Romancia is a side-scrolling action-adventure. The player moves left or right across the screen (with a few exceptions), killing monsters and finding items. Items are key to progressing, as many are required to solve context-based puzzles like a graphic adventure game. For instance, the player character is tasked with taking medicine and using it to cure many of the sick villagers, as well as purifying the local well. The game’s lack of statistics or other RPG trappings is what originally earned it the “Dragon Slayer Jr” title. Rather, the player has a simple health bar to represent their character’s status and much of the game involves simple hack-n’-slash action gameplay.
