trying one of the games I bought in the eshop sale. this was a Compile PC game originally & apparently it was particularly popular in Korea
There's also this dog guy who's from the series this is a spinoff of apparently
There are a lot of furry guys in this
And I do mean furry guys because unfortunately so far it seems to practice Coward's Kemono where only the men are full furry and the women are kemonomimi
I was looking into the original Gensei series, they were mostly distributed with Compile's Disc Station magazines in Japan and Korea but Gensei Kitan was released standalone. Smash the dog is the recurring protag. he is Horny. the 5th game Gensei Kaishingeki concerns his hunt for legendary porno
If Gensei Kaishingeki looks familiar to you & you're the particular kind of weirdo I am, you might have played the arcade game Shocking by Yun Sung which ripped it off pretty closely
As for Gensei Suikoden, not being familiar with the original I didn't realise at first, but "Plus" actually has completely redrawn graphics, so all this very nice pixel art is brand new. Here's some comparison shots via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQd7bdvnbho
Well I reached an ending..! There were some secrets I missed, I didn't get the true final boss, there's a post-game dungeon I haven't tried yet, and two new chapters added to this version depending on your performance in that dungeon. But it's a short game & the intent is you'll replay it
The question is... will I actually go for all that?
It's a game with a lot of charm and a lot going for it but it also has problems
The encounter rate is high which makes exploration pretty tedious & I'm not currently relishing the idea of a big ass no-save-points mazelike bonus dungeon full of that
The other big problem for me is that the English localisation is bad
On a basic quality level it's full of mistakes and inconsistencies but the fatal flaw really is for a game that's supposed to be full of humour and quirky characters, so much of it is just flattened out. Everyone talks the same
So would I recommend it? Sort of??? It is undeniably cool that a Disc Station game got remade & localised, & if you want a short, quirky martial arts RPG with good pixel art starring a pissed up tiger and don't mind the bad loc (or understand JP/KR) then by all means get it. Maybe on sale though
The new character art for this version is good by the way. I think all you furry old man likers out there are sleeping on Ataho
@lion a true lost media preservation hero
@lion you've single handily made me want to play this
@lion yeah the art for this looks great!
