Popful Mail continues do everything thrice. It is very linear half decent action/platformer but you have to cross over every environment multiple times. I am now on an ice world, so legit excited to see how that bullshit works out.
That it is a fully voiced anime with jokes and reactions that you can play goes a long way in 1993 terms. Drawing lines between this and Monster World 4. Charming but a chore to actually play and failure only makes you think “this wasn’t fun, at all, the first time.”
Look I can’t just move on to Alundra. That would be rewarding and fun. I would have a great time.
I did play Popful Mail to this album tonight and that was pretty great to grind out to (the grinding is painless, needed, and relatively quick in the Japanese version).
Maybe I’ll play Vay. A game no one has ever mentioned outside myself because it inexplicably got an iOS port 10 years ago.