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Apparently there are also a lot of freezes and glitches I didn’t encounter any of these but they’re a common complaint about the game.The battles on the whole are slow moving.The village part is interesting, but they need to provide more information on what you’re actually doing with your choices.

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I’m not even sure the instruction manual tells you these hidden items exist. Almost all the equippable weapons can only be gotten by finding them in hidden spaces on the 31×31 maps there are no clues so that means 961 potential squares. If you don’t move the main character in front of a little shrine on stage 4 (with no hints indicating you should do so), you permanently lose access to all the main character’s unique sword abilities. The “true” ending is impossible to get without a walkthrough, and even with a walkthrough it’s tough. Too much content is hidden with no hints.But then they have forced deploys and secrets that rely on using specific characters. The game encourages you to have your fighting force and then your “village” units.With permadeath and no in-battle saves this is a problem. Enemies seem to have undefined ranges for their abilities and you have to be careful because the boss might suddenly use an attack from halfway across the map targeted at your weak healer. There’s just too little information on the whole.If it weren’t for the inset map the game would be nearly unplayable. The maps are too large for the content, and it’s hard to see them.

(This is not an emulation issue, it’s mentioned on the kusoge wiki entry for the game)

The cursor sensitivity is way too high.

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But the designers torpedoed everything with a series of bad design decisions. There is a wide variety of characters and skills, and the “hidden village” segment between stages has a lot of potential in letting you give your non-fighting characters something to do.

It’s a shame because it has good ideas in it. So this is the point where I’m going to give up on the game. You get 5 guys from the hidden village after a while, but it still takes a really long time to beat and has even more of those annoying “hit you from across the map” enemies.

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You have to beat all the enemies, plus there are reinforcements (more of those guys from stage 10). There’s also a secret character you have to reach in 14 turns, although I managed to do it even though I wasn’t trying that hard. You basically have to make sure that nobody drops too low in HP or they’ll get picked off. They also have more of these undefined-range moves that they can use from al over the place. We still just have all these predetermined groups and the grunt enemies in this stage are very strong. And then they’re not very helpful, but at least it’s more people. There are a lot of hidden and optional characters here that you need to take specific characters to get. The boss has an annoying move that he randomly uses from time to time to shoot someone from anywhere on the map. This stage is where we’re trying to steal guns and fireworks from the enemies. But Shion rounds up his friend Shoko and they decide to go see what’s up. At the beginning of the game, a mysterious comet or asteroid has come down nearby and his dad goes to investigate, telling Shion to stay home. They struggled after 1994 and went bankrupt after releasing their last game in 1998. They went on to make Emerald Dragon (which I played earlier), Sword Master (which I played on my SRPG blog), and Alnam no Kiba (which I’ll be playing later).

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The original developer of the PC game was Right Stuff. It’s frustrating to see the designers spend all their effort on adding in the voiced cutscenes, but do nothing to address the interface issues. The result is similar to what we’ve seen with previous computer games ported to PC Engine - an old fashioned and somewhat peculiar system with voiced cutscenes. This game was initially released on computer in 1991, and this port was done 3 years later (along with one to Mega Drive CD).