A blue-haired swordsman is called to an elder's home, where he learns that the wizard Thordus has found the legendary Goblin Sword, a weapon forged by Goblin Lords, and thought to have been lost forever. With it, Thordus plans to unleash darkness upon the land, his forces marching even now.
The elder tells the swordsman that he must fight back against Thordus and his forces, and save the land. So, his quest in mind, the swordsman sets off.
The game was released on September 11th, 2014. It was made available for the Nintendo Switch on February 22nd, 2020.
Goblin Sword contains examples of:
- And Your Reward Is Interior Decorating: For every boss you defeat, a trophy taken from them is placed in your home.
- Beast Man: Lots of enemies in the game are basically anthropomorphic animal people.
- Double Jump: You learn you can do this in the first level.
- Feathered Fiend: One of the enemy types in the game includes birds.
- Floating Platforms: Like any good platformer, this game has them.
- Giant Flyer: The bird enemies in the game are just bigger than the swordsman.
- Inexplicable Treasure Chests: The game has big red treasure chests with yellow lining.
- Lizard Folk: One of the enemy types is a red lizard person in green armour wielding a sword
- Our Minotaurs Are Different: A minotaur is the first boss of the game.
- Pig Man: One of the enemy types is a pig man carrying a bindle stick.
- Rewarding Vandalism: You can break objects to get stuff.
- Rock Monster: One of the enemy types in the game. They attack by throwing large rocks at you.
- Rule of Three: The swordsman starts the game with three hearts.
- Side View: How the game's viewed.
- Snakes Are Sinister: One of the enemy types is snakes.
- In fact, there's a Boss Fight against a giant snake.
- Spikes of Doom: What kind of Platform Game would it be without them?
- Springs, Springs Everywhere: The game has them. You come across your first one in the second level.
- Virtual Paper Doll: You can deck out the swordsman with different outfits.
- You Dirty Rat!: One of the enemy types is rats.
