Dragon Slayer: Eiyuu Densetsu is a turn-based role-playing game developed for the Super Nintendo. Diverging from its predecessors' side-scrolling action, it features a party system allowing up to four characters. Players can allocate stats upon leveling up, target individual enemies, and restart battles if defeated. The game is part of the Dragon Slayer series, which later evolved into its own franchise.
Unlike the previous Dragon Slayer games, which were all side-scrolling action RPGs, The Legend of Heroes is a far more straightforward turn-based RPG of the Dragon Quest mold. It allowed for a party of up to four characters and had a few modern upgrades, such as allowing the player to distribute stats after a level up, target separate monsters and restart a battle if their party gets wiped out.
It received one direct sequel, Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II, before the series would drop the Dragon Slayer prefix and continue as a separate Falcom property.