A handful of brief but interesting articles this week: Rusty may sound familiar to anyone who really keeps up on Castlevania lore, since it's basically a huge ripoff/homage developed for the PC98, although it stars a scantily clad anime chick as opposed to a hulkman barbarian; Hatoful Boyfriend has been making the forum rounds lately as a source of great comedy, considering it's a visual novel where you date pigeons; Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru is one of those "lost" Nintendo titles that they never bothered to localize, even though it's quite charming; and most NES fans probably know Kabuki Quantum Fighter for being that weird game where you infilitrate an organic computer and whip enemies with your hair, but you may not know it was actually a tie-in with a movie around the same time called Jipang, which in turn got a few video game sequel several years back, published by Konami, called 7 Blades. Very odd story behind all of thise!
Anyway I spent a good chunk of my Friday night playing this week's kusoge, Perfect Weapon, or at least trying to. It's not really as obscure as some of the awful games we feature here, as it's pretty well known to be an atrocious game, I was really just confirming it, plus it was lying around my room for some reason. I was under the impression it used digitized sprites, but it's actually set up like Resident Evil - of course a game focusing entirely on melee fighting using tank controls is already doomed to failure, and yet this one somehow goes several steps worse. And we're featuring Azure Dreams this week, since we released some localization files for a few Konami games over the past week. Keep your eyes out for more soon.
Eek. 7 Blades still gives me the shivers, considering I went out of my way to get a copy and boy, was I shocked. I collect a lot of bad games, but that one was more annoying than awful before it got awful). Perfect Weapon got it wrong, btw. It should have been more like Nessa no Hoshi (or is it Nessa no Wakusei?), which combined 1st person exploration, a side-view 3D fighting game and some light RPG elements into an interestingly flawed gem...
ReplyDeleteIt makes sense that Perfect Weapon would be awful, if it's made by Gray Matter. As I recall, that's the same company that made the atrocious Ren & Stimpy: Veediots and Wayne's World games for the SNES. Imagining that company trying to make the jump to 3D graphics and gameplay, your review of Perfect Weapon sounds about right. Yeesh.
ReplyDelete"of course a game focusing entirely on melee fighting using tank controls is already doomed to failure"
ReplyDeleteGod Hand. ;)
Kurt, you let that Rusty article go to press with a reference to "Simon's Curse" in it? I feel like I don't even know you anymore, man.
ReplyDeleteArgh, the dreaded amalgamation of Castlevania subtitles claims another victim!
ReplyDeleteAgh, crap... I hang my head in shame Mr Parish. There is no excuse for such a mistake. I just... No, I'm lost for words.
ReplyDelete@ Dragoonkin: Thanks for confirming the statement with further evidence. >;)
ReplyDelete@derboo: Oh snap. Come at me, bro. *exaggerated intimidating posturing and gestures*
ReplyDeleteNo, no; I will let this one pass. *deep breaths*
I should really register for this site one day so I can stop using the "Name/URL" option.
It's cool, Kurt. We can still be e-friends.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, MegaUpload just got crushed by the same goons who killed Napster a decade ago. Can we get a re-up of some pigeon goodness on another filehosting site?
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