Erik is the most mobile and the only viking who can jump. His arrows can also be used to trigger switches and machinery from a distance. Baleog is equipped with a sword and bow with a “life-time supply of arrows”, and thus he’s the only viking who can easily kill enemies, directly. “Prepare ze anal probe.”The basic mechanic involves switching between three controllable characters, the Lost Vikings, with their different offensive, defensive and movement specialties.
However, the vikings escape the clutches of their alien captors and become stranded in time and space, traversing surreal and eclectic worlds on their quest to return to their own. An alien race known as the Croutonians has kidnapped the vikings to hold as specimens in their intergalactic zoo. The three misplaced vikings are Baleog the Fierce, Erik the Swift, and Olaf the Stout who are abducted from their tranquil lives of enjoying viking-like things like picking berries, pillaging and Prima Nocta. I originally enjoyed The Lost Vikings on the SNES, so that will be the slant of my review. It was later re-released for the Amiga, MS-DOS, Mega Drive/Genesis, Game Boy Advance, and. The Lost Vikings is a revolutionary, side-scrolling puzzle-platformer developed by Silicon & Synapse (later Blizzard Entertainment) and published Interplay for the Super Nintendo. Imagine the premise of Sliders with three characters from Beowulf suffering the finale of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and b-boying to hip hop.