Slayers

is a role-playing video game adaptation of the Slayers light novel series developed by BEC and published by Banpresto for the Super Famicom (SNES) exclusively in Japan in 1994. It is not to be mistaken for another Slayers game that was published by Banpresto for the NEC PC-9801 that same year. Gameplay The game system is similar to the early Final Fantasy games and other classic Japanese role-playing games of that era. In the main part of the game, the protagonist and her party navigates different areas from a top-down perspective, much like in many other SNES games. When in an area, the player can call up a start menu to access items, perform healing spells, search the immediate area for hidden items, and such. The player can travel between different areas (towns, cities, forests and so on) via a world map. During the battle, seen from a first-person view, the player can tell each character in their party to do one of six things: attack with a weapon, cast of one of the character's magic spells (for magic users), use a special technique that varies from character to character, give up the character's turn for higher defense, attempt to flee from a random encounter battles, or use one of the items from the inventory.