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Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods Guide version 1.3a
Last updated: 30th of September 2000
Created by: Clement Chan Zhi Li
e-mail address: clementchan@pd.jaring.my
Website: http://www.sonicera.cjb.net
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------
Table of Contents
-----------------
Introduction
[1.1] About Icarus [1.2] Copyright info [1.3] Patches
[1.4] How to Best View this Guide [1.5] Review
About the Characters
[2.1] Dreus [2.2] Helena [2.3] Argon [2.4] Pares [2.5] Lydia
[2.6] Hermes [2.7] Raisha [2.8] Sereyanne
Game Explanation
[3.1] Abbreviations [3.2] Level Up & Class Up
List of Magics
[4.1] Flames [4.2] Lightning [4.3] Restoration
[4.4] Supplementary [4.5] Recall [4.6] The Dark World
[4.7] The Mental World [4.8] Characters using Magic
[4.8A] Helena [4.8B] Lydia
List of Special Attacks
[5.1] Dreus' Special Attacks [5.2] Argon's Special Attacks
[5.3] Pares' Special Attacks [5.4] Hermes' Special Attacks
[5.5] Raisha's Special Attacks [5.6] Sereyanne's Special Attacks
[5.7] Characters using Special Attacks [5.7A] Dreus [5.7B] Argon
[5.7C] Pares [5.7D] Hermes [5.7E] Raisha [5.7F] Sereyanne
Guide for Icarus
[6.1] Battle 1 [6.2] Battle 2 [6.3] Battle 3 [6.4] Battle 4
[6.5] Battle 5 [6.6] Battle 6 [6.7] Battle 7 [6.8] Battle 8
[6.9] Battle 6 [6.10] Battle 10 [6.11] Battle 11
[6.12] Battle 12 [6.13] Battle 13 [6.14] Battle 14
[6.15] Battle 15 [6.16] Battle 16 [6.17] Battle 17
[6.18] Battle 18 [6.19] Battle 19 [6.20] Battle 20
[6.21] Battle 21 [6.22] Battle 22 [6.23] Battle 23
[6.24] Battle 24 [6.25] Battle 25 [6.26] Battle 26
[6.27] Battle 27 [6.28] Battle 28
Cheats
Credits
History
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Introduction
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi! Welcome to Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods Guide. This guide will help out
those who are stuck in this PC RPG game.
This FAQ contains some spoilers that may spoil the game. So, if you are
really stuck, refer back to this FAQ.
If there are some mistakes that you noticed, want to send in info or make
some comments and ask questions, feel free to e-mail to me at
clementchan@pd.jaring.my
-------------------------------------
[1.1] About Icarus
-------------------------------------
Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods is an RPG game for the PC. As I like RPG games,
I bought this game and give it a try.
There are up to 8 characters to control with also lots of magics and special
attacks can be used.
The graphics and musics may not be as good as other games but the storyline
is really nice and interesting.
-------------------------------------
[1.2] Copyright info
-------------------------------------
This FAQ is Copyright 2000 Clement Chan Zhi Li. You can distribute this FAQ
as long as its contents are not changed.
Only Clement Chan Zhi Li can make changes and updates to this FAQ. Any
unauthorized changes and updates without my permission is prohibited by law.
Note that some parts of this FAQ is copied from the Icarus manual book. Some
of its contents are changed a bit.
-------------------------------------
[1.3] Patches
-------------------------------------
Before you continue playing the game, it is recommended if you download a
patch for this game at http://www.game-club.com/icarus/
This patch fixes Stage 19 and other bugs and changes the game to version 1.3.
Also, this allows you to use cheats. Cool, huh?
-------------------------------------
[1.4] How to Best View this Guide
-------------------------------------
If you view this guide of the Internet and noticed that some words are filled
in with spaces and etc., it's because your browser did not view it at the
right width. Save the guide and open it up with WordPad (recommended).
Click File, then Page Setup. At the section where they put Margins (inches),
look for Right and type 0.8" in it. That way, you could view this guide
neatly as it is meant to be!
-------------------------------------
[1.5] Review
-------------------------------------
I caught my eye on this game as the game stated, ''Very different feeling for
strategy RPG'' and I spend my money on it, thinking it will be a good change
after playing Worms 2 and other strategy-based RPG for a long time. At least,
all RPGs I played before are definitely good and last for a long time though
some RPGs such as Final Fantasy Mystic Quest and is two times better than
Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods. The title itself sounds incredibly stressed
out. The developer wanted to make the game looks cool and sophisticated but
ends up making the RPG terrible.
Graphics - 7
Despite all the hype that it has fantastic 3D modeling and realistic
graphics, it don't have the real feel to it, whether 'cartoony', realistic,
plain-looking or not. Not to mention that it does not have nice graphics
though I guess they just fit into a game like this. Lightning, smoke, fire,
water and all other elements in this game looks perfectly stupid. The so-
called detailed characters are not true at all as they look horrible. The
enemies just look quite like mud-ghost haunting around the dungeons, not even
realistic as this game had bragged about.
The background itself did not even enhance anything towards the graphics but
make the game even worst. I don't know whether the developers are just too
lazy to create beautiful graphics or just plain lazy. Just to say that I'm
not criticizing, this game could be one of the best RPG if the developers are
more concern and take more initiative to upgrade Icarus to a better game.
The FMV sequences are certainly better than the graphics in the game but
sadly enough, there are only two or three such cut-scenes that you can see.
One at the beginning and one at the end when you finished the game. I just
prefer the FMV sequences most of all but still, they could be much better and
can be improved. The characters themselves look odd with odd names.
Music - 8
The background music that is played throughout the game is definitely
original. They're pleasant to hear and most music comes through in the right
time and right situations. The sound effects are not really that great but
just nice for this game. Example, the sound of lightning doesn't really sound
very real but at least, they add something to Icarus.
Gameplay - 7
An original feature in this game is to have a new type of system, Class Up
and the usual one, Level Up. The levels will have some sort of relation to
the Class Up system because certain classes that your characters will obtain
are based on the levels that you are now. Although that is a nice feature,
this game can be your worst and hardest game you've ever played.
You need to think and spend you money wisely because the only way to defeat
enemies and bosses are to have the right equipment, shields, accessories and
other stuffs, other than having a high level. Let say if you have spent all
your money buying items but less on weapons, you're 100% risked that you will
lose in a battle because the more powerful your weapons are, the better
chance and faster you'll win a battle.
Every battle you're engaged in, it will be noted (well, all battles here must
be entered, no secret battles or such) and there are more than 50 such
battles. Even the battle system is quite original and unpopular as most
RPGers may never heard of it before. This battle system will have square
boxes around the whole area and you can be in dungeon, forests, city and all
sorts of places. The treasure boxes which contain important items and weapons
will be in the battle instead of outside of the battle.
The magic system uses MP (Magic Power) which usually consists of lightning
attacks, fire, water and the rest. Some magic have 'summon-type' from Final
Fantasy VII which calls the demon from hell, king of lightning and etc. to
come and join the battle with you (the person that you have called are
controlled by the computer. You can also expect healing powers later on by
one of the characters, Lydia. Now, the special attack will use your HP
(Health Points) and you have to be careful using it or end up easily killed.
The special attacks are certain much more powerful than magic so use them
when you are in tight situations.
Other than that, you're mostly in battles, battles and more battles. You'll
fight with pirates, human, soldiers, archers, gnomes, monsters and when the
whole game is focused only on battles, you will see how boring it is.
Story - 8
The story is about Dreus, the main character to avenge against his closest
friend's death, Guile after Colias, a wizard killed him and destroyed the
Coshark Mercenary (what a name!). Helena, his fianc‚e, together with his
other friends joined the Mercenary and promised to rebuild it. This story is
mostly about tragedy and it's a pretty exciting story line.
Replay Value - 5
What replay value? This game is so terrible that I would dearly give it a 1
and the replay value is certainly out of the game. As the game is difficult,
added with astonishingly dumb graphics, you won't spend your time replaying
all over again a game like this, provided it has special features that will
keep you tuning over.
Overall - 6
As we approach to more advanced year and new millenium, you can certainly
consider this game worthless to buy as super-advanced graphics truly beat
this game a hundred times. You better spend your money on other games as
Icarus is a real disappointment.
Sanctuary
-----
- Cool Class Up system.
- Nice soundtrack music.
- Unique square battle system.
Icarus
-----
- Boring to play after you complete the game.
- Simply terrifying graphics!
- I repeat, simply terrifying graphics!
| | ____ _____ _______ __ __ ______ /\
| |/ ___\\__ \\_ __ \ | \/ ___/ \/
| \ \___ / __ \| | \/ | /\___ \ /\
|___|\___ >____ /__| |____//____ > \/
\/ \/ \/
_________ __ _____
/ _____/____ ____ _____/ |_ __ _______ _______ ___.__. _____/ ____\
\_____ \\__ \ / \_/ ___\ __\ | \__ \\_ __ < | | / _ \ __\
/ \/ __ \| | \ \___| | | | // __ \| | \/\___ | ( ) |
\_______ (____ /___| /\___ >__| |____/(____ /__| / ____| \____/|__|
\/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/
__ .__ ________ .___
_/ |_| |__ ____ / _____/ ____ __| _/______
\ __\ | \_/ __ \ / \ ___ / _ \ / __ |/ ___/
| | | Y \ ___/ \ \_\ ( ) /_/ |\___ \
|__| |___| /\___ > \______ /\____/\____ /____ >
\/ \/ \/ \/ \/
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods Guide version 1.3a
Last updated: 30th of September 2000
Created by: Clement Chan Zhi Li
e-mail address: clementchan@pd.jaring.my
Website: http://www.sonicera.cjb.net
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------
Table of Contents
-----------------
Introduction
[1.1] About Icarus [1.2] Copyright info [1.3] Patches
[1.4] How to Best View this Guide [1.5] Review
About the Characters
[2.1] Dreus [2.2] Helena [2.3] Argon [2.4] Pares [2.5] Lydia
[2.6] Hermes [2.7] Raisha [2.8] Sereyanne
Game Explanation
[3.1] Abbreviations [3.2] Level Up & Class Up
List of Magics
[4.1] Flames [4.2] Lightning [4.3] Restoration
[4.4] Supplementary [4.5] Recall [4.6] The Dark World
[4.7] The Mental World [4.8] Characters using Magic
[4.8A] Helena [4.8B] Lydia
List of Special Attacks
[5.1] Dreus' Special Attacks [5.2] Argon's Special Attacks
[5.3] Pares' Special Attacks [5.4] Hermes' Special Attacks
[5.5] Raisha's Special Attacks [5.6] Sereyanne's Special Attacks
[5.7] Characters using Special Attacks [5.7A] Dreus [5.7B] Argon
[5.7C] Pares [5.7D] Hermes [5.7E] Raisha [5.7F] Sereyanne
Guide for Icarus
[6.1] Battle 1 [6.2] Battle 2 [6.3] Battle 3 [6.4] Battle 4
[6.5] Battle 5 [6.6] Battle 6 [6.7] Battle 7 [6.8] Battle 8
[6.9] Battle 6 [6.10] Battle 10 [6.11] Battle 11
[6.12] Battle 12 [6.13] Battle 13 [6.14] Battle 14
[6.15] Battle 15 [6.16] Battle 16 [6.17] Battle 17
[6.18] Battle 18 [6.19] Battle 19 [6.20] Battle 20
[6.21] Battle 21 [6.22] Battle 22 [6.23] Battle 23
[6.24] Battle 24 [6.25] Battle 25 [6.26] Battle 26
[6.27] Battle 27 [6.28] Battle 28
Cheats
Credits
History
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Introduction
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi! Welcome to Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods Guide. This guide will help out
those who are stuck in this PC RPG game.
This FAQ contains some spoilers that may spoil the game. So, if you are
really stuck, refer back to this FAQ.
If there are some mistakes that you noticed, want to send in info or make
some comments and ask questions, feel free to e-mail to me at
clementchan@pd.jaring.my
-------------------------------------
[1.1] About Icarus
-------------------------------------
Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods is an RPG game for the PC. As I like RPG games,
I bought this game and give it a try.
There are up to 8 characters to control with also lots of magics and special
attacks can be used.
The graphics and musics may not be as good as other games but the storyline
is really nice and interesting.
-------------------------------------
[1.2] Copyright info
-------------------------------------
This FAQ is Copyright 2000 Clement Chan Zhi Li. You can distribute this FAQ
as long as its contents are not changed.
Only Clement Chan Zhi Li can make changes and updates to this FAQ. Any
unauthorized changes and updates without my permission is prohibited by law.
Note that some parts of this FAQ is copied from the Icarus manual book. Some
of its contents are changed a bit.
-------------------------------------
[1.3] Patches
-------------------------------------
Before you continue playing the game, it is recommended if you download a
patch for this game at http://www.game-club.com/icarus/
This patch fixes Stage 19 and other bugs and changes the game to version 1.3.
Also, this allows you to use cheats. Cool, huh?
-------------------------------------
[1.4] How to Best View this Guide
-------------------------------------
If you view this guide of the Internet and noticed that some words are filled
in with spaces and etc., it's because your browser did not view it at the
right width. Save the guide and open it up with WordPad (recommended).
Click File, then Page Setup. At the section where they put Margins (inches),
look for Right and type 0.8" in it. That way, you could view this guide
neatly as it is meant to be!
-------------------------------------
[1.5] Review
-------------------------------------
I caught my eye on this game as the game stated, ''Very different feeling for
strategy RPG'' and I spend my money on it, thinking it will be a good change
after playing Worms 2 and other strategy-based RPG for a long time. At least,
all RPGs I played before are definitely good and last for a long time though
some RPGs such as Final Fantasy Mystic Quest and is two times better than
Icarus: Sanctuary of the Gods. The title itself sounds incredibly stressed
out. The developer wanted to make the game looks cool and sophisticated but
ends up making the RPG terrible.
Graphics - 7
Despite all the hype that it has fantastic 3D modeling and realistic
graphics, it don't have the real feel to it, whether 'cartoony', realistic,
plain-looking or not. Not to mention that it does not have nice graphics
though I guess they just fit into a game like this. Lightning, smoke, fire,
water and all other elements in this game looks perfectly stupid. The so-
called detailed characters are not true at all as they look horrible. The
enemies just look quite like mud-ghost haunting around the dungeons, not even
realistic as this game had bragged about.
The background itself did not even enhance anything towards the graphics but
make the game even worst. I don't know whether the developers are just too
lazy to create beautiful graphics or just plain lazy. Just to say that I'm
not criticizing, this game could be one of the best RPG if the developers are
more concern and take more initiative to upgrade Icarus to a better game.
The FMV sequences are certainly better than the graphics in the game but
sadly enough, there are only two or three such cut-scenes that you can see.
One at the beginning and one at the end when you finished the game. I just
prefer the FMV sequences most of all but still, they could be much better and
can be improved. The characters themselves look odd with odd names.
Music - 8
The background music that is played throughout the game is definitely
original. They're pleasant to hear and most music comes through in the right
time and right situations. The sound effects are not really that great but
just nice for this game. Example, the sound of lightning doesn't really sound
very real but at least, they add something to Icarus.
Gameplay - 7
An original feature in this game is to have a new type of system, Class Up
and the usual one, Level Up. The levels will have some sort of relation to
the Class Up system because certain classes that your characters will obtain
are based on the levels that you are now. Although that is a nice feature,
this game can be your worst and hardest game you've ever played.
You need to think and spend you money wisely because the only way to defeat
enemies and bosses are to have the right equipment, shields, accessories and
other stuffs, other than having a high level. Let say if you have spent all
your money buying items but less on weapons, you're 100% risked that you will
lose in a battle because the more powerful your weapons are, the better
chance and faster you'll win a battle.
Every battle you're engaged in, it will be noted (well, all battles here must
be entered, no secret battles or such) and there are more than 50 such
battles. Even the battle system is quite original and unpopular as most
RPGers may never heard of it before. This battle system will have square
boxes around the whole area and you can be in dungeon, forests, city and all
sorts of places. The treasure boxes which contain important items and weapons
will be in the battle instead of outside of the battle.
The magic system uses MP (Magic Power) which usually consists of lightning
attacks, fire, water and the rest. Some magic have 'summon-type' from Final
Fantasy VII which calls the demon from hell, king of lightning and etc. to
come and join the battle with you (the person that you have called are
controlled by the computer. You can also expect healing powers later on by
one of the characters, Lydia. Now, the special attack will use your HP
(Health Points) and you have to be careful using it or end up easily killed.
The special attacks are certain much more powerful than magic so use them
when you are in tight situations.
Other than that, you're mostly in battles, battles and more battles. You'll
fight with pirates, human, soldiers, archers, gnomes, monsters and when the
whole game is focused only on battles, you will see how boring it is.
Story - 8
The story is about Dreus, the main character to avenge against his closest
friend's death, Guile after Colias, a wizard killed him and destroyed the
Coshark Mercenary (what a name!). Helena, his fianc‚e, together with his
other friends joined the Mercenary and promised to rebuild it. This story is
mostly about tragedy and it's a pretty exciting story line.
Replay Value - 5
What replay value? This game is so terrible that I would dearly give it a 1
and the replay value is certainly out of the game. As the game is difficult,
added with astonishingly dumb graphics, you won't spend your time replaying
all over again a game like this, provided it has special features that will
keep you tuning over.
Overall - 6
As we approach to more advanced year and new millenium, you can certainly
consider this game worthless to buy as super-advanced graphics truly beat
this game a hundred times. You better spend your money on other games as
Icarus is a real disappointment.
Sanctuary
-----
- Cool Class Up system.
- Nice soundtrack music.
- Unique square battle system.
Icarus
-----
- Boring to play after you complete the game.
- Simply terrifying graphics!
- I repeat, simply terrifying graphics!
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