Thanks I was literally about to ask if anyone had opinions about the Video Games based on Car Manga.
Wish Maximum Tune had gotten even one home port. I am sure it is dumped at this point.
Are you the person to ask if Para Para Paradise PS2 is playable?
Metro Quester
Enjoyable but little thin dungeon RPG. Maybe too minimalistic, thereās not much to latch into past the first hour, except for new item descriptions and new character / enemy art.
The Undernautsian Vibes are great. My best and fav character was the tourist with rolling luggage who studies the blade
Like a few other modern DRPGs, it tries to make the repetition inherent to the genre more palatable, by putting the focus less on individual actions and more on building a strategy that youāll unleash on every turn at 3x speed on every enemy with one button press. This did lead me to a comfort zone that made the sudden difficulty spike with the last two bosses very difficult to handle but I did it, pro tip : have one party member focus on applying paralysis, this removes a lot of pressure
Cocoon
A prestige indie game to a fault :
Very Ā« elegant design Ā» and boring IMO, I really felt like I was going through the motions during my one hour with the game
Ghosts ānā Goblins Resurrection
Turning Ghosts n Goblins into a Die And Retry game, with no penalties from dying, is really clever. Less clever was severely boosting the bosses. I struggled with the boss of Act 1 more than with the rest of Act 1. In Ghosts n Goblins?
Fucked up. The act 1 music was really way too limp too so I shelved the game
Ara Fell
This little boomer RPG is too charming. Lots of particle effects, transparency / lightning effects and moving critters everywhere.
Every NPC has a little low res portrait. Progression is surprisingly non-linear and has tons of juicy secrets. The (16 year old) protagonist drew a smiling sun on the world map.
in this game world the concept of Hell is replaced by The Abyss so characters will say Ā« What the Abyss?? Ā» This is the only goofy word adaptation in the game. I hope the devs arenāt evangelicals who wouldnāt dare put the word hell in it. Iād have to play their other games to see I guess. I will report on this in like 6 months
The devs are apologizing on the steam message boards because a guy loudly complained in 5 posts about how they didnāt put a cap on respec costs. (The respec costs become prohibitive after like 5 respecs, which is obviously enough fucking respecs) What the fuck. To be an indie dev in 202X
I feel exactly the way you do about Coccon
of the car manga games i think that initial d special stage on ps2 is one of the best ā iirc it has a bit more to do than the ps3 game and the handling model makes a bit more sense. i feel the same way about maximum tune, especially with how good the soundtrack is. genki did (and still does) a lot of work on that series, so iām glad theyāre still carrying on with highway racing stuff in some capacity.
iāve actually never checked out ppp, maybe @Sakurina might have?
Space Harrier 2 owns. Glad I overpaid for the Genesis Mini 2 for the stupid way to play it. The flickering is noticable and except when you are focused on the game and do not care. Had a great time with it. If I started writing a top 10 of 2023 (as opposed to my 8000 word Fukubukuro you can enjoy right here)
More genesis games in the mega drive thread. You have to be my exact kind of weirdo to like Space Harrier this much to not just play these Genesis roms every other way you can.
I havenāt played the PS2 version specifically but I canāt say Iāve heard anything bad about it from friends who own it
Finally getting class unlocks in Trials of Mana has made this thing feel a hell of a lot better. Only tookā¦seven hours. Hawkeye still dies like a chump regularly (and still has no spells, cāmon man), but at least when heās not suplexing enemies or doing full screen hurricane kicks, Kevin can keep everyone healed up.
The maze like level layout (with no maps!) gets old, though. Itās also possible this game hasā¦too much detail? Over Secret of Mana? In that itās just hard to distinguish where youāre at or whatās going on a lot of the time.
Stillā¦pretty goodā¦
simply put
256 colors is too many
you should only need 64 colors
attempting to beat Metroid for the first time, again. drawing a map etc. fun! maybe a symbolic gesture for the new year. also resolved to journal every day, get better organizized, find my way out of various mazes Iāve made for myself mental and materialā¦ha
how intentional was it I wonder that itās possible to lead these Geemers into this room so that they make it clear you can morph ball under there or was that just a fluke??
hello boys : )
Goofed up and am where I found myself in Secret of Mana all over again - tackling areas and bosses while a good four or five levels under what I should be.
I thought killing this big flying boss that took forever would net me some nice XP, but nopeā¦no such luck.
Trials of Manaā¦pleaseā¦
Lucky & Wild (1993, Namco)
Unique lightgun driving game (!) with a buddy cop car chase theme. You can see both charactersā faces in the rearview mirror, reacting to the action like the mugshot in Doom. Genius.
They duck when the windshield breaks, laugh and jeer at enemies, freak out and flinch when you smash through barricades, and get roughed up when the car crashes.
Lucky (black hair) drives and both players use a gun. The stages are filled with colorful Rail Chase-esque sprite scaling. Itās a little too much for a single player using a keyboard and mouse. Bosses āget awayā after a bit, like in some STGs, so maybe you could see all the stages with some credit feeding.
if youāre ever in Portland they have one of these at Ground Kontrol, which is an arcade I donāt like as much as I used to, but itās worth the trip just for this
our rule back in period was that Wild always got to use both guns
this game always used to fascinate me but i feel it must be more interesting in theory than in practice. asymmetrical co op multiplayer with a unique physical interfaceā¦ what a concept. i really wish there was more stuff iterating on these ideas though.
starsky & hutch ps2
hell yea
but we need moreā¦ we need like an elaborate multi-cabinet squad-based hero shooter arcade game where each cabinet plays a single character with a completely unique control systemā¦ the people crave innovation
gunslinger stratos (ok not exactly and also iāll stop)
i fucking love Lucky & Wild i think it requires being played with a two-seater cabinet and light guns, to an even more extreme degree than the average arcade racers/shooters. one of those games i cant imagine emulating. you need to roleplay that shit with props lol
The peopleās craving for innovation has yet to be sated!!!
