Good HuCard RPGs?

[Punch]

LOL War of the Dead came with a small pink paper with a dumb excuse for the game's EXP overflow bug for christ's sake. It really is mediocre at best.

[EmperorIng]

Ha, one has to smile at the brazen grasping they came up with to justify their programming oversight. It's like the Sonic 2 manual (or was it 3?) explaining that the glitches that sometimes caused Sonic to get stuck in walls were Robotnik's "traps" to stop Sonic - only a reset could set Sonic free!

I doubt the game, for as simplistic as it was, needed 50+ character passwords either, unless it was specially keeping track of all those giant phallic river monsters you killed.

[Gredler]

Shiryou Sensen: War of the Dead is a fairly fun and unique RPG on the HuCard that is undermined by arbitrary progression flags (ie, talking to someone on one side of the map to trigger a conversation on the other side) and a laughably bad password system, though this is mitigated by a helpful combo of Ootake and savestates. Though I don't know if the PC88 or MSX versions are better (I assume so in the case of the PC88).

While the game isn't great, and somewhat flawed, there is a horror-movie charm to the proceedings.

Now there's a game (and its PC88 sequel!) that needs a translation patch if ever there was one - particularly from a big horror-movie fan. 

First Earthbound, now War of the Dead - what's the next piece of mediocre trash that will be "rediscovered" as a "gem"? Golden Axe III? Super Mario RPG? Marvel Land? Ogre Battle? The possibilities are endless!

Ogre Battle isn't trash.

I think it's cooler to hate on EarthBound due to it's collectard appeal, but it's a great game, as is Mario RPG. I'm surprised they're receiving negative remarks.

[lukester]

Shiryou Sensen: War of the Dead is a fairly fun and unique RPG on the HuCard that is undermined by arbitrary progression flags (ie, talking to someone on one side of the map to trigger a conversation on the other side) and a laughably bad password system, though this is mitigated by a helpful combo of Ootake and savestates. Though I don't know if the PC88 or MSX versions are better (I assume so in the case of the PC88).

While the game isn't great, and somewhat flawed, there is a horror-movie charm to the proceedings.

Now there's a game (and its PC88 sequel!) that needs a translation patch if ever there was one - particularly from a big horror-movie fan. 

First Earthbound, now War of the Dead - what's the next piece of mediocre trash that will be "rediscovered" as a "gem"? Golden Axe III? Super Mario RPG? Marvel Land? Ogre Battle? The possibilities are endless!

Ogre Battle isn't trash.

I think it's cooler to hate on EarthBound due to it's collectard appeal, but it's a great game, as is Mario RPG. I'm surprised they're receiving negative remarks.

I like both Mario RPG and Marvel Land. Fun games.

Mario RPG isn't a masterpiece, but it's certainly a good game. Watch Black Tiger give me shit for saying this though.

[MrBroadway]

Mario RPG is only OK. Not trash, but not great. It was a good introductory RPG for my wife, though. Earthbound I didn't care for at all. I didn't hate it, but rather it was not for me. It most certainly is overrated, though.

[Gredler]

Mario RPG is only OK. Not trash, but not great. It was a good introductory RPG for my wife, though. Earthbound I didn't care for at all. I didn't hate it, but rather it was not for me. It most certainly is overrated, though.

Yeah, I'd hardly call either mediocre or bad games, but both are not the greatest in the library they share. I am probably nostalgic when it comes to earthbound, I haven't played it in 10+ years. Maybe it's shit, but I remember loving the enemy designs and the story, and the gameplay for me as a ~12 year old was perfect. I think Mario RPG is the better of the two, the gameplay was unique and the graphics were impressive for the time, again - I can't attest to how it plays today as that one I've never played since the era when I tried it (though I played it twice at that time).

I'd love to see this topic go back on subject, are there any "traditional" JRPGs like Dragon Warrior on the hucard format that were translated to English? Growing up this was my favorite genre because I could actually beat the games thanks to the reliance on grinding rather than skill hahah