The crowd sourced encyclopedia's article on the game, read directly for this entry. Its strength is a well referenced release, development and reception record, including the direct confirmation used here that the goddess Nuwa appears only as ancestral backstory and not as an active character. Its limit is that it is not independently peer reviewed, so it is cited here for corroborated production and plot detail rather than for cultural or religious studies interpretation, which the Taiwan Insight essay supplies instead.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's article on The Legend of Sword and Fairy is a crowd sourced tertiary encyclopedic source, hence the lower tier, though useful here for its well referenced release and reception record, including the direct confirmation that Nuwa appears only as ancestral backstory. NotesRead directly. Cited for the game's July 1995 MS-DOS release by Softstar Entertainment's Crazy Boys development team, its 1997 Windows 95 and 1999 Sega Saturn re-releases, sales of roughly two million legitimate copies with piracy estimated to have put as many as twenty million copies into circulation, its Best Role Playing Game award, and the direct confirmation that the goddess Nuwa is named only as an ancestor of the heroine Zhao Ling'er and does not appear as a playable or active character in the story.
Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Sword_and_Fairy
Source Typereference
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
Nuwa, Deities This source names Nuwa directly: "used here that the goddess Nuwa appears only as ancestral backstory and not as an active character."
This source names Taiwan directly: "studies interpretation, which the Taiwan Insight essay supplies instead."
Claims Backed By This Source (20 claims)
This source backs 20 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Games, 10 claims: 6 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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