Games featuring Excalibur as an item

Delzhand

I am considering writing a paper for my King Arthur class that explores the power of Excalibur as a symbol, and I was trying to compile a list of games that feature it, whether it's usable equipment, important to the plot, or contains specific reference to other Arthurian elements. From my own experiences, here's what I came up with:

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow - bonus for still being in the stone, fail point for not being an anvil
Final Fantasy - bonus points for Gilgamesh having a fake Excalibur
Knights of the Round - fail points abound for general abuse of Arthurian myth (and not a great game to begin with)
Golden Sun

Probably a ton of RPGs, but I can't really recall a lot of them. If it's just an item, it probably won't help the paper much, but if it has special properties, like being the best weapon, or holy elemental, etc., then I might be interested.

Does anyone else have any games in mind that aren't listed?

Burnage

X-Kaliber 2097?

Delzhand

Burnage wrote: »

X-Kaliber 2097?

Man, I forgot about that game. I rented it once. Not very good, but perhaps an example of how translators often just choose Excalibur as a name for any ol' sword.

Monoxide

you have an entire class about King Arthur?

Delzhand

Monoxide wrote: »

you have an entire class about King Arthur?

Yeah, and next semester I'm taking the equivalent class for Robin Hood. Since the English department has no money, most of the other British Literature courses have been cut, but I need them to graduate. The first half of the semester is literature (Lawman, Malory, Geoffrey of Monmouth, etc.), the second is movies. Yesterday we watched Monty Python & The Holy Grail. A few weeks ago we watched the one with Kiera Knightley (it was pretty dumb).

Adus

Sonic and the Black Knight is loosely based on the Arthurian Legend and contains Caliburn and Excalibur as Sonic's and Super Sonic's respective weapons.

It's not a good game but uh... It's an example I guess?

MindLib

ff2

Raiden333

Obviously incomplete, but I found this:

http://www.giantbomb.com/excalibur/93-1120/

B:L

Delzhand wrote: »

bonus for still being in the stone, fail point for not being an anvil

Do you consider Excalibur as the sword in the stone or the sword from the Lady of the Lake?

Wiki:

In Arthurian romance a number of explanations are given for Arthur's possession of Excalibur. In Robert de Boron's Merlin, Arthur obtained the throne by pulling a sword from a stone. In this account, the act could not be performed except by "the true king," meaning the divinely appointed king or true heir of Uther Pendragon. This sword is thought by many to be the famous Excalibur and the identity is made explicit in the later so-called Vulgate Merlin Continuation, part of the Lancelot-Grail cycle.[4] However, in what is sometimes called the Post-Vulgate Merlin, Excalibur was given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake sometime after he began to reign. She calls the sword "Excalibur, that is as to say as Cut-steel." In the Vulgate Mort Artu, Arthur orders Girflet to throw the sword into the enchanted lake. After two failed attempts he finally complies with the wounded king's request and a hand emerges from the lake to catch it, a tale which becomes attached to Bedivere instead in Malory and the English tradition.[5]

Malory records both versions of the legend in his Le Morte d'Arthur, and confusingly calls both swords Excalibur. The film Excalibur attempts to rectify this by having only one sword, which Arthur draws from the stone and later breaks; the Lady of the Lake then repairs it.

In River City Ransom, Excalibur could be bought at Merlin's Mystery Shop but it's just a stat increase and not a weapon.

MetroidZoid

Not fully knowing the mythos, anything in the Soul Caliber series?

Even as an unlockable in SCII?

Nocren

Tomb Raider: Legend focuses on the Arthurian myth in a lot of different cultures.
(Young King, Old Wizard/Mentor, Magic Sword)

shalmelo

Nethack!

That's right, bitches. I'm old school like that.

Steel Angel

Another not very complete list if you scroll down a bit:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PublicDomainArtifact

It hits on a few Japanese games not officially released in the US.

Delzhand

B:L wrote: »

Delzhand wrote: »

bonus for still being in the stone, fail point for not being an anvil

Do you consider Excalibur as the sword in the stone or the sword from the Lady of the Lake?

Man, that's an elementary mistake on my part. But the two have become so conflated that the "sword in the stone" in games is still of interest to me, if it is clearly intended to be Excalibur.

Doc

shalmelo wrote: »

Nethack!

That's right, bitches. I'm old school like that.

eff

beat me to it.

That is like the most common artifact in the game, aside from sting.

Sir Carcass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicles_of_the_sword

It's been over 10 years since I played it (I have it around here somewhere), and I don't remember if it had Excalibur exactly, but it's an Arthurian Legend game, so I think it'd have to.

UltimaGecko

I've never played it, but Dark Age of Camelot has a piece of Excalibur's scabbard at the very least.


I thought Dungeon Master II had an Excalibur, but it's got an Excysmyr and a Blue Steele (unless any of those are linked with Excalibur in some way).

GPIA7R

Pretty sure FF: Tactics Advance had one

physi_marc

A bit far-fetched if this is for an English class, but in the French translation of A Link to the Past, the Master Sword is called Excalibur and you pull it out of a stone.

Dunadan019

GPIA7R wrote: »

Pretty sure FF: Tactics Advance had one

I think about 90% of final fantasy games had one.

Sipex

There was a PS1 game called excalibur.

It was about some girl who got a hold of it and travelled forward in time to after the apocalypse. I rented it once and couldn't get past the first boss because he was bugged

physi_marc

Gah! How could I have forgotten that Excalibur is also one of the many names of the Sword of Mana in Secret of Mana. You pull it out of a stone at the beginning of the game.

E.Coyote

Warcraft refrences everything ~.~

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=10758

Legend of zelda has a lot of the pulling swords from stones and in the snes version you even throw it to a lady in a lake.

Peter Principle

I don't know if this helps, or if I'm stating something you already knew, but in 1st Ed. D&D, the book Dieties & Demigods has an entry on King Arthur. It indicates that Excalibur is a vorpal sword or a sword of sharpness +something or other, but better in maybe some other unique way. The authors had the sheath doing some nifty stuff, too.

Niceguy Myeye

If you include board games, there is Shadows Over Camelot

And there is also a whole bunch of games based on Arthurian Legend too that look delightfully awful here

Metalbourne

I just checked. There's an Excalibur in Disgaea.

Delzhand

Hmm. Seems like a pretty good list. Now to parse for academic value... Thanks!