EDIT: this got an english translation a month after i posted this so please ignore any implications in this review that this game is not playable in english and please fucking play it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://twitter.com/DesuNingen/status/1590476440247889920
been a couple weeks since i watched the playthru of this and im still thinking abt this. not just for the passing of parun 12 yrs ago that hangs over his work in itself, a real tragedy compounding that to me is that, for lack of what we know abt them + general inability to communicate their true value, we're just gonna treat his games like they're on the tier of whatever stereotypical "weird" rpgmaker game you might think of first and leave it at that. truth is this game is genuinely more sharply directed, more engaged w history n artistic tradition, funnier, and more sparklingly beautiful than most games that would be thrown those distinctions period, let alone anything sharing its engine's namesake. deserved so much better than an english youtube playthrough that came out only last year thats translating a korean translation patch that is in turn translating from japanese (props to zewo though). should have been in the english sphere an entire decade ago. doubting ill find something as inspiring as hps in the dozens of rpgmaker games im abt to play--besides maybe re:kinder, and that's because its parun's last game and only one of two with an english patch--but something to say for the value of this game that it made me want to come back to this medium that, i kind of forgot after all these years, holds a special place in my heart.
been a couple weeks since i watched the playthru of this and im still thinking abt this. not just for the passing of parun 12 yrs ago that hangs over his work in itself, a real tragedy compounding that to me is that, for lack of what we know abt them + general inability to communicate their true value, we're just gonna treat his games like they're on the tier of whatever stereotypical "weird" rpgmaker game you might think of first and leave it at that. truth is this game is genuinely more sharply directed, more engaged w history n artistic tradition, funnier, and more sparklingly beautiful than most games that would be thrown those distinctions period, let alone anything sharing its engine's namesake. deserved so much better than an english youtube playthrough that came out only last year thats translating a korean translation patch that is in turn translating from japanese (props to zewo though). should have been in the english sphere an entire decade ago. doubting ill find something as inspiring as hps in the dozens of rpgmaker games im abt to play--besides maybe re:kinder, and that's because its parun's last game and only one of two with an english patch--but something to say for the value of this game that it made me want to come back to this medium that, i kind of forgot after all these years, holds a special place in my heart.
ludzu
1 year ago