Play Solstice – The Quest for the Staff of Demnos Online
Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos is an isometric puzzle-adventure game developed by Software Creations and published by CSG Imagesoft for the NES. Players control the wizard Shadax through 250 interconnected rooms of the fortress Kâstleröck, solving spatial puzzles, avoiding traps and enemies, and collecting six pieces of the Staff of Demnos to rescue Princess Eleanor. It is noted for its Tim Follin soundtrack.
How To Play Solstice
Control
Action
D-Pad
Move Shadax through the isometric rooms
A Button
Jump
B Button
Use the selected potion / item
Select
Cycle through collected potions and items
Start
Pause / inventory
About Solstice
Release date
NA: July 1990 · JP: July 20, 1990 · EU: July 1991
Developer
Software Creations
Publisher
CSG Imagesoft (NA); Nintendo (EU); Epic/Sony Records (JP)
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