Canadian McGraw's Epic Legend of the Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga

A 2D isometric jumping/shooter developed by acclaimed game designer Canadian McGraw, famed for being one of the goriest games ever created. It appears that the large amounts of time and money spent on the game mostly went towards modelling the breasts of the female characters and depicting hideously violent ways of killing enemies, rather than creating half-decent graphics or making a game that was any fun to play. It suffered from poor reviews and the company that produced it shut down soon afterwards.

Despite what some fans have speculated, the rubber stamp for this project was not made during the drinking and pill binge. Canadian McGraw, a then-acclaimed video game designer, was ready to deliver a game he promised would draw lots of attention to the ELotH:TES saga while simultaneously allowing a new way to approach it.

The result was less than inspiring. The plot was a muddle of many different time periods of the Saga and, mysteriously, was a 2D isometric jumping/shooter. Infamous for being the goriest game of all time, with the physically weakest character, Serafina Haberdasheron, being able to send several gallons of blood and detailed organs flying out of an enemy with a 1-point-damage punch, "mainly for effect" according to Canadian. The stronger attacks got, the more implausable ammounts of blood, organs, and bones were spilt, sent flying, or broken.

The game's design was also questionable; conciderable graphic power was put into detailed, yet fully unrealistic, breast bouncing and brutality-depicting, while shortchanging the backgrounds (generally flat, textured planes) and enemy graphics (vaguely 3D stick figures).

Overall, the game was a disappointment. Canadian took the effort disastrously and liquidated his company shortly after the first wave of reviews were released. The remaining small amount of funds from the game were redirected towards Tycho Brahe, much to his joy.

Screenshots

Note: Screenshots of Canadian McGraw's ELotH:TES are notoriously hard to come by due to the few remaining copies (most were destroyed within minutes of purchase). Here is an artist's rendition of a typical screen: