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Post by Sarge on Sept 28, 2022 16:58:31 GMT -5
Oh, I forgot to mention Ai Senshi Nicol. Pretty fun game, although it started to wear on me while playing on actual hardware and I couldn't save my progress. It also has a cart version, and I don't know which one is the better way to experience.
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Post by Kazin on Sept 28, 2022 17:01:58 GMT -5
Oh, I played Knight Move on my FDSStick, and I thought it was cool, if admittedly pretty simple as your review says - I ended up buying a copy from Japan (complete in box for only ¥3550!) and am eagerly awaiting my Sendico package with it (which also has Nazo no Murasame Jo, Zelda 2, F-1 Race, CIB copy of Otocky which was by far the most expensive item in the package at ¥7100, and Kaettekita Mario Bros, though I bet that's just a rewritten disk via FDSStick or whatever, but oh well, I want it anyway). Titanic Mystery sounds interesting from your review, too, though I don't speak or read a lick of Japanese so I'll probably have to wait for a fan translation, if one ever happens. Thanks for the links to the fantranslations too - I have a few but haven't really explored them yet (outside Cleopatra no Mahou which seems punishing from what little I played of it - the battles don't make much sense to me, it just seems random, though I was probably doing something wrong).
And thanks for the welcome! I'll probably post usually during the workday as I poke around the forum during downtime. This is the type of board I've been looking for - I hate Discord and apps like it, and I want to focus on retro stuff in general anyway, as that's where most of my gaming time and energy goes these days.
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Sept 28, 2022 17:05:41 GMT -5
Deep Dungeon: Yuushi no Monshou Esper Dream
Dead Zone Samurai Sword Suishou no Dragon Sylviana: Ai Ippai no Boukensha It's a boss hog system.
I've beaten these. A few I have reviewed on GameFAQs. Deep Dungeon is like Dragon Warrior but first-person. You inch ahead bits at a time and grind a lot. It's pretty spartan, and you only play as a single character. The sequel is more of the same with a few key differences. You can import your character from part one (pretty novel to see on a console!) and you can divvy up stats manually after leveling. Esper Dream is a slick little Konami ARPG where you trigger battles and then fight enemies in enclosed walled-off rooms. Lovely soundtrack. Tons of disk-flipping. The cartridge sequel is superior. Dead Zone is a pretty standard adventure VN. There isn't much to it: there are very few NPCs and you basically navigate around a spaceship until you escape. Or something, I forget. Samurai Sword is a Capcom game; they didn't create much for the FDS. It's another relatively rudimentary adventure. Set in some fantasy feudal time. Suishou no Dragon is better than the two aforementioned games, but again, not stellar. Uematsu is the composer, which is a bit of a tease as there's barely any music. Lovely character designs though; classic old school anime. (Cart games likes Portopia, Princess Tomato, Ripple Island, Akira, Jesus, and Hoshi o Sagashite are all better VNs than what the FDS offers). Sylviana is cute and a "bump" ARPG caught halfway between Hydlide and Ys in terms of complexity. Kind of ugly graphics and annoying combat though.
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Sept 28, 2022 17:07:07 GMT -5
Oh, I forgot to mention Ai Senshi Nicol. Pretty fun game, although it started to wear on me while playing on actual hardware and I couldn't save my progress. It also has a cart version, and I don't know which one is the better way to experience. This game is solid but I don't think there's a cart? Did you mean Bio-Miracle Bokutte Upa?
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Post by Sarge on Sept 28, 2022 17:11:32 GMT -5
Fascinating. I played the cart version on my EverDrive and thought it was legit. Apparently it's a pirate cart? FDS version apparently lets you save, which would certainly help! chrismcovell.com/Archive/nicolcart.html
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Sept 28, 2022 17:13:55 GMT -5
Fascinating. I played the cart version on my EverDrive and thought it was legit. Apparently it's a pirate cart? FDS version apparently lets you save, which would certainly help! chrismcovell.com/Archive/nicolcart.htmlOh wow, yes, definitely a pirate conversion! Bio-Miracle Bokutte Upa (the baby game) does have official disk and cart releases. The cart is quite rare/expensive. Both games are fun in their own way. Can't go wrong with Konami.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 28, 2022 17:16:16 GMT -5
There's also a fan translation floating around that's in cart form. That's the one I was playing.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 28, 2022 17:31:33 GMT -5
Kazin: There's a lot of stuff, although you might see me repeat my opinions a zillion times, haha. We actually used to not have a modern section, but it got hard to avoid talking about them at times, so Ex created a section so we could keep from crossing the streams too much.
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Post by Xeogred on Sept 28, 2022 18:50:07 GMT -5
I remember thinking Metroid FDS was a little disappointing. The music wasn't too different and in ways almost a downgrade to me, but that's probably nostalgia talking haha.
This is a nice reminder though, I should give Zelda FDS a shot for whenever I finally replay that one.
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Post by Kazin on Sept 28, 2022 21:08:24 GMT -5
I remember thinking Metroid FDS was a little disappointing. The music wasn't too different and in ways almost a downgrade to me, but that's probably nostalgia talking haha. Honestly, it was the same for me at first - I was, for some reason, expecting it to be as drastically different as Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse was to Akumajou Densetsu in terms of music, and it very much isn't that. Having played through both versions in full, though, the FDS version is better, even with the load times between major areas. There's no password nonsense, the Metroids themselves are the one major improvement soundwise (the things are seriously creepy on FDS), and though, yes, I was disappointed the music wasn't any better, the game runs better and, load times aside, is just a better experience than the NES version. All of which is weird for me to admit - I have enormous nostalgia for Metroid on NES - it's the first game I ever remember seeing, at my older cousin's house, in the late eighties. I loved it as a kid even though I didn't end up beating it until highschool in the early 2000s. I've looked into getting a copy of Bio Miracle Bokutte Opa, and it's fairly expensive whether you get a cart or a disk, at least recently, anyway, as far as I can tell. And I'd like to get it - Konami does seem like they're neck and neck with Nintendo as the best developer on the Disk System.
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