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The Immortal (https://www.vgmaps.com/Atlas/NES/index.htm#Immortal)
For this month's "Maps Of The Month" featurette, I wish to draw your attention to TerraEsperZ's The Immortal (NES) maps.
In The Immortal, you are on a quest to rescue your teacher, the wizard Mordramir, apparently trapped deep within a dungeon. You must really think highly of Mordramir to take on this dungeon, where danger lies around every corner, and you will surely die, a lot. Bats and goblins and giant worms and a dragon, not to mention a multitude of traps, stand between you and the end of your quest. But hey, it's a neat-looking dungeon, in the rare isometric perspective and distinctive graphics (certainly unique, on the NES at least).
The NES has many difficult games, and some notoriously so, but TerraEsperZ is no stranger to them (we're talking about the guy who mapped Battletoads (https://www.vgmaps.com/Atlas/NES/index.htm#Battletoads), after all). Not only has TerraEsperZ managed to map this whole dungeon, he's done it in two flavours: either without spoilers, or with the secrets and traps indicated. You just might survive after all (maybe), thanks to TerraEsperZ, the first mapper to receive the Maps Of The Month honour ten times! Congratulations!
So to acknowledge the effort put into immortalizing this infamously difficult game, TerraEsperZ's The Immortal (NES) maps will be known as VGMaps.com's Maps Of The Month for May 2013.