Tigranes
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OK, so I expect to have to do some travel soon and have rejigged my Retroarch on laptop. I wanted to take this opportunity to check out some console games that I never had the console for and never quite got round to emulating. These titles are mostly from Codex recommendations, so I thought I'd post some impressions/questions:
Lufia 2:
Many a Codexer in the past ten years have said this is the balls, but never with any explanation. The first half hour, it does look quite funky. Anything to keep in mind as I venture forward?
Jeanne d'Arc:
I actually finally finished this, after emulation troubles last few times I tried. I would generally recommend. It's a bit too easy once you figure out how to chain the transform kills, and I am very disappointed that the story threw out the historical stuff completely halfway through and went all into 9 year old cartoon demon fantasy. But there's still enough of a nice history cartoon feel and a good tactical combat loop. They also made a good effort at shaping the personalities of the main characters, though the delivery can be hammy.
Tactics Ogre:
Installed the PS1 version over PSP based on old Codex posts. To be honest, it's pretty clunky to get into. Especially on keyboard it's a lot of buttons and awkward movements to give orders. Am I right to stick with PS1? And this is meant to be The Greatest Game of this type right?
Persona Q
I've gone through almost all the Megatens. Persona 5 was good, but keep hearing that the combat/gameplay is really poor and boring on P3/4. I also enjoyed Etrian Odysseys. Now I'm checking out Persona Q, which nobody seems to talk about anywhere, but surely it can't be that bad... can it?
Lufia 2:
Many a Codexer in the past ten years have said this is the balls, but never with any explanation. The first half hour, it does look quite funky. Anything to keep in mind as I venture forward?
Jeanne d'Arc:
I actually finally finished this, after emulation troubles last few times I tried. I would generally recommend. It's a bit too easy once you figure out how to chain the transform kills, and I am very disappointed that the story threw out the historical stuff completely halfway through and went all into 9 year old cartoon demon fantasy. But there's still enough of a nice history cartoon feel and a good tactical combat loop. They also made a good effort at shaping the personalities of the main characters, though the delivery can be hammy.
Tactics Ogre:
Installed the PS1 version over PSP based on old Codex posts. To be honest, it's pretty clunky to get into. Especially on keyboard it's a lot of buttons and awkward movements to give orders. Am I right to stick with PS1? And this is meant to be The Greatest Game of this type right?
Persona Q
I've gone through almost all the Megatens. Persona 5 was good, but keep hearing that the combat/gameplay is really poor and boring on P3/4. I also enjoyed Etrian Odysseys. Now I'm checking out Persona Q, which nobody seems to talk about anywhere, but surely it can't be that bad... can it?