Rance I

This article is for the 1989 original. For the 2013 remake, see Rance 01.

Rance 1 - Quest for Hikari
ランス -光をもとめて-
Rance - Hikari o Motomete
(c)アリスソフト Box art
Brand	Alice Soft
Release date	1989/07/15
Genre / Rating	RPG / 18+
Base price	￥6800, 0
Voice	none

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Rance 1

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Rance - Hikari o Motomete/Quest for Hikari (ランス－光をもとめて－) is the first installment of Rance series, made originally for PC-98. The game is now freeware for Japan. The game was translated by HGTP Translations in 2010.

Gameplay Edit

Main articles: Game Mechanics and Walkthrough

Rance -Quest for Hikari- is an adventure game/RPG hybrid that heavily focuses on the exploration system.

Story Edit

Main articles: Story and Characters

Keith, owner of Keith's Guild, offers Rance a job worth 20,000 gold in reward from the Bran family to find and protect their daughter, Hikari Mi Bran, who was kidnapped with no subsequent demands made. Assisting him in his search is Zeth-born caster slave, Sill Plain, who was also kidnapped from her rich family and sold to Rance in exchange for his life savings. Through separate means, they both work together to solve the mystery behind the kidnapping, and eventually discover that the case is much larger than it seemed to be.

Specs Edit

Development team - Bacteria 88
Genre - Multi-selection Adventure game (it's really an RPG game built on an ADV engine)
Scenario - TADA etc
CG - Hakase ("Professor") etc
Music - Ichitaro
Graphics - more than 120
Text data - more than 70,000 Japanese characters
BGM - more than 5 songs

PatchesEdit

The freeware English release by HGTP Translations can be downloaded here.

The updated Rance 1 Rebuilt patch can be downloaded here and applied to the HGTP release.

Trivia Edit

The girl on the cover of Rance 1 is Tomato Purée, who isn't even featured in the game. Instead, she makes her first appearance in the sequel, Rance 2.
Along with Rance 2, the digest edition of Rance 1 is included in the special disk that came with Rance 6. The digest was translated by 2.0 Translations. The translation patch can be downloaded here.
24 years later, in 2013, this game was remade with a revamped gameplay system and modern day audio-visual quality, titled Rance 01. This is the 2nd Rance title after Rance 02 to be remade with modern day specs.

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