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| ***//Azure Dreams//** | ***//Azure Dreams//** | ||
| * negativedge: A [[company:Konami]] made //[[game:shiren_the_wanderer_series|Shiren]]// clone, more or less. The only real difference is the town outside of the tower. As you get further in the game, you basically build the town using things you find in the tower. You also get to date something like six girls, and even your I-guess-gay rival guy who provides some comic relief. Building the city and solving all the girl's problems kind of makes the game more goal oriented than most games of this type, and it helps add some variety to what you're doing. The town becomes fairly robust; you get to do things like bowl and eat out and go to a swimming pool and all kinds of random shit that is kind of cute. The game also allows you to tame pretty much any monster to use as a pet, which offers a nice bit of depth. I played this game way too much back when it came out. | * negativedge: A [[company:Konami]] made //[[game:shiren_the_wanderer_series|Shiren]]// clone, more or less. The only real difference is the town outside of the tower. As you get further in the game, you basically build the town using things you find in the tower. You also get to date something like six girls, and even your I-guess-gay rival guy who provides some comic relief. Building the city and solving all the girl's problems kind of makes the game more goal oriented than most games of this type, and it helps add some variety to what you're doing. The town becomes fairly robust; you get to do things like bowl and eat out and go to a swimming pool and all kinds of random shit that is kind of cute. The game also allows you to tame pretty much any monster to use as a pet, which offers a nice bit of depth. I played this game way too much back when it came out. | ||
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| + | ***//Baroque//** (also on: Saturn - JP only; Wii/PS2 as remake) | ||
| + | * Tony: The atmosphere, the desperate and fragmented story are quite intriguing. Movement is decent, combat is simple and traversal starts as interesting but can become quite monotonous; surviving in the different levels is mostly a game of inventory management. A not-that-great game enriched by its bleak atmosphere and scattered storytelling. Overall, I quite liked the game, but I don’t love it. I can understand why it’s gained a cult status (probably inflated also by its relative obscurity), although I don’t share the same view. The PSX English fan translation was completed in 2022 and is the preferable way to try the game. The Wii/PS2 remake graphical style takes a turn towards anime/super deformed. | ||
| ***//Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain//** (also on: PC, PSN) | ***//Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain//** (also on: PC, PSN) | ||
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| ***//Community POM//** | ***//Community POM//** | ||
| * sharc: Bright and cheery action RPG with a shepardess trying to protect little rabbity critters that are inexplicably despised and scapegoated. //[[game:Secret of Mana]]// fans will be familiar with the combat, which makes use of charged and dashing attacks as well as magic spells and a cast of rabbit-things with different abilities available as sidekicks. Has an //[[game:Actraiser]]//-like town building segment that can get a little confusing if you can't read any of it. | * sharc: Bright and cheery action RPG with a shepardess trying to protect little rabbity critters that are inexplicably despised and scapegoated. //[[game:Secret of Mana]]// fans will be familiar with the combat, which makes use of charged and dashing attacks as well as magic spells and a cast of rabbit-things with different abilities available as sidekicks. Has an //[[game:Actraiser]]//-like town building segment that can get a little confusing if you can't read any of it. | ||
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| + | ***//Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back//** | ||
| + | *Sakurina: It’s Donkey Kong Country style “rhythmic platforming” done in 3D space. Crash 2 is probably the best executed of the original trilogy. | ||
| ***//Crash Team Racing//** (also on: PSN) | ***//Crash Team Racing//** (also on: PSN) | ||
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| ***//Hellnight//** | ***//Hellnight//** | ||
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| + | ***//Iblard//** | ||
| + | * Tony: A proto-walking simulator with light puzzle elements, very charming environments (the game is an excuse to traverse low res, polygonal versions of Naohisa Inoue's surrealistic, works of art) and incredibly slow, tedious movement. Had to stop. But it triggered me to see the beautiful looking Iblard movie (basically a set of stills with little movement, animated by Studio Ghibli, with beautiful music) and I also decided to see the game ending, in a Youtube playthrough. The PSX English fan translation was completed in 2022. | ||
| ***//Incredible Crisis//** | ***//Incredible Crisis//** | ||