After a year I finished the PC Engine Patlabor adventure game. It is basically (is?) an episode of the show, told with non-animation and sound. Lady Rude kept talking to me during the finale so I couldn’t tell you what happened because I couldn’t pause it! Still my…third? Favorite adventure game I’ve played on the system so far.
I followed it up with Double Dragon 2 for the PCECD. The opening cutscene has a woman threatened with BAD THING so it is pretty unpleasant to leave in attract mode. I don’t think there is terribly much distance between Golden Axe and Double Dragon but Golden Axe has Dragons and weird little ridable bug dragons and you go on that big Turtle and it doesn’t have murder platforming.