Software:Lightning Warrior Raidy

Lightning Warrior Raidy
Cover art of the English version
Developer(s)	ZyX
Publisher(s)	JP: ZyX NA: G-Collections (Windows 98)
Series	Lightning Warrior Raidy
Platform(s)	MS-DOS, FM Towns, PC-9821, Microsoft Windows 3.1, Microsoft Windows 98
Release	MS-DOS: September 20, 1994 Windows 98 version: JPN: 2005-07-23 (demo) JPN: 2005-08-12 (full) NA: 2008-05-13
Genre(s)	Role-playing game, dungeon crawler, bishōjo game, visual novel
Mode(s)	Single-player

Lightning Warrior Raidy is a dungeon-crawling RPG Eroge developed by ZyX, and later translated to English by G-Collections.

Gameplay

The game uses traditional turn-based battles as its gameplay base while telling its narrative though visual novel-styled story and momentary gameplay cutscenes. At various times throughout the game, the player can either instigate or fall victim of various erotic scenes themed after yuri eroticism.

Plot

Raidy, a wandering sword fighter roaming the land of Else, stops at the small village of Sadd to resupply. When she arrived, she notes as though she arrived at a grave town due to only elderly living in the area. The locals tell her all the youth, especially young women have all been abducted from the village and imprisoned by the monsters in the tower nearby. Raidy decided to help the people and investigates the tower to rescue the captives.

Characters

• Raidy (ライディ): The protagonist of the game, a warrior with the mysterious power to control lightning.

Development and release

The game was first released in Japan under the title Ikazuchi no Senshi Raidy (雷の戦士ライディ) on September 20, 1994 for MS-DOS. A version for FM Towns and PC-9821 was released on October 7 of the same year, and a Windows 3.1 edition came out on August 23, 1996.

The game was remade for Windows XP with the title Ikazuchi no Senshi Raidy ~Haja no Raikō~ (雷の戦士ライディ ～破邪の雷光～, Lightning Warrior Raidy ~Lightning that Defeats Evil~) on August 12, 2005. On October 26, 2012, a bundle containing all three games in the series on DVD-ROM for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 was released, entitled Ikazuchi no Senshi Raidy ~Complete Pack~ (雷の戦士ライディ ～コンプリートパック～).

In 2007, G-Collections, an affiliate brand of JAST USA, acquired the rights to release Lightning Warrior Raidy in English along with Snow Sakura. At that time, the release was planned for "mid- to late 2007", but English production didn't finish until May 13, 2008, when G-Collections announced that the game had hit "golden master" status. Even before Lightning Warrior Raidy was available for sale, G-Collections had already revealed their plans to translate the sequel, Lightning Warrior Raidy II.

Reception

In a review for Destructoid, Karen Gellender wrote: "So I'm probably not a good judge of this sort of thing, but my guess is that LWR is neither good hentai, or a particularly good dungeon crawler.... However, I couldn't in good conscience say that the title isn't entertaining. While it's very basic (think Etrian Odyssey without the mapping features), the actual gameplay is solid enough, and the artwork is attractive".

Adaptations

A manga adaptation by Kazuma Sonsei was released in 2014.

External links

• ZyX page: Windows 3.1 version, Windows 98 version (in Japanese)
• G-Collections' product page
• JAST USA page
• ZyX's product page (in Japanese)
• Lightning Warrior Raidy at The Visual Novel Database
• MobyGames page: DOS version and Winodws 98 version

ja:雷の戦士ライディ