The game features a " Second Quest ", accessible on completing the game, or by registering your name as " ZELDA " when starting a new quest, in which dungeons and item placement are different, and enemies are more difficult for the player to defeat.

* are bat-like monsters that often lurk in caves and dungeons, where they will fly around erratically, and occasionally stop to rest.

Most of the game occurs in towns and dungeons which are referred to as " field screens ".

The methods of viewing and controlling the characters are separated by three different " screens ": the overworld, where the characters traverse to different locations ; the field map, where the characters explore locations such as towns and dungeons ; and the battle screen, where the characters fight with monsters or other enemies.

Most dungeons are randomly generated on first entering.

Barring Link's progress are creatures he must battle to locate the entrances to nine underground dungeons.

After completing the game, the player has access to a more difficult quest, officially referred to as the, where dungeons and the placement of items are different and enemies are stronger.

A Link to the Past introduced elements to the series that are still commonplace today, such as multi-level dungeons, new weapons and items as well as the Master Sword and the concept of an alternate or parallel world.

All dungeons are multi-level, requiring Link to walk between floors and sometimes fall through holes to land on lower levels.

Within the fictional game, players explore monster-infested fields and dungeons as well as " Root Towns " that are free of combat.

Game progress is made through advancing the characters so that they are powerful enough to defeat the increasingly dangerous foes and mosters in the dungeons, obtaining certain items relevant to solving the overall quest, and obtaining information.

Certain buildings within the city are special, such as the Adventurer's Guild, Garth's Equipment Shoppe, the Review Board ( which must be found first, and is the only place where characters can level up ), various taverns and temples and the dungeons.

Before he can infiltrate Onox's castle and Veran's tower, Link must collect the eight Essences of Nature and the eight Essences of Time, which are hidden in dungeons and guarded by bosses.

Weapons are upgraded through the use of Weapon Orbs, generally obtained after defeating a boss or found as a treasure in dungeons.

In the English release, the dungeons each have different colors, whereas in the FDS version they are all gray.

There are some slight additions to the dungeons, as well as a handful of differences on the dungeons themselves.

( DR, October 11, 2005 ) ( February 1, 2006 in Europe )-Introduced Champion weapons ( much like epic armor ), player mounts ( horses ), Champion Levels and subclassing ( small abilities from another class ), new dungeons and instanced zones for the new Champion Quests and new graphics for the game world's models ( such as barns, haystacks and forts, this includes the Darkness Falls dungeon and the capital cities ) which are following the design ideas presented in Mythic's new graphics for the starting cities.

Players can expand their abilities with items, which are discovered in dungeons and through character interactions.

Certain items grant access to previously inaccessible areas, and are needed to enter and complete dungeons.

Role-playing games where players complete quests by exploring randomly generated dungeons are sometimes called roguelikes, named after the 1980 video game Rogue.

After signing a letter of submission and promising never to write anything prejudicial against the religion again ( with the result that his most controversial works were henceforth published only after his death ), Diderot was released from the dungeons of the Vincennes fortress after three months.

After the Portuguese set up posts for trading in China and committed piratical activities and raids in China, the Chinese responded with the complete extermination of the Portuguese in Ningbo and Quanzhou Pires, a Portuguese trade envoy, was among those who died in the Chinese dungeons.

The various realms consist of a number of gothic, medieval, as well as " fire and brimstone "- style caves and dungeons with a recurring theme of hellish and satanic imagery reminiscent of Doom ( such as pentagrams and images of demons on the walls ).

Every game in the main Zelda series has consisted of three principal areas: an overworld in which movement is multidirectional, allowing the player some degree of freedom of action ; areas of interaction with other characters ( merely caves or hidden rooms in the first game, but expanding to entire towns and cities in subsequent games ) in which the player gains special items or advice ; and dungeons, areas of labyrinthine layout, usually underground, comprising a wide range of difficult enemies, bosses, and items.

the " Prison Gate ") is a former prison housed in a 15th century gatehouse, with genuine mediaeval dungeons and torture chambers.

Two priests charged by the Venetian state with cruelty, wholesale poisoning, murder and licentiousness, were arrested by the Senate and put in dungeons for trial.

Corwin descends back to the dungeons and meets with Dworkin who explains how the Pattern might be repaired.

Beginning with the first expansion ( Ultima Online: The Second Age ), the original world gained the " Lost Lands ", with additional land, dungeons, creatures, and terrain.

* Ilshenar: The fourth expansion pack ( Ultima Online: Third Dawn ) introduced Ilshenar, along with new dungeons and monsters.

The Tollhouse, with dungeons, dates from the late 13th century and is said to be the oldest civic building in Britain.

Phantasy Star was one of the pioneers of the traditional console RPG format, featuring fully traversable overworld maps, complete with interactive towns, and sprawling dungeons.

Among its many other accomplishments were the inclusion of characters with actual personalities, the introduction of event scenes, and the presentation of pseudo-3-D dungeons that were a technical marvel at the time.

When the Poles finally took control, Blume was hanged and quartered, and fourteen officers and three knights with retainers were thrown into dungeons, where they met a miserable end.

The plot borrows elements of horror and mystery stories, favorites of Barks, such as the old and mostly abandoned castle with dark halls, hidden dungeons and crypts, ancestors ' skeletons buried inside the castle, the old McDuck cemetery with the graves of entire generations of the main characters ' ancestors, the misty swamp, the threatening " ghost " and the eminent danger that the characters feel around them.

Dungeon Master: Theron's Quest was a simplified Dungeon Master version with new dungeons from 1992 for TurboGrafx and the PC Engine.

Branković also imprisoned Hunyadi for a time in the dungeons of the fortress of Smederevo, but he was ransomed by his countrymen and, after resolving his differences with his powerful and numerous political enemies in Hungary, led a punitive expedition against the Serbian prince, who was forced to accept harsh terms of peace.

Inside, the queue passes through the dungeons of the fort, offering glimpses of several skeleton pirates, along with a view of the crew's quarters scene from a balcony looking down.

( Cata, December 7, 2004 )-Added 5 new classes ( Heretic ; Vampiir, Bainshee ; Warlock, Valkyrie ), instanced dungeons ( where players entering certain areas get their own private dungeon to hunt in ), and new zones and quests with an emphasis on faster and easier leveling.

Although many real dungeons are simply a single plain room with a heavy door or with access only from a hatchway or trapdoor in the floor of the room above, the use of dungeons for torture, along with their association to common human fears of being trapped underground, have made dungeons a powerful metaphor in a variety of contexts.

* Spook: A miserable, comically destitute prisoner who for many years has lived in the dungeons beneath the castle.

The instructions might be " Sidestep left, walk forward, take a small step to your right, pick up the key ", much like many text-based computer games ( for example the appropriately named " multi-user dungeons ") that relies on description and commands rather than any visuals.

EarthBound features many traditional RPG elements: the player controls a party of characters who travel through the game's two dimensional world, which is composed of villages, cities, caves, and dungeons.

Enemies are typically randomly encountered and many games in the series feature first-person perspective dungeons and other buildings.

After many long years in solitary confinement in the dungeons of the Chateau, Edmond decides to commit suicide by starving himself.

As many as 400 people were brought to the dungeons following a bombing ( the guilty party was never found ).

Players may also interact with each other through player versus player competition, participate in the in-game economy by trading goods and services, organize their characters into clans, work together to complete clan dungeons, and speak to each other in many different chat channels.

Most of the game occurs in towns and dungeons, and unlike many RPGs, the game lacks a world map that connects various locations, instead having the character follow paths from one place to the next.

As with most RPGs, many dungeons in Champions of Norrath feature a boss or large group of enemies that must be defeated to advance or obtain a special item.

The dungeons are connected by a large overworld, across which Link can travel on foot, on his horse Epona, or by teleporting to one of many specified points.

Grooter, the lovable redneck, falls in love with an equally backwoods Yoodle, and his rescuing her serves as a method to showcase various dungeons in these online worlds-like many of the adventures do.

Also, previously it was sometimes thought that these were bodies of people who died of plague in Vilnius ; that is one of reasons for the reluctance of many to investigate the dungeons.

Marcel van Duyn from Nintendo Life noted many similarities to Zelda, including the existence of 8 dungeons and medallions, the need to blow up walls or burn bushes to uncover secrets, the dungeon designs, and the need to push blocks to uncover staircases.

Gawanas later became one of the first Namibians to return alive from the " dungeons " in Lubango, Southern Angola, in 1989, some months before many other surviving detainees were released.

Among its many other accomplishments were the inclusion of characters with actual personalities, the introduction of event scenes, and the presentation of pseudo-3-D dungeons that were a technical marvel at the time.