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Yeah, I got Arthur.
I remember Shining Force 2 having not only more balance but also a better plot or at least more reasons for battles.
"The enemy wants to prevent us from reaching X! You’ve got to break through them!"
I think that’s been 3 of them so far.
Rygar… PS2 Rygar? Legendary Adventure, or whatever? Horrible voice acting and translation but cool environments and great music.
I tried replaying it recently and it lost my interest quickly. The exploring is cool, but the combat is way too easy… until you fight a boss, at which point it’s way too hard.
The original Rygar was more RPG-ish but also one of those NES games – like Legacy of the Wizard, there is no direction and little plot, so a lot of people don’t give it a chance.
I hear there’s a sequel coming for the Wii.
Well, I beat this game the day before yesterday.
It’s weird, but the game is so full of stuff to do and places to explore that it feels completely different from a lot of games. It’s a bit like Suikoden in parts (in particular crew recruitment near the end), but most of the game is good old JRPG with crazy environments. I don’t know how they did it, but everything from the abandoned cities to caves underneath continents feels more real than in nearly any game I’ve played. I felt vaguely like an intrepid explorer throughout – seeing things that nobody had seen before.
Persona 3’s the only game in recent memory that might be better; I’d put Skies nearly on the level of Lunar (and it’s very similar in a lot of ways, really). I think the game starts to hit its stride around 10 hours in, when you start to figure out how things interconnect on the map and can explore a bit.
On another note, in a lot of respects Wild Arms 5 is Skies’ younger brother. The love triangle is almost identical (each of the three characters is quite similar). Greg’s desire for revenge mirrors Drachma’s, but has considerably less intensity and isn’t resolved nearly as well. The lesser admirals of Valua are like the 4 whatever-they-were-called in WA5, but managed to have a bit more personality and their actions made goddamn sense. I have less respect for WA5 now that I have played what is probably its inspiration.
Sorry for this essay of a post. I hope it inspires someone to try this game :D
Well, James did mention he can flip events around now…
I could see Lu Bu turning on you the first chance he gets… and the credits rolling indicates it’s more or less a "game over".
…What happens if you don’t give Lu Bu the Gemsword?
The series seems to shift focuses every 2 games.
The first two were fantasy-westernish. 3 and ACF were more Western than fantasy, I’d say, with 3 being the most absorbing world of the games.
I think 4 and 5 were designed for preteens.
3 is the last one I’d recommend, unless, y’know, you’ve beaten all the Suikodens (except 4) and Persona 3 and you’re bored of games with plots that merit thought.
But this belongs in the Other Games forum, I suppose…
I’m staying.
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…staying quiet, that is.
And staying here. I was thinking about seeing if I could get more discussion going in the other sections anyway.
Nice! Regex would be pretty nice for this sort of thing, true enough. I worked on a project in Perl for a couple months, but we didn’t actually do much with regular expressions.
You know, there are much more popular games that don’t have as nice of tools as DoaE now :)
I need to get that soldier modification tool out of the way… then we just need to figure out how battles work, then events :P
Wow, nice work!
I didn’t have the courage to make something like this… it must’ve taken a lot of effort.
Novel-wise, probably Zhao Yun. He was pretty awesome.
Outside of novel, it probably wouldn’t be him… but it’s hard not to enjoy his accomplishments from the time he saves Gongsun Zan to the battles where he kicks butt at 60+ years old.
Doesn’t matter. More of the references in P3 are to P2 anyway, and it’s pretty much all side stuff.
Supposedly all of the games take place along the same timeline, but the events aren’t interconnected… yet :P
Chieftain: the more recent patch translates the other routes as well (Light was the only path translated in the first one), and they are loads of fun, especially Independent. I actually haven’t played said patch, because I beat Der Langrisser in two of the paths last year to practice my japanese (it actually helped my kanji skillz a bunch).
Persona 1 is hard to find. Honestly, it’s good, but I don’t know if I’d pay $100 to get it again. Sort of like Valkyrie Profile.
Persona 2’s easier to find, but I didn’t like it as much… then again that’s a discussion that’s been back and forth on this forum already ;)
Clash at Demonhead is good in its terribleness. It’s a decent platform/adventure, but it also has every single anime cliche ever. Aliens, demons, robots and secret agents all make an appearance. I can’t tell whether they were mocking these cliches or just trying to make the most badass and complicated story possible for an action game.
thechieftain said:
SEGA– is warsong, shining force and phantasty star
Awesome, another Warsong fan!
It’s definitely one of my favorite games. Warsong and DOAE were the two games I’ve always liked but nobody knows about :P
Did you ever try Der Langrisser? It’s the sequel we never got, it was fan-translated a few months ago.
As far as some of the best games per console…
NES – Crystalis, DOAE, Dragon Warrior 4, Clash at Demonhead
Gen – Warsong, SF games, Gunstar Heroes
SNES – Crono Trigger, FF6, Der-Lang
PSX – FF7, Persona, Xenogears, Suiko2, Wild Arms
PS2 – Suiko3, Persona 3
It’s a boring list, but I’ve found most of the popular games are also still good. Sometimes they’re overrated, but that doesn’t mean they can’t still be good :)
That’s way far off – more than I’m planning until I’m much better at romhacking in general, if I can keep up my interest level. It’s tricky, especially since I want to keep learning Japanese too, as well as play games. Then all that pesky "work" gets in the way of the stuff that matters :lol:
I think soldier count editing is as far as I’m going with this stuff for now.
