Skeleton Warriors
As Prince Lightstar, players must defeat the Skeleton Warriors and Baron Dark in order to gain control of the Lightstar Crystal and bring balance back to the world. Gamers will explore the environments of 20…
Skeleton Warriors is a platform developed by Neversoft Entertainment, released 1 January 1996 on PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
What Skeleton Warriors is
Skeleton Warriors is a platform game developed by Neversoft Entertainment and released in 1996. It was published by Playmates Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
The premise, in the publisher's words
As Prince Lightstar, players must defeat the Skeleton Warriors and Baron Dark in order to gain control of the Lightstar Crystal and bring balance back to the world. Gamers will explore the environments of 20 different levels as they face hundreds of enemies while riding on their skybike. The game features an original soundtrack composed by Tommy Tallarico. The game is a 2D sidescrolling platform game with 3D pre-rendered graphics, with about 100 types of enemies for you to slay with the weapons you possess. You need to complete 21 levels filled with demonic evil creatures before you can fight the Baron Dark himself, with 3D rendered cutscenes inbetween some levels.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Skeleton Warriors holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Skeleton Warriors launched on 1 January 1996, within three weeks of Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Tales of Phantasia and Screamer. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Tales of Phantasia, Screamer.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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