the Comic, the blonde Tyris is the leader of the trio (depicted on the issue #5 cover). In the story "Citadel of Dead Souls", she gets captured by the dark sorcerer Blackspell and his female apprentice Ul-Tima to be sacrificed for the resurrection of Dark Guld, but escapes and leads her friends to destroy the villains and secure the Golden Axe. While taking it back to Yuria in "Plague of Serpents", they are attacked by Cobraxis and his wizard priests, but manage to defeat them too. In 2015, Tyris was featured in the crossover comic series Worlds Unite. After her world is invaded, she destroys the witch Berkana (from Mega Man) with her fire magic; afterwards, she joins heroes from other worlds to stop the villain Sigma (too from Mega Man). A figurine of Tyris was released by Yujin as part of the SR Sega Girls Collection 2 and a T-shirt print of her was also produced. Easy Mode in the 1996 beat' em up game Dynamite Deka changes the player character Cindy Holiday into Tyris and allows her to fight Death Adder replacing one of the game's bosses. She also makes a cameo appearance in the arcade version of the 1990 beat'em up Alien Storm. Reception Early games Despite being introduced after some other 'bikini-clad warrior' type player characters like Princess Mariana from Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax (portrayed in advertisements by Maria Whittaker; ST Format later compared Tyris Flare to Whittaker), it was Tyris Flare who has been the first to achieve high popularity. Many video game publications noted Tyris for her sex appeal, in particular for her large bust. Brazilian magazine Ação Games placed her 14th on their list of "Top Girls" in 1997. Reviewing the first Golden Axe in 2010, GamesRadar's Justin Towell wrote "Tyris Flare is still hot, in a 1980s Barabarian chick kind of way." According to Retro Gamer, "This sexy Amazonian fighter is a firm favourite with players due to her excellent fire magic and extremely flimsy clothing." Retro Gamer included Tyris among the nine memorable "leading ladies" of video games and also commented of "thinking back to when we first saw that enormous dragon head hove into view and roast the occupants of the arcade cabinet to charcoal while Tyris strutted her stuff in a medieval bikini. That was something you didn't see every day back then." According to ABC's Good