Kurisu’s Chronogaming | The Home For My Chronological Playthroughs — Strategy RPGs and Super Famicom
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Dedicated to the RPGs for the classic 16-bit system, the Super Famicom (Super Nintendo in the US). The purpose of this blog is to record my playthrough of all the Super Famicom RPGs that were not released in English, in chronological order.
Kurisu’s Chronogaming | The Home For My Chronological Playthroughs — Strategy RPGs and Super Famicom
9h ago
For the next game, I wanted to play a PS1 RPG so I asked ‘s discord for suggestions. The first one was Grandia, a game I have always heard about, so that will be next. However, Grandia seems like a rather long game so I think what I am going to do is switch off between that and Shining Force III Part 2 each week ..read more
Kurisu’s Chronogaming | The Home For My Chronological Playthroughs — Strategy RPGs and Super Famicom
3w ago
The next random game I chose was another SRPG so next week will be Esper Dream for the Famicom Disk System. has just started the game on Friday and should be playing it for a couple of weeks ..read more
Kurisu’s Chronogaming | The Home For My Chronological Playthroughs — Strategy RPGs and Super Famicom
1M ago
I chose randomly for the next game, and it landed on Elminage Original for the PSP. This is a port of a DS game that was ported from PS2. It’s a “blobber” first-person dungeon explorer, but it seems very close to Wizardry in its whole style and gameplay. Since I recently played a Wizardry game (Gaiden 4), I decided instead to try out Sekaiju no Meikyuu (Etrian Odyssey) for the DS — a game in the same genre that I’ve wanted to try for a while. So that will be next week’s post. Farland Series in a previous post , and I have played the first two Farland Story games. This game was released very so ..read more
Kurisu’s Chronogaming | The Home For My Chronological Playthroughs — Strategy RPGs and Super Famicom
1M ago
But for me it’s too tedious, slow, and difficult to keep playing. However, I think the series has a lot of promise and I would like to try one of the later entries — I have a DS and 3DS (but not a switch). If you are familiar with the series, please tell me if there’s a later entry that is particularly good and I will try it ..read more
Kurisu’s Chronogaming | The Home For My Chronological Playthroughs — Strategy RPGs and Super Famicom
1M ago
My impression from the Japanese blogs and such is that V-Force was already considered a kusoge (bad game) and that this game is considered to be even worse. I’m certain this was Ving’s last attempt to do this kind of game (and almost their last game before they exited the game market), but I’m not sure if any other company tried it again. I just don’t think it’s likely to work unless you get a situation where a company is willing to give the game enough of a budget that both the anime cutscenes and the gameplay development can be fully supported. , which was an attempt to make a game that woul ..read more
Kurisu’s Chronogaming | The Home For My Chronological Playthroughs — Strategy RPGs and Super Famicom
1M ago
), released on Famicom 1/26/1987, developed by Chunsoft, published by ENIX This is where I decided to stop. This game is well known for being quite difficult and having a lot of balance issues, and one of the main things the various remakes of the game do is smooth this out a bit. They allow better equipment for the companions, easier level ups, and just generally a better balance and less frustrating game. Many years ago I played DQ2 on Game Boy, but I found even that version fairly frustrating to play, so maybe this game’s day has simply passed. But at the time it came out I can see why it w ..read more
Kurisu’s Chronogaming | The Home For My Chronological Playthroughs — Strategy RPGs and Super Famicom
1M ago
I will do “final thoughts” post on the Super Famicom Games sometime in the middle of this week, and then starting next Saturday we’ll be back to 1998 SRPGs ..read more
Kurisu’s Chronogaming | The Home For My Chronological Playthroughs — Strategy RPGs and Super Famicom
2M ago
The next game up was supposed to be Milandra, but this is just a Mystery Dungeon clone so I will skip it and move on to Dark Law. , it’s clear how the trend was going ..read more
Kurisu’s Chronogaming | The Home For My Chronological Playthroughs — Strategy RPGs and Super Famicom
2M ago
Next up is Solid Runner, the final SFC game! (I’ve actually already finished it) When I played Wizap! I found it difficult to play, with a rather inscrutable system and annoying gameplay. I have the same feeling about Dark Law. It’s interesting that even the positive reviews of the game (both in English and Japanese) spend most of the review trashing the game but then say that “despite this I enjoyed it” or “you will feel accomplished if you beat it ..read more
Kurisu’s Chronogaming | The Home For My Chronological Playthroughs — Strategy RPGs and Super Famicom
3M ago
No post next week, back on the 13th (I’m not sure if anyone actually checks on Saturday to see if I posted so this may not be a necessarily announcement…) . This was a short-lived Famicom add-on that allowed for larger games, cheaper production, and the ability to save your progress, and also allowed you to use “disk writer” consoles to get new games. Although the FDS sold very well, there were a number of technical problems with the system and piracy was rampant. Within a few years, the technology for producing the cartridges had improved and become cheaper, rendering the FDS obsolete ..read more