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Post by toei on Feb 5, 2024 13:03:26 GMT -5
Yeah, at some point. When I have more time to focus on one longer game.
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Post by Ex on Feb 5, 2024 13:07:02 GMT -5
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Feb 6, 2024 8:54:34 GMT -5
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Post by toei on Feb 6, 2024 20:05:08 GMT -5
bonesnapdeez Yeah, I think a fair amount of their RPGs (that aren't Madou and a few other series) are from the disk magazine. Some of them were episodic, with each issue containing a chapter of one bigger game. I was wondering if there was a list somewhere of what game came from what issue, and unsurprisingly, Japanese wikipedia came through (auto-translated, scroll down a bit). Most issues feature mostly demos of games from both Compile and other companies from what I can tell, with original games being less common.
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Post by toei on Feb 13, 2024 18:52:28 GMT -5
One of the main PS1 games I wanted to beat last year was OverBlood 2, but I never got the chance to play it much. I'm tentatively playing it now.
I'm a little over an hour in, but I still haven't seen real action, aside from a little escape early on where I also shot a couple dudes. This is an adventure game first and foremost, so there's lot of mostly voice-acted dialogue and the like. It's nothing like OverBlood at all, which was an early Resident Evil "clone" (though lots of it must have been developed concurrently as it came out about 4 months later) with more puzzles and much less action (there's like 4-5 fights in the game, and you get to use your gun maybe twice). No, this game is super ambitious. It's got a dystopian setting with tons of backstory to it - it reminds me of Midgard, but bigger (and in fact the lead character looks like Cloud in more normal clothes, or maybe Jacky from Virtua Fighter). It's got towns with tons of NPCs and equipment to buy. It's got many more types of weapon, and 3D platforming that draws comparisons to Tomb Raider. And a story that tries to say something about the world, like Metal Gear Solid. The city is huge; I've just spent 40 minutes just exploring East Edge's Downtown district. It's all pre-rendered backdrops that connect in weird ways, all dark and grimy and filled with random pipes letting out steam and abandoned-looking docks. The NPCs you encounter all swear this is such an exciting place to be; in this future, East Edge is bigger than New York. But it looks sketchy and half-deserted. Maybe it's just not the nice part of town. A lot of them just say crazy things. A banana costs ten times as much as the popular horsemeat burger from Temujin's (that's Genghis Khan's birthname). There's a store that only sells "overalls for middle-aged people". And because the game's English version only came out in the UK, the important dialogue is all voiced in thick British accents. A cop's inner monologue includes lines like "Holidays. All those people, so oblivious. No other cares than worrying what gifts to give Jane and Uncle Bob. How simple. They know nothing of crime and lists of top ten criminals." It's already clear that it's going to be a weird game, but it wants to be a Playstation epic and I want to see whether it's worthwhile or not. It was also written, designed and directed by the future founder of Level 5; many other programmers and artists who worked on it followed him there. Riverhill Soft folded about a year after this game came out.
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Post by toei on Mar 19, 2024 12:50:35 GMT -5
In more Toriyama-related gaming, I played through a few levels of Go Go Ackman 3, the last of the SNES trilogy of action-platformers featuring a little demon who looks a lot like kid Trunks. I had messed with those a little bit years ago, and wasn't very impressed. The first game especially seemed awkward, but they changed developers to Aspect for the other two and 3 is probably the best of them. It has the most variety; you alternate between two characters, the second of which, Tenshi (an angel) can fly; there was a shmup sequence in a plane and even a stealthy level. You also have three main weapons, sword, gun and boomerang. The game has a fair amount of dialogue for a 16-bit platformer, and all three games were fan-translated in recent years. I may go back and beat this one.
EDIT - 2 is really underwhelming, with straight up bad controls. 3 is probably the one to play.
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