Gauntlet II

'Green Elf is about to die.'

No, I'm not referencing one of Ninty's many Legend of Zelda games. This is one of many soundbytes that would ring out In Gauntlet II as the player's life slowly seeped away to nothing. This was the tension raising moment where you knew you needed to find that next lot of food before your onscreen character breathed his or her last.

Gauntlet II is an overhead dungeon adventure of sorts, where you are tossed into a series of dungeons for some reason. Unfortunately the game makes no attempt to actually explain the reasons ingame. You just crawl through dungeon floor after dungeon floor fighting monsters until you retire from the game. This also means that the characters themselves don't present any kind of a backstory or personality. Who is this warrior? Nobody knows, because as far as the player is concerned he's just some tough guy tossing axes around.

Before playing you get the option of picking one of four characters to...