The game is fully tested & guaranteed to work. It’s the cartridge / disc only unless otherwise specified.
Izzy’s Quest for the Olympic Rings Sega Genesis Game cartridge Cleaned, Tested, and Guaranteed to work!
PRODUCT DETAILS
UPC:743175921014
Condition:Used
Genre:Action & Adventure
Platform:Sega Genesis
Region:NTSC (N. America)
SKU:GEN_IZZYS_QUEST_FOR_THE_OLYMPIC_RINGS
———This game is fully cleaned, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs.This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.
We have a 121-day warranty period for all of our products. If you are experiencing any issues or aren’t satisfied with your item within 121 days, contact us and get your issue resolved. It’s that simple! View our full Return policy page here.
Every order is eligible for free shipping (5-7 business days) to any address in the United States. Orders to Canada are available for free shipping (9-12 business days) over $120! Expedited Shipping of 3-5 Business days is available in checkout. We ship worldwide! Shipping is via UPS, USPS or Fedex. We ship from Allentown, PA.
The Emperor’s Soul (2012) is a standalone Fantasy chapbook, but is set in the same world as
Well done, as Mr. Sanderson’s work always is.The sense of strangeness pervades this book as we follow a Forger who is directed to "Forge" the Emperor’s soul if she wants to live. He isn’t dead, quite, but due to an injury he is essentially a blank slate mentally and the people in power, his "Faction" want that to change. The Forger is in prison awaiting execution when she is given a chance to live in the form of "simply forge the Emperor’s soul and we’ll let you go". Understand, in this story the "Soul" is the Personality of the individual rather than a spiritual thing, and Forgers create "Soul Stamps" that tell a given thing’s soul what it is.Thus a badly thrown clay pot can become an ancient and beautiful vase with the application of the proper soul stamp to "tell it" what it really is.Our Heroine has to "Forge" a personality, complete with preferences, feelings, likes and dislikes, all real enough to create the impression that the Emperor is and has not been harmed in an assassination plot.She succeeds, but in her own way. How she does it is masterfully told in this novella.
Though known for his epic fantasy, Brandon Sanderson has now released The Emperor’s Soul, the second of two novellas scheduled for late 2012. While the first, Legion, was fun, it was too short – at 88 pages – to let Sanderson really develop the story as well as he usually does. In The Emperor’s Soul, Sanderson takes a more robust but still quick 176 pages to tell a fantastic story that really gets you into the protagonist’s head, while also giving fans of his previous works some fun ties to his first novel, Elantris. Sanderson seems to have found his novella “sweet spot” with The Emperor’s Soul, and it’s well worth reading.Our protagonist is Shai, a master Forger who is caught by the palace guards during a heist. Fortunately for her, instead of being executed outright, the Emperor was recently seriously wounded in an assassination attempt, leaving him alive but a vegetable. The Emperor’s closest advisers, despite their repugnance at her skills, are desperate enough to ask Shai to Forge the Emperor a new soul. Shai takes the job because it’s better than a short drop an a sudden stop, hoping to find a way to escape while working on the impossible task before her.Instead, the challenge consumes Shai, and we learn a lot about who she is, why she does what she does, and how her talents work as she works away at the problem. No simple thief or charlatan, Shai considers herself an artist, and we see just how accurate that appraisal can be as she approaches the Forging of the.
I really enjoy Sanderson’s books and this was no exception. Once you have read a few of his books the plots become a little predictable, but that really does not take away from the enjoyment of the book. His characters are complex, well developed and enjoyable. His female characters are powerful and are given good roles, my only complaint would be the fixation on their hair, clothing and that they ultimately are always subservient to the men, helping develop their characters and are often rescued by them, still they are better than in many other similar books so I am not complaining too much.Very good mixture of lower and upper class characters, more so than in most other books of this kind but once again, although subtly the edge goes to the upper class, the main characters even if they start out lower class are usually absorbed into the upper class even if they are at some point sucked down into the lower class they inevitably rise up and often ‘become’ the upper class (I am generalizing over books here).However those would be my only complaints about the book, it is face paced, the plot complex and enjoyable, the characters well developed and varied very hard to stop listening to or to read.
The Emperor’s Soul is a fast read at only 170 pages. It is more novella length than book length but it still tells a complete story.I loved Shai. She believes in what she does and considers herself an artist. When she is given the change to give the Emperor a new soul in return for her life she throws herself into the challenge. She knows that if she succeeds the people who promised her freedom will kill her instead. It was the challenge that drew her. No one had ever done this before. She started a job and she was determined to see it through to the finish. That did not mean she did not put in some very subtle changes in the Emperor’s personality.The story needed one loyal man and that was Gaotona. He really carried for the emperor. Working with Shai he began to understand the extent of the job she was trying to do. He had a more open mind that any of the other characters. He still did not like what was being done but developed an unexpected respect for Shai.Wondering how everything was going to turn out generated a great deal of tension. The ending held a few surprises.If you like Brandon Sanderson’s writing be sure to pick up The Emperor’s Soul. It is a very entertaining read.
The Emperor’s Soul is set on Sel, the same world as Elantris (but in an empire far away and unrelated to those events.) Shai is a master of the art of Forging – mutating an object’s history to change its appearance in the present. However, she’s been caught trying to steal the nation’s most famous relic, and now she awaits execution… unless she can forge the emperor a new soul in just over three months. An impossible task, but Shai will take any chance she gets.Brandon Sanderson is in top form as usual, despite the shortness of this novella. Shai is a thief and has no compunctions about being opportunistic, but her driving force is her pride in her art. She’s proud and tenacious – almost to a fault. I wouldn’t exactly say she’s lovable, but who doesn’t love a good noble thief? The supporting characters, with the exception of Gaotona and Emperor Ashravan, don’t really have enough time to be developed, but that’s understandable for a book less than 170 pages long.I loved the examination of identity in this book. In order for Shai to be such a good Forger, she has to be extremely good at observing both people and objects – the little things that influence them, their motivations, how they can be manipulated. She needs to be able to produce her desired changes with the minimum of effort required for it to appear natural (think about the complexity of planting an idea via a dream in Inception – it’s the same concept.) Shai does this instinctively, and it greatly adds to the comp.
A review in three parts:First, I loved it! It pulled me in at the very beginning with the idea of writing a soul. It asked the great question, what is a person really made of? Sanderson explores that theme throughout the book and does it so well that it should be a primer for fantasy and sci-fi writers. Characters are not black and white; their motivations are never surface level. Seeing Shie trying out motivations for the Emperor and having to go all the way back to his childhood to discover them was not only clever, but accurate. While much of the book was about objects and their true identity, what they were made to be; it is plain that these were allegories for people as well.Second, the magic system was very classy. The idea of ornate magical stamps changing something’s identity was truly original. Having read the author’s explanation for how and where he got the idea for the system only makes me more impressed.Third, yes I know it is short; I also knew it was going to be short. It is marketed as a novella and the author even has a word-count on his blog. You knew (or should have known) what you were getting into before you started. There really should not be any complaints though. Sanderson packs more story into a short novella then most authors do in a full sized novel.
I really enjoyed this Novella, it has a very different style of writing from Sanderson’s other books, but I still loved it. It’s definitely longer than his other Novella he released this year, but I still wished there was more to it. I really enjoyed the main character, and would love to see her further develop and show her varied skills in a full novel. The only problem with the length (other than just wanting more) was that some of the supporting cast were pretty shallow, there just wasn’t enough time to make interesting villains. The magic system was a little bit of a stretch, and a little tough to visualize, but it’s extremely original and interesting. The basic idea is that everything in the world has a soul, and certain people can apply a stamp they create to change the nature of the object (or person). So a Forger can change a decrepit rotten table into a masterpiece, as long as the new form is believable to the table. Sanderson says in the afterword of the book that this magic is inspired by his time in Korea (as an LDS missionary) and his visits to Museums, where important people would place their stamp and works of art they liked.Shai, the main character, is an expert Forger, and she’s captured when she’s betrayed after successfully completing a heist where a forgery replaced the Royal Scepter (or something like that). She’s set to be executed, but after an assassination attempt of the Emperor left him braindead, the ruling party needs her help to attempt to rebuild.
A Sanderson novella accomplishes what we fantasy readers want most: complete immersion in another world. Like all of his novellas, here is a world filled with complexities at once both illogical and believable. It is Sanderson’s brilliance to craft these fantastic escapes for our enjoyment.If you read Elantris, you will find the tie-in here that may seem to be missing in the novella description. On the other hand, it works as a standalone novella. Of course one should read all if Brandon’s works just because.
I love the new field of magic Sanderson creates here. Forgery is an amazing concept that each reader will wish they could do themselves. Sanderson once again shows the genius we have come to expect from him. Though referred to as the second book in the Elantris series, I see The Emperors Soul as a great stand-alone novella. Sanderson is free to prove me wrong, and I look forward to a third book in the Elantris series that can weave these two disparate elements together.