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Post by sych on Nov 27, 2016 11:29:38 GMT
I have now finally completed Grandia. What a beautiful looking and entertaining Saturn RPG. Loved every minute of it. Great story. Ultimately it could've taken a quarter of the time to complete without translation guides but I'd happily go through it all again as the Grandia experience was definitely worthy of time and the effort. A true Saturn gem and a real masterpiece. Saturn 3D has never looked this georgous. Two thumbs up!
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Post by barryburton on Nov 27, 2016 17:11:47 GMT
I have now finally completed Grandia. What a beautiful looking and entertaining Saturn RPG. Loved every minute of it. Great story. Ultimately it could've taken a quarter of the time to complete without translation guides but I'd happily go through it all again as the Grandia experience was definitely worthy of time and the effort. A true Saturn gem and a real masterpiece. Saturn 3D has never looked this georgous. Two thumbs up! Congrats. No mean feat playing through that with a translation.
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Post by akumajobelmont on Nov 28, 2016 10:53:29 GMT
I finally got Ninku in the mail today. I've said it before, I have a weeeeeeird thang for B-grade, and even lower-tier fighters, especially when they're on the Saturn. I'm terrible at fighting games, but I love them so much. And Ninku is probably not anything special at all. In fact, it's pretty flawed. But I LOVE IT. I love the 2D characters on the 3D backgrounds, I love the generic anime music, and I love the 'almost, but not quite' animation. Controls are a bit stiff, but I'm having a lot of fun with it.
I'd say that maybe along with Killer Instinct on the N64, it's maybe the first 2D fighter with full-3D backgrounds? Don't quote me on it, but I stuggle to recall any other games released before 1996 that featured this particular combination.
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Post by barryburton on Nov 28, 2016 11:54:25 GMT
I finally got Ninku in the mail today. I've said it before, I have a weeeeeeird thang for B-grade, and even lower-tier fighters, especially when they're on the Saturn. I'm terrible at fighting games, but I love them so much. And Ninku is probably not anything special at all. In fact, it's pretty flawed. But I LOVE IT. I love the 2D characters on the 3D backgrounds, I love the generic anime music, and I love the 'almost, but not quite' animation. Controls are a bit stiff, but I'm having a lot of fun with it. I'd say that maybe along with Killer Instinct on the N64, it's maybe the first 2D fighter with full-3D backgrounds? Don't quote me on it, but I stuggle to recall any other games released before 1996 that featured this particular combination. That looks quite cool, never heard of it before. does it have a lot of slow down in real life like in the video?
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Post by akumajobelmont on Nov 28, 2016 12:02:44 GMT
The video is a pretty good approximation of the gameplay. It only runs 30fps, and honestly, I didn't really notice any dips below that, but I was preoccupied learning the moves, so what do I know I mean, apart from the stage fly-bys and the Samurai Slowdown-esque match endings, I didn't notice much. It's not super polished or anything, but it's worth a bash!
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Post by barryburton on Nov 28, 2016 15:08:27 GMT
The video is a pretty good approximation of the gameplay. It only runs 30fps, and honestly, I didn't really notice any dips below that, but I was preoccupied learning the moves, so what do I know I mean, apart from the stage fly-bys and the Samurai Slowdown-esque match endings, I didn't notice much. It's not super polished or anything, but it's worth a bash! I think the slowdown might have been at my end as it looks smoother on a second watch
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Post by alf on Nov 28, 2016 19:30:38 GMT
I have now finally completed Grandia. What a beautiful looking and entertaining Saturn RPG. Congrats sych. My copy of Grandia for playstation is waiting for Christmas button mashing
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Post by bultje112 on Nov 28, 2016 21:32:31 GMT
I have now finally completed Grandia. What a beautiful looking and entertaining Saturn RPG. Loved every minute of it. Great story. Ultimately it could've taken a quarter of the time to complete without translation guides but I'd happily go through it all again as the Grandia experience was definitely worthy of time and the effort. A true Saturn gem and a real masterpiece. Saturn 3D has never looked this georgous. Two thumbs up! there is no complete guide right? how did you finish it and how did you get the story?
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Post by sych on Nov 29, 2016 17:04:39 GMT
Congrats. No mean feat playing through that with a translation. Congrats sych. My copy of Grandia for playstation is waiting for Christmas button mashing Cheers Guys! I have now finally completed Grandia. What a beautiful looking and entertaining Saturn RPG. Loved every minute of it. Great story. Ultimately it could've taken a quarter of the time to complete without translation guides but I'd happily go through it all again as the Grandia experience was definitely worthy of time and the effort. A true Saturn gem and a real masterpiece. Saturn 3D has never looked this georgous. Two thumbs up! there is no complete guide right? how did you finish it and how did you get the story? Actually there is a complete script guide of the story, you can find it here courtesy of 'Alent' www.gamefaqs.com/saturn/197484-grandia/faqs/7563 That's the printed script I initially used until I realised it was alot easier and faster if I actually followed the visual PS1 walkthru guide courtesy of 'SleepyFroggy' on youtube so I abandoned Alent's script halfway through and just referred to the PS1 version on youtube whenever I ran into dialogue. Much simpler. Had to turn the sound down as the PS1 audio dub is so painful but it meant I can read the dialogue on the go without having to second guess which minor characters were speaking at certain points. I found this method to be the quickest and stress free. Definitly recommend this method.
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Post by pocketpocket on Nov 30, 2016 6:37:33 GMT
Plowed through Arle's campaign in Puyo Puyo Sun today. Today may not have been the most productive of days but I consider it a success since I got to stop Satan from getting a tan.
Absolutely love Puyo Puyo, and Sun is hilarious, but I definitely think that Tsuu is the vastly superior game, which doesn't seem to be that popular an opinion actually, most sites I've visited seem to favor Sun. I just think Tsuu has the better balancing and longevity, especially with the massive and incredibly challenging 32 stages long Rally mode. Sun also seems to be bizarrely missing some of Tsuu's features such as being able to save directly to the memory cart as opposed to the internal battery, which is pretty baffling since Sun came out two years later. Still a great game though, but if you only go with one, I'd say to go for Tsuu myself.
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Post by sych on Nov 30, 2016 23:17:26 GMT
Been having massive Grandia withdrawl symptons so I've started on Dark Savior. Really want to eventually complete this game, never did the first time round. Also playing Virtua Cop 2 with my new Saturn mouse pad. I understimated how much fun and how easily compatiable the Saturn mouse is with Virtua Cop. A worthy replacement for the Lightgun and 10xs better than using a control pad. It's so much fun! Even better in 60hz even though the PAL version is optimised I prefer it this way.
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Post by pocketpocket on Dec 1, 2016 2:48:18 GMT
Glad you found the Shuttle Mouse worth the purchase too! I recently also ordered House of the Dead online to use with mine. It's a shame that the PS1 doesn't have the same kind of support with it's mouse for light gun games, I would love it if I could use the mouse to play Point Blank, which is easily my favourite light gun game. Still, the House of the Dead games are up there too. Even if the Saturn port isn't the best, I can still get a kick out of the comically over-the-top stupid gore and atrocious voice acting any time.
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Post by The Elite MYT on Dec 1, 2016 14:42:51 GMT
I´ve beaten Gundam and Nights recently, so I´m just working my way through Fighter´s Megamix trying to unlock all the stuff. It´s pretty great, although I suck with some of the characters I want to use. I want to use Janet, Hornet, and Rentahero but their moves don´t appear in training. I´ll have to print off a FAQ or something.
At the moment, BM is my ´go to´ guy. I should try out more of the characters, but I tend to avoid characters that look boring.
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Post by sych on Dec 11, 2016 19:24:33 GMT
Just completed paralell 1 of Dark Savior. Such an awesome game. I'm now aiming for parallel 2, gotta get to the Cap's cabin between 4:30 and 3:30mins. The chase is on!
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Post by pocketpocket on Dec 12, 2016 1:06:23 GMT
Glad you found the Shuttle Mouse worth the purchase too! I recently also ordered House of the Dead online to use with mine. Welp, Sega Retro duped me again, House of the Dead doesn't appear to be compatible with the mouse. I'm playing the NTSC-J version which is the one that's specifically listed as compatible on the site, and Satakore lists it as compatible as well. I feel like I must be missing something but it doesn't seem to recognize the mouse at all. Good news is that it IS at least compatible with the 3D control pad which offers a bit more precision, but the mouse would definitely be preferable. Other than that, been playing a fair bit of Darius Gaiden. Pretty nice shmup, just sticking to the highest route right now and will go for the other routes after that. Can make it to Stage K before running out of continues currently. It's a bit inconsistent with it's difficulty though, since how well you do is pretty dependent on your power-ups, and unlike something like Parodius where you lose everything upon dying but they put you back to a safe point in the level where you can regain at least a few power-ups to try again with, Darius Gaiden just spawns you straight back where you died immediately without any power-ups meaning that if you're in a hectic section of the game you could easily immediately die again and waste another precious life. I think it would be better if it worked like Touhou where you respawn immediately after dying, but you can regain some of your power-ups that you dropped when you died so that you're prepared to fight again. Also, a small nitpick, but it always drove me insane when power-ups have weird erratic movement patterns like they do in Darius and Gunbird. Nothing more frustrating than seeing a shield power-up that you can't get in time because it keeps going around in circles and dodging you, resulting in you getting killed by enemy fire trying to get it! Still a very good game mind you, but a pretty frustrating one at times.
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