Sorry for the late response, lol I tend to not look at the Backloggery as much as I should

As for Bloodstained, it was pretty fantastic actually, like the prefect evolution of Castlevania III. Honestly, the main Bloodstained game could like suck and I wouldn't care because I feel I got my money's worth with just this game alone. I'm working on getting all the endings, but I enjoy that there are different ways to play through it, pretty cool.

Tell me about it; even now that eye patches on anime characters are en vogue, they're always something dumb, like a heart on weird earloop strings over an eye that isn't even damaged; it's just a mind-boggling fashion choice. They're just porcelain dolls; real women have scars! Lots of them! I- hm... actually, you know, when I focus on the why and how of it all, I'm not entirely sure that I really do exist...

I usually do, too; I have no idea why I played Sion first and Riza last, but I think I somehow got the impression that that was the proper order? Obviously, this isn't the case, since they all take place at the same time. Maybe it was the walkthrough that I was using? Not that that's really to be trusted, either; the boss strategies often complained about unfair bosses that I thrashed without taking much damage at all.

This is my first Yakuza title, and I'm really enjoying it. Kiryu seems like a great guy - maybe even husband material - and I love the self-aware, tongue-in-cheek humor that the game has in JUST the right amount. It's like "Yeah, this is ridiculous; just roll with it" without winking at the camera and shouting "HEY, PLAYER! WASN'T IT SOOOO FUNNY HOW KIRYU GOT ALL SAD THAT HIS TOY CAR FELL OFF THE TRACK LOLZ!!!" Fucking Skyward Sword, man. It's the subtleties, too, like how the little happy guy that shows where you are on the dance map is really angry when Kiryu's dancing. I haven't done enough with Makajima yet to know what kind of person he is or how I feel about his character, but it doesn't matter as much, as long as the combat stays as awesome as it is. I'd always thought that this was a Grand Theft Auto knockoff, and was pleasantly surprised to find out that it's much closer to something like God of War. I say that, rather than Devil May Cry, because you can't jump in Yakuza. Yeah, Kratos can jump, but it's a real person jump; not a video game jump.

Bloodstained? It was pretty awesome actually, a great evolution on the classic Castlevania III, and if I'm being honest, even if Ritual of the Night fails to impress I feel I got my money's worth from the Kickstarter. It's funny, at first I wasn't really into it, but the more I played it the more it clicked and it really started to stick with me.

I got to dip my toes into the first Goemon JRPG on the NES the other night, and it seems very polished compared to the ones I've been playing as of late, so I think it's going to be pretty high quality. Once I finish Yakuza 0 and Magic of Scheherazade, they'll probably be next, I think.

Riza was probably my favorite... until the ending; I felt like slapping her. While Surlent had my least favorite overworld music of the bunch, his is my absolute favorite boss music, and maybe one of my favorite boss tunes ever. I feel like if anyone ever stormed my farmhouse castle, that's probably the music that'd play while they fought me. Of course, I heal so damn fast, I'd be one of the most infuriating bosses they'd ever faced. Damn kids with their big swords and indomitable spirits... As for Sion, his scenario was good, too, but I was mostly just impressed by his character design; you'd never get away with having a character that not-pretty in today's JRPGs.

Yup, Data East apparently has a long-standing RPG series.

Musashi no Bouken is a JRPG by a company you've probably never heard of (I didn't, either), but it's a goofy retelling of the legend of Musashi and Kojiro, and probably best known for the intro: [Link] It's not going to be the best JRPG you've ever played, but it's fun. RHDN has a lot of great translations for the NES, but I don't know how many of the JRPGs I'd recommend, because a lot of them are on the tedious side, and even I didn't want to put up with them. Doraemon: Giga Zombie no Gyakushuu, Final Fantasy 3, Mother, and Sweet Home are the only ones that I enjoyed a lot, but I haven't played the Ganbare Goemon ones yet, so maybe they're good. The Doraemon one I mostly liked because I like Doraemon, too, so your mileage may vary.

I feel like they probably really hit their stride with 3 and 4 on the SNES, and then stumbled down a flight of stairs suspended inexplicably over Springfield Gorge, but maybe it's just the flashy SNES graphics that make me think that; I haven't played them beyond testing them out to see of the translation patches work.

While I can't tell you that, I can certainly tell you what I love about Rudra no Hihou! Part of it is that I'm a mythology buff, and it's so damn rare to see something based on the old Vedic tradition; some flirt with it, like Asura's Wrath, and Skyblazer, and you have a lot of Capcom games with Agni and Rudra being one thing or another... and Rudra no Hihou kinda Valkyrie Profiles it. There's a lot of stuff that they get wrong, but they did at least spend 5 minutes looking at it, so there's something. I did really like the music, visuals, and the story, but it was mostly the off-the-wall magic system that lets you make your own spells. It's challenging at spots, too, though I didn't have a ton of trouble, given that I was smarter than the walkthrough I'd been using up to that point. I mean, what do you do when an enemy has powerful earthquake spells? Seemed obvious to me.

Hi! Not too bad; a little unstable, but that's not all that unusual. How about you?

No, they suck.










... okay, a real response. The first one is extremely low-budget, but that's when you get when the guys who made Bad Dudes make a JRPG. It has a sort of charm that I think might be exclusive to me, but it is a SLOG. Like, I wrote my own save hacking guide from scratch just to drag myself through it; it should be on GameFAQs within a week or so. The second one is pretty basic and forgettable, but inoffenseive; levels and gold come extremely easily, so it's not terribly long, either. Audiovisually, it reminds me of Musashi no Bouken more than anything, if you've played that. The reason I'm dragging myself through these is that the SNES ones look really good, and I know that at least one of them has been translated. I tried the first one before a very long time ago, because 2 looked good when I saw the RPG Classics shrine for it, but it's so damn rough. I bought the DS game, thinking that it was a remake of the first, but it's actually the fifth. Also, it's bad; I didn't get more than a few chapters in before abandoning it completely, because of its completely asinine elemental system that was made to prevent the player from spamming powerful magic during boss battles.

Thanks ya! :3

No, the online for Resident Evil Revelations 2 only applies to the raid mode.

Local co-op is all you have for the campaign.

Resident Evil Revelations 2.

I still need to play the campaign all the way through. I spent way too much time in that game's Raid mode that I only managed to do the first episode.

Truthfully, I know very little about the MSX, myself, but I've seen screenshots from that version of Final Fantasy, and the palettes - at least in battle - are absolutely breathtaking. I almost want to play that version, but it's all in Japanese, I don't have any kind of MSX to play it, and the scrolling is choppier than a dual-wielding samurai on crack. Okay, maybe it's not quite that bad, but it's definitely something that wouldn't go unnoticed.