Nice. I thought I might be the only person to bring this game up. Macross 30 is great. There's not much to the game world but the combat flows so much smoother than the (few) Gundam games I've played - Probably due to the valkyrie transformation letting you switch between high speed and heavy assault so easily. Also great how all the classic Macross characters' VAs come back (not that this is surprising - it's Japan) and that the girls' songs provide actual buffs in battle.
There's Zero no Kiseki but that's getting an international soon I think?
Uh, what's the name of the game?
WE CAN'T READ JAPANESE
Kinda like Zero Escape?
Is this video from the game? Can't find many videos, and the name in japanese is loooooooooong
We probably are the only two people who know this game.Wachenroder is a great pick. The game is being fan-translated in English.
My pick is Terra Phantastica on Saturn. It is a T-RPG using an isometric view. Medieval setting with fantasy and a huge focus on political affairs. Gorgeous pixel-art and great gameplay. No idea if this will ever get translated...
There are also many Mega-CD RPGs I would have loved to try : Shadowrun, Illusion City and the SMT port.
And on MegaDrive, the Hybrid Front looks great. This one might get translated.
Uh, what's the name of the game?
WE CAN'T READ JAPANESE
Imabikisou
Novel style horror game. Bought it when I was living in Singapore even though I knew it was strictly Japanese. Images in the game are really cool but I obviously have no clue what's going on in it, lol.
yea, it's a visual/choose your own adventure type game.Is this one of those "sound novels"? Had no idea they still made those.
Are those more straight to the point than visual novels?
I find it hard to get into visual novels because most of them have way too much filler and hentai.
This is some furious copy pasta. Salute.Came here to post Wachenroder, and saw it in OP. Wow, just wow. Nothing I have done since that Summer of 1999 when I secured my copy of Wachenroder from a local game store dealing in illicit, gray-market software. has topped that experience. At some point, when when manually translating the game, I believe I hit my scholarly peak. This was before the era of Screens and before multiple recessions combined with multiple streaming services basically turned Truth, Money, Justice, and Love into defunct, anachronistic concepts. I may have gone on later to do exceptionally well on the LSAT and ace OCI. I may have even gone on LATER to self-teach Engineering and specialize in System Design. I may, as a matter of fact, have a predilection for a particular fetish which I cannot get into, which I THINK a lot of Saturn owners have a penchant for, which is shown to correlate strongly with one's intellectual prowess. But it was in that summer of 1999 - that same summer of Blair Witch and Star Wars Episode I - that, when translating this game, and learning its battle systems and strategic elements (linearity notwithstanding) that I was closer to a state of intellectual eudaimonia than perhaps I have ever been, before or sense. My question is, do any of you share this experience? Does it have something to do with translating a game from its original language? With playing a game from a far-flung land, unmolested by the Ted Woolseys of the world, and "making it your own" through sheer brute-force translation? Again, I felt none of this playing any other video game. The Genesis and N64 games that I played were just violent orgies or platformers (or, like *shudder* Conker, both). Where else in gaming can one get his INTELLECTUAL rocks off like in a Saturn strategy RPG? Even on the Gamecube, the second most intellectual system, I felt none of this playing Baiten Katos or its sequel. Do I need to play it in its original language to have the type of experience which I am seeking?
Berserk: Millennium Falcon
Sengoku Basara X Cross
Hokuto No Ken
Berserk because it’s a flawed action game, but the setting and characters are fantastic. Devil Kings and HNK because they’re fun fighting games. You can perform crazy combos and enjoy the cast of characters. These games only appeal to a certain group of people it seems. I bought Basara X Cross the day it came out in Japan and I paid close to $100 for it due to shipping.
Dark Half for the SFC.
I bought a HDMI splitter than allows me to capture PS3 via the current Elgato model. I got the idea to capture some footage of Imabikisou and then I got the idea to see if there's a Japanese translation app, there is. I put like an hour into it tonight, just took pictures of each screen and narrated the video, it's working fine so far. Translation is questionable at times (lol) but it gives enough detail to deduce what is happening in the story. Even better, I can actually figure out what I'm selecting when making a decision in how I reply to something.I have this game pending too, I saw the pictures and it's great, but I don't know a damn thing about it xDDD.
FUN FACT: It also came out for wii
I like the ideaI bought a HDMI splitter than allows me to capture PS3 via the current Elgato model. I got the idea to capture some footage of Imabikisou and then I got the idea to see if there's a Japanese translation app, there is. I put like an hour into it tonight, just took pictures of each screen and narrated the video, it's working fine so far. Translation is questionable at times (lol) but it gives enough detail to deduce what is happening in the story. Even better, I can actually figure out what I'm selecting when making a decision in how I reply to something.
I'm uploading it to YouTube, I'll send you the link once it's done.
I forgot how great the production values are in it, the images look so damn cool and some fantastic music. Stoked to see what happens once the game gets spooky and all that.