Daria Reviews Wonder Project J [SNES]

[celerystalker]

Lots of good games there, and I always like an opportunity to say how much I love Xanadu.

I spent a good amount of time with the Famicom version of The Black Onyx, Super Black Onyx. It's really well done, and its first person crawl is surprisingly smooth. The battle system completely kicks ass, and it's neat how you can encounter random adventurers also raiding the tower and either fight them or get them to join your party if you have any openings.

[Daria]

Lots of good games there, and I always like an opportunity to say how much I love Xanadu.

I spent a good amount of time with the Famicom version of The Black Onyx, Super Black Onyx. It's really well done, and its first person crawl is surprisingly smooth. The battle system completely kicks ass, and it's neat how you can encounter random adventurers also raiding the tower and either fight them or get them to join your party if you have any openings.

I wanted to ask you since I saw you've obviously played it extensively. Is it completely in English? It looked like it was from the videos I was browsing and I'm thinking of picking it up.

[celerystalker]

All of the important stuff is in english. The shops, the menus, item descriptions... all english. Being a dungeon crawl, that's about all there is to it text-wise. Definitely a game that needs a map, though, whether from online or if you feel like going old-school and getting out the graph paper. I also posted a write up explaining the combat in this thread:

https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/s...=1#post2021137

[Niku-Sama]

oh thank god something to watch.

been super insomniac lately and nothings been keeping my attention and I cant repair any thing since my workbench is being "remodeled" and repairs inside might wake the wifey person
edit:
good video
only thing I would say that I didn't like about it was some spots in the video the SE was overpowering your voice track and made it a bit hard to hear ya

[lendelin]

Thanks, Daria, for another entertaining and informative video! Great topic, wonderful overview of very important RPGs. I also liked to see actually 'Rogue' in action. I knew about the game and its importance but never saw gameplay footage. You must have invested a lot of time researching the topic and editing the video. Most impressive: The influence of specific games on more well known later releases which gives an important overview of the development of gameplay elements.

To look at the roots of RPGs also helps to understand the probs we have today to define a RPG. The lines between the genres back then was more clearcut although some elements of other genres slowly were incorporated.

The Q about the definition of an RPG emerged in my little head again since I played a couple of weeks ago (for the firstt time) finally Lunar SSSC and Alundra. The gameplay mechanics of Alundra and Zelda are the same. Why is one regarded a RPG and the other not? I believe a good answer to this Q will be the key to define a RPG today which is the era of the hybrid games.

[Daria]

I've been pretty bad at updating this thread - didn't have a real internet connection for a couple weeks. So here's a two-fer to catch up.


Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom is a text adventure


Dark Half is a horror themed SRPG for the SNES where you control both the hero and the villain

[bb_hood]

Princess Tomato is such an awesome game. So much fun. Percy is sooo useless! Hes always losing my stuff. Like he's got one job...