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In 1999, James Mielke of GameSpot criticized the loading times as "horrendous", with mid-level battles occasionally pausing to let data stream in, and "as a very basic scrolling hacker", he called it simply "OK" and average.
In 2023, Time Extension included the collection on their top 25 "Best Beat 'Em Ups of All Time" list.
Upon release, a reviewer for Next Generation said that the game is "full of the stuff" which made the original fun.
He further said that the game had refined Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom, improving the animation quality to X-Men: Children of the Atom level, expanding the number of playable characters, adding more stage branches and endings to create deeper gameplay and story, and incorporating more interesting character abilities like wielding two swords.
Wataru Maruyama of VideoGames praised the game's "astounding" graphical details and called it "Capcom's latest masterpiece".
In 2004, Allen Rausch of GameSpy said Shadows Over Mystara was a stellar game back when arcades were a place to find the hottest games, and that the game is still fun today.
In 2011, GameSpy ranked the game as number 50 on their list of the top arcade games, calling it "one of the most purely entertaining titles ever released" for any platform.
IGN ranked Shadow Over Mystara number 9 on their list of "The Top 11 Dungeons & Dragons Games of All Time" in 2014.
It was one of the last 2-D arcade side-scrollers created by Capcom; only Battle Circuit (1997) came after Shadow over Mystara.
It was released only in Japan on March 4, 1999, exclusively for the Sega Saturn.
In 1999, James Mielke of GameSpot criticized the loading times as "horrendous", with mid-level battles occasionally pausing to let data stream in, and "as a very basic scrolling hacker", he called it simply "OK" and average.
Wataru Maruyama of VideoGames praised the game's "astounding" graphical details and called it "Capcom's latest masterpiece".
It took 5th place for the Grand Prix in the 10th Gamest Grand Prix (1996) run in the magazine Gamest (Shinseisha), as well as 1st for Best Action Game, 6th for Best Graphics, 10th for Best VGM, 8th for Best Presentation, 5th for Best Income, 9th among the year's hit games, and the Magic User took 10th place for Best Character.
Outside Japan it was announced together with the previous game as a download release on 4 platforms — the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U and Steam — and in Japan it was released on 2013-8-22 for the PS3 as Dungeons & Dragons: Mystara Eiyuu Senki.
Capcom originally planned to release Tower of Doom as a standalone title for the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation, but cancelled the plan early on.
Capcom originally planned to release Tower of Doom as a standalone title for the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation, but cancelled the plan early on.
In Japan, Game Machine listed the game on their April 1, 1996 issue as being the sixth most-popular arcade game at the time.
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