Might and Magic The Might and Magic Discussion Thread

[KeighnMcDeath]

Looking back at Isle of Terra various box art for consoles:

Spoiler

Never played these so I looked up OST. Synth harpsichord on the SNES? Hmmmm...




https://downloads.khinsider.com/gam...ht-and-magic-iii-isles-of-terra-turbografx-16

 

[Dorateen]

The Super Nintendo cover foreshadows the party versus monster art from Might & Magic VI and VII.

 

[wishbonetail]

Never played these

You wouldnt wanna.
https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=5975526

 

[Darth Canoli]

You wouldnt wanna.
https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=5975526

The children are safe! Statue's boobs have been covered.
They should watch japs/usa cartoons where characters murder each other with chainsaws instead...

 

[octavius]

It's like Nintendo US was run by Ayatollah Khomeini.

 

[Grauken]

It's like Nintendo US was run by Ayatollah Khomeini.

Whoever it was is now running Sony US

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Nintendo's consoles were always aimed at young children/family friendly, the censorship is no surprise.
For parents it's nice to be able to buy games and not have to worry about what content they may contain.

Having a large platform selection with different targeted audiences is a good thing.

 

[wishbonetail]

Nintendo's consoles were always aimed at young children/family friendly, the censorship is no surprise.

Young children would not get harmed by statue's boobs. This censorship comes from complexed adults, aimed at molding of complexed children.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Nintendo's consoles were always aimed at young children/family friendly, the censorship is no surprise.

Young children would not get harmed by statue's boobs. This censorship comes from complexed adults, aimed at molding of complexed children.

It's not meant to be nuanced decisions that can be lawyered around, it's a platform for young children. Yes, that does sometimes result in hilarious censorship.
It's like asking why a PG version of a film went overboard with censorship. Because that's the entire point of it.

Young children would not get harmed by statue's boobs. This censorship comes from complexed adults, aimed at molding of complexed children.

It's a parent's right to choose what content they want their children to view. Whether the child would be "harmed" or not is irrelevant to that. Nintendo simply catered to this demographic with their approved products.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

I wonder if the choice of pink bikini is a subtle method of protest? Makes the content underneath seem much worse than what it actually is. Especially since a lot of media for children with mermaids don't have them wearing panties. Because they intentionally design it so any no-no bits are not even close to being visible. It wouldn't be too hard to affect such changes so it isn't glaringly obvious.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I wonder if the choice of pink bikini is a subtle method of protest? Makes the content underneath seem much worse than what it actually is. Especially since a lot of media for children with mermaids don't have them wearing panties. Because they intentionally design it so any no-no bits are not even close to being visible. It wouldn't be too hard to affect such changes so it isn't glaringly obvious.

They're the ones who chose to release their game on a heavily censored platform, it would be strange to protest your own decision.
The port was done by a separate developer(Iguana Entertainment), btw.

Wonder how many of you are aware how different the Japanese version of M&M 2 is

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Reading all the weapon and blood removals shows hiw damn stupid censorship is. What age was this game targeted towards? I was pretty young when conan & rambo & terminator came out and I did watch them. (Born nov 1974).

edit...
It is swords & sorcery.... what are they fighting with? Nerf?

 

[wishbonetail]

Wonder how many of you are aware how different the Japanese version of M&M 2 is

Looks great, it actually has fluid turning animations and QoLs. But MM without gazillions of monsters is not MM.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Well, it isn't MM2. They did tone it down afterwards.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Well, the Japanese music is better than the European. Both are better than this SCREECH

Thank god for mute.

More comparisons

Ya know, I don't think MM2 was ever on the turbografx 16.





Jesus fuck a ten hour vid?!?!?!

So, I guess no MM2 for the turbografx 16

 

[Darth Canoli]

It'd be informative if you actually played Isles of Terra Turbografx and could compare it yourself in a few sentences here, I for one don't watch videos of people playing games.

You have to draw a line somewhere.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I try to find short abridged reviews but sometimes it doesn't happen. Alas, with no real internet I can't reliably upload content at all. I do EVERYTHING via my shitty iphone. Once in a blue moon my connection allows an upload or dl through hotspot. Sucks.

Anyway, I can do a few things through my phone. I wanted to reshare some of the manual pics. Some of these are pretty good (generally MM1-Xeen).

Spoiler

 

[wishbonetail]

try to find shirt abridged reviews but sometimes it doesn't happen. Alas, with no real internet I can't reliably upload content at all. I do EVERYTHING via my shitty iphone. Once in a blue moon my connection allows an upload or dl through hotspot. Sucks.

Hah, im playing MM2 on a friggin 7" samsung galaxy, on a megadrive emulator. It is a no mean feat let me tell ya, but I think Im gonna make it. It is hell though, to play this on a touchscreen gamepad, every action takes three times longer than it should, it took me at least 20 hours just to get used to it. Nevertheless It is pretty accurate 16bit remake of PC version.

 

[Darth Canoli]

About Isles of Terra on Turbografx, I found roms, english one is way harder to find but I found one without the JP stamp so it might be it.

I've never done any turbografx emulation and i'm not too eager to jump in but if someone is, i can provide a link, the rom is on archive dot org.

 

[wishbonetail]

I've found Terbograf16 emulator on android. When im done with MM2, ill try Isles of Terra. That is a good thing.The bad thing is that i didnt play MM3 on PC.

 

[Darth Canoli]

I've found Terbograf16 emulator on android. When im done with MM2, ill try Isles of Terra. That is a good thing.The bad thing is that i didnt play MM3 on PC.

Looks like I can't PM you the link, you can probably find it on your own though.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Played MM3 on amiga but didn't finish. Finished it on PC several times. Tbh, 3-xeen is kind of the easy-peasy baby might & magics. Swords is tougher. It'd be hard for me to rate the ease of each game considering platforms vary a little and determining a scale is the issue. Size of game, how fast to complete, difficulty of combats, puzzles, interface and frustration, etc. I would have liked MMX to be untethered from steam & ubi but I say that about all games. If you like achievements and shit then fine, but sometimes that isn't possible so cut the tether.

i don't know if the tbgfx16 one i found is translated or not. I am wondering if there isn't an in-game toggle tbh.

https://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/pcengine/

Mednafen eh?

Mednafen setup

 

[Darth Canoli]

Played MM3 on amiga but didn't finish. Finished it on PC several times. Tbh, 3-xeen is kind of the easy-peasy baby might & magics. Swords is tougher. It'd be hard for me to rate the ease of each game considering platforms vary a little and determining a scale is the issue. Size of game, how fast to complete, difficulty of combats, puzzles, interface and frustration, etc. I would have liked MMX to be untethered from steam & ubi but I say that about all games. If you like achievements and shit then fine, but sometimes that isn't possible so cut the tether.

i don't know if the tbgfx16 one i found is translated or not. I am wondering if there isn't an in-game toggle tbh.

https://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/pcengine/

Mednafen eh?

Mednafen setup

I'm not speaking for everyone but rather than difficulty comparison, it's more about eventual censorship and even more about music and sound effects.
It seems PCengine version is way slower so maybe sound effects aren't botchered, it'd be quite nice if it was the case.

Good sfx and no censorship would make it my favorite version.

I tried retroarch a while back for Death's Adder revenge but either i had a phony demo rom or it just didn't work and i'm not sure about mednafen.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Mednafen sounds like those drug prescription commercials with a dozen side effects.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

tried retroarch a while back for Death's Adder revenge but either i had a phony demo rom or it just didn't work and i'm not sure about mednafen.

I can't say I've ever had any problems with Mednafen, outside of Atari Lynx emulation, which I think has an issue with older versions of game files. Might be some other issues, but those are very easy fixes. The specific version of game files seems to be a big problem with the newer, more accurate emulators, because if you have a version that isn't clean or perhaps just an older version, some won't run it. I think Retroarch uses those kinds of emulators, or maybe there was some weird issue with it. I gave up on Retroarch when it wouldn't properly play DOS games, which made me highly suspect of its entire design.