So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition
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FM3 or FM5 would be the best place to start although I hear the FM1 remake is pretty great. They're pretty simple tactical RPGs, nothing as complicated as advance wars or FF Tactics but they are no less fun due to it.
Two things to note if you start with FM 3 as it's the one I'm most familiar with.
First, you get a choice to make at the start of the game (go with a character or not) which leads to two branching paths which are effectively two very different storylines and both are worth playing. The Emma storyline is way better fleshed out with multiple paths through and tonnes of characters you can recruit of make enemies of. The other path is still worth doing.
Secondly the mech parts system is a bit misleading. Your fully upgraded level 3 armour is always going to seem better than any other parts you collect on the way. Sticking with the same armour is a mistake though as the newer armour will be better if you upgrade it. As the abilities you can learn are from different armours so it's much better to change armour when you see a new one. There's loads of really fun broken abilities.
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Finished links awakening DX. One of the best Zelda games and see how it's held in such high regard. The final two dungeons were so good and the final boss fight was great.
The colour dungeon added to DX though... Why did they bother.
Going to continue with Megaman V on the Gameboy and then finish off a few more of the Guild01 games on the 3DS.
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I gave it a go already. It's an interesting project but the interconnected open world kind of breaks the game, it just wasn't designed for it. The recent switch remake suffers from it a little. It's kind of a good example of how games are built around limitations and sometimes removing them negatively affects the game.
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I'm guessing that's a conversion of the arcade ninja gaiden.
I remember playing a lot of data easy conversions on the C64 which for some reason we're really great conversions. Sly spy secret agent, dragon ninja. Taito as well with rainbow islands, bubble bobble and operation wolf off the top of my head.
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Browsing ROMs on the Steam Deck at work last night, I was intrigued by the box art of this. Dead of the Brain 1 & 2, a PC Engine CD game that has been recently translated to English.
Visual novel/point and click stuff isn't my cup of tea but apparently this is gorey so it had my interest. It's very slow moving so I'll need to figure out some sort of turbo move on the emulator!
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I heard it's pretty good for a VN with great art. What I can definitely vouch for is the soundtrack which is peak 90s videogame synth. Well the PC 98 version (which I think has a translated version available). I imagine PC engine soundtrack is weaker.
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Finished up Megaman V on the Gameboy. Great game but I regret starting it before I found out about the colourised GBC rom Hack which makes some of the more samey early levels look way better and more distinct.
Back to the 3DS and finishing those Guild games off. I started and finished Liberation Maiden last night. Fun little project with a unique control scheme. It's only about an hour long but good fun for that hour. Feels like a vertical slice pitch for a bigger project but that's kind of what the guild games were about.
Started Starship Damrey but early days for that.
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