played oct 11th for rpgmaker october
the oldest game on my list by a good margin, and fortunately the exe for the eng patch lets you skip the step of wrangling with pc-98 emulation. its p decent! rpg battles are very much present and youll have to grind just a little, but it's downplayed for adv type gameplay complete with a command menu. which of course means you might need the walkthrough provided at the site you dl the game. not unlike corpse party (i think), which was only 2 yrs before this, in how your actions determine which characters live or die, but doesnt actually give diff bad endings out of it as much as diff permutations within your playthrough that are interesting to see. really like how the theme of judgement as it relates to the chars, while not that deeply mined, kind of wraps back around onto you as the player. found a lot of the dialogue in the game p charming--besides them ragging on mitsuru constantly when was the the most useful party member for me unlike most of their weak asses!!--and it made me like most of the cast enough that i only let ONE of them get killed off. and that's bc they had it coming. ost is REALLY cool and unnerving too. craftmanship of this one really speaks for itself, esp when compared to the humbler-feeling azusa 999, which also won those contests ascii did for rpgmaker games around this time.
the oldest game on my list by a good margin, and fortunately the exe for the eng patch lets you skip the step of wrangling with pc-98 emulation. its p decent! rpg battles are very much present and youll have to grind just a little, but it's downplayed for adv type gameplay complete with a command menu. which of course means you might need the walkthrough provided at the site you dl the game. not unlike corpse party (i think), which was only 2 yrs before this, in how your actions determine which characters live or die, but doesnt actually give diff bad endings out of it as much as diff permutations within your playthrough that are interesting to see. really like how the theme of judgement as it relates to the chars, while not that deeply mined, kind of wraps back around onto you as the player. found a lot of the dialogue in the game p charming--besides them ragging on mitsuru constantly when was the the most useful party member for me unlike most of their weak asses!!--and it made me like most of the cast enough that i only let ONE of them get killed off. and that's bc they had it coming. ost is REALLY cool and unnerving too. craftmanship of this one really speaks for itself, esp when compared to the humbler-feeling azusa 999, which also won those contests ascii did for rpgmaker games around this time.