They take time to make, and nobody is paying him to do it. Plain and simple
Prematurely finished Vain Dream 2 by Glodia for PC98 (1993).
Despite the title this is completely unrelated to Vain Dream 1, it doesn’t even take place in the same world.
Basic story is that in the distant past some morans summoned a hot but utterly evil goddess who promptly started exterminating humanity; however two divine dragons descended from the heavens and banished the Goddess. Then afterwards (108) dragons watched over the world for 900 years until the bad guys and start killing dragons.
The main character is called Warrick who discovers the death of the (ice) dragon protecting his village. He is tasked with delivering a knife to the head honcho dragon – the purpose of the knife is to revive the golden dragon in order to defeat the silver dragon (Astarte) who turned evil.
In typical Glodia fashion the main character has stronk magical waifu at his side; Warrick is actually married to Reina and typically, she basically comments on almost everything purchased and sold not to mention takes control during most conversations with important NPCs. Compared to the mostly docile Tamryn/Melwyn she’s an acquired taste.
The engine and gameplay are exactly the same as the first game. This time around you can level up in different weapon classes, but it doesn’t make much of a difference overall. Characters can wear an upper and under armour, which is somewhat unusual.
Game is much easier than Vain Dream 1 (at least until a point, see below). Some enemies are copy-pasted from D&D bestiary (like beholders). Not to mention the game has Elves and Dwarves, unlike the first game.
Perhaps the most memorable part of the game is the party crossing a sea of sand by boat and dealing with Moby Dick.
Near the end of the game is where Warrick needs to go through a tower all by himself to retrieve an armour. I wasn’t underleveled or underequipped yet the living armour enemies inside the tower could instagib Warrick; to make matters worse the game doesn’t even let you save.
Surely this has to be a bug?? Or again maybe some retardo copy protection (I actually had to replay part of Vain Dream 1 because of that)??
So I dropped the game at this point with like 75-80% overall completion.
Can’t say I really regret not playing this til the end as compared to Emerald Dragon and Vain Dream 1, this game is extremely tepid and quite a disappointment. Srsly, fuck Glodia.
lel dropped two games so my PC98 rpg list has been cleared
46 Okunen Monogatari /
Akatsuki no Bizantira /
Alshark /
Branmarker /
Branmarker 2 /
Briganty /
Continental /
Crystal Rinal /
Dangel /
D'ark /
D'ark Gaiden /
Digan no Maseki /
Dragon Knight /
Dragon Knight 2 /
Dragon Knight 3 /
Dragon Knight 4 /
Dragon Souseiki /
Early Kingdom /
Emerald Dragon /
Filsnown /
Grounseed /
Gun Blaze /
Illumina /
Illusion City /
Kuro no Ken /
Lesser Mern /
Libros de Chilam Balam /
Metal Eye /
Metal Eye 2 /
Nana Eiyuu Monogatari /
Nana Eiyuu Monogatari 2 /
Raidy 2 /
Ray-Gun /
Rouge no Densetsu /
Shuten Douji /
Slayers /
Toushin Toshi/Toushin Toshi 2/Rance/etc. /
Vain Dream /
Vain Dream 2 /
Words Worth /
X.NA /
ギゼ ! XIX /
ブライ 上巻 /
ブライ 下巻 完結 /
ロマンスは剣の輝き /
天神乱魔 /
憂楼 ユーロウ Transient Sands /
魍魎戦記MADARA /
In the end I played 48 out of my assorted list of 76 rpg games.
Still some pseudo RPG games to go I guess, like Tokyo Twilight Busters.
Played Emerald Dragon for PC Engine (1995).
It’s a good remake of the PC88 classic, there aren’t many changes. In the beginning you need to fetch Tamryn in a dungeon while in PC88 version you simply meet her right away. There’s also a nice celebration sequence after the demon king is beaten.
Near the end of the game there is a short solo section where Tamryn needs to escape and free her friends, something the original glosses over. The endgame is shorter since all the most powerful items are immediately handed to you on a silver platter, while in the original you had to look for them in a big dungeon.
In combat, when any character except Atrushan dies it’s not an immediate game over like in the original. Also, Tamryn has three different version of her oneshot beam attack.
Some of the dialogue is voiced and the cutscenes are impressive. The music is also great.
Maybe due to prior knowledge of the game it took me a bit more than 20 hours to finish.
Illusion City is bretty good apart from...But, I want to know if any of these games are good or at least interesting from a gameplay or "mechanics" perspective?
Try Elmknight if you want some pew pew with good music and gfx.lel dropped two games so my PC98 rpg list has been cleared
46 Okunen Monogatari /
Akatsuki no Bizantira /
Alshark /
Branmarker /
Branmarker 2 /
Briganty /
Continental /
Crystal Rinal /
Dangel /
D'ark /
D'ark Gaiden /
Digan no Maseki /
Dragon Knight /
Dragon Knight 2 /
Dragon Knight 3 /
Dragon Knight 4 /
Dragon Souseiki /
Early Kingdom /
Emerald Dragon /
Filsnown /
Grounseed /
Gun Blaze /
Illumina /
Illusion City /
Kuro no Ken /
Lesser Mern /
Libros de Chilam Balam /
Metal Eye /
Metal Eye 2 /
Nana Eiyuu Monogatari /
Nana Eiyuu Monogatari 2 /
Raidy 2 /
Ray-Gun /
Rouge no Densetsu /
Shuten Douji /
Slayers /
Toushin Toshi/Toushin Toshi 2/Rance/etc. /
Vain Dream /
Vain Dream 2 /
Words Worth /
X.NA /
ギゼ ! XIX /
ブライ 上巻 /
ブライ 下巻 完結 /
ロマンスは剣の輝き /
天神乱魔 /
憂楼 ユーロウ Transient Sands /
魍魎戦記MADARA /
In the end I played 48 out of my assorted list of 76 rpg games.
Still some pseudo RPG games to go I guess, like Tokyo Twilight Busters.
The Windows version of that game is weird - it's a complete rewrite using the same CGs (touched up for Windows resolution) and becomes a regular Visual Novel instead of a walking sim.Thought this game was rpg judging from screenshots but it turned out a 2 hour walking simulator where you walk from waifu to waifu in a labyrinth, solve some basic puzzle and finish game after unlocking every H scene.
Only memorable part is main character gender bending two minutes into the game and getting violated by a statue's yuge granite dick to turn back to a boy
Illusion City is bretty good apart from...But, I want to know if any of these games are good or at least interesting from a gameplay or "mechanics" perspective?
an exploit that can net you infinite money if you start larping a dirty シュロモ.