I should have made this a couple of days ago, but oh well, here we are.
The doodle below is for next weekend, August 19th and 20th, Check the time zone stated - I’m not sure if it automagically switches to your time zone or not! I’m in PST so it might default to that - just double check.
https://beta.doodle.com/poll/spbg38evi9gxskg8
We’re going to be playing Cyber Knight II, our first fan translated game. It’s translated by the legendary GideonZhi, who also translated Cave Story and like, four billion other games.
We’re changing Mahjong Minute to Salaryman Corner (Thanks Sakurina!) The SNES has a glut of pachinko, horse racing, and mahjong games that couldn’t support a full hour long podcast. Instead of dedicating entire episodes to those games, we’re going to play them for 5 minutes and then talk about it for 5 minutes in the podcast. This week it’s “Turf Hero,” apparently a horse racing game (or a turf laying simulator???)
I’m still creating ROM packs but in the interest of not getting SB shut down, I’m not putting them on the forum anymore. You can find them in the discord (see below) in the #resources channel. PM me if you can’t find it. Or just yell in the thread, that’s cool.
As a reminder, we discuss the game based on 5 topics, listed below:
Gun - mechanics of play, essentially
Vanity - look, sound, feel, etc.
Mystery - does this game feel like it has any deeper mysteries? interpret as you will
Poetry - anything particularly striking, visually or word-ually or whatever
Harmony - how does it all come together?
If you’re recording, please play the main game for an hour or so, and take a couple of notes on those 5 topics. I guess this is a JRPG so there might be more interest in playing it longer. I’m going to try and put like, 5 hours in, but don’t feel like you need to do more than 1.
And for Turf Hero, seriously, don’t spend more than 5 minutes on it unless you’re really digging it.
Recording is still happening on Discord. I’ve created a channel just for this purpose, it’s also a neat hangout and I added a bunch of emoji for all the games we’ve played already. Also the files are hosted here (sort of)
Godspeed
