The Seventh Seal: Resurrection of the Dark Lord (0)

Overview

The Seventh Seal: Resurrection of the Dark Lord is a role-playing game developed and published by Taiwanese game company Soft-World International Corporation in 2002. Seventh Seal was only released in Taiwan and China, although Soft-World did advertise the game at E3 2002 (under the name "Seventh Seal: Lost Reminiscence"), hoping to find a publisher who could help release the game in English. No publishers ended up signing on to help localize the game, and Soft-World's hopes for an English release eventually fell through.

Seventh Seal would be one of the last games developed by Soft-World before their shift to primarily developing online games.

Plot

Seventh Seal largely follows the plot of the book "The Seventh Seal" by Nalan Zhen. Seventh Seal takes place in a fantasy world named Huhe, in which a great evil was sealed away through a magical seal, kept strong by a careful balance of six elements: water, earth, air, fire, light, and dark. This enforced balance of elements caused the world of Huhe to remain inhabitable, at the cost of becoming tame and uniform. Even then, it was clear that the seal could only hold out for so long, and that when the seal broke the Dark Lord would be freed.

However, over time this story faded into obscurity, and became nothing but a myth to most living in Huhe. Now, 18,000 years later, the elements are becoming unbalanced, and one girl named Ingeny sets out to realize the ancient prophecy, and save Huhe from sure destruction.

Soundtrack

Seventh Seal's soundtrack was composed (at least in part) by Yasunori Mitsuda, a composer well known for his previous work on games such as Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana. Mitsuda's compositions for Seventh Seal were eventually released separately, as an album titled Sailing to the World.