by Manaccom domestically and Creator/ApogeeSoftware internationally.

* DenialOfDiagonalAttack: The wizard is only capable of shooting in the cardinal directions and a lot of the gameplay is spent on lining up with the enemies in one of the four directions to fire a shot.

* NintendoHard: You will not have an easy time beating this game.

* RetCon: In the original ''Baron Baldric'', Baron Lazarus was killed by a mob after he kidnapped a milkmaid named Rosie, though she died with him and they both became ghosts. In ''Mystic Towers'', however, it is stated that Lazarus was killed by a type of creature called a Rosie, which happens to look like a cute teenage girl, but is actually a deadly monster.

* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: Wolf's Claw tower has only 14 enemies. However, the Monster Generator can sometimes make a 15th, which will not appear in any room, leaving you unable to get the Tower Key. You can prevent this simply by killing at least one monster before the 15th spawns.

* AirborneMooks: Each tower has one of these(with the exception of the Tor Karad towers). There's a flying fungus named Fungafly and a so-called Bagfly, jellyfish-like Stinger, Snapdragons and Verdragons, etc.

* DemBones: The Skelefly monster, which is a one-legged skeleton that bounces around. There's also high-level Firebones skeleton, which shoots fireballs out of its eye sockets.

* DurableDeathtrap: Averted, as all traps have been laid down recently. Thus, time didn't get to them yet, much to the chagrin of our hero.

* FriendlyFireproof: Averted with the Fireball and Bomb Traps, as these will damage monsters and can be a good way to take them out. The Pain and Poison Traps only work on Baldric however. Thankfully, they're also marked with a skull and a small green dot, respectively (as well as a skull rune carved into a wall for poison traps), whereas Fireball and Bomb Traps cannot be detected without reveal spell.

* HollywoodAcid: The Sulphur attack spell available to Baldric work like this. Notably, it is the only attack spell without its enemy equivalent.

* InvisibilityCloak: One of the power-ups you find turns the Baron (temporarily) invisible.

* PoisonMushroom: There are literal poison mushrooms that will instantly kill Baldric if he eats them (unless he's poisoned, in which case they remove poisoning.) A milder example are bottles containing wine and slime-infested wells: the first causes a temporary InterfaceScrew while the Baron is drunk, the second will inflict him with poison.

* SaveGameLimits: A mild example. While you can save at any time, reloading will cause a monster to be immediately spawned from the Monster Generator, provided it is still intact and there are less than 15 monsters present in the tower.

** Meta-power greatly boosts the power of Baron Baldric's currently equipped spell, allowing him to use weaker spells to defeat stronger enemies, or blow them away using the more powerful spells.

* InterchangeableAntimatterKeys: Played straight here, and they're a prominent gameplay element, as nearly every room requires keys to unlock its door first. Often, they are not even on the same floor, requiring lots of back-and-forth traversing around the place. Finally, the tower door locks behind you and you need large red key to leave.

* InvisibilityCloak: One of the power-ups you find turns the Baron invisible.
* KleptomaniacHero: Baron will take his time to search for any hidden gold and treasure in the towers.

* RangedEmergencyWeapon: The Ice spell has infinite castings, but is very, very weak.

* UnwinnableByMistake: Wolf's Claw tower has only 14 enemies. However, the Monster Generator can sometimes make a 15th, which will not appear in any room, leaving you unable to get the Tower Key. You can prevent this simply by killing at least one monster before the 15th spawns.

* UnwinnableByMistake: Wolf's Claw tower has only 14 enemies. However, the Monster Generator can sometimes make a 15th, which will not appear in any room, leaving you unable to get the Tower Key.

** Monster named Azurblast will attack in melee at first and only begin to use fireballs once you damage him enough.

** Drink slime once, you get poisoned; drink it twice, it removes the poison.

* CutAndPasteEnvironments: Subverted. On one hand, the rooms all have rather different layouts with various environmental details (one tower even has rooms with nude paintings on walls!) However, each of the twelve towers you traverse has the same general layout: they have five floors with nine rooms on each, adding up to 45 rooms per tower and 540 rooms for entire game.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Eggnog monster, which has two glowing spots in its shell as its eyes.
* TheGoomba: Scarabite monsters in the Rimm tower are ludicrously weak compared to everything else.

* ShockAndAwe: The lightning spell, which is the rarest and most powerful ranged spell in the game. The Writwraith enemy that uses it will kill you in two hits.

* TurnsRed: Monster named Azurblast will attack in melee at first and only begin to use fireballs once you damage him enough.

* VideoGameFlight: Baron has the levitation spell, and it can be cast many times to make him float higher and higher.

* VideoGameLives: The Baron has nine lives, which offsets his fragility to some extent.

* TheUnfought: Baron Lazarus, who is meant to be responsible for all the monster generators, ends up killed by the Rosie monster in one of the final towers.

* BottomlessMagazines: Played straight with the weaker Ice spell. Averted with all other attack spells.

* AirborneMooks: Each tower has one of these. There's a flying fungus named Fungafly and a so-called Bagfly, bird called Monobeak, jellyfish-like Stinger, Snapdragons and Verdragons, etc.

* BadassGrandpa: Baron Baldric is a weird old wizard no younger than 70. Yet, he clears room after room of respawning monsters in each tower, even while having to contend with hunger and thirst, and many traps on the floor.

''Mystic Towers'' is a video game created by Australian developer Animation F/X and published by Manaccom domestically and Creator/ApogeeSoftware internationally. It stars Baron Baldric, a geriatric wizard with a magic staff and an array of amusing mannerisms, who must quest through twelve towers and rid them of monsters. ''Mystic Towers'' is a sequel to ''Baron Baldric: A Grave Overture'', a platform game in which Baron Baldric battled his evil sorceror ancestor. The earlier game, originally written for the Amiga and later ported to the PC, was published by Manaccom and not released outside of Australia.

* AirborneMooks: Each tower has one of these. There’s a flying fungus named Fungafly and a so-called Bagfly, bird called Monobeak, jellyfish-like Stinger, Snapdragons and Verdragons, etc.

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Played with. Like most game protagonists, The Baron’s spells are equally good at 100% [[HitPoints HP]] and 8% [=HP=]. However, he does get hungry and thirsty over time, although if those bars fill up the adverse consequences are represented as wizard consistently losing health, with no reductions in speed or concentrations one would expect to accompany this.

* DemBones: The Skelefly monster, which is a one-legged skeleton that bounces around. There’s also high-level Firebones skeleton, which shoots fireballs out of its eye sockets.

* FriendlyFireproof: Averted with the Fireball and Bomb Traps, as these will damage monsters and can be a good way to take them out. The Pain and Poison Traps only work on Baldric however. Thankfully, they’re also marked with a skull and a small green dot, respectively (as well as a skull rune carved into a wall for poison traps), whereas Fireball and Bomb Traps cannot be detected without reveal spell.

* InterchangeableAntimatterKeys: Played straight here, and they’re a prominent gameplay element, as nearly every room requires keys to unlock its door first. Often, they are not even on the same floor, requiring lots of back-and-forth traversing around the place. Finally, the tower door locks behind you and you need large red key to leave.

* NighInvulnerability: One of the power-ups grants this to Baldric. Notably, the monsters will actually stop attacking him while it’s active.

* PlayingWithFire: The fireball spell. The majority of ranged enemies will also specialise in fire. Finally, there’s a Hothead enemy that attacks Baron in melee with a tongue of flame.
* PoisonMushroom: There are literal poison mushrooms that will instantly kill Baldric if he eats them (unless he’s poisoned, in which case they remove poisoning.) A milder example are bottles containing wine and slime-infested wells: the first causes a temporary InterfaceScrew while the Baron is drunk, the second will inflict him with poison.
* RegeneratingHealth: Baron’s health slowly regenerates over time for as long as he is not poisoned or his food and water bars haven’t run out.

* BlackoutBasement: Some rooms are very dark and require you to activate light switches in order to illuminate them.

** Some enemies will also become faster after they lose most of their health.

* LetsPlay: [=SmashTom=] has set of clips of this game on YouTube.
* LostForever: You cannot come back to the cleansed towers, so take your time searching for those coins!
** Also, the spell vending machines have a chance of breaking after being used, preventing you from buying any more spells.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: Poison Mushrooms will instantly kill Baron at most times. If he’s poisoned, however, they will cure him of poison instead.
** Same with slime. Drink it once, you get poisoned. Drink it twice, it removes the poison.

'''Mystic Towers''' is a video game created by Australian developer Animation F/X and published by Manaccom domestically and Apogee Software internationally. It stars Baron Baldric, a geriatric wizard with a magic staff and an array of amusing mannerisms, who must quest through twelve towers and rid them of monsters. ''Mystic Towers'' is a sequel to ''Baron Baldric: A Grave Overture'', a platform game in which Baron Baldric battled his evil sorceror ancestor. The earlier game, originally written for the Amiga and later ported to the PC, was published by Manaccom and not released outside of Australia.

* ForceField: The monster generators are typically protected by ones and cannot be damaged until you shut off the device generating them. Said device is usually located on an altogether different floor, and often in a locked room with the key placed somewhere else.

* KleptomaniacHero: Baron will take his time to search for any hidden gold in the towers to buy more advanced staffs and spells in between the towers.

''Mystic Towers'' is a video game created by Australian developer Animation F/X and published by Manaccom domestically and Apogee Software internationally. It stars Baron Baldric, a geriatric wizard with a magic staff and an array of amusing mannerisms, who must quest through twelve towers and rid them of monsters. ''Mystic Towers'' is a sequel to ''Baron Baldric: A Grave Overture'', a platform game in which Baron Baldric battled an evil sorcerous ancestor. The earlier game, originally written for the Amiga and later ported to the PC, was published by Manaccom and not released outside of Australia.

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