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Arcana
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Version
1.0
Arcana is a RPG for the SNES, by HAL Laboratory. It is
known as Card Master: Seal of Rimsalia in Japan.
The game was novel in representing all of its
characters as cards, but it plays like a dungeon-
crawling RPG, rather than a card based game. In
keeping with this metaphor, the death of a character
resulted in a "torn" card, and the magical properties
of some cards were used to explain abilities of the
game's characters. Arcana retained many conventions
from earlier NES games and, as is common in RPGs, the
game's intent was to be difficult and challenging to
the player, so as to create a feeling of reward upon
completion.
Assuming a first-person perspective, the dungeons and
towns of the game were navigated from the viewpoint of
the characters and, with a few exceptions, the
conversations between characters held true to this as
well. Battles within the game were also portrayed in
the first-person, displaying the protagonist
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