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Post by toei on Aug 11, 2023 22:29:29 GMT -5
Slice-of-life game is a very good description for both. Two more details that reinforce this about Rent A Hero is that you have to pay a recurring fee to rent your powered suit throughout the entire game; you either leave enough money in your account for a pre-authorized payment or pay it manually when it's time. You also need to buy batteries to power it; not only do special moves use up its power, like MP, but it even just walking around drains it gradually, so you have to keep it in mind the whole way through (it's much less of a pain in the remake as it lasts much longer). In other words, there's even a cost of living. The batteries are not so different from some CRPGs (and roguelikes) where you have Hunger and Fatigue meters, but the rental fee is literally just giving you a financial responsibility to support this idea that being a hero is your daily grind. It's interesting to me how AM2 will commit to these details that aren't meant to make things more fun, but more real, especially since they're usually a purely arcade team solely dedicated to instant gratification.
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Post by toei on Oct 11, 2023 2:41:28 GMT -5
Athena: Awakening from the Ordinary Life (1999) (PSX) An horror-adventure game about Athena, the SNK schoolgirl character from Psycho Soldier/King of Fighters. As the title suggests, it deals with her awakening to her psychic powers in the face of a conspiracy in 2018 Japan. Apparently it's short and heavy on FMVs. There isn't a lot of fighting (which is turn-based), and you do get to use your ESP a lot to progress. Kind of sounds like a mix between the '80s manga Mai the Psychic Girl and that game I never played, Galerians. I find that mysterious late-90s supernatural Japanese atmosphere incredibly appealing, it's one of the few things that still fascinates me. Likelihood of translation seems extremely low, but crazier things have happened.   First manga I read in English. Tim Burton wanted to make a live-action movie out of it back in the day. |
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 11, 2023 9:04:16 GMT -5
Looks really good. The music definitely reminds me of Hard Edge/T.R.A.G. too.
Galarians is worth a look. It's a little odd and stressful how your attack energy and resources is very finite, along with some moments and puzzles not being intuitive, but yeah. Bizarrely awesome atmosphere it has in full. Makes me think of stuff like Serial Experiment Lain.
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Post by toei on Oct 11, 2023 10:01:37 GMT -5
I'm putting Lain on my list of things to watch in 2024.
Now that I think about it, if R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital and ...iru! can get translations, so can Athena. Maybe even by the same people.
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Post by Ex on Oct 11, 2023 11:10:17 GMT -5
Serial Experiments Lain was the most navel gazing, self-fellating pompous anime I ever suffered through. Everybody else seems to love it though, so have fun.
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Post by Sarge on Oct 11, 2023 11:13:59 GMT -5
A couple of games I don't think I mentioned in here are Hiryu no Ken 2/3 on Famicom. We got the first game (as Flying Dragon), which is pretty meh, and Flying Warriors, a sort of weird mix of both the second and third games with some really questionable level design. The small amount I played of the second game seemed a bit more balanced, so I'd really eventually like to see these in English some day.
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Oct 11, 2023 11:30:52 GMT -5
Agreed with the Athena game. Japanese FMV stuff is really cool in general.
Serial Experiment Lain is a legendary anime. Worth a watch.
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Post by toei on Nov 18, 2023 21:10:22 GMT -5
Psychometrer Eiji (PSX)
Adapted from a popular '90s manga about a rowdy high school delinquent who can see things about people by touching objects related to them (like in Stephen King's Dead Zone) and the sexy female homicide detective who uses his talent to solve cases. It's heavy on anime cutscenes and dialogue, especially early on, but it's interesting to me because it has both adventure segments in which you walk around in 3D, talk to people and examine things (like dead bodies in a backstreet in the first segment), and beat-'em-up segments. Those are kind of clumsy, with a goofy attack combo that starts with 3 standing jabs from the same hand, but they're still okay. I dig adventure games but a lot of them could use a bit of simple action as a breather, I dig 3d beat-'em-ups from that era, I like investigating murders in games, and I don't mind a little ESP, so even though it's a licensed game, I would play this. Also, this never got any anime adaptation, so the anime scenes are exclusive to this game.
Can't find a video that shows everything, this is from the beginning so it's mostly cutscenes.
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Post by Xeogred on Nov 18, 2023 22:07:11 GMT -5
Not sure I'd play it, but the source material seems up my alley. Sadly there's no anime adaptation though. 25 volumes from 1996-2000 is no joke, but then there's a sequel that's on hiatus since 2014. Looks like the same creator (Shin Kibayashi) did GetBackers, that was fun stuff.
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Post by toei on Nov 18, 2023 22:19:29 GMT -5
Yeah I was thinking of reading the manga but the first 9 volumes of the scanlation are a very clumsy retranslation from the French edition. I'd read it in French but there doesn't seem to be any scans.
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