Laplace no Ma

Laplace no Ma (ラプラスの魔, Rapurasu no Ma, literally "Laplace's Demon") is a Japanese video game released in 1987 for the NEC PC-8801 and NEC PC-9801.[1] The game was also ported to Sharp X68000, MSX, the SNES and TurboGrafx-CD. It is part of the Ghost Hunter dungeon crawler series, which also includes Kurokishi no Kamen for the 3DO and Paracelsus no Maken for the NEC PC.

This article is about the game. For the statistical software package, see LaplacesDemon. For the concept, see Laplace's Demon.
Laplace no Ma
TurboGrafx CD cover art
Developer(s)Group SNE, Vic Tokai (SNES)
Publisher(s)HummingBirdSoft (PC-8801, PC-9801)
Human Entertainment (TG-CD)
Vic Tokai (SNES)
Platform(s)
ReleaseNEC PC-8801, PC-9801
  • JP: July 04, 1987
MSX
  • JP: April 14, 1989
Sharp X68000
  • JP: December 8, 1990
TurboGrafx-CD
  • JP: March 30, 1993
SNES
  • JP: July 14, 1995
Genre(s)Survival horror
Role-playing game
Mode(s)Single-player

Summary

This video game is a mixture of the role-playing video game and survival horror genres and set in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts in a town called "Newcam", it is modeled after the fictional city Arkham created by H. P. Lovecraft.

The horror part of the game lies in the exploration of the fictional Weathertop Mansion, whose owner dabbled in black magic. The game's CRPG features include its character classes—Dilettante, Medium, Detective, Scientist, and Journalist—and that the player can leave the mansion to walk around the town to go to shops to buy items needed to defeat the monsters and complete the game.

Reception

On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored the Super Famicom version of the game a 26 out of 40.[2]

References
  1. ラプラスの魔
  2. NEW GAMES CROSS REVIEW: ラプラスの魔. Weekly Famicom Tsūshin. No.344. Pg.30. 21 July 1995.


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