Power Piggs of the Dark Age

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Power Piggs of the Dark Age
Power Piggs of the Dark Age Coverart.png
North American cover art
Developer(s) Radical Entertainment
Publisher(s) Titus Software [1]
Designer(s) David Roberts
Brian Thalken
Emmanual Soupidis
Composer(s) Marc Baril [2]
Platform(s) Super NES
Release
  • NA: May 1996
  • PAL: 29 September 1997
Genre(s) Hack and slash, platform
Mode(s) Single-player

Power Piggs of the Dark Age is a 2D hack and slash platform game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Titus Software. It was released in 1996 for the Super NES in North America, and in the PAL regions the following year. A Sega Mega Drive version was planned but never released. [3]

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Gameplay

Confronting the first boss of the game. PowerPiggsoftheDarkAgeFirstBoss.png
Confronting the first boss of the game.

The video game takes place during the Dark Ages. In control of a group of humanoid pigs, the player's object is to defeat a warlock named the Wizard of Wolff, a humanoid wolf with strange magical powers. Each of the Power Piggs was planned to use their own medieval weapon and uses it to defeat minor enemies that lie in his path. [4] However, the actual released version of the game featured only one playable character, Bruno, in spite of all three still appearing on the title screen. [5]

The first stage is a typical medieval town but it only gets more surreal from there.

Doughnuts are seen as food in the game for the main characters. [4] One of the main characters is a knight named Bruno; his secondary weapon happens to be pastries that explode on contact with the enemy. [6]

Several in-game passwords help to reveal a mini-game in addition to hidden messages within the coding of the game itself. [7]

Reception

Doctor Devon of GamePro praised the player character's move set, the cartoon-style graphics, the humorous sound effects, and the fast-paced music, though he acknowledged that Power Piggs of the Dark Age lacks the sophistication of some of the more recent platform games. [8]

Allgame gave the game a score of 3 stars out of a possible 5, with the reviewer offering some praise for the game's graphics. [9]

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