I think that every RPG should have a feature where you can keep track of what's happened in the story so far, because I find that it's easy to forget what you were supposed to be doing in order to advance the game if you take a break from an RPG for too long, so it's very nice to see something like that in this game. 😁
So much this. My AADD and the large variety of games out there means it's easy to stumble on something new, pay attention to it for a bit, go back to an earlier game, and have no clue wtf I'm supposed to do. Did I talk to this village elder-looking fart? OH! He has like 3 boxes of text so that's gotta mean he's an important NP- crap. He's just thanking me for beating the three-headed giant hamster boss. ...Wait, wasn't that a while ago? Did I come back to this town to buy some items that were only available here, or something like that? Was there a side-quest here? Ugh... Devs often build their games with the notion you're going to play start to finish. True, but... not necessarily in one (series of) sitting. Getting back into a game a few weeks later can easily kill the experience when you don't remember what's what and the game has you in a "go talk to that guy somewhere in the world that we brought up last cut scene but nobody is going to talk about it anymore now so hopefully you kept some notes" moment.
Dragon Quest added the option to talk to your companions for that very reason, western RPGs usually have detailed quest logs, Dragon's Dogma had the journal... It's not a rare feature, but a welcome one.
I had the a Taruruto game on the Game Gear, which was a shoot em up with really cute graphics a la Parodius or Pop'n Twin Bee, and I loved it. The megadrive one is pretty good as well.
Pretty much all the late SNES JRPGs didn't get translated for the reasons mentioned here. Came out too late on the SNES's life cycle when the N64 was either already out or about to come out in Japan, at a time when localization took several months and printing cartridges took several more leading to a 9-12 month lead time to get to market on a port, which, when a company projected forward to see if they'd get a decent ROI quickly realized they wouldn't due to the competition from the next-gen console. The result is a BUNCH of the best JRPGs on the system never made it over: Tactics Ogre, Star Ocean, Tales of Phantasia (thouge ToP and TO at least got PSX ports) and also this game.
It's even tougher when you think of the absolute drought the N64 had during it's run. The SNES was the last time you saw JRPG's of the quality and quantity on a Nintendo console until probably the Wii and the switch. It was all Saturn and PSX during that time.
@@moonrazk The PSX was the console if you were anywhere outside of Japan. It got all the good stuff. The N64 was entirely about platformers and GoldenEye and party games.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu The N64 was a dark time for JRPG lovers, especially ones that assumed it would get the same support and got an N64 instead of a PlayStation. Good luck convincing your parents to get another game system. I loved the few games I got on the N64, but once I was in high school I got a part time job and bought a PlayStation.
Meanwhile, in the modern day, last gen console games keep coming out for several years and people are less likely to move onto the next big thing. Not to mention year+ exclusivity. IMO, I still played last gen games well into the life of the newest gen even back then. I think the biggest factor was retailers willing to support two generations. This is now a non-factor with online shopping and digital releases.
Never even heard of this one before, but man it looks like we missed out big time on it! I have absolutely no time to track it down and play it now, but back in the day this would have been one of my favourite games, I can tell.
This one, Last Bible 3, Tengai Makyou Zero, Herakles IV... There are lots of gems on the snes jrpg list that got a fantranslaton. And there are yet a few untranslated ones which a lot of potential, such as Verne World, Gokinjo Boukentai, Shin Momotaro Densetsu, etc.
Dang its always so bittersweet to find out about these games that were never US localized, you can always tell how much tlc goes into them- the graphics look so good and the battles are surprisingly unique (for the time) with behind the back (Dragonview?!) style and great animations, these are truly potential gems lost to the sands of time, I always think the translators that make it possible can't be thanked enough and to you for giving these types of games a new audience and awareness @SNESdrunk your doing the lord's work (or dare I say G.O.D.'s job ;P ) Also, speaking of did Maka Maka ever get the english treatment?!!
Nope, neither Maka Maka nor its spiritual sequel, Idea no Hi, were ever translated. And I don't know if it's better this way. Maka Maka was rushed and riddled with bugs, and Idea no Hi, while much more polished and having a pretty good story, had some bad design ideas that would putt many people off. Maybe if those flaws were fixed via romhack, it would be a game deserving of a fantranslation someday, but it would be quite complicated.
Another RPG in a modern day setting was "Idea no Hi" ( Day of Idea). I thought it was pretty good, at some point in the future an English patch may become available.
Yeah, I played Idea no Hi a few years ago with the help of online translators, and its plot is the strongest point in the game. It's also quite similar to G•O•D in which some characters also have psychic powers, and every party member has a dedicated intro, ressembling Live a Live a little. It's a pity that it has some flaws gameplay wise, such as losing HP while you run (to make it more difficult running from visible enemies in dungeons) or the cumbersome clothing system you're forced to use in order to avoid getting damage while you walk through too hot or too cold areas. Maybe a romhack could get rid of it, that would improve the game by a lot.
Never would have given this game a thought after only seeing the title and thumbnail. The gameplay captures look really good though like it's probably a solid game. Thanks for covering this one
Well damn, this game is going on the mini-snes next! This looks absolutely awesome, thank you for shining a light on this game. Thank you so much for all your work!!!
Don't beat yourself over it, with well over 100 RPGs it's easy to miss something... especially very late games like this one. Nintendo's/Sony's consoles have always had loads of such games, most being fairly obscure too.
I’m getting strong Lufia 2 vibes with it. The main character reminds me of maxim and the over the shoulder style battle system is also reminiscent of Lufia 2
What you said about Earthbound being more than just wacky dialogue and crazy characters, but that it actually tackles some heavy themes shows you understand it better than almost every developer who ever made a game "inspired" by it.
Ever since Terranigma I've really tried to seek out rpgs that never got localization. I'd never even heard of this game before this channel. Also those old school (and yes tedious) rpg mechanics still don't bother me, buuuut the "easy mode" improvement patch sounds like the way to go. This channel is awesome. For nostalgic SNES gems it doesn't get better. This game really feels like it was influenced by Quartet creations (illusion of Gaia, Soul Blazer, etc), probably the 2nd best rpg developer for Nintendo. Definitely gotta check this one out. God bless emulation.
Finally found a way to start playing all these English patches for snes i have watched your channel for so long but now I finally get to play all the games can’t wait to add this to the list thx drunk
This game is a good one. The story is both quirky and serious. There are some truly light and humorous points, but there are also some extremely dark moments which really tug at the emotions of the player. Drunk is right; you should play this game if you are a fan of JRPGS.
Definitely checking this one out, thanks for making us all discover it! Any other SNES RPGs like these that haven't been ported to the west would be appreciated too, you do a great job of snuffing these out! :D (Can't remember if you did a video about Rudra No Hihou? Could be a nice one!)
3:00 another snes rpg that had a diary is Glory of Herakles IV, which was translated by Transcorp by the end of 2016, I think. One of the members, Plato, was in charge of writing new pages of it as you progressed through the game.
Great review! There is just something charming about many 16-bit JRPGs. I'm glad the hacking community has been able to give us an opportunity to play many games that were originally Japanese exclusives. I'm definitely checking this one out! It looks like a fun adventure!
Oh man, this sounds amazing. I think the game would test my patience though with all the text-heavy help files. It is nice that the game remembers what you did regardless.
Safe to say that the name of the game would have been changed for a US release. "Final Fantasy: The Alien Chronicles," or "The Secret of Aliens," or something.
Ive played through it around a year ago, having a soft spot for snes games this really took me back to that era. Its a very charming and a soulfull rpg, comfy would be the right word to use here. Exploring the world and seeing whats happened to it and the people was always something to look forward too. It has a huge world map and a lot of exploration, a bunch of weird sidequests that leaves you confused but is sure to leave a giggle. Story is good, it has its twists and it moments but as I mentioned before charm is the thing here it captures that charm many rpgs seems to fail to do. Combat is great with a lot of areas to uprade and mix it up to your style. Unfortunately some work better than others and it will be a one sided choice. Its a great snes rpg, one of my top 5 on the snes, writing this brought happy memories and it was definietly a satisfying playtrough a must play for rpg and any gaming fans if youre looking for a unique yet familiar experience . The only gripe I have in the version Ive played was a unique sequence in Las Vegas where you have to say yes to everything, if you dont the game wont progress any further , I wish I knew that before because I had start the whole game again from scratch again. And those extra boss fights at the end, it was unique and never seen a other rpg do that.
The thumbnail made me think for a second that there was some Golden Boy SNES game I had never heard of. It looks like the artists/author for Golden Boy, Tatsuya Egawa, must have been the artist for this game, and that journal system may have been an influence of his.
I don't know anything else about this game other than what I've heard you say about it. But I will say that the music sound incredible and I'm going to look up the soundtrack right now
Kids randomly walking into people's houses without knocking. The nerve! At least the kid in Robotrek had the decency to ring the doorbell before walking to somebody's house.
I've been debating for sometime to add this one to my Super Famicom collection, but I didn't know enough about it to make any informed decision. This really helped give me the proper context about the game without spoiling it I've been curious about. I also have to add, just saying this personally speaking, I appreciate you saying no this isn't Final Fantasy 6 or Chrono Trigger but it doesn't have to be. I love those games, don't get me wrong, but I'm glad not every game is like them. I like variety in my old school rpgs so I can play something depending on my mood. I mean, one of my personal favorite rpgs of all time is Albert Odyssey on Sega Saturn which a lot of people find nearly unplayable. It's a very slow paced game, and it has these very quirky, Looney Tunes humor moments that for some takes them out of the game, but I find gives it it's charm. I find it a relaxing rpg, the kind you'd play on a rainy weekend or something (except for the end dungeon area. F**k that part full stop). If it had to be super serious the whole time, and have time travel, and Operas, and crazy combo attack systems, and was fast paced I'd find it exhausting to be quite frank and honest about it. If I want that, I'll play FF6/Chrono Trigger. If I don't want that, I'll play something else. If I want to play something that's a bit out there, long, but at it's core is a simple old school rpg I'll play something like this. It's nice to have options.
Fun fact: this game is quite popular in japan, has a remaster? Remake? On psx, additionally it has a cafe event even to this day, and has some expensive merch and plushies sold at that cafe event
Just finished the game, it was quite an adventure, and good one ! the patch really helped with the random encouters and to keep the story flow smoothly. The ps1 ( remake ) version looks gorgeous too, and with some differences with the snes. too bad it is not translated though.. maybe one day ! i'll def go back to it.
When i got bored a few years back i looked through the list of translated snes games i never heard of, ended up finding this. I was shocked i never heard a single thing about it.
This game does seem pretty neat looking. One of these days i'll own something that can allow me to play games "any way i can". Once that happens this channel will be invaluable for the reminders of what other games and patches to get. 😄👍
@@duffman18 really? I always figured you needed something a bit more powerful to run some of the stuff. Now i'm gonna see what my 2in1 tablet can do, do you know any good sites to get emulators and ROMs from? Kinda excited now😄👍
I've been playing this game on and off on my phone for the last couple months, and it's pretty fun. The grinding hasn't really been an issue for me. There were only like 2 times so far that I felt I actually needed to grind to be able to do a dungeon. Haven't finished it yet, but it's been fun
That is an interesting looking game, I would have loved it as a kid had it come out over here. I may have to give it a try with the enhancement patch as I have a hard time playing those old grind heavy RPG's these days, there is not enough time in the day anymore lol.
The cover art is clearly the guy who created Golden Boy. I figured this would be some sort of harem genre, as that's what he specializes in. But it doesn't seem like it.
If you want a kusoge RPG to review, there's Maka Maka. It never got localized, it doesn't have a fan translation, it's very buggy due to being a prototype, and it caused the publisher to go out of business. It has homosexual ant men.
I, too, must trek through treacherous forests, and climb mountains, where I then must fight monsters, and then wake up 10 years into the future, to an alien invasion, where I then become an alien with special powers, which lands me in prison, where I then escape…every time I want to visit my grandma. It’s a lot of work, but it’s totally worth it. 😆 On a serious note, this game looks really awesome! Looks like a great game to get cozy and play on a rainy day. These are my favorite kind of games. Well, games like this are my favorite, but they cannot require extensive grinding, and too many enemy encounters. I especially hate when these games have blind encounters, where you encounter an enemy with ever 2 steps you take. Action RPGs are my absolute favorite. I’m just not typically a big fan of turn based combat. Some games get it right, like Earthbound. I actually like the way they did it. Undertale is another one that came up with a unique format, with their mini game combat. But yeah, I much prefer hack and slash, real time combat, like Zelda, Secret of Mana, Illusion of Gaia, etc. There are so many awesome looking games that are literally ruined FOR ME, personally, due to the excessive, turn based combat. Wish this game, among many others, could be turned into action RPGs. But that’s just my preference. Anyway, I’m going to shut up now. Time to go visit grandma. Wish me luck!
There's one massive caveat to this game for people who want to play this on original hardware... The game constantly shifts from 240p to 480i whenever text is displayed onscreen. You can actually see the image in this very video shift ever so slightly every time a text box appears. In an emulator, it doesn't matter, but if you play this on an actual SNES on anything other than a CRT, you might not have such a good time. The constant resolution shifting is exactly like Chrono Cross.
Not a bad one. The PS1 remake/remaster is quite similar all things considered, with some small changes here and there. I like how they have loads of stereotypes in this game; mayor of Moscow is the most corrupt human on Earth, and Brits/the French hate each other. :v Overall, fun times, and the serious themes are quite interesting too for sure.
Tried this game before, it was hell of a grindfest with hard bosses... gotta try it with the patch now ! the game really looks great. Edit : easymode really does the job, great game !
I think that every RPG should have a feature where you can keep track of what's happened in the story so far, because I find that it's easy to forget what you were supposed to be doing in order to advance the game if you take a break from an RPG for too long, so it's very nice to see something like that in this game. 😁
Yeah. Especially on someone who have so many backlogs.
So much this.
My AADD and the large variety of games out there means it's easy to stumble on something new, pay attention to it for a bit, go back to an earlier game, and have no clue wtf I'm supposed to do. Did I talk to this village elder-looking fart? OH! He has like 3 boxes of text so that's gotta mean he's an important NP- crap. He's just thanking me for beating the three-headed giant hamster boss. ...Wait, wasn't that a while ago? Did I come back to this town to buy some items that were only available here, or something like that? Was there a side-quest here? Ugh...
Devs often build their games with the notion you're going to play start to finish. True, but... not necessarily in one (series of) sitting. Getting back into a game a few weeks later can easily kill the experience when you don't remember what's what and the game has you in a "go talk to that guy somewhere in the world that we brought up last cut scene but nobody is going to talk about it anymore now so hopefully you kept some notes" moment.
Dragon Quest added the option to talk to your companions for that very reason, western RPGs usually have detailed quest logs, Dragon's Dogma had the journal... It's not a rare feature, but a welcome one.
Dragon quest 11 actually does this every time you quit and continue from your last save lol
Professor Layton Games also excels on this 🥰
I love the illustrator for this game. He drew/wrote Magical Taruruto!
The great Tatsuya Egawa!
And Golden Boy! (ง ͠ಥ_ಥ)ง
@@rawrharhar Study study study study
I had the a Taruruto game on the Game Gear, which was a shoot em up with really cute graphics a la Parodius or Pop'n Twin Bee, and I loved it. The megadrive one is pretty good as well.
Didnt he made the weird manga called D.N.A.² ?
This actually looks excellent. It's like our childhood gets a second chance to play these games.
Among others, the work done by Dynamic Designs and Aeon Genesis is something we will be eternally thankful for
I don’t care what people say, I think Aeon Genesis did a great job with Shin Megami Tensei I, II, If… and Majin Tensei I and II
Aeon Genesis is the GOAT of turn-based RPG
this game is great. Nice to see you covering SNES jrpgs that have been fan translated again.
Ohhh the artist of Golden Boy
Yep, a classic.
Pretty much all the late SNES JRPGs didn't get translated for the reasons mentioned here. Came out too late on the SNES's life cycle when the N64 was either already out or about to come out in Japan, at a time when localization took several months and printing cartridges took several more leading to a 9-12 month lead time to get to market on a port, which, when a company projected forward to see if they'd get a decent ROI quickly realized they wouldn't due to the competition from the next-gen console.
The result is a BUNCH of the best JRPGs on the system never made it over: Tactics Ogre, Star Ocean, Tales of Phantasia (thouge ToP and TO at least got PSX ports) and also this game.
It's even tougher when you think of the absolute drought the N64 had during it's run. The SNES was the last time you saw JRPG's of the quality and quantity on a Nintendo console until probably the Wii and the switch. It was all Saturn and PSX during that time.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Yeah, I loved RPGs back then, so I never bothered even emulating the N64. Played a bunch of fantastic PSX RPGs, though.
@@moonrazk
The PSX was the console if you were anywhere outside of Japan.
It got all the good stuff. The N64 was entirely about platformers and GoldenEye and party games.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu The N64 was a dark time for JRPG lovers, especially ones that assumed it would get the same support and got an N64 instead of a PlayStation. Good luck convincing your parents to get another game system. I loved the few games I got on the N64, but once I was in high school I got a part time job and bought a PlayStation.
Meanwhile, in the modern day, last gen console games keep coming out for several years and people are less likely to move onto the next big thing. Not to mention year+ exclusivity. IMO, I still played last gen games well into the life of the newest gen even back then. I think the biggest factor was retailers willing to support two generations. This is now a non-factor with online shopping and digital releases.
Great review! Glad you found enjoyment in it also.
Never even heard of this one before, but man it looks like we missed out big time on it! I have absolutely no time to track it down and play it now, but back in the day this would have been one of my favourite games, I can tell.
This one, Last Bible 3, Tengai Makyou Zero, Herakles IV... There are lots of gems on the snes jrpg list that got a fantranslaton. And there are yet a few untranslated ones which a lot of potential, such as Verne World, Gokinjo Boukentai, Shin Momotaro Densetsu, etc.
Dang its always so bittersweet to find out about these games that were never US localized, you can always tell how much tlc goes into them- the graphics look so good and the battles are surprisingly unique (for the time) with behind the back (Dragonview?!) style and great animations, these are truly potential gems lost to the sands of time, I always think the translators that make it possible can't be thanked enough and to you for giving these types of games a new audience and awareness @SNESdrunk your doing the lord's work (or dare I say G.O.D.'s job ;P ) Also, speaking of did Maka Maka ever get the english treatment?!!
Nope, neither Maka Maka nor its spiritual sequel, Idea no Hi, were ever translated. And I don't know if it's better this way. Maka Maka was rushed and riddled with bugs, and Idea no Hi, while much more polished and having a pretty good story, had some bad design ideas that would putt many people off. Maybe if those flaws were fixed via romhack, it would be a game deserving of a fantranslation someday, but it would be quite complicated.
Another RPG in a modern day setting was "Idea no Hi" ( Day of Idea). I thought it was pretty good, at some point in the future an English patch may become available.
@Whoosher thanx, I didn't know about that so had to go look it up. Looks like they toned down the goofiness and actually debugged on the second try.
Yeah, I played Idea no Hi a few years ago with the help of online translators, and its plot is the strongest point in the game. It's also quite similar to G•O•D in which some characters also have psychic powers, and every party member has a dedicated intro, ressembling Live a Live a little.
It's a pity that it has some flaws gameplay wise, such as losing HP while you run (to make it more difficult running from visible enemies in dungeons) or the cumbersome clothing system you're forced to use in order to avoid getting damage while you walk through too hot or too cold areas. Maybe a romhack could get rid of it, that would improve the game by a lot.
Oh man, that game was awesome, it seriously needs a translation patch. It's kind of like Mother 2.
Never would have given this game a thought after only seeing the title and thumbnail. The gameplay captures look really good though like it's probably a solid game. Thanks for covering this one
Well damn, this game is going on the mini-snes next! This looks absolutely awesome, thank you for shining a light on this game. Thank you so much for all your work!!!
SNES-Drunk T-Shirt = "So that's Cool!"
nice, and also maybe: " mult 👁 player"
Hey dude, thanks for these videos. Your channel has become my nostalgia fix, and I feel like you give very honest reviews
Gotta be honest: for all my time looking into JPN-only RPGs on the SNES, never heard of this one! Wow!
Don't beat yourself over it, with well over 100 RPGs it's easy to miss something... especially very late games like this one. Nintendo's/Sony's consoles have always had loads of such games, most being fairly obscure too.
I’m getting strong Lufia 2 vibes with it. The main character reminds me of maxim and the over the shoulder style battle system is also reminiscent of Lufia 2
Man this is one that's a perfect example of why I dig your shit so much thanks for a great recommendation
What you said about Earthbound being more than just wacky dialogue and crazy characters, but that it actually tackles some heavy themes shows you understand it better than almost every developer who ever made a game "inspired" by it.
Most Earthboubnd fans have never played Earthbound
@@TheLakabanzaichrg I think that about almost everything.
ill admit when i saw a blonde haired guy shooting rockets, a girl who uses pshychic abilities and a monk...that looked a lot like jeff, paula and poo.
@@ryanweible9090 And you meet the psychic girl in a cult compound.
@@TheLakabanzaichrg as an Earthbound fan I played all three games
Ever since Terranigma I've really tried to seek out rpgs that never got localization. I'd never even heard of this game before this channel. Also those old school (and yes tedious) rpg mechanics still don't bother me, buuuut the "easy mode" improvement patch sounds like the way to go.
This channel is awesome. For nostalgic SNES gems it doesn't get better.
This game really feels like it was influenced by Quartet creations (illusion of Gaia, Soul Blazer, etc), probably the 2nd best rpg developer for Nintendo. Definitely gotta check this one out. God bless emulation.
That thumbnail looks like a bad Akira Toriyama DBZ creepy pasta, also the Krillin look alike is creeping me out lol
Looks like maybe this game uses the SNES' high res mode. Either that or something caused your capture to came out sort of blurry.
Looks like it is the high res mode. The problem seems to come up whenever text is on screen.
Unrelated, but I love finding out people I follow follow people I follow. Content creator crossover is cool.
This game looks amazing, if I had played this back in the day, I feel like it would have been one of my favorites
thank you for the introduction, this really looks interesting, definitely going to check this one out. Man your channel is freaking awesome
Great video, dude. Hope you have a great rest of your day too.
Finally found a way to start playing all these English patches for snes i have watched your channel for so long but now I finally get to play all the games can’t wait to add this to the list thx drunk
Oh Drunk. This is the one we've been waiting for since your excellent Improvement vids! Thanks, hon. X
A new SNES Drunk upload!... And now I know I'll have a great rest of my day.
This game is a good one. The story is both quirky and serious. There are some truly light and humorous points, but there are also some extremely dark moments which really tug at the emotions of the player. Drunk is right; you should play this game if you are a fan of JRPGS.
I love the treasure trove of translated games.
Definitely checking this one out, thanks for making us all discover it! Any other SNES RPGs like these that haven't been ported to the west would be appreciated too, you do a great job of snuffing these out! :D
(Can't remember if you did a video about Rudra No Hihou? Could be a nice one!)
Super high on the random encounters! The wacky ass story kept me hooked tho. Definitely recommend it
3:00 another snes rpg that had a diary is Glory of Herakles IV, which was translated by Transcorp by the end of 2016, I think. One of the members, Plato, was in charge of writing new pages of it as you progressed through the game.
Love your videos man!
Nowadays it's quite expensive. Remember the days when I got this game for 20 bucks CIB from Japan. Now you have to pay up to 500 Dollars.
I love this section forgotten games... Thanks SNES drunk.
Yeah, you finally tried it. I believe the creator of G.O.D. was inspired by earthbound aka mother series with a hint of megaten. It's an awesome game.
Gonna try it out, thx for the tip!
Currently playing this game. I needed this video!
Great review! There is just something charming about many 16-bit JRPGs. I'm glad the hacking community has been able to give us an opportunity to play many games that were originally Japanese exclusives. I'm definitely checking this one out! It looks like a fun adventure!
Oh man, this sounds amazing. I think the game would test my patience though with all the text-heavy help files. It is nice that the game remembers what you did regardless.
Total length of video: 470 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 2.5 secs.
.53% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".
Safe to say that the name of the game would have been changed for a US release.
"Final Fantasy: The Alien Chronicles," or "The Secret of Aliens," or something.
Ive played through it around a year ago, having a soft spot for snes games this really took me back to that era. Its a very charming and a soulfull rpg, comfy would be the right word to use here. Exploring the world and seeing whats happened to it and the people was always something to look forward too. It has a huge world map and a lot of exploration, a bunch of weird sidequests that leaves you confused but is sure to leave a giggle. Story is good, it has its twists and it moments but as I mentioned before charm is the thing here it captures that charm many rpgs seems to fail to do. Combat is great with a lot of areas to uprade and mix it up to your style. Unfortunately some work better than others and it will be a one sided choice. Its a great snes rpg, one of my top 5 on the snes, writing this brought happy memories and it was definietly a satisfying playtrough a must play for rpg and any gaming fans if youre looking for a unique yet familiar experience . The only gripe I have in the version Ive played was a unique sequence in Las Vegas where you have to say yes to everything, if you dont the game wont progress any further , I wish I knew that before because I had start the whole game again from scratch again. And those extra boss fights at the end, it was unique and never seen a other rpg do that.
Added to my "To play" list :D
I've made this comment before, but I can't believe that it's 2022 and I'm STILL discovering these lost SNES gems!
I remember playing this one quite a few years ago and having a blast with it
Thanks for going in depth on this one, it surely was one of those games whose title doesn't reflect what it's about. Keep up the good job, SDrunk ✌🏼
The thumbnail made me think for a second that there was some Golden Boy SNES game I had never heard of. It looks like the artists/author for Golden Boy, Tatsuya Egawa, must have been the artist for this game, and that journal system may have been an influence of his.
Gotta give it a shot, thanks for the recomendation Drunk!
Looks pretty good actually.
I love the "no not that _____" segments of the videos
I don't know anything else about this game other than what I've heard you say about it. But I will say that the music sound incredible and I'm going to look up the soundtrack right now
Been subscribed for a while and I love your stuff man. Do Shounen Ninja Sasuke next!
Currently playing thru and really digging Earthbound (first time) maybe this should be my next game. Great review
I used to play this back in 2018 and I got stuck and don't where to go next and I forgot about this. Thank you for reminding me.
Kids randomly walking into people's houses without knocking. The nerve! At least the kid in Robotrek had the decency to ring the doorbell before walking to somebody's house.
This is awesome! A new old-school rpg I know nothing about.
I've played this one. It gets real dark real fast.
This looks great! Got some early wild arms vibes from the terrain and shhhhhtuff.
I've been debating for sometime to add this one to my Super Famicom collection, but I didn't know enough about it to make any informed decision. This really helped give me the proper context about the game without spoiling it I've been curious about. I also have to add, just saying this personally speaking, I appreciate you saying no this isn't Final Fantasy 6 or Chrono Trigger but it doesn't have to be. I love those games, don't get me wrong, but I'm glad not every game is like them. I like variety in my old school rpgs so I can play something depending on my mood.
I mean, one of my personal favorite rpgs of all time is Albert Odyssey on Sega Saturn which a lot of people find nearly unplayable. It's a very slow paced game, and it has these very quirky, Looney Tunes humor moments that for some takes them out of the game, but I find gives it it's charm. I find it a relaxing rpg, the kind you'd play on a rainy weekend or something (except for the end dungeon area. F**k that part full stop). If it had to be super serious the whole time, and have time travel, and Operas, and crazy combo attack systems, and was fast paced I'd find it exhausting to be quite frank and honest about it. If I want that, I'll play FF6/Chrono Trigger. If I don't want that, I'll play something else. If I want to play something that's a bit out there, long, but at it's core is a simple old school rpg I'll play something like this. It's nice to have options.
A game to use the fast forward button on. Got it.
Nice, thanks buddy!
Fun fact: this game is quite popular in japan, has a remaster? Remake? On psx, additionally it has a cafe event even to this day, and has some expensive merch and plushies sold at that cafe event
Just finished the game, it was quite an adventure, and good one !
the patch really helped with the random encouters and to keep the story flow smoothly.
The ps1 ( remake ) version looks gorgeous too, and with some differences with the snes. too bad it is not translated though.. maybe one day ! i'll def go back to it.
If Earthbound, Phantasy Star 2, and Chrono Trigger got put into a blender, you'd get this
The game review goat has blessed us again, thank you snes drunk could you look at the lemmings series ?
Ohhh man, this game was part of my childhood, I remember playing it on an emulator... The translation patch wasn't done at the time.
When i got bored a few years back i looked through the list of translated snes games i never heard of, ended up finding this. I was shocked i never heard a single thing about it.
That thumbnail art was absolutely done by Tatsuya Egawa. I'd recognize those women anywhere.
This game does seem pretty neat looking. One of these days i'll own something that can allow me to play games "any way i can". Once that happens this channel will be invaluable for the reminders of what other games and patches to get.
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If you have a phone, a tablet, or any kind of computer, then you already own something that allows you to play it any way you can
@@duffman18 really? I always figured you needed something a bit more powerful to run some of the stuff. Now i'm gonna see what my 2in1 tablet can do, do you know any good sites to get emulators and ROMs from?
Kinda excited now😄👍
This looks great. Gonna have to check it out.
Definitely will be playing this soon
Definetly playing it soon!!
I've been playing this game on and off on my phone for the last couple months, and it's pretty fun. The grinding hasn't really been an issue for me. There were only like 2 times so far that I felt I actually needed to grind to be able to do a dungeon. Haven't finished it yet, but it's been fun
snesdrunk rn, thnx for the review
SNES Drunk is a quality TH-cam channel about retro video games!
Welp, you said Earthbound several times, I'm sold, downloading now.
This game is fantastic.
Liked that game mate,the ending boss shocked me a bit though,solid enough to me👍
I hope YOU have a great rest of your day
I actually played this this year. I enjoyed it. It was clunky, but enjoyable. was hungry for more Earthbound-like rpgs
Flawless Fawlty Towers reference 👌
That is an interesting looking game, I would have loved it as a kid had it come out over here. I may have to give it a try with the enhancement patch as I have a hard time playing those old grind heavy RPG's these days, there is not enough time in the day anymore lol.
I forgort how tanked I was yesterday! Good Review g!
Illustration matches the Manga Golden Boy!
The cover art is clearly the guy who created Golden Boy. I figured this would be some sort of harem genre, as that's what he specializes in. But it doesn't seem like it.
If you want a kusoge RPG to review, there's Maka Maka. It never got localized, it doesn't have a fan translation, it's very buggy due to being a prototype, and it caused the publisher to go out of business. It has homosexual ant men.
I, too, must trek through treacherous forests, and climb mountains, where I then must fight monsters, and then wake up 10 years into the future, to an alien invasion, where I then become an alien with special powers, which lands me in prison, where I then escape…every time I want to visit my grandma. It’s a lot of work, but it’s totally worth it.
😆 On a serious note, this game looks really awesome! Looks like a great game to get cozy and play on a rainy day. These are my favorite kind of games. Well, games like this are my favorite, but they cannot require extensive grinding, and too many enemy encounters. I especially hate when these games have blind encounters, where you encounter an enemy with ever 2 steps you take. Action RPGs are my absolute favorite. I’m just not typically a big fan of turn based combat. Some games get it right, like Earthbound. I actually like the way they did it. Undertale is another one that came up with a unique format, with their mini game combat. But yeah, I much prefer hack and slash, real time combat, like Zelda, Secret of Mana, Illusion of Gaia, etc. There are so many awesome looking games that are literally ruined FOR ME, personally, due to the excessive, turn based combat. Wish this game, among many others, could be turned into action RPGs. But that’s just my preference. Anyway, I’m going to shut up now. Time to go visit grandma. Wish me luck!
The sprite work in the combat scenes isn’t bad
Seems like the character designer for this game was by Tatsuya Egawa known for his Golden Boy manga.
There's one massive caveat to this game for people who want to play this on original hardware... The game constantly shifts from 240p to 480i whenever text is displayed onscreen. You can actually see the image in this very video shift ever so slightly every time a text box appears. In an emulator, it doesn't matter, but if you play this on an actual SNES on anything other than a CRT, you might not have such a good time. The constant resolution shifting is exactly like Chrono Cross.
those combat screens look great
Not a bad one. The PS1 remake/remaster is quite similar all things considered, with some small changes here and there. I like how they have loads of stereotypes in this game; mayor of Moscow is the most corrupt human on Earth, and Brits/the French hate each other. :v Overall, fun times, and the serious themes are quite interesting too for sure.
Thanks 👍
Tried this game before, it was hell of a grindfest with hard bosses... gotta try it with the patch now ! the game really looks great.
Edit : easymode really does the job, great game !
Thank you for discovering another hidden gem!
What did you use for video capture? It didn't look as clean as your usual SNES capture.
The reason why it wasn't localized is in the title... "You visit the Vatican of all places!" :3
2:40 LOOOOOOL 🤣