Forgotten Games: Laplace no Ma - SNESdrunk
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Just for some extra context: "Laplace's Demon" is a physics/philosophical postulate that presents the idea that, (in short) "If someone (the demon) were to know the exact position and momentum of every atom in the universe, they would be able to extrapolate all past and future events." Essentially what is known as determinism. To put it casually, Laplace's Demon is the idea that if you had perfect universal knowledge of the present you could perfectly infer the future (and the past).
Wow, thats super interesting! Thanks for posting this. Im definitely gonna do some more research on that topic. There goes my night I guess, into a black hole of philosophical wikipedia posts haha
@Boco Corwin As was Uatu the Watcher, from Marvel Comics.
@@rimjobledouche5201 Or Shulk from Xenoblade Chronicles
Better hop to it, world's going a bit mad. :P
Originally the translation patch was supposed to come out on Halloween 2001, but it ended up buggy and left unfinished until they completed it in 2018. The original game was originally released in 1987 as part of the Ghost Hunter Series by HummingBird Soft, which also made the Record of Lodoss War games for Japanese home computers, and was later used as the inspiration for the first two Deep Dungeon games. Also, the original game got a sequel on home computers (I think) titled Paracelsus no Maken.
Well aren't you informative. Lol
this I like
@@dtPlaythroughs What makes you think that? I for one welcome our new informative overlords
does Paracelsus no maken have an english patch?
"Which occupation should we give the character that makes a lot of money?" "Journalist!"
_Cries in newspaper_
maybe they get paied off for writing propaganda and / or hit pieces...
they get paid for ghost pictures
Your forgotten games videos highlighting super famicon titles are some of my favorites that you cover on the channel.
After all these years still pumping out some of my favourite vids on TH-cam. Keep it up SNESdrunk!
This looks and feels like a spiritual successor to Sweet Home (which is already a good thing, that game was way ahead of its time), with an overhauled interface and a way friendlier gaming experience, which makes it even more appealing to me. Thanks a lot for showcasing this, man. I wouldn't have known otherwise.
That was my very first impression too. I can't believe that he didn't mention Sweet Home at any point in the review.
That’s exactly what i was thinking to basically like a Super Famicom version of Sweet home
Just here to mention that I was thinking the same thing.
There's a game called Cthulhu Mythos RPG, and another called Castle Agony on Steam if you want to play something similar.
A snesdrunk review of sweet home would be cool.
What is even funnier than seeing someone in a body bag is you carrying around a gibbering insane party member. When their MP drops to 0, they go insane (A confuse status that persists until it is restored by sleeping at the hotel or treating it at a hospital), which causes their attack and accuracy to skyrocket, dealing a lot of damage, but may attack other party members. While insane on the map, they spin around while you walk.
A Call of Cthulhu inspired game with SMT gameplay elements that doesn't put too much emphasis on leveling through combat? Man, the SNES really had everything in its library, didn't it.
That "talk to enemy" mechanic would have blown my mind if I'd encountered it back on the NES.
Yet another SNES title I need to find time to play. I absolutely love how decades since it's original launch I still find myself surprised at what the system has to offer.
Such a dope concept, I wish that Nintendo would release these games on the eshop, they wouldn't even have to update or redo the graphics.
God Bless romhacking.net
Opened a whole new world of retro games to me.
This is the first time I've ever heard of this game, which reminds me of the atmosphere of Clock Tower a lot. I appreciate very much your reviews of these hidden gems, thanks for the recommendation 🙂
Nice shouting out to Daria plays.yoyr both great content providers i respect.
No bs just facts and or personal opinions.
Love it. Keep up the good work ya arcade and SNES drunk.
Always impressive managing to be scary with the limitations of being 2D like this. Metroid Fusion is one of the best horror games ever despite being a GBA game too. The devs have to be really creative. No jump scares and overuse of darkness and shadows for then to abuse.
Lol what, Metroid fusion has so much horror as blood in a Mario game
@@anemite2 I've always found the metroid games kind of eerie and unsettling. They're not scary games, but I can definently see the horror genre influence in them.
The Metroid games are inspired by the movie Alien. They absolutely have horror elements.
@@anthonyajumelles 100%
Play "The Wind". It's a DOS style browser game
This is the first time I heard about this and sounds really good , definitely not a lot of this genre on the console but it sounds like the famicom game Sweet Home. Maybe it's just the cliche of the haunted house. Great review man
This game sounds really close to Sweet Home but with way more features
Fascinating game, thanks for covering this
Great video, as always. I want to offer a small correction. Laplace is a French name pronounced more like Lah-Plahss. Laplace is one of the many mathematicians and scientists whose name my American students struggle with, e.g., Euler, Fourier, Chebyshev, etc.
Okay, wow. I am definitely interested in this game. I also love when multiple objects can be examples for a variety of flavor text. I might just play this while streaming it to a friend.
Nice Sweet Home vibe.
Too bad we didn't get that one
Dat ominous soundtrack doe.
The music is really reminding me of Earthbound!
Also this games looks quite neat; definitely want to give it a go sometime.
Absolutely outstanding. If I could double thumbs up I would. Man I wish this had been on SNES in North America during my childhood
About time you talked about this game!
Best channel ever.
Scientist AKA Ghostbuster.
It took me the entire video to realize "Drunk" isn't a character class. It's just what the host calls his characters.
Man, this reminds me of Sweet Home... Which is a great thing. I need this.
Great suggestion. I'll check it out.
I sometimes wish that "replay value" wasn't considered an aspect of game reviews. At least, not a given alongside reviewing graphics and gameplay. As you said, there's nothing wrong with a story-driven game that you replay at long intervals. That's practically every RPG around, isn't it? I could never crank through a Final Fantasy game, full complete it (as is my wont), and immediately restart after the credits roll. And yet at least since I was a kid in the 90s, it's been a big deal to talk about replay value.
Also, can it really be quantified? I've played Mega Man 2 more times than I care to think about and I have a friend who literally plays it at least once a day, but I strongly doubt any reviewer would look at a bog-standard 2D platformer, albeit a very good one, and say "This has tons of replay value!" Because it doesn't, at least in the sense meant.
I think it should just be a footnot
this looks interesting and would have blown my mind if I had played it in my younger years
Seems like its sweet home but more robust
1:14 "Which person is me?"
Asking the big philosophical questions right at the beginning!
"Guess what it is that I do" is the best class selection screen text ever. The game should have outright trolled players by going against their wishes and picking a random class instead.
"You GUESSED I was a detective... but you're wrong! I'm really a medium! Fooled you!" 😝
Haha, I wish more games openly antagonized the player like this
Laplace Demon, what an amazing name for a game. Good to know that some coders know their mathematics!
What a gem. 100% I will check this out. I like to create my own troupe of characters.
In this case, "Laplace's Demon" might actually be a more accurate translation than "Demon of Laplace". In English, Laplace's theorized intelligence is referred to as "Laplace's demon." Just as we'd say "Maxwell's demon" instead of "Demon of Maxwell." Though I haven't played the game, and cannot say that there isn't something about the story that might actually make the "of" translation a better fit.
This is a really cool game. There's actually going to be a speedrun of it showcased at RPG Limit Break this year on May 15th if anyone is interested.
If I can, I will watch, the game catched my interest and as a speedrunner, I wanna see the strategies for the run.
I wrote the FAQ/Walkthrough for it back in the days. Really curious to see them breaking the game.
Total length of video: 400 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 5 secs.
1.25% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk."
Replay value or not, it's always good to see how older consoles decided to approach horror with immovable limitations of the hardware. Great video!
Still finding hidden gems.
Why have I never heard of this game before?
As a Paranormal researcher/investigator myself, this game seems right up my alley. A plus that it takes place in New England which is where my team is based.
What ghosts you got?
Lovecraft Dragon Quest. The bodybag thing is even like the coffin draggin of earlier DQ games.
Kinda reminds me of Sweet Home for the Famicom.
Can't believe I've never heard of this. Putting it on my SNES Classic ASAP.
This game actually looks really interesting. Thanks for the video!
Daria Plays RPGs is great.
Has some nice sounding music tones I could hear.
It looks freaking awesome.
This game reminds me of Sweet Home.
This looks pretty damn cool 😊
Didn't know about this one! Thanks Drunk-masta Flex!
Adding this one to the list.
It reminds me a lot of Sweet Home but executed a whole lot better
Love how you pronounced “Benedict Weathertop”~ so much snark lol
This reminds of of the Famicom game Sweet Home in a lot of ways.
This looks frikkin great! Why did I never knew that existed?
love the battle music though
Interesting concept. Looks like I'll have to check it out.
I did a Playthrough on this! really fun RPG with good Atmospheric Music
0:24 I wouldn't call SMT a horror game. Sure it's dark and a bit philosophical and makes very heavy use of religious, occult, and mythological iconography from many different cultures, but I wouldn't say it's a horror game. I could see the argument that it's a scary game, but it's definitely not a horror game. If anything it's a JRPG with an arguably horrifying world and theme
There was once an RPer who placed his Detective's stats into Driving, Fists, and Guns.
It sounds like this RPG would agree with said stat spread.
I’m relieved that I can mosey around town rather than shlep.
For some reason, the BGM that starts at at 3:34 reminds me heavily of Full Throttle, when Ben's skulking around Mellonweed at night.
Translated version is named "Laplace's Demon", I know you pirates are going to plunder the search option
You should check out Sweet Home if you haven't already.
You need to review “ sweet home” on NES .
Like the SNES version of Sweet Home
I literally only just hears about this day before yesterday, as it showed up on the schedule for RPG Limit Break to be run by Pa-sama.
Damn this would have been amazing back in the day!
I fucking love your channel dude. I can’t tell you how many times you bring up games that had been lost to the recesses of my memory. Nothing like a good ol’ nostalgia boner out of nowhere.
That's a new one! Thanks for sharing! S2
Newcam I guess a combination of Newton and Cambridge
This is really interesting! I loved Sweet Home for the Famicom, how does it compare to that game?
They look almost identical
Never heard of this before. Looks interesting. Might need to give it a go.
rest of my day is always great after i watch one of these
it's just the before part i got to work on.
or else watch snes drunk first thing...
Very interesting game. Nintendo should make a compilation of all the good super famicom rpgs and release it on the switch. Fully translated of course. One can dream.
Sooo loveee your intro 👍
I tried this game only once. I no longer have the endurance to pull through a game like this. It is very original but you gotta have a lot of time to spend.
Woah, this looks like Sweet Home Part 2. Cool.
Would be cool to see this on the SNES Switch!
Damn, I was hoping when he said Call of Kthulu he would show a picture of Ride the Lightning and say "No, not that Call of Kthulu!"
I will try this.
That game looks really cool
You see a body bag, I see a delicious chicken leg.
He should review Sweet Home on the Famicom next since its sooo similar to this game
Didn't know there was an SNES Laplace No MA. I assume its the same or similar to the PC Engine CD game? Is there any info on getting that game translated? There's been a lot more translated games for PC Engine lately, it'd be nice, among other, if this got tackled.
If you look closely, 2 of the characters, looks like a lot to Shaggy and Fred from Scooby-Doo, even the same cloth colors!
I doubt you’ll ever run out, but if you ever do run out of games for a console would you do a big wrap up on the games you’d recommend? Or maybe do it in general, like my top 100 nes games?
Man that's an awesome game. I wanna play it
I'd have never heard of Laplace's Demon had it not been for Darwin's Game. Good stuff, although the manga gets weird.
Any chance you could do a video on Lady Sia for the GBA? There aren't any decent videos on it and I think it deserves more attention - some really impressive visuals and animation in that game.
A very dark sigmigami
This looks absolutely intriguing. I gave up RPGs for adulthood, but maybe it's time to allot some evenings to checking this out. Thanks, Drunk. 👌
How many unique intros did you made already, man? I have the feel that is a new one per video, but I could be wrong.
I was just looking at this game on cdromance...now my opinion can be formed for me!
This game has some really neat gameplay but is hard to finish. Where did you get that excellent translation rom?
In the end do you have to use the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics to defeat determinism and vanquish Laplace's Demon?
Do you do Birthday Parties?
So this is just Sweet Home but for the SNES?
BTW, If you haven't done a review of Sweet Home for the Famicom/NES, you have a new video idea already because that game is something else. It's a survival horror RPG VERY similar to this game on the Famicom/NES that's based on, of all things, a Japanese horror movie of the same name. Just wait until you hear the plot and see some of the cutscenes.
Check out "Abaddon: Princess of the Decay"; it's a hommage to Sweet Home and slated to be released early next year.
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This games sound cool