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ehy bore let's talk about more obscure stuff
« on: February 02, 2010, 05:12:17 PM »
well i was in the mood to show some love to less recognized games

Live-A-Live
this got fantranslated a looooooooooooong time ago but around a year back it got another translation by the same author done in a better style,basicaly the idea is that there isn't a single scenario but instead there is a collection of them each done in a different time-line,scenario includes

- a caveman,pretty standard stuff if not for the fact that in your party you have a gorilla which attack by throwing poo at the enemies and the fact that you can smell random encounter

- a ninja,one of the most interessing scenario since you can actualy reach the end of it by following different paths,encounters are visible and you can hide in the shadows to avoid them,the game also makes a tally of how many people you kill and even gives you a reward if you reach the end without killing anybody (of course since you do need to level up to fight the final boss you can still fight against ghost and it doesn't count as killing people)

- a cowboy,the cowboy scenario is probably the most coolest one but it's also very short,a town is going to be under assault by a bandit and as such you have to scavenge the town for item you can use to set traps for him and his goons,there is only one battle and it's against the final boss,the more trap you set down,the less goons you have to fight when he arrives

- a kung-fu master,the master recruit three people,a fat guy,a little kid and a girl,you have to decide which one succeds the master and learns all of his cool kung-fu attacks

- a fighter,there is no story on this one,only fights... you pick your opponent in a screen done in street fighter style and each time you beat someone you learn his special attack,also another short scenario

- a boy with pyschic power,this one is also fantastic and pays homage to super robo anime,you can read people minds,you get a robo turtle in your party,the music is really kickass and you get to pilot a giant robot in the end

- a robot in the future,this scenario like the cowboy one features no fight barring an optional arcade game aptly named "CAPTAIN SQUARE" and the final boss,an alien got inside the ship and he's out for your blood (or i guess it would be more correct to say oil)

after finishing all of the scenario you unlock an 8th scenario where you play a knight,the usual demon kidnaps the usual princess and well it's pretty much your average dragon quest plot except the ending is way more twisted

after finishing this 8th scenario too you unlock a 9th scenario which would be somewhat spoilerish to describe so i'll leave it to that,the graphics resemble final fantasy v (in fact butz sprite even get used in the equipment inventory and i think there is a similiar piano joke in the pyschic chapter) the music rocks

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(the boss theme)
 
it's a pretty original spin on the usual rpg formula and all you need to do to play it is a search on google and a snes emulator so get some work done

Metal Max i got to known this trough the ps2 sequel known as "metal saga" but actualy the original got fan translated too and it's pretty much the same thing with snes graphics,metal max setting is a post apocalyptic one but instead of a serious post apocalyptic world like fallout it's a crazy one featuring tanks with legs who wear fishnet stocking,killer tomatoes,a gorilla mafia (with a samurai baboon who protects the don) and a cults of cultist that try to kill you with the shockwaves they cause by flexing their muscle... the ps2 one starts asking if you want to become an adventurer and if you reply no it just ends abruptly and then tells you about all the awesome adventure you didn't had for being a wussy

unlike other rpg this one doesn't follow up any specific story,you are free to go anywhere you want as long as you don't get murdered by the random encounter (which usualy doesn't happen as long as you don't stray too far away without powering up) of course you do need a general objective,this objective comes in the form of bounty,each city has a number of big baddies for you to hunt and kill and much of the game is spent going around finding baddies and blasting them with your tanks

that's right,while you do occasionaly fight on foot most of the time is spent inside tanks which coupled with the lack of restriction give the game a sort of "outlandish travel" feeling,while in town you can give better gear to your character or alternatively buy new cannons and stuff

sadly the combat sucks,in the ps2 one the character can't use any skill while on board of the tank and even in that rare occasion when you are on foot most of them aren't worth the use,in the snes one you don't even have any skill to begin with! so usualy you just end up attacking until you are dead or your opponent is dead,in battle tanks have an armor value and when your armor goes down to 0 every attack you receive will damage a part of your tank,if a cannon gets damaged you can't shot with it anymore,if the engine gets damaged you can still fight but after the fight you will be forced to tow the tank with your other one
luckily enough the ps2 one features a handy option which skips all the combat frame and make combats very short,a feature that should be like in every single rpg ever done

this game won't win over anyone who likes to get his ass kicked in combat but by all mean if you think you need a jrpg that feels different give this one a spin,while the ps2 one might be hard to find you don't really need to do much to get the snes one

fantranslation for both games can be found here
http://agtp.romhack.net/

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Re: ehy bore let's talk about more obscure stuff
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2010, 05:23:12 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2010, 05:45:29 PM »
In related fan-translated games news, I am going through Maharajah right now.



It's aight. Kinda-sorta like Lost Hope for the Game Boy.

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« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2010, 06:12:59 PM »
Fire Pro Wrestling. Undoubtedly some of the best games ever created, and light-years ahead of any other wrasslin' game. I would trade every game I own on every current platform for an HD version with GGPO quality netcode.

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« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2010, 06:20:59 PM »
One game I liked to play a lot was Shock Troopers - 2nd Squad for the Neo Geo.



Completely underrated and overshadowed since I think Metal Slug 1 and 2 were the things to play during this time (1998).

I also had a lot of fun with Super Bomberman 3 on the SNES.  My favorite Bomberman besides Saturn Bomberman:

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« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2010, 06:50:45 PM »
Awesome post, never heard of Maharajah before but I'll have to take a look at it.

My pick, would be a Famicom game called STED, it is an obscure RPG by Alpha Denshi, with a futuristic setting and 3D dungeons. It's extremely challenging and grind-heavy, very primitive and I can't really recommend it to anyone, but it has cool music.





Another one would be NOTAM of WIND, a hot-air-balloon sim by those masters of quirkiness, ArtDink (Tail of the Sun, Carnage Heart). It's got very ugly early PS1 3D graphics, and may seem a bit random (then again, I'd imagine flying a hot air balloon would be), but how many other hot air balloon games do you know of?





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Here's the article where I first heard of this game:
http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2006/03/column_the_gaijin_restoration.php

Also, internal section by Squaresoft. I know DCharlie is a big fan of it. Basically, a tube shooter (think N2O for PS1) that plays like a cross between Tempest and Rez. You have 12 different methods of fire based on the signs of the zodiac. Some really nice abstract visuals, and an awesome late 90's EDM soundtrack. You can also use your own music CDs and it would generate fractal graphics from the CD you use.

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Man, the PS1 was the height of creativity for game devs, IMO. Lots of crazy and experimental shit to come out during that period.
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« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2010, 11:11:51 PM »
I've got Internal Section, fantastic title.

Osman is pretty much the unofficial Strider 2, right?
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« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2010, 11:20:22 PM »
For awhile Square was really trying interesting stuff. Einhander, Bushido Blade, Brave Fencer Musashi, Tobal... then they faceplanted with Bouncer and that horrid movie, and seemed to just give up.

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« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2010, 11:21:48 PM »
I need to pick up Tobal No. 2. Friend in college had that and we'd spend hours wasting time with it.
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« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2010, 11:26:07 PM »
Did J-Bore play ChainDive on the PS2?
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« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2010, 11:49:33 PM »
Live A Live is really great and very accessible. Do play.

Here's my controbution:

OUTFOXIES.



It's Super Smash Brothers way before SSB. The cast includes a man in a wheel chair, a monkey in a tuxedo, some killer twins and some other shit. Destructible levels, hidden levels. So fucking awesome.

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« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2010, 12:39:47 AM »
LOVED Outfoxies as a kid, that was one of the few arcade games our corner arcade carried. Gonna MAME that bitch right now for old time's sake.

Another oddball we had at that arcade:

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Canon Dancer looks pretty damn impressive, I'll check that out too.

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« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2010, 02:03:32 AM »
Obscure? I just got a copy of that for Xbox, always wanted to try it.

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« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2010, 08:58:59 AM »
Was surprised to see an Outfoxies mention... not from DC ;) That's a really awesome arcade game too, very ahead of its time. Never played it in an actual arcade, only

Also... how about Dangun Feveron? An extremely fast-moving Cave shmup with a funky disco soundtrack and theme. Very original as far as shooters go.





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This is a fantastic thread, really hope some more people contribute stuff to it. Yes, Live A Live is one of my favorite RPGs around, even if the combat is a bit simplistic and the encounter rate in the final chapter too high.
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« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2010, 09:42:18 AM »
Hey magus, what was that roguelike game for DS you were pimping a while ago?
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« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2010, 09:51:15 AM »
shiren the wanderer,it just seemed dumb to pimp it out again in this thread,the third one get released in the US around this week (i've heard some saying 9 february and some saying 6 february) and it also got a port on psp with added stuff but currently the port it's japan only,alternatively the 4th one gets released near the end of the month

some nice stuff here,will add more stuff later tough to be fair paradroid isn't really that obscure if you are a c64 junkie (tough i guess c64 junkie are obscure!) another c64 game that's pretty well known is lazy jones,it's basicaly the precursor of warioware
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« Reply #16 on: February 03, 2010, 09:58:51 AM »
i read an article about nightmare busters once and apparently it got an official release as a cellphone game
under the name of flynn adventure,it kinda looks like a cps2 game

on regards of single screen platformer i always loved tumblepop
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« Reply #17 on: February 03, 2010, 10:15:51 AM »
Is it bad that the only reason I know of Lazy Jones is due to Kernkraft 400 (big surprise there)?  I never played a C64, apart from a bit of The Last Ninja on my friend's Wii.
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« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2010, 10:28:03 AM »
Ah, this thread makes me remember the good days at TFP (i.e. the ones when JJ and Senor R. and co. weren't causing everybody else trouble).

I played Kaze no Notam a while back. It's completely bonkers.  You have to rely entirely on wind currents and elevation to get where you're going.  I didn't get that far in the regular levels, but I did get a handle on it enough to complete some of the challenges.

I've played so few games lately that I don't have much to contribute to a thread like this. But I did complete Aquanaut's Holiday for PS3.  It felt a little too hand-holdy and the story was a bit cheesy, but I get the feeling that's what everybody who wasn't already a fan of AH wanted out of the series.
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« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2010, 11:14:11 AM »
Cannon Dancer / Osman


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:o  holy shit!  I'm assuming it's the same dev team behind Strider?  (or at least a damn close imitator.)


My contribution:  Armed Police Batrider.  An older shmup with branching paths that's pretty fun, iirc.  Plays on MAME

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« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2010, 11:16:36 AM »
:o  holy shit!  I'm assuming it's the same dev team behind Strider?  (or at least a damn close imitator.)

"Strider director Kouichi Yotsui left Capcom after its release. He later designed an unofficial, coin-operated sequel for Mitchell Corporation in 1996. Yotsui considers that game, titled Cannon-Dancer in Japan and Osman in the West, a "self-parody" of his work on Strider."
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« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2010, 02:50:25 PM »
I remember reading about Live A Live in EGM years ago in their previews section. It sounded so badass, but by the time it'd been translated and dumped on the internet I didn't really care about JRPG's for the most part anymore.
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« Reply #22 on: February 03, 2010, 03:45:21 PM »
Chibi Robo

ok so basicaly in this game you are a little robot high a few cm,and your job is to give happiness to people by planting flowers,picking trash and scrubbing smudges with a toothbrush and... ehy where are you going! come back here!

ok fine! so there is no enemy to shot (well actualy later the house gets invaded by tiny aliens and you do get a cannon but it barely makes the 5% of the game) or things to punch,in fact at the start of the game your true enemy is your battery,you see as you walk around and do stuff you consume electricity and when that goes to 0 you die (altough there is no game over,you just get booted up to the starting point) you can recharge by just plugging yourself to a plug but of course with a small battery you can only go so far before being forced to find a plug so your first objective is to increase your battery charge

you do so by getting "happy points" as i already said doing stuff like planting flowers and scrubbing smudges does give you some point but the real way to get them is to help around,you see at night when nobody looks all the toys in the house comes alive,there is an action hero figure who patrols the living room wondering about the meaning of justice,a giant stuffed centipede who's actualy in love with the action hero,a bunch of little soldiers shaped like eggs who are trying to rescue their pal from the family dog and later on you also encounter a giant t-rex made out of lego and a frankenstein monster who's in love with a princess doll but can't declare his love because... well have you ever seen a frankenstein monster together with a princess? basicaly every character needs help and everytime you help one of them you get tons of happy points,all of these characters tend to give a toy story vibe to the game,in fact it's probably one of the most adorable game ever made (yes yes you can  :yuck all you want,it doesn't matter) especialy thanks to the sound effects

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so basicaly most of the game is about running around and solving the problem of everyone (one of the biggest plot points revolves around the daughter jennifer who for some reason believe she has been turned into a frog by an evil wizard and only speaks in "ribbits") and that's the gist of it,the things that truly makes it original is that the game tries to force the notion that you are small in every way it can,earlier on you have to get on the table in the living room so to do so you climb a bunch of books,which lands you on the couch and from the couch you fly on the table (you can't jump but you can fly for short segments trough a copter in your head) similiarly to reach the kitchen sink,you need to pull some drawers and then you get to use them as platforms,there is nothing much to add besides the fact that as you progress you get different costume,some are played just for kick (like the ghost one who apparently scares the shit out of everybody you talk with) and some gives you extra functionality (the pajama let you skip directly to night so you can get all your toy talk done without waiting around)

as the trailer above shows the game got a new play control edition but nintendo didn't bother to translate it! yay nintendo! you sure know how to swim in that huge pile of money,the game got two sequels for the ds,the first one got brought over but instead of the intricate house of the original you are now put into an empty park lot,your objective this time is to plant flower so you can make the park green again,it's quite disappointing and quite repetitive and stupid (plant new flowers,water flowers,kill baddies,buy occasional improvement,repeat) but it still retains that toy story flavor in little stuff like waiting for the streetlight to turn into green near a giant foot (nobody stops you from crossing the road when it's red but you risk being run over by a car) and by putting more silly toy companions (including two surfing penguin who advertise a fictional soda company) as you progress you also gets vehicle's and toys to play around,it kinda reminds me of the classic "donald duck playground" only replace all the various jobs with flower planting

the second ds game is japan only so again thanks nintendo! i don't know much about it except that it's a direct sequel from the original and that what was once the daughter has now grow up,apparently this time you are on a treasure hunt,i wish i could tell you more about it  >:(  
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« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2010, 05:00:54 PM »
shiren the wanderer,it just seemed dumb to pimp it out again in this thread,the third one get released in the US around this week (i've heard some saying 9 february and some saying 6 february) and it also got a port on psp with added stuff but currently the port it's japan only,alternatively the 4th one gets released near the end of the month
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Ohh right. Thanks. I used to have a big boner for stuff like Azure Dreams, so I'll have to check it out.

I dunno if it counts as obscure, but I played Skyblazer a few months back and that was pretty badass. It's a SNES platformer that plays like a cross between Mega Man and Ninja Gaiden. The gameplay is really fluid, the combat is fairly deep for a '94 platformer, and the art and music is solid, so it has aged well.

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« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2010, 11:25:24 PM »
Skyblazer started off pretty great, but the rotating tower level pisses me off to no end, especially the disappearing blocks with barely any window of opportunity to jump on them before they disappear. Never made it past that part (and it's stage 1-4 or something)  :-\
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« Reply #25 on: February 04, 2010, 12:32:04 AM »
EOE: Eve of Extinction - PS2

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I don't know if this is obscure, but I'm having trouble thinking of something else.  Man, fuck this game.  I was hyped for it when it came out and when I finally played I ended up hating it so much.

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« Reply #26 on: February 04, 2010, 11:53:41 AM »
Skyblazer started off pretty great, but the rotating tower level pisses me off to no end, especially the disappearing blocks with barely any window of opportunity to jump on them before they disappear. Never made it past that part (and it's stage 1-4 or something)  :-\
I actually remember raging at the exact part you're talking about :lol That segment is actually pretty short though, and it isn't so bad if you just jump before the blocks even appear. You should try again! The boss is right past that iirc, and there are so many awesome levels after that one.

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« Reply #27 on: February 04, 2010, 12:26:27 PM »
LOVED Outfoxies as a kid, that was one of the few arcade games our corner arcade carried. Gonna MAME that bitch right now for old time's sake.

Another oddball we had at that arcade:

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Canon Dancer looks pretty damn impressive, I'll check that out too.



That is insane for a game from *1988*!!   :o  Piccolo from Dragonball also appears to be the boss at 4:00.
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« Reply #28 on: February 04, 2010, 12:38:53 PM »
If I had to pick what would be obscure to me:

Sword of Hope 1 & 2 (GB)



Quest: Brian's Journey (GB)



Beavis & Butt-Head (GEN / SNES)

A point and click adventure. The SNES title is also good fun, it is a platformer.

Light Crusader (GEN)

Nobody brings this up, but this is a Treasure title. It's actually pretty good. Played this a lot as a kid.

Big Sky Trooper (SNES)

Brainlord (SNES)

The Ignition Factor (SNES)

Lester the Unlikely (SNES)

Pac-Man 2 (SNES)

Twisted Tales of Spike McFang (SNES)

Super Soccer (SNES)

Young Merlin (SNES)
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« Reply #29 on: February 04, 2010, 12:52:29 PM »
aidyn chronicles (n64)

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« Reply #30 on: February 12, 2010, 12:57:02 AM »
I need to pick up Tobal No. 2. Friend in college had that and we'd spend hours wasting time with it.
I should peek to see if it is available on the Playstation Store. It may be; it was released on platinum classics, or whatever Square was labeling their PS1 re-releases last year (or 2 years ago?).

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« Reply #31 on: February 12, 2010, 01:03:52 AM »
I need to pick up Tobal No. 2. Friend in college had that and we'd spend hours wasting time with it.
I should peek to see if it is available on the Playstation Store. It may be; it was released on platinum classics, or whatever Square was labeling their PS1 re-releases last year (or 2 years ago?).

I don't think it's on the Playstation Store.
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« Reply #32 on: February 13, 2010, 12:13:33 PM »
I need to pick up Tobal No. 2. Friend in college had that and we'd spend hours wasting time with it.
I should peek to see if it is available on the Playstation Store. It may be; it was released on platinum classics, or whatever Square was labeling their PS1 re-releases last year (or 2 years ago?).

I don't think it's on the Playstation Store.
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I'd buy it for PSP in an instant, even though there'd be no 2P support. The game's AI was crap, but it was perfect in multi.

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« Reply #33 on: February 13, 2010, 12:34:45 PM »
Quest mode was great in Tobal 1..never beat it though, it's fucking hard!  In Tobal 2, it's like a full fledged RPG, right?

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« Reply #34 on: February 13, 2010, 01:03:17 PM »
I need to pick up Tobal No. 2. Friend in college had that and we'd spend hours wasting time with it.
I should peek to see if it is available on the Playstation Store. It may be; it was released on platinum classics, or whatever Square was labeling their PS1 re-releases last year (or 2 years ago?).

I don't think it's on the Playstation Store.
:'(
I'd buy it for PSP in an instant, even though there'd be no 2P support. The game's AI was crap, but it was perfect in multi.

I ripped it and play it on my CFW PSP from time to time.  It still holds up quite well!
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« Reply #35 on: February 14, 2010, 07:10:01 AM »
Ex-Mutants - Probably the only obscure Genesis game I played as a kid - well, the only one I can remember anyway. Haven't played it since but I remember it being a really cool side-scrolling action game which could be quite hard at times.


The main character's really cool as well. He throw's axes at enemies and tells them to "Go long, sucker."

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« Reply #36 on: February 14, 2010, 09:54:04 AM »
Want obscure?  Try Neftelia - that is if you even find it, and even then you may not have any luck trying to get it to run because you're going to need to get a hold of a copy of RPG Maker 2003 first.  I was able to screw around with it back in '05 and it's probably the most bizarre videogame I've ever played.  Completely surreal and abstract it may be too esoteric for it's own good but that's also what makes it so interesting.  Probably the only game around with 8-bit style graphics that can honestly disturb you, thanks in large part to the sound.

If David Lynch ever made a videogame, this is what it would look like.
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« Reply #37 on: February 14, 2010, 11:48:49 AM »

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Re: ehy bore let's talk about more obscure stuff
« Reply #38 on: February 18, 2010, 05:28:29 PM »
Quest mode was great in Tobal 1..never beat it though, it's fucking hard!  In Tobal 2, it's like a full fledged RPG, right?
I beat it once in Tobal 1, hadn't figured out enough Japanese at the to get through Tobal 2's more robust one. But, yeah, it was like it had a whole 'nother game in it, a top-down overworld and dungeons and items, all draped around Tobal's control scheme.

Part of me wonders if the fighting game landscape would be different if Square had sac'd up and released it. The thinking I heard at the time is that it was "too anime looking." Not a complaint commonly heard anymore.

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Re: ehy bore let's talk about more obscure stuff
« Reply #40 on: February 20, 2010, 11:31:52 PM »
The Chzo Mythos
I posted this over on gaf but it fits here too.  Really, really great games that barely anyone has played.  I think if the games had gotten more exposure (XBLA or something), Yahtzee would be making the big bucks like Tim Schafer since between zero punctuation reviews and this, he definitely knows the problems most videogames suffer and isn't all just talk as he actually made a darn good game (trilby's notes).

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This is kind of messy, so excuse the formatting.  But about a year or so ago I came to gaf with a question in mind: were there any adventure games in this day of age of the classic & unforgettable quality of the Sierra/Lucasarts adventure games of the 90s.  The first recommendation was The Chzo Mythos, a 4 game series comprised of 5 Days a Stranger, 7 days a skeptic, Trilby's Notes and 6 Days a Sacrifice.

While I took in the recommendation, I waited to see what else others would recommend.  Yet after playing many adventure games of the last decade, that first reply hit the nail on the head.  The Chzo Mythos is the best mystery adventure you can go in in the post 2000 era of videogaming...and it's freeware.

Each of the games is short.  1-2 hours, so about 6-8 hours for the entire story.  Each is great, though my first reaction after finishing 5 Days a Stranger was "hmmm, it's good but I don't see why the series is so well regarded".  But then 7 days a skeptic had me on the edge of my seat and was a lot of fun.

And then Trilby's Notes hit.  Trilby's Notes is IMO one of the top10 adventure games of all time.  The gameplay, the ambience, the STORY is all extremely well done.  It is the Metal Gear Solid 3 of the series and I must play game for any fan of mystery, horror, or good writing or good gameplay in general.

Finally 6 Days a Sacrifice was very interesting and though I wasn't a big fan of the eventual ending to the series, it was well written and very original and took a lot of risks.

All in all it was an extremely memorable experience.  It's been a year+ since I've played the series but I still think about it often, about how well done parts were and what bars it set for modern day adventure gaming to achieve.

So I just wanted to say, thanks gaf.  If it wasn't for you I would never have experienced this great game and sprawling storyline.  If anyone who reads this has their interest peaked and checks it out, that's the best I can do in return and then if that person loves it he or she can recommend it to others and over time more and more people will get to experience this fantastic series (and a multi-award winning one at that!).  So again, thanks gaf. and I cannot recommend The Chzo Mythos enough.

Here are the download pages (make sure the games are played in the right order!):
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/5days/  - 5 days a stranger
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/7days/ - 7 days a skeptic
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/notes/ - Trilby's Notes
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/6days/ - 6 days a sacrifice

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Re: ehy bore let's talk about more obscure stuff
« Reply #41 on: February 20, 2010, 11:53:05 PM »
Ghost House:
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Re: ehy bore let's talk about more obscure stuff
« Reply #42 on: February 21, 2010, 07:16:21 AM »
The Chzo Mythos
I posted this over on gaf but it fits here too.  Really, really great games that barely anyone has played.  I think if the games had gotten more exposure (XBLA or something), Yahtzee would be making the big bucks like Tim Schafer since between zero punctuation reviews and this, he definitely knows the problems most videogames suffer and isn't all just talk as he actually made a darn good game (trilby's notes).

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This is kind of messy, so excuse the formatting.  But about a year or so ago I came to gaf with a question in mind: were there any adventure games in this day of age of the classic & unforgettable quality of the Sierra/Lucasarts adventure games of the 90s.  The first recommendation was The Chzo Mythos, a 4 game series comprised of 5 Days a Stranger, 7 days a skeptic, Trilby's Notes and 6 Days a Sacrifice.

While I took in the recommendation, I waited to see what else others would recommend.  Yet after playing many adventure games of the last decade, that first reply hit the nail on the head.  The Chzo Mythos is the best mystery adventure you can go in in the post 2000 era of videogaming...and it's freeware.

Each of the games is short.  1-2 hours, so about 6-8 hours for the entire story.  Each is great, though my first reaction after finishing 5 Days a Stranger was "hmmm, it's good but I don't see why the series is so well regarded".  But then 7 days a skeptic had me on the edge of my seat and was a lot of fun.

And then Trilby's Notes hit.  Trilby's Notes is IMO one of the top10 adventure games of all time.  The gameplay, the ambience, the STORY is all extremely well done.  It is the Metal Gear Solid 3 of the series and I must play game for any fan of mystery, horror, or good writing or good gameplay in general.

Finally 6 Days a Sacrifice was very interesting and though I wasn't a big fan of the eventual ending to the series, it was well written and very original and took a lot of risks.

All in all it was an extremely memorable experience.  It's been a year+ since I've played the series but I still think about it often, about how well done parts were and what bars it set for modern day adventure gaming to achieve.

So I just wanted to say, thanks gaf.  If it wasn't for you I would never have experienced this great game and sprawling storyline.  If anyone who reads this has their interest peaked and checks it out, that's the best I can do in return and then if that person loves it he or she can recommend it to others and over time more and more people will get to experience this fantastic series (and a multi-award winning one at that!).  So again, thanks gaf. and I cannot recommend The Chzo Mythos enough.

Here are the download pages (make sure the games are played in the right order!):
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/5days/  - 5 days a stranger
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/7days/ - 7 days a skeptic
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/notes/ - Trilby's Notes
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/6days/ - 6 days a sacrifice

Thanks for the reminder! I started 5 Days... a year or two ago and forgot all about it, I just played it in one sitting. Some of the puzzles were fuuuu and pretty dumb, but the writing wasn't bad and it was pretty tight overall. Excited to see how the whole thing fits together
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