12/23/2023 0 Comments Touch detective 3 fan translation![]() A famous example of having to explore/experiment was how in Phantasy Star, you had to figure out how to buy a special secret pass from a vendor to have access to the space shuttle port. There was once an era of gaming when developers were putting out a lot of games that offer some genuine no-hand-holding-weirdness to get lost within, and for the first time in the lives of most of us, many of this lost era of games have now been translated from Japanese, allowing their appreciation and reputation to build.Ī lot of 8-bit RPGs just plonked your character down in the middle of a world and left you to your devices, maybe with a 20 page manual explaining a few things like common monsters and items. The modern JRPG has a bad reputation for being formulaic and shitty Japanese pornographic cartoons-derived, but just as 80s and 90s shitty Japanese pornographic cartoons was significantly broader in subject matter than modern shitty Japanese pornographic cartoons, the JRPGs of the 80s and 90s had a wider degree of experimentation, being closer to their western counterparts like Ultima and Wizardry. But sometimes you just want a complete mystery world that you have to work out yourself over time with trial and error. Afraid of alienating people, modern RPGs have extensive tutorials and introductions. Every fantasy game has familiar races like Elves and Demons in. Every FF game uses the same list of spells. It's rare these days to actually feel like you are exploring a brand new world, experimenting without any guide, not knowing where to go, not knowing what a spell/command even does. I wasn't actually sure whether this topic was better off in the general RPG forum or the JRPG forum.
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