1st November 2013, 2:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 3rd November 2013, 7:47 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Handful of Japanese games; it's a lot less stuff than the earlier boxes for sure, but I spent more than I was thinking mostly because of one specific game...
Shipping was $35.
N64
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Neon Genesis Evangelion - $17, cart only. Decent game -- it's a 2.5d beat 'em up. It's also the only action game based on Evangelion, and is one of the more interesting import N64 titles.
Sin and Punishment - $37, complete. Yeah, this is the one I was talking about, and it wasn't cheap, but it IS complete, which is pretty awesome. S&P is of course a game I've wanted to own ever since it originally released; there was no import title I wanted more than this one, so when I saw this, I had to bid... and got it for a fair price (this is about what it costs; used to be more, but that was before the WiiVC re-release and such).
PS1
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Ganbare Goemon: Kuru nara Koi! Ayashige Ikka no Kuroi Kage - $7.50, complete. 3d action-platformer Goemon game. It's disliked by the few people who have reviewed it in English, but it's a Goemon game and I like the franchise, so I decided to get it anyway. I played it a bit. It's okay, though the camera makes the jumping puzzles very annoying. This is one of those games which clearly show how 3d tech wasn't entirely understood yet (with how to make a good game in 3d, that is).
SNES
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Ganbare Goemon 3 - $7, cart only. This one's a top-down action-adventure game; yes, the Goemon series constantly changed. I got it so that I'd have all of the main four SNES games, and now I do! You really need a walkthrough to play this, but they exist, so it is playable.
TurboGrafx CD
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Ranma 1/2 - $2.86, complete. Mediocre side-scrolling action-platformer with lengthy cutscenes between stages. Most Ranma games weren't that great... still, I want to try this one. I still don't have any of the SNES Ranma games, which also are thoroughly medioce, and this is the only one that's a platformer... the others are all fighting games. So yeah, even if it's not the greatest, I want to have it.;
Down Load 2 - $23.50, complete. This is a very good shmup. It's a sequel to the first game, which of course I got a month or more ago, and impressively for a regular CD title, it has just as much parallax as that game does! Very nice. They did cut out the password save system, but there are cheatcodes. The art style is different, but the gameplay is similar, which means quite good - Down Load is one of the best TG16 shmups there is. Game not listed on IGN.
Jantei Monogatari 2: Kanketsu-hen - $3.60, complete. I think my collector instincts are the only reason I got this one... yes, there are two different games under the "Jantei Monogatari 2" name, so now I got the other one too. For some reason. This one does have one new feature: a Mahjong-only mode which avoids the "adventure" scenes. That's nice. Game not listed on IGN.
Shipping was $35.
N64
--
Neon Genesis Evangelion - $17, cart only. Decent game -- it's a 2.5d beat 'em up. It's also the only action game based on Evangelion, and is one of the more interesting import N64 titles.
Sin and Punishment - $37, complete. Yeah, this is the one I was talking about, and it wasn't cheap, but it IS complete, which is pretty awesome. S&P is of course a game I've wanted to own ever since it originally released; there was no import title I wanted more than this one, so when I saw this, I had to bid... and got it for a fair price (this is about what it costs; used to be more, but that was before the WiiVC re-release and such).
PS1
--
Ganbare Goemon: Kuru nara Koi! Ayashige Ikka no Kuroi Kage - $7.50, complete. 3d action-platformer Goemon game. It's disliked by the few people who have reviewed it in English, but it's a Goemon game and I like the franchise, so I decided to get it anyway. I played it a bit. It's okay, though the camera makes the jumping puzzles very annoying. This is one of those games which clearly show how 3d tech wasn't entirely understood yet (with how to make a good game in 3d, that is).
SNES
--
Ganbare Goemon 3 - $7, cart only. This one's a top-down action-adventure game; yes, the Goemon series constantly changed. I got it so that I'd have all of the main four SNES games, and now I do! You really need a walkthrough to play this, but they exist, so it is playable.
TurboGrafx CD
--
Ranma 1/2 - $2.86, complete. Mediocre side-scrolling action-platformer with lengthy cutscenes between stages. Most Ranma games weren't that great... still, I want to try this one. I still don't have any of the SNES Ranma games, which also are thoroughly medioce, and this is the only one that's a platformer... the others are all fighting games. So yeah, even if it's not the greatest, I want to have it.;
Down Load 2 - $23.50, complete. This is a very good shmup. It's a sequel to the first game, which of course I got a month or more ago, and impressively for a regular CD title, it has just as much parallax as that game does! Very nice. They did cut out the password save system, but there are cheatcodes. The art style is different, but the gameplay is similar, which means quite good - Down Load is one of the best TG16 shmups there is. Game not listed on IGN.
Jantei Monogatari 2: Kanketsu-hen - $3.60, complete. I think my collector instincts are the only reason I got this one... yes, there are two different games under the "Jantei Monogatari 2" name, so now I got the other one too. For some reason. This one does have one new feature: a Mahjong-only mode which avoids the "adventure" scenes. That's nice. Game not listed on IGN.