Random JRPG News Thread

[karoliner]

That Platinum Game is fucking hardcore you pick up trash from the floor and put it in the bin. Damn son.

 

[Urthor]

They killed the original art in that Zelda game, holy fucking shit.
Also, FE looks like shit.

The Gameboy original version looked garbage tbh, I think you are confusing it with A Link to the Past which looked amazing

 

[Viata]

I love the gameboy version to the point I find this version useless. Then again, I hate remakes so.
This .gif has more soul than that remake:

 

[Urthor]

it was a good game but it was absolutely ugly as sin. Link to the Past for the Gameboy advance was truly the best Zelda and I enjoyed it far more than Ocarina of Time

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

Link's Awakening DX was all the "remake" that game ever needed. Fuck your bullshit, nu-tendo. I gave up on you with the 3DS.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Demon X Machina has a demo for a limited time in the Nintendo eshop as well. I highly recommend anyone who is into mecha or Armored Core games to try it out. I did it and it was really good.

 

[Rahdulan]

So Exist Archive is 70% off on US PSN and it's channeling Valkyrie Profile. Any good?

 

[newtmonkey]

Watching the video of the Link's Awakening remake, I thought it was a 3DS game lolz

 

[Viata]

Watching the video of the Link's Awakening remake, I thought it was a 3DS game lolz

It's going to cost $60, apparently.

 

[glass blackbird]

So Exist Archive is 70% off on US PSN and it's channeling Valkyrie Profile. Any good?

Irredeemable dogshit. Avoid

 

[Gerrard]

Watching the video of the Link's Awakening remake, I thought it was a 3DS game lolz

It probably was, originally.

 

[Machocruz]

LA remake looks like it was made out of some cheap children's playset. Nintendo, Retro games excluded, have no eye for 3D graphics.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

The Gameboy original version looked garbage tbh, I think you are confusing it with A Link to the Past which looked amazing

it was a good game but it was absolutely ugly as sin. Link to the Past for the Gameboy advance was truly the best Zelda and I enjoyed it far more than Ocarina of Time

You have absolutely terrible taste in games. Quite possibly worse than my taste in FPS', if the Codex is to be believed.

 

[Urthor]

I apologise for nothing, A Link to the Past was honestly just that amazing IMO

...also the Nintendo 64 was legitimately designed for people with 3 hands and I just didn't have as much fun running around and doing stuff in Ocarina. Still a great game.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

I apologise for nothing, A Link to the Past was honestly just that amazing IMO

Yeah, A Link to the Past was amazing. Not the GBA port. That was irritating cash-grab horseshit.

...also the Nintendo 64 was legitimately designed for people with 3 hands...

I refuse to believe you aren't leaving out stale bait. There is no way this isn't a ruse cruise.

 

[Urthor]

idk why people bitch and whine about ports when A Link to the Past SNES was literally released before I was born, how the hell am I supposed to play it on a console that wasn't even on sale when I was alive

Ridiculous gatekeeping

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

idk why people bitch and whine about ports when A Link to the Past SNES was literally released before I was born, how the hell am I supposed to play it on a console that wasn't even on sale when I was alive

Ridiculous gatekeeping

It's called emulation. You're welcome.

 

[Viata]

The snes version of A Link to the Past is better, now Minish Cap for gba is gold, both gameplay and graphics.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

The snes version of A Link to the Past is better, now Minish Cap for gba is gold, both gameplay and graphics.

I think I'd actually give real money to know the unfiltered story behind Minish Cap's development. I get a strong feeling something went horribly wrong during it. The game is good enough, but you get the same vibe with it that you get with Wind Waker; lots of unfulfilled potential with a hint of "...Weren't you going somewhere else with this?".

 

[deuxhero]

Interestingly the GBA port of Link to the Past is such a direct port the massive bug that resulted from holding left and right when going up stairs is still in it. I think it's actually be possible to trigger it on official hardware in this version too since the Game Boy player can go one way on analog stick and another on dpad.

 

[Viata]

The snes version of A Link to the Past is better, now Minish Cap for gba is gold, both gameplay and graphics.

I think I'd actually give real money to know the unfiltered story behind Minish Cap's development. I get a strong feeling something went horribly wrong during it. The game is good enough, but you get the same vibe with it that you get with Wind Waker; lots of unfulfilled potential with a hint of "...Weren't you going somewhere else with this?".

I think it's more because of Capcom doing it. Oracle of Seasons/Age was the only Zelda games they did(which are 2 of the best Zelda games) and this was their first "big" Zelda game, if it was shorter you probably wouldn't think that. I think Zelda games should be short, anyway.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

I think it's more because of Capcom doing it.

See, I thought the Oracle games were better than Nintendo's own efforts in that area (Link's Awakening), so I'm not so sure the answer is as simple "Nintendo didn't make it.". It's just something about the disconnect between the Oracles and their gameplay and Minish Cap and its gameplay (the two games 'feel' a lot more different than you'd assume they would be, with both being worked on by Capcom-Flagship). Then there's the differences between the EURO and NA/JAP versions, which are drastic enough to lead those crazy cats at TCRF to speculate the European version may be based on an entirely earlier build of the game (go look up some of what was changed/fixed between releases, it was just enough to raise my eyebrow and make me think "Surely you would have caught that in QA...?"). A lot of the graphics assets actually seem split off of, rather than derived from, Wind Waker work, as if Capcom had some sort of trouble in that department. Take a good hard look next time you play; especially the characters seem like modified mid-dev Windwaker NPCs, rendered to pixel art and touched up before the Flagship team proper gave them each a twist so it wouldn't be too noticeable. Then there's all the delightful leftover bits that Cutting Room Floor found- less than Wind Waker, yeah, but when you adjust for Minish's smaller scope the ratios become much closer (the reason I keep referencing Wind Waker is that we pretty much know for a fact that it had troubled development, so much so that they nearly missed their deadline and had to cut something like 3 dungeons and a ton of side-quests).

I dunno, man...It's just a feeling. But it's amplified when I go to look up details about its dev cycle and find fuck-all compared to the other Zeldas. Actually, I think even the Oracle series before it has more known dev lore. I get that Jap Studios are notoriously tight-lipped but, uh....Really makes ya think, and all that jazz.

 

[Viata]

Well, I never played Minish Cap after I finished Wind Waker, so I may do that. As for differences in between releases, I didn't know about that. Thanks.

 

[LESS T_T]

Hey, Experience Inc.'s horror adventure Death Mark is coming to PC too:

... for the new dungeon crawlers also coming to PC?

 

[Viata]

Experience Inc

horror adventure

Interesting.