Template:Cleanup-date Gauntlet: Dark Legacy is an expansion of the previous title in the series, Gauntlet Legends. The expansion adds new character classes (Dwarf, Knight, Jester, and Sorceress), and new levels (Dream World, and Battlefield). It is considered to be the best Gauntlet game of all time.
Story
In an ancient time, the evil mage Garm, using the power of the runestones, released a great evil upon the land. This demon, Skorne, broke free of Garm's control and released his minions upon the lands, and scattered the runestones across the Eight Realms, so that they may never again be used against him.
No one has dared try. . .
Until now.
(From the game's introductory cinematic)
Hidden Characters
Each of the 8 base character classes (Warrior, Dwarf, Valkyrie, Knight, Archer, Jester, Wizard, and Sorceress) has another costume as a hidden character. These are well hidden, and play identically to their counterparts (they do, however, have better stats and different stat gains per level). Some hidden characters have different titles than their counterparts (such as Foal for a low-level Unicorn). These characters, and the realm in which they can be found, are:
Warrior-Minotaur (Mountain Kingdom)
Dwarf-Ogre (Arctic Domain)
Valkyrie- Falconer (Castle Stronghold)
Knight-Unicorn (Sky Dominion)
Archer-Tigress (Forest Realm)
Jester-Hyena (Dream World)
Wizard-Jackal (Desert Land)
Sorceress-Medusa (Forsaken Province)
Sumner the wizard-Wizard at level 99 (Battleground)
Hidden Levels
Worlds
The worlds, and contained levels, are as follows:
1:Forsaken Province
2:Mountain Kingdom
3:Castle Stronghold
- --Castle Courtyard
- --Dungeons of Torment
- --Castle Barracks
- --Tower Armory
- --Castle Treasury
- --Chimera's Keep
4:Sky Dominion
- --Toxic Spire
- --Cloud Docks
- --Sky Shipyards
- --Mothership
- --Vat of the Plague Fiend
5:Forest Realm
6:Desert Land
7:Ice Domain
8:Dream World
- --Carnival of the Lost
- --Haunted Grounds
- --Haunted House
- --Your Worst Nightmare!
- --Maze of Illusion
- --Shadow Wraith's Haunt
9:Desecrated Temple
10:The Underworld
11:The Battlefields
Monsters
Lava Monsters
Beholders
Small Genies
Crawling Hands
Clones of Garm
Generals
Generals are large, tough versions of the regular monsters. They take a while to destroy, but when you do, they drop items.
Golems
Like Generals, Golems are large enemies that can take a lot of damage, and drop items when they die.
Cemetary Soil Golem
Rock Golem
Marble Golem
Alchamical Golem
Wood Golem
Sand Golem
Polar Bear (Not technically a golem, because it's an animal rather than a construct, but behaves like one.)
Shadow Golem
Lava Golem
Battle Golem
Gargoyles
Gargolyes are large, dragon-like monsters. Like Generals and Golems, they drop items when they die, but the items they drop are golden items. You need a certean number of golden items to get to different areas of Sumners Tower.
Snake Gargoyle (Golden Snake Fangs)
Eagle Gargoyle (Golden Eagle Feathers)
Lion Gargoyle (Golden Lion Claws)
Death
In the levels, you sometimes come across the most deadly enemy of all...Death himself. There are two kinds of Death. The black robed Death drains your experence, while the red robed Death drains health. There are four ways to drive Death off:
- hit Death with your weapon 100 times.
- use magic on Death.
- find an Anti-Death Halo that allows you to drain experience or health from Death.
- let Death drain your health or experience
Bosses
The bosses are as follows:
1:Lich - a giant zombie that fights with a huge axe. Sometimes throws its decaying body parts to allow maggots to attack the player.
2:Dragon - a massive red lizard that breaths fireballs and stomps sending out a shockwave.
3:Chimera - a three-headed monster with three health bars. It has a lion's head (which breathes fire), an eagle's head (lightning) and a snake's head (acid). Could possibly be related to the gargoyles which the player fights in other levels.
4:Plague Fiend - a horrible monster made of toxic slime. Attacks by using sweeping tentacles, spitting slime and sinking into its vat to overflow nearby pipes.
5:Spider Queen - a half-woman, half-spider creature that fights on a giant web. Attacks using a whip, spitting venom and calling her children for assistance.
6:Genie - a monstrous black-blue djinni that attacks using a scimitar, energy from its eye and causing the ceiling to collapse.
7:Yeti - a giant ape that uses a variety of ice powers, including ice boulders and an ice wall, plus its own brute force.
8:Shadow Wraith - a being made of pure darkness and nightmares. Attacks using its tendrils, small wraith creatures and other dark powers.
9: Armored Skorne - uses armor in his first fight. Can shoot various forms of energy from his gloves, mask and horns. When beaten, he drops his four items and the player can use one for a short time in the next world.
10:True Form of Skorne - he uses all his normal moves, but they pack a bigger punch. He doesn't have his armor this time, so you can see his firey form beneath.
11:Garm - fights in the form of a statue that the sorcerer Garm is controlling from within the statue's chest, the same statue on the console games cover. Attacks include( but are not limited to) a purple beam from both hands and a beam that sweeps across the arena. Its arms, wings, and sections of its legs break away, and create clones of Garm from the rubble.
Legendary Weapons
Each boss has a special Legendary Weapon to which they are especially vulnerable. Often, these weapons are hidden in another realm, and are typically not found until much later in the game. For instance, the Lich is the boss of the first realm the player can enter, the Forsaken Province. However, the Legendary Weapon to which he is most vulnerable, the Good Book, isn't found until the Sky Domain, the fourth realm the player can enter. The console version of the game allows players to skip fighting boss characters on their first playthrough of a realm, also allowing them to find the Legendary Weapon with which they can be defeated best.
The Legendary Weapons, the enemies weakest to them, and where they can be found are:
1:Parchment of Fire, which will create a wall of fire to counter the Yeti's ice moves, found in the Forsaken Province.
2:Javelin of Blinding, which gouges out the Plague Fiend's one eye and reduces his accuracy, found in the Mountain Kingdom.
3:Ice Axe, freezes the Dragon solid, found in the Castle Realm.
4:Good Book, which shoots a ball of light and slows down the Lich with its holy flames, found in the Sky Realm.
5:Scimitar of Decapitation, beheads the Chimera's lion head, found in the Forest Realm.
6:Toxic Bellows, reduces the Spider Queen's size and power, found in the Desert Land.
7:Lamp of Dark Obstruction, creates a dark cloud to blind the Genie, found in the Ice Domain.
8:Lantern of Revelation, blocks all of the Shadow Wraith's shadow attacks with its superior light, found in the Dream World
9:Soul Savior, deflects Skorne's attacks right back, can only be found and used in the Desecrated Temple
Cheats
There are various names that can be entered to give players access to special characters or character sets with unlimited special items. To access these cheats, simply create a new character and enter the code in the Name blank.
- Character Codes. These negate the Change feature in the character management screen, making it so that you can only play as the character defined by the code. Some seem to be intended to represent the programmers, while others are simply comical or look nifty. Using these cheats does not effect the gameplay (each character is governed by the rules of the character they are replacing and has the same base stats and strengths/weakness of that charter, as if it's just that character in a costume). These new characters are also referred to by Sumner ad the narrarator as the character they're replacing (DARTHC is called "Green Knight", DES700 is called "Yellow Wizard", etc.).
- Wizard as...
- Sky General - SKY100
- Garm - GARM99
- Lich (Like the boss, but scaled down for playability) - GARM00
- Desert General - DES700
- Sumner (Does not give maxed-out stats or start at level 99) - SUM224
- Warrior as....
- Castle General - CAS400
- Mountain General - MTN200
- Wearing Rat Hat - RAT333
- Valkyrie as...
- Province General - TWN300
- Cheerleader - CEL721
- Japanese School Girl - AYA555
- Knight as...
- Battlefield General - BAT900
- In Black Outfit and Bald - DARTHC
- Bald in Street Clothes - STG333
- In Street Clothes - ARV984
- In Street Clothes and Cap - DIB626
- In Black Karate Suit - SJB964
- Ninja - TAK118
- Quarterback - RIZ721
- Waitress - KAO292
- Jester as...
- Stick Figure with a Cap and big human head - KJH105
- Stick Figure with Mohawk - PNK666
- Stick Figure with Smile - STX222
- Dwarf as...
- Ice General - ICE600
- Bondage suit - NUD069
- Items Codes. These codes give you an unlimited acount of the specified items, reguardless of which character (warrior, jester, etc.) you use in that saved game profile. Some are more helpful than others (the infinite Pojo code seems to have been put into the game just for comic effect).
- Permanent Pojo the Chicken - EGG911
- Permanent reflect shot - REFLEX
- Permanent super shot - SSHOTS
- Invincibility - INVULN
- Permanent Anti-Death - 1ANGEL
- Permanent full turbo - PURPLE
- Permanent invisibility - 000000
- Permanent shrink enemy and growth - DELTA1
- Permanent triple shot - MENAGE
- Permanent x-ray vision - PEEKIN
- Permanent speed powerup - XSPEED
- Permanent Rapid Fire - QCKSHT
- Start game with 10,000 gold - 10000K
- Full potions and keys - ALLFUL
- A number of character's are generals of the realms. Note that MTN200 stands for mountain as in the mountain kingdom. There is no consistency in the numbers but they always end in 00. This works for all of the general type characters. DES700 is the desert general, BAT900 is the battlefield general, TWN300 is the town(province) general, ICE600 is the ice general, CAS400 is the castle general, SKY100 is the sky general. The question is, is it possible to unlock the dream and forest generals?... the numbers 500 and 800 have been left out in the pattern. Makes you wonder.