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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: September 22, 2021 (11:25 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
If I was a petty man, someone would have been docked A LOT of theoretical points by now!
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: September 22, 2021 (12:10 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the topic, and for the comments on my reviews. It was a tough week to place, another one where there wasn't a bad review in the lot. I thought my food metaphor would be enough to place me over the top, but dagoss and overdrive both wrote excellent reviews so I guess I can live with third.
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Author: dagoss
Posted: September 22, 2021 (03:24 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the win and the kind words. Those are genuinely some of the nicest things anyone has said about anything I've written. I would like to go back and edit this one better (and several others) as they could be much better than they are.
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Author: dementedhut
Posted: September 22, 2021 (05:21 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the comments. Despite how much it gets talked up (nostalgia?), the SMS version of this game was perhaps the hardest thing to write about, since I actually had to pad it in order for it not to be a mere three paragraphs long. I ended up rewriting the first two paragraphs at least four times to make it.... somewhat connectable to the SMS version. It looks nicer than the NES game and it's more in tune to the arcade original, but other than that, there's.... not much of value to talk about other than its direct comparisons to the NES title. I'm glad I got it out of the way, honestly. Now I can concentrate my efforts on more important things like the other 50 bad versions of DD.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: September 23, 2021 (12:23 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the comments and don't tempt me! There are a lot of Kemco games I haven't played yet! I mean, the thought of doing anything with the Kemco Khallenge for anything other than a "maybe a game every year or two" basis kind of makes me violently ill, but I could!
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Author: dagoss
Posted: September 23, 2021 (01:17 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I have a have finish Kemcom review (for Sword of Hope) that I've been meaning to finish, but I haven't been able to finish the game because I kind of hate it. I honestly can't believe just how many generic RPGs they turn out these days.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: September 23, 2021 (02:39 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
When I started the Kemco Khallenge, it all was really simple. I was getting tired of JRPGs because over the generations, they went from lean-n-mean 20-40 hour investments to requiring over 100 (at least if you are trying to do more than just go from beginning to end). Kemco's games were shorter, so I figured they'd be fun. Initially, the experiment was a success. I mean, the games usually weren't that great and palette-swapping was done to an obscene degree, but they were short and hit the so-called sweet spot.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: September 23, 2021 (05:56 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
So which were the best WWS titles?
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: September 24, 2021 (11:23 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
The ones I played that I considered to be good (by Kemco standards, not by legit game standards, necessarily) were Symphony of Eternity and Tears Revolude. Symphony is one of their first games and is pretty ugly with a few annoyances like the game simply refusing to let you travel on the map in directions the plot isn't taking you yet, but it has a respectable job class system and a pretty good difficulty level (the sort where you have to work, but it's not super-tough). Tears was more experimental in appearance with dungeons being isometric instead of pure overhead. It looks good by Kemco standards and has a larger-than-average cast (a five-person villain team). Battle system is kind of fun. While characters don't get a ton of skills, those skills can be leveled up and get more powerful the more often you use them.
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