I was about to say that it’s fun to go through Monster Rancher Metropolis to see what monsters your CDs would generate without having to play the game, but apparently the site went down a few months ago. RIP. I would spend hours on that website back in the early 2000s. Somebody backed up all of the subcode data, though!
If i knew about that I would have wasted so much time there!
People would post raising methods and shit there, too. I don’t know how good those raising methods from 2000 are vs whatever methods people have come up with now.
OH! And then there was uhh, Legend Cup? Where people would send in the monsters they’ve raised and some guy would have them play out in battles since in MR (2, anyway) you could take yours or other monster save data, load it up, and have them fight it out on their own. That was rad.
Even though I somehow never followed Octopus Pie specifically this invokes such a nostalgic “16 years old and following like 40 different webcomics”-vibe in me that I almost get choked up.
—Is there anything else you wanted to share that my questions did not give you a chance to say?
Kimura: “People sometimes say Moon is like a ‘legendary role-playing game.’ I don’t like this sentence. Also on sites like Amazon the CD has such a high price, I don’t like this. I’m very happy to sell it for 2,000 yen (approx. $18.50). Moon isn’t a perfect game, but I hope people in this year and era can play it and find good things in it.”
New game from the people who left Spike Chunsoft because while they totally wanted to make more school kids death game games they didn’t necessarily want to make more Danganronpas
- Death March Club is set in July 1995. A group of underachiever elementary school students called the “Losers Class” is on a bus en route to Kamakura for a school trip when a meteorite suddenly hits. When they wake up, they find themselves in an underwater amusement park.
- The students are made to participate in a death game called the “Assignment Game.” Each participant has a bangle attached to their wrist with another person’s assignment, such as killing someone. But since a person’s own assignment is not immediately available to them, they would have to get the other person to show it to them or steal their bangle somehow. Whoever achieves their assignment first will be rewarded. And those who try to abandon the game will be injected with a lethal drug via the bangle.
Also being released exclusively for Windows PC for now???
Oh good CHILDREN.
is this superflat
lol
I just know one of these days they’re going to suck me back in (even though I’ve only ever played Symphonia
how the fuck did the tales series manage to survive this long? they’re just the most bland, stale toast jrpg nonsense, but apparently people like that and keep buying them.
the dream of anime
comfort food for JRPG fans.
David Hayter did voicework for a character in this game
I’d probably like them more if the fightman player in me didn’t get tired of their combat model just as it starts to open up. I’ve only beaten Abyss and Vesperia mostly just so I could talk to a friend about them. I was always more in the Tri-Ace camp of Action JRPG hybrid games. I heard they changed things up afterwards but I haven’t touched one in ages. Tales games also put me on tilt alot by writing their stories where they start well before you start playing them and acting like you already know what happened. It just drove me up a wall.
Realizing that I actually have no idea what a Sakura Wars game is actually supposed to look, play or sound like
Was the Wii one really the only one that was ever translated?
aren’t they just valkyria chronicles?
starting from 3, yeah