Time Gal is a weird game to me because on one hand it's pretty bad as it's very trial and error and seems to not give you much reaction time. Maybe there's input delay on an emulator but I felt like half the time I lost because I was a split second off. This game can get pretty brutal too if you play on Hard as not even the glowing lights on the UI will warn you.
The animation has been downgraded a lot to work on the Sega CD, it's not even full screen. What's weird is the US version has footage of the original in the intro but not the Japanese version. I can only assume maybe the intro was used in advertisements? I can't really say as I haven't checked.
Honestly I kind of like the idea of being in many different time locations as nothing seems too dull for what the story is going on in each place. It helps they also are pretty fast to get through. The game is also pretty short but it's intentional. Honestly it kind of grew on me as I started to know the inputs. My only real gripe is on Hard the perspective of some things makes it hard to tell what direction I need to push.
This game was brought over to the US thanks to renovation and honestly it's only really worth playing if you want to actually read the time stop options. The voice acting is a lot worse and idk if the emulator is to blame but there seems to be audio delay. There was no audio delay in the Japanese version. They also removed a scene where if you wait 10 minutes at the end of the credits on hard mode without getting a game over you'll get to see her naked! Now I'm just wondering if anyone in Japan got horny for her. They also changed the passwords here to make them harder to write them because the Japanese one had cool passwords like STARWARS
Time Gal is an interesting FMV game but this port is probably not worth going back to. Oddly it's rarely been ported, it was on 32 bit consoles along with Ninja Hayate but I've heard it's ruined by input lag. If you can somehow play the Arcade original (IDK how) then go ahead and play it. Time Gal has some charm but it's nothing that'll keep you coming back. At least Reika is cute and has amazing expressions.
The animation has been downgraded a lot to work on the Sega CD, it's not even full screen. What's weird is the US version has footage of the original in the intro but not the Japanese version. I can only assume maybe the intro was used in advertisements? I can't really say as I haven't checked.
Honestly I kind of like the idea of being in many different time locations as nothing seems too dull for what the story is going on in each place. It helps they also are pretty fast to get through. The game is also pretty short but it's intentional. Honestly it kind of grew on me as I started to know the inputs. My only real gripe is on Hard the perspective of some things makes it hard to tell what direction I need to push.
This game was brought over to the US thanks to renovation and honestly it's only really worth playing if you want to actually read the time stop options. The voice acting is a lot worse and idk if the emulator is to blame but there seems to be audio delay. There was no audio delay in the Japanese version. They also removed a scene where if you wait 10 minutes at the end of the credits on hard mode without getting a game over you'll get to see her naked! Now I'm just wondering if anyone in Japan got horny for her. They also changed the passwords here to make them harder to write them because the Japanese one had cool passwords like STARWARS
Time Gal is an interesting FMV game but this port is probably not worth going back to. Oddly it's rarely been ported, it was on 32 bit consoles along with Ninja Hayate but I've heard it's ruined by input lag. If you can somehow play the Arcade original (IDK how) then go ahead and play it. Time Gal has some charm but it's nothing that'll keep you coming back. At least Reika is cute and has amazing expressions.
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I tried playing the SCD version a long while ago and remembered it being impossibly hard even on my CRT, meanwhile Revenge of the Ninja/Ninja Hayate was insanely easy even with knowledge of playing it as a kid. It's weird, I'll need to try the arcade version at some point because the cutscenes themselves are pretty fun.
Thank goodness it's finally getting a remaster https://www.taito.co.jp/taitoldgamecollection/
Hopefully it's good
BlazingWaters
1 year ago