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Post by Sarge on Sept 19, 2020 18:05:27 GMT -5
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Post by EasyHard on Sept 19, 2020 18:51:43 GMT -5
Whoa! "However, the map was replaced with a linear series of levels" - is a little vague to me. That makes it sound like this one has entirely different levels all around, or maybe the order was randomly rotated around? Having beaten Lolo 1 a year ago, I'll definitely have to check this out to see the differences.
EDIT: Wow this barely looks recognizable. There's even a bunch of new music in here, the NES release only had one track. Guess they weren't kidding with this part: The Western release of Adventures of Lolo 1 was partially based on this game.
Check out 1:40:30 in this first video. Lolo uses a pushable block to seal the spawn point of an enemy and something unexpected happens in the level! In the "Adventure of Lolo games" (i.e., non-Eggerland) the most that I remember happening is the enemy would appear in a new spawn point (the so-called "holes").
I'm a big Lolo fan myself, but I haven't ventured backwards in the series.
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Post by toei on Sept 19, 2020 20:19:05 GMT -5
I played through the PC-98 original of Farland Story. Actually, I finished maybe 4 of them. It was incredibly easy, and as such, a huge bore (a SRPG suffers more from being overly easy than any other genre, IMO, because it's basically nothing but battles, and each battle is usually long). This seems to be a port of the original game. Hopefully, they've improved the gameplay. Apparently there's a bunch of untranslated anime cutscenes, though - nearly half an hour of them. So it's probably not gonna be the greatest experience in its current state. The new attack scenes are great, though. Really shows the PC-FX's essentially untapped potential.
Super Chinese 2 is interesting too. I got sick of the first game by the end, but maybe the sequel's better.
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Post by Ex on Sept 19, 2020 21:11:42 GMT -5
toeiThe Farland Story games have always looked interesting, due to their above average graphics. But super easy... is a no thanks, boring.
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Post by toei on Sept 19, 2020 21:52:46 GMT -5
toei The Farland Story games have always looked interesting, due to their above average graphics. But super easy... is a no thanks, boring. Farland Symphony, released in 2002 for Windows, is hugely improved gameplay-wise, and it's fully-translated. I recommend it. Chances are some of the other games that came between, like Farland Saga, are good too, as it looks closer to Symphony, though they're untranslated.
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Post by Xeogred on Sept 20, 2020 1:43:09 GMT -5
Check out 1:40:30 in this first video. Lolo uses a pushable block to seal the spawn point of an enemy and something unexpected happens in the level! In the "Adventure of Lolo games" (i.e., non-Eggerland) the most that I remember happening is the enemy would appear in a new spawn point (the so-called "holes").
I'm a big Lolo fan myself, but I haven't ventured backwards in the series.
Wow, I hope the game or manual teaches the player that at some point... otherwise that sure is cryptic.
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Post by Ex on Sept 28, 2020 10:26:12 GMT -5
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Post by toei on Sept 28, 2020 10:49:28 GMT -5
Where does the English translation even come from? All I see on their site is the Russian translation. EDIT - here's the EN release page, patch and manual-only.Aishsha calls is "absolutely hardcore" and says it only works on the latest mednafen and real hardware. I'm really glad to see this release, never heard of this game but I'm already interested.
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Post by Ex on Sept 28, 2020 11:57:29 GMT -5
Nice job tracking down better links toei . I'm always happy to see more 5th gen translations, especially Saturn RPGs, considering how many didn't make it to English lands officially.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 28, 2020 13:22:04 GMT -5
Nice. Definitely going to have to try this one out. The fact that it only works in the latest Mednafen also tells me that it's supplanted SSF as the most accurate Saturn emulator... but I think it still chews up a bunch of CPU to do it. Of course, I'll be burning a CD-R.
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