There’s a sequel to the game later in the Famicom era; from what I read it fixes some of the issue with this game and is more highly regarded. I got the feeling from reading some of the Japanese information about this game that there are aspects of the game that bother Zoids fans, but I don’t know enough about the franchise to say ..read more

I should be back with a new post this coming weekend although it’s possible I won’t have one until the 18th ..read more

Fortunately this is the end of the Farland series for me; the Farland Odyssey games were never ported to console. and see if they also applied to the sequel ..read more

The next Atelier games are ports of Marie and Elie to the Game Boy in 2000; from what I understand these are not just ports/remakes but semi new games. I probably won’t play them much but I will see what they’re like. The actual third Atelier game is Lilie, which came out for the PS2 in 2001. I outlined the way to get this ending ..read more

Probably the biggest downside of the game is how slow it plays, but this can be alleviated with a speedup key on an emulator if that is how you are playing ..read more

This is not only the end of the Shining Force series but also the end of the Saturn SRPGs. There are actually two more on the list (Farland Saga 2 and Device Reign) but I will be playing the Playstation versions of those games instead ..read more

One other issue with this game that gets brought up a lot is that it’s rather slow. You can fortunately turn off animations but even so it takes a long time for everything to happen, and load times are long. Duckstation is efficient enough that I can get a good emulator speedup, so it’s not as bad as it would be on a real console (this is why my rating system is unfair to Saturn games, but that’s another issue ..read more

I’ve been sick all week so I am not going to make a post — I’m at the end of SF3 but now I have to do a bunch of grinding just to get the parties up to the point where they can fight the last battles…not a particularly good way to end the game ..read more

There was one more of these games, Cao Cao-den, but it was not ported to any consoles. So that’s the end of the Eiketsuden series for me. . Like the other games this first came out for computers and was then ported — this time there was no Saturn port, perhaps reflecting that the Saturn was nearing the end of its lifecycle. On the whole, I think this game is the weakest of the four in pretty much every aspect — it makes me wonder if the game was rushed in development, or whether they just were trying for a simpler approach that just didn’t work out. in the Honnoji Incident. This dramatic scene ..read more

So now we have finally reached the end of Scenario 1 in terms of the story. Hopefully I will have the game finished by next week ..read more