The Hero (Hydlide II Shine of Darkness)

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The Hero is the main protagonist of Hydlide II Shine of Darkness, they originate from the human world and were brought to Fairyland by God warping space-time to connect the human world to fairyland. They are tasked with stopping the evil consciousness taking trying to create more monsters to take over fairyland and restore peace to fairyland.

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Origin
Origin	Hydlide II Shine of Darkness
Creator	T&E Soft
First Appearance	Hydlide II Shine of Darkness
Characteristics
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Pronouns	He/Him
Sexuality	Heterosexual
Age	Unknown
Birthday	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Ethnicity	Unknown
Status	Alive
Alignment	Neutral Evil (Evil Forth Status), True Neutral (Neutral Forth Status), Lawful Good (Justice Forth Status)
Archetype	Hero
Occupation	Hero
Time Period	Medieval Fantasy
Language	Common Language
Combat Style	Weapons Combat, Magical Combat
Homeworld	Human World
Relationships
Affiliations	God, Monks
Enemies	Evil Crystal, Monsters

Background

This dropdown contains the synopsis of The Hero’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!
Not much is known about the character prior to their journey, all that is known is they were from the human world. Throughout their journey they encounter countless monsters until eventually defeating the entity and restoring peace to Fairyland.

Appearance

General Description: The hero has a fair complexion and short, solid dark hair.

First Image (Sprite): A highly simplified figure with a black outline. He has a blank white face with two black vertical marks for eyes and a small horizontal line for a mouth. He wears a plain white long-sleeved top and dark pants or shorts. He is shown holding a long, straight object, resembling a sword or stick, in his right hand.

User Manual Design: He is wearing a full suit of light-colored plate armor, including a large helmet with two curved horns. The helmet's visor features several vertical slits. He has a rounded, bulky chest plate and gauntlets. A small exclamation mark floats above his head, suggesting a surprised or alert posture. He holds a small, indistinct object in his left hand.

Personality

The Hero never talks or emotes in the actual game, thus most of his personality is grabbed from brief descriptions of him in the manual.

• Conscience: FORTH represents the hero's conscience and is described as their "heart." The larger the parameter, the more of a good person the player is. The meter changes to green when the heart is good, yellow when normal, and red when evil. Doing bad things decreases the meter, and doing good things increases it.

Goals

• Restore peace to Fairyland (Succeeded).

General Information

Name: Varies (The name is up to what the player chooses)

Other Names: The Protagonist, The Hero

Origin: Hydlide II Shine of Darkness

Overall Series: Hydlide

First Appearance: Hydlide II Shine of Darkness

Latest Appearance: Hydlide II Shine of Darkness

Company: T&E Soft

Creator: T&E Soft

Actor: N/A

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: He/Him

Handedness: Right-Handed (Holds their sword in their right hand)

Age: Unknown

Birthday: Unknown

Time Period: Medieval Fantasy

Timeline: Fairyland Timeline (Fairyland is a different space where the world is dominated by swords and magic, being noted to be a completely separate space-time from the Human World)

Homeworld: Human World

Residence: Fairyland

Story Role: Hero, Main Protagonist

Legacy: Global Legacy (The Hero is known for his exploits around Fairyland)

Influence: Event Influence

Language: Common Language

Ethnicity: Unknown

Religion: Unknown

Classification: Journeying Hero

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Kaizack (Kaizack is the creator of the Hydlide universe, being the creator of everything)

Occupation: Hero

Combat Style: Weapons Combat/Magical Combat

Affiliations: God, Monks

Enemies: Evil Crystal, Monsters

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Alive

Alignment

• Varies on Forth (The Hero's forth determines their moral alignment, if it gets too low, they will be considered evil and shopkeepers will not sell to them along with people not talking to them, however if it is high, they will be considered a hero)
  • Neutral Evil with Evil Forth Status
  • True Neutral with Neutral Forth Status
  • Lawful Good with Justice Forth Status

Protection Level: Global Protector (God was impressed by the monks' prayers that they warped space-time to connect Fairyland to the human world and bring the protagonist to save the world)

Threat Level: Street Threat with low Forth (Lowering forth is done through killing innocent people and gaining the "Evil" Forth status)

Potential

• Type(s) of Potential: Growth Potential
• Level of Potential: Growth
• Description: The hero's experience level increases each time he destroys a monster with each level of life, strength, and magic increases.
• Limitations: Nothing notable.

Archetype: Hero

Codex Statistics

Key: Early Game | Late Game

Key Information

• Early Game: This covers the hero at their lower experience levels.
• Late Game: This covers the hero at their higher experience levels.

Grade: S

Tier:

Early GameLate Game

9-B, Higher with Magic

9-A, Higher with Magic

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: Magic

Attack Potency

Early GameLate Game

Wall level (Buster) (Can destroy gravestones), Higher with Magic

Room level (Potency) (Can fight and defeat the Dragon), Higher with Magic

Durability

Early GameLate Game

Wall level

Room level

Striking Strength

Early GameLate Game

Wall Class (Buster)

Room Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength

Early GameLate Game

Superhuman Class

At least Superhuman Class

Travel Speed

Early GameLate Game

Peak Human Speed

Peak Human Speed

Attack Speed

Early GameLate Game

Peak Human Speed

Peak Human Speed

Reaction Speed

Early GameLate Game

Peak Human Reactions

Peak Human Reactions

Stamina: Superhuman (Traveled across Fairyland fighting many monsters without showing any signs of tiring)

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with Sword. Varies with Magic (Magic attacks vary from simple fireballs shooting out to attacks like Flash hitting all enemies on the screen)

Intelligence: Average Intelligence

Knowledge: At least Master level (Traveled across Fairyland to find a method to fight and defeat all of the monsters and save Fairyland)

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Powers and Techniques

Innate AbilitiesWith Equipment

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
  • Superhuman Strength
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Superhuman Lifting
  • Superhuman Energy Efficiency
• Weapon Mastery
  • Sword and Shield Mastery: The Hero utilizes a sword and shield when combating against the various monsters in the world.
• Healing (The hero's health slowly restores overtime)
• Blessed (God was impressed by the monks' prayers that they warped space-time to connect Fairyland to the human world and bring the protagonist to save the world)
• Autopilot (The protagonist has an automatic "attack" and "Defend" mode where they will automatically attack or defend the minute a monster comes near in this state)
• Information Analysis (When encountering a monster the hero will see the monster's life, strength, and magic displayed)
• Non-Standard Interaction
  • Spirit Interaction: Can harm and kill ghost.
• Accelerated Development
  • Leveling & Battle
    • Physical Stats & Abilities: The hero's experience level increases each time he destroys a monster with each level of life, strength, and magic increases.
• Magic (The Hero has a natural magic power meter that allows him to use magic)
  • Offensive Magic
    • Fire Manipulation (With Fire Magic, shoots out a fireball)
    • Ice Manipulation (With Ice Magic, shoots out a ball of ice)
    • Energy Manipulation
      • Energy Projection (With Wave Magic, shoots out shockwaves)
    • Magma Manipulation (With Magma Magic, shoots out magma that hits all nearby enemies)
    • Light Manipulation (With Flash Magic, shoots out a flash of light that hits all enemies on screen)
  • Defensive Magic
    • Extrasensory Perception (With Search, searches for secrets hidden within the screen, if something is hidden, the area will flash)
    • Statistics Reduction
    • With Cloud, this spell is used to lower a monster's defense, making it where a monster's defense is too high where no attacks land, this spell will make them unable to dodge or take hits from the hero's attacks.
    • With Silence, this spell lowers a monster's magic power, making them unable to use magic.
    • Air Manipulation (With Revolve, creates a small tornado-like air vortex around the opponent's body to confuse their direction of movement)
    • Sleep Manipulation
      • Statistics Reduction (With Sleep, this spell is used to lower a monster's strength, making it where in situations where an enemies strength is so high that the hero cannot get close to them, they can use this spell to strip them of their attack power).

• Resistance to
  • Mind Manipulation & Hell Manipulation (Could face off against the Evil Crystal and stand on it sustaining all the evil energy it was producing)

Weapons/ArmorItems

• Statistics Boost (Chain Mail, Plate Armor, Life Shield, and Mind Shield all boost the hero's defenses. Short Sword and Long Sword boost the hero's offenses)
  • Penetration Damage
  • Shielding

• Purification (With Antidote, cures the hero of their poison status)
• Healing (With Healing Potion, a light blue medicine that heals wounded bodies)
• Light Manipualtion (With Lamp, brightens allows them to see through darkness)
• Nullification
  • Illusion Nullification: The Kou Rod disperses illusions and makes evil spirits frightened.

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Equipment

Image	Name	Description	Machine Translation
	Short Sword SHORT SWORD	武術店で販売している一番安価な剣です。したがって、それほど有効な武器とは思えませんが、素手よりはマシなのもの。	The cheapest sword sold at the martial arts store. Therefore, it may not seem like a very effective weapon, but it's better than bare hands.
	Long Sword LONG SWORD	武術店で販売している、割と強力な剣です。チョッピリ高いのが気になりますが、それでも買うかどうかはプレイヤーの判断しだいです。	A relatively powerful sword sold at the martial arts store. The slightly high price is a concern, but whether to buy it or not is up to the player's judgment.
	Mind Shield MIND SHIELD	どこにでも売っている一般的な盾です。色は水色で少し小さくなっています。防御力はあまり優れないのですが、自分の身を守るために、最初のうちはぜひ使いましょう。	A common shield sold everywhere. It is light blue and slightly small. Its defense isn't very good, but to protect yourself, be sure to use it early on.
	Life Shield LIFE SHIELD	敵の中でも最も頑丈な盾を、ロングタイプの塞草板です。地下都市の果てに放置されてるみたいですが、『売っている』とんでもなく強力です。色は黄色です。	A long-type shield that is the sturdiest among the enemies. It seems to be left at the end of the underground city, but if it's "sold," it's incredibly powerful. The color is yellow.
	Chain Mail CHAIN ARMOR	鎖をかつらで編んでいるものです。見た目よりも防御力は低いので、身体全体を包み込むようにして敵からの攻撃を受け付けて、それなりの防御力は備えています。色は赤色です。	Made by knitting chains with wigs. Its defense is lower than it looks, so it receives enemy attacks by wrapping the whole body, and has a reasonable amount of defense. The color is red.
	Plate Armor PLATE ARMOR	厚手の金属で鍛えられた丈夫な鎧です。その防御力は絶大で、しっかりした着用なら、完全に身を包み込んで守ってくれます。いつかは身に着けたいですね。色は青色です。	A sturdy armor forged from thick metal. Its defensive power is immense, and if worn properly, it will completely wrap around and protect you. I want to wear it someday. The color is blue.
	Helmet HELMET	角の生えたツノ付き鉄製のカブトです。比較的安価ですが、「精神の盾」と併せて使用すれば、結構防御力があるものです。	A horned iron helmet. It is relatively cheap, but when used together with the "Mind Shield," it provides quite a bit of defense.
	Oem Roo OEM ROO	先端にどろくろのついている、一見不気味な奴です。商店でも気味の悪いのが、かなり低価格で販売しています。杖のついているどろくろの力が作用して、その杖を手にした者に若干の魔力が与えられるようです。色は黒色です。	A creepy-looking creature with a black mud figure at its tip. The store also sells it at a considerably low price. The power of the black mud on the staff seems to grant a little magic power to the person holding it. The color is black.
	Kou Rod KOU ROD	先端に水晶がついている、きれいな杖です。その水晶の輝きは、見る者の悪霊を怯ませ、幻を拡散させます。水晶の光は少し魔力を高める力があり、それが杖の持ち主の魔力となるのです。色は赤色です。	A beautiful staff with a crystal at its tip. The brilliance of the crystal makes evil spirits frightened and disperses illusions. The light of the crystal has the power to slightly enhance magic, which becomes the magic power of the staff's owner. The color is red.
	Lamp LAMP	ごく普通のランプですが、その明るさは暗い闇を見通しなどです。テイルを震やしならが周囲を照らしですので、当然使っていけば、テイルはどんどんなくなっていってしまいます。オイルがなくなってしまえば、周囲は再び暗黒の世界に戻るでしょう。地上ではいらないですが…。	A very ordinary lamp, but its brightness can see through the dark darkness. Since it illuminates the surroundings while shaking its tail, naturally, if you keep using it, the tail will gradually disappear. If the oil runs out, the surroundings will return to a world of darkness. You don't need it on the ground, though...
	Antidote ANTIDOTE	どんな植物の毒でも、一瞬のうちに体から消してしまう、強力な緑色の薬です。もっとも魔法で毒を消せるなら、ほとんど無用の物と言ってもいいかもしれません。	A powerful green medicine that instantly removes any plant poison from the body. However, if you can remove poison with magic, it might be said to be almost useless.
	Healing Potion SILVER	傷ついた体を治してくれる水色の薬です。日頃の身体の鍛錬によって、同じ薬を使っても、回復する量（という言い方はおかしいが…）が違ってきます。	A light blue medicine that heals wounded bodies. Depending on your daily physical training, even if you use the same medicine, the amount recovered (which is a strange way to say it...) will differ.

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Notable Techniques

Magic ListMagic Descriptions

	ATTACK	DEFEND
F.1	FIRE ファイヤー	REVOLVE リボルブ
F.2	ICE アイス	SEARCH サーチ
F.3	WAVE ウェーブ	SLEEP スリープ
F.4	MAGMA マグマ	CLOUD クラウド
F.5	FLASH フラッシュ	SILENCE サイレンス

Offensive SpellsDefensive Spells

Magic 魔法	Level レベル	MAGIC	Feature 特徴	Machine Translation
FIRE	2	5～10	障害物に当たると消えてしまう。	Disappears when it hits an obstacle.
ICE	4	10～20	障害物を無視して飛んでいく。	Flies while ignoring obstacles.
WAVE	8	15～30	直線上のキャラのすべてに有効。	Effective against all characters on a straight line.
MAGMA	12	22～45	近くにいるキャラのすべてに有効。	Effective against all nearby characters.
FLASH	16	30～60	一画面内のすべてのキャラに有効。	Effective against all characters on the screen.

Magic 魔法	Magic Cost 使用するMAGIC	Level レベル	Feature 特徴	Machine Translation
REVOLVE	20	2	相手の身体のまわりに、小さな竜巻状の空気の渦を発生させて、相手の進行方向を惑わすという魔法です。使用目的は、主に、自分がやられそうな状態で、袋小路に追い詰められた時に使用して、1／2の確率で逃げていってもらうものです。	This magic creates a small tornado-like air vortex around the opponent's body, confusing their direction of travel. Its main purpose is to use it when you are about to be defeated and cornered in a dead end, with a 1/2 chance of making the opponent flee.
SEARCH	35	4	画面内に隠された秘密を探るための魔法です。何か隠されたものがあると、その範囲内がフラッシュします。一面全体に秘密が隠されている時は、さすがの「SEARCH」の魔法も、どういう動作をするのか保証はできません。	This magic is used to search for hidden secrets on the screen. If something is hidden, its area will flash. When secrets are hidden across the entire screen, even the "SEARCH" magic cannot guarantee what will happen.
SLEEP	50	8	モンスターの腕力を引き下げるための魔法です。敵のSTRが強くて、近くに行く事さえできない時は、この魔法で相手の攻撃力を失わせてからなら安全です。	This magic is used to lower a monster's strength. When the enemy's STR is so strong that you cannot even get close, it is safe to use this magic to make them lose their attack power.
CLOUD	50	12	モンスターの防御力を引き下げるための魔法です。相手の防御力が強くて攻撃がぜんぜんあたらない時は、この魔法で相手を裸同然にしてしまいましょう。うわさによると、モンスターの中にもこの魔法を操る奴が、いろいろいるらしいとが…。減ってしまった防御力は、どうすればもとどおりになるんでしょうねえ。	This magic is used to lower a monster's defense. When the opponent's defense is high and your attacks don't land at all, use this magic to make them practically naked. Rumor has it that there are various monsters out there who can also use this magic... I wonder how a lowered defense can be restored to its original state.
SILENCE	50	16	モンスターの魔力を引き下げるための魔法です。相手が魔法ばかり使う奴だとイライラしてきます。そんな時はこれで魔法を使えなくしてしまいましょう。	This magic is used to lower a monster's magic power. It gets frustrating when the opponent does nothing but use magic. In times like that, use this to make them unable to use magic.

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Other

Standard Tactics: The Hero uses items and magic best fit for the situation.

Weaknesses: Equipping an evil crystal will make it where the hero cannot regenerate health. The Hero needs to stand still in order to slowly recover health.

Explanations

Fairy Land

Fairyland is a different space where the world is dominated by swords and magic, being noted to be a completely separate space-time from the Human World.

Characters/Monsters

The following is a list of characters that are important to the overall journey:

Fairyland Monsters
Name	Description	Machine Translation
AZER エイザー	ファイヤーエレメントを操る火炎の化身。自分のまわりにファイヤーエレメントを発生させて身を守っている。自分自身には攻撃能力はまったくない。	An incarnation of flame that manipulates the Fire Element. It protects itself by generating Fire Elements around its body. It has no attack capability itself.
WORM ワーム	砂漠に生ている砂漠の守り神。いつもは砂の下に潜っているが、ひとたび攻撃されると怒りに我を忘れ、その巨大な口のなのをそさせながら襲いかかってくる。	The guardian deity of the desert that lives in the desert. It usually hides under the sand, but once attacked, it forgets itself in anger and attacks with its giant mouth flailing.
GHOUL グール	汚れた地面からなら、どこからでも出現してくるジャマな奴。行動範囲を気の向くままに動きまわった後、また地面に戻っていく。	An annoying guy that can appear from anywhere as long as it's from dirty ground. After moving around freely within its range of action, it returns to the ground again.
WOLF ウルフ	フェアリーランドの怪物たちの中でも、１、２を争うほどの駿足を誇るスプリンター。パッと出現したかと思うと、いきなり目の前にやってきて攻撃を連発して逃げていく、ほんとーにイヤな奴。	A sprinter boasting one of the fastest legs among the monsters of Fairyland. Just when you think it has appeared, it suddenly comes right in front of you, launches a barrage of attacks, and runs away—a truly annoying guy.
GHOST ゴースト	半透明でふわふわ飛んでいる実体のない奴。殴ろうがなんだろうが、もともと実体がないだけに、いとも簡単にすり抜けてくる。	A translucent, floating, bodiless guy. No matter how much you try to punch it, since it has no physical body to begin with, it easily slips right through.
DRAGON ドラゴン	通路を防ぐ恐怖の番人。奴の体が変化したら要注意。灼熱の赤い炎が君の命（LIFE）を奪いとる。	A terrifying guardian that blocks the passage. Be careful if its body changes. Scorching red flames will take your life (LIFE).

Trivia

• Despite the user manual showing the protagonist having a full suit of armor, the in-game sprite has no armor on initially. The armor is likely referencing their end game state where they are fully in armor.

Profiles

📁 Official Character Profiles

Hydlide II Shine of Darkness User Guide ★ CREATING A CHARACTER The message "INPUT YOUR NAME" will be displayed, so please enter your character's name freely using up to 15 characters. Please be sure to type using uppercase English letters or katakana. Please note that some keys on the keyboard may differ from what is displayed, or some keys may not respond. If you press the RETURN key without entering anything, you will return to "SET UP". Next, "SET PARAM" will be displayed. Here, please set the character's LIFE, STR, and MAGIC. The initial value given is 30, so please allocate the numbers to each parameter as appropriate. Use ↑ and ↓ to move the cursor, and → and ← to set the values. Once you have decided on the values to assign to each parameter, please press the SPACE key. If you press the RETURN key at this time, you will return to "SET UP". Finally, after asking for confirmation, please press Y or N. With this, one character has been saved to the ROM cartridge. Up to 4 characters can be registered. (Machine translated) ★CHARACTER（キャラクター）をつくる 「INPUT YOUR NAME」と表示されますので15文字 以内で自由にキャラクターの名前を入力してくださ い。必ず大文字の英字・カナで打ち込んで下さい。 一部キーボードと、表示されるものが違うもの、または キーボードが反応しないキーがありますので、注意 が必要です。何も入力せずに RETURN キーを押し た時は「SET UP」に戻ります。 　次に「SET PARAM」と表示されます。ここでは キャラクターの LIFE、STR、MAGIC を設定して下さ い。始めに与えられる数値は30ですので、適度に各要 素に数値を設定してください。↑、↓でカーソル移動、→、←で数値セッ トとなります。各数値代入が決まりましたら、SPACEキーを押してください。 この時に RETURN キーを押すと「SET UP」に戻ってしまいます。 　最後に確認を聞いてなから、YかNを押してください。これでキャラクターが 一人、『ロムカート』リッジにセーブされました。4人分まで登録可能です。 Hydlide II Shine of Darkness

Gallery

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  Hero's Sprite In-Game
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  Hero's Sprite In-Game Without Background

Misconceptions

Hydlide Stole from Zelda

This is due to the NES port of the game releasing in 1989, two years after games like The Legend of Zelda were on the NES (1987), however, in Japan, the original game released on the NEC PC-6001 and PC-8801 computers in 1984 predating the Japanese release of The Legend of Zelda by 2 years (1986).

Hydlide in actuality is one of the genre definers that is the reason games like Zelda and Ys exist.

Battle Records

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Versus Threads

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