For this month's "Maps Of The Month" featurette, I wish to draw your attention to Shiny's Rolan's Curse (GB) maps.
The evil emperor Barius has cursed the land of Rolan. As a heroic (and generic) knight, it's up to you to stop Barius and lift the curse!
That's not much of a story, but not every fantasy game has to be a sprawling epic. This top-down action-adventure is often compared to similar-looking Zelda games, but Rolan's Curse is very short and sweet. There are only four chapters, with the fourth one much shorter than the first three. Unlike the legendary game series its appearance evokes, this is a more linear experience and can be cleared in one sitting.
Even so, there may be some areas where maps can be handy, and VGMaps.com has got that covered - twice - with marked and unmarked maps of every chapter, so you won't feel alone in your quest to defeat the evil Barius, with Shiny, one of our resident Game Boy cartographers, as your guide!
But maybe you aren't really alone if you have a Game Link Cable! Rolan's Curse has a feature that not many people have utilized - this journey can be done with two players! Maybe it hasn't been played this way often enough because the game is not hugely popular to begin with - which is a shame, as it is simple and charming, the very epitome of pick-up-and-play Game Boy fun.
So to recognize the effort put into mapping a game cursed with obscurity, Shiny's Rolan's Curse (GB) maps will be known as VGMaps.com's Maps Of The Month for July 2020.
