The reasons for that seem obvious enough, of course--with the compact console's "CD-ROM2" attachment, which allowed developers to use higher quality music and cut scenes, hitting Japanese store shelves barely a year after the base system's release being the biggest one.
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| Dungeon Explorer |
Were CD games cheaper to manufacture than HuCards? If so, that would be another reason.
Regardless, the lack of chip-based RPGs at least somewhat surprises me, especially when I remember how many games of that genre found their way onto Famicom cartridges and disks.
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| Jaseiken Necromancer |
In a way, though, I'm kind of glad so few HuCard RPGs saw the light of day on the PC Engine, because it means it'll be far easier to play through them--you know, should I ever decide to do something stupid like that--than it would be to, say, play through every Famicom or Super Famicom (or even PC Engine CD) RPG.
Don't worry, I'm not planning to make that a goal anytime soon, although I am planning to pop two or three of them into my trusty PC Engine Core Grafx II sometime in the next few (OK, six or seven) months.
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| Necros no Yosai |
The most like candidates: Cyber Knight, Dungeon Explorer, Jaseiken Necromancer, Necros no Yosai and War of the Dead.
Should any of you be curious as to the names of the other HuCard RPGs of which I'm aware, here you go: Cadash, Double Dungeons, Lady Sword, Makai Hakkenden Shada, Momotarou Densetsu II, Momotarou Densetsu Gaiden, Momotarou Densetu Turbo, Neutopia, Neutopia II, Silent Debuggers, Spiral Wave and Susa-no-Oh Densetsu.
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| Neutopia 2 |
Only a couple of these could be called traditional RPGs with turn-based battles and such, mind you. A good portion of them are action role-playing games of some sort or other, and a similar number are dungeon crawlers.
If I left any HuCard-based RPGs off of the lists above, by the way, please let me know about them in the comments section below, as I wouldn't be at all shocked to hear I've missed a couple.
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I bought the Japanese version of Dungeon Explorer after a games magazine of the time said it was like Gauntlet and gave it a rave review. Fifty quid later and I discovered it's actually an action RPG with lots of Japanese text which I therefore couldn't play properly. I was mighty miffed :(
But it *is* like Gauntlet, Simon. Or at least it's like Gauntlet with some additional RPG touches. The basic gameplay, though, is just like Gauntlet--or that's been my (admittedly limited) impression of it, anyway.
It's far from amazing, but Shada is another random HuCARD RPG that's kinda like "Ys in feudal Japan." But seriously, temper your expectations =)
Ah, yes, I've heard of this one, Christian--but only recently! I'm definitely planning to try it at some point, but probably not until after I've given a few others a go. I do like how the action itself looks, although the menu/UI is kind of ... ugly, isn't it?
Yeah, it's on the 8-bit side, as far as these things go, as HuCARDS can sometimes be.
That's OK with me--looking on the 8-bit side, I mean. Anyway, I definitely think I'll try it sometime soon. I've always liked Ys I&II, after all, although it sounds like the gameplay is *slightly* different here?
I've honestly done nothing more than just pop it in, check it out for 5-10 minutes. X3
Ha! No need to be sorry about that, Christian, or embarrassed about it, at any rate. I'll check it out myself soon and then do my best to let *you* know what I find :)
Yeah but I didn't want to stumble through it without understanding the dialogue :( I can of course just play the US version now though!
(p.s. this stupid bloody Discus thing isn't working properly)
Yes, at least now you can play through the US version :)
As for Discus not working for you: how so? It's working fine for me at the moment. Did it log you out perhaps?
Anyway, sorry--I wish I knew what was happening on your end and could help!
It kept giving an error message when I tried to post but I think it's okay now :|
Ah! OK, I understand now. Sorry about that :(
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