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''The Maze of Galious'' is the most influential game you've never heard of.

The game is also [[Nintendo Hard|relentlessly brutal]]. Character death is [[Final Death|permanent]], and while each character can be revived once (and ''only'' once), it is much more common to restart from the last time you saved if Popolon or Aphrodite die. Furthermore, items are not described in-game, and their function is not always obvious; for example, the Dagger allows you to kill all bats in a room by typing "UMBRELLA," and that's one of the more sane ones. And then there's the Great Demons themselves, who generally deal somewhere between half and all of your life with each attack (and that's ''with'' the Cape that reduces their damage). In short: your typical late-eighties video game.

 

 

 

'''Note: Due to the nature of the game, the names of the bosses (besides Galious) are spoilers and should be treated as such.'''

 

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* [[As You Know]]: Many of the gods' advice consists of things that Popolon and Aphrodite, as characters, should already know, such as Aphrodite being able to breathe in water.

* [[Ballistic Bone]]: Launched by the first boss.

** Good luck finding out how to cross the water pit in World 2 without a walkthrough. {{spoiler|You need to be carrying the doll, and a bridge will form. The doll can be found by hitting a completely unmarked piece of wall elsewhere in the world until it is destroyed. The only hint that this piece of wall is special is that it makes a different noise when you hit it.}}

* [[Noob Bridge]]: A gate blocks a corridor in the first dungeon, and it's not obvious how to open gates. (The way to do it is to stand next to the gate and hold down the direction control towards it for a certain amount of time.)

* [[Password Save]]: ''45'' characters long! Luckily, if you have a disk (or are playing the remake) you can press F5 through F9 to save your password to disk instead.

* [[Schizo-Tech]]: At the end of the game, you are equipped with: a sword, arrows, two varieties of magic fire, and... [[Stuff Blowing Up|land mines]].

* [[Stock Femur Bone]]: First boss throws these.

* [[Super Drowning Skills]]: To be fair, they're wearing armor. (Although Aphrodite is perfectly fine with breathing under water for some reason.)

* [[Where It All Began]]: That door in the room where you start the game? That's where Galious lives.

 

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