Black Jewel Reborn Is An Ambitious Multiplatform Retro Release
The small team at PSCD Games has been working on a hack-and-slash game for the Sega Genesis called Black Jewel Reborn. They were planning to just release that version, but they they thought, why not go bigger? With the funds from the Kickstarter campaign that’s wrapping up now, they plan to develop the game not just for Genesis, but for the NES, SNES and Game Boy! The storyline of Black Jewel is the kind of yarn an 8-year-old might weave with his action figures: the evil Darkor has broken into the Temple of Power and stolen the titular Black Jewel. He plans to use it to become sole ruler of the world, and the two strongest warriors in the land — swordsman Ryan and amazon Julia — are summoned to fight his army and get the Black Jewel back. By no coincidence, Ryan, Julia and Darkor bare more than a passing resemblance to He-Man, Teela and Skeletor respectively. But who cares about the story in a retro sidescrolling hack-and-slasher —