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Post by Ex on Jun 30, 2022 11:53:32 GMT -5
Eh haven't touched Dungeon Explorer since my last post. Past three weeks I've barely played any video games at all (been reading a lot) though I can feel the desire winds shifting. Regardless, I'm putting Dungeon Explorer in the "seems decent enough, might play it for real someday" box. I'm more interested in July's theme and will put my Club Retro efforts there. Hudson was a cool company overall, throughout their years they developed and/or published quite a few interesting games.
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Post by Sarge on Jun 30, 2022 12:36:48 GMT -5
You could always jump into Dungeon Explorer II.  |
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Post by Ex on Jun 30, 2022 12:54:59 GMT -5
Well apparently DE2 is only ~5 hours long as compared to PSP DE being possibly ~35 hours long (according to HLTB). So that's nice. However, I'm just trying to push myself to finish Ever Oasis at present. I'm 5/6ths through it...
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Post by toei on Jun 30, 2022 13:48:17 GMT -5
Pretty sure the original Dungeon Explorer is a lot shorter than that, too. I guess the PSP game is much more than a simple remake.
I didn't get to play much, but I dig Hudson Soft. If you look at their involvement with the PC Engine - designing the console, serving as its main publisher and developing/co-developing so many of the games - and the variety of their output, including genres no one touched on this month such as RPGs (they were involved in multiple series like Tengai Makyou, Shell Monsters Story, etc.), they were either the biggest midtier company in Japanese gaming or the smallest giant, at least for a solid decade going from the mid-80s to the mid-90s. I'd say they're the most unsung in the West, because the PCE was a hit in Japan and nowhere else. Their brand had a lot more visibility there - they would organize these big promotional events (or "festivals"), they had a famous spokesperson (Takahashi Meijin, aka Master Higgins), etc. They were one of the leading game companies there for a time. In the West, they were mostly just the Bomberman guys. They even had their own mascot platformer series with Bonk. The only thing they didn't really touch compared to the big companies of that era is that they never really got involved with the arcade market (contrary to almost all of them - Sega, Capcom, Konami, Namco were all rooted in the arcade business, and while Nintendo didn't stick with it very long, they did make an impact with Donkey Kong especially). But that's because they were rooted in the early Japanese computer gaming scene, like Square.
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Post by Ex on Jun 30, 2022 14:05:38 GMT -5
I guess the PSP game is much more than a simple remake. It is a reimagining that is much more in the modern action-RPG range. The DS Dungeon Explorer is also completely different than the original DE, much more involved. I beat the DS version some time ago. The DS and PSP versions of DE are very different from one another as well. |
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Post by Sarge on Jun 30, 2022 16:30:27 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, maybe don't roll into DEII given that Crystal Beans was a reworked version of that. Although I don't know if it was a heavy downgrade or not.
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Post by Xeogred on Jun 30, 2022 18:55:09 GMT -5
I still plan to play PCE Lords of Thunder sometime. I guess it's nice this and next months theme roll into each other in a way.
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