Ninja Spirit is overlooked.

[Ninja Spirit]

I believe there was a sequel to KC on Supergrafx (Granzort)?

[nodtveidt]

I'll say it for the last time...

GRANZORT IS NOT THE SEQUEL TO KEITH COURAGE!    

It's based on the same anime (Wataru) but it's not the sequel to KC. This is a classic piece of PCE scene misinformation.

[_joshuaTurbo]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record.

I think the perfect sequel to keith courage would have been Dragon Egg for PC Engine.  If TTi would have gotten their collective head out of their ass, they could have translated it over here.

Truly the gameplay is SO identical!  The story could have gone something like Keith is captured and its up to Keith's little sister to save him,  Just so happens that Keiths little sister gets a BAD ASS Dragon to accompany her along her quest to make some bosses cry like babies!!
or something like that
just an idea,


TurboSage

[esteban]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record.

I think the perfect sequel to keith courage would have been Dragon Egg for PC Engine.  If TTi would have gotten their collective head out of their ass, they could have translated it over here.

Truly the gameplay is SO identical!  The story could have gone something like Keith is captured and its up to Keith's little sister to save him,  Just so happens that Keiths little sister gets a BAD ASS Dragon to accompany her along her quest to make some bosses cry like babies!!
or something like that
just an idea,


TurboSage

Awesome. I actually bought this game after some folks here praised it, but it's been sitting on a shelf for the last few months. I gotta remember to play it, it looks swell

[Black Tiger]

I honestly believe so, it is my Favorite Turbo Grafx 16 game. Seeing more than one of myself jumping and slashin is just to awesome, i never remember seeing anything like that on the other 16 bit consoles. when people talk about tg16 very rarely do they say and get Ninja Spirit its a great game! which it is

I don't think that it has ever been overlooked. Right from the get go it got the first perfect 10 score in EGM.

And the Duo pack-in only ensured that those who didn't know enough to give it a try were pleasantly surprised when they bought a Turbo Duo.

After renting it and Aeroblasters as soon as they came out, I asked for both for X-Mas & Birthday(4 days apart) presents and was lucky enough(I was the lone Turbo gamer in town so supply was limited) to get them both.

They're still of my favorite Turbochips and are the first games I fire up when playing a bunch of HuCards.

[Keranu]

Steve, play the game already! It's been so long now!

[Black Tiger]

I'll say it for the last time...

GRANZORT IS NOT THE SEQUEL TO KEITH COURAGE!    

It's based on the same anime (Wataru) but it's not the sequel to KC. This is a classic piece of PCE scene misinformation.

Yeah, but by video-game-sequel-titling standards, its one of the most 'faithful' sequels around.

Since a game like Yoshi's Island is called a Mario Bros/World game, Link's Adv being a Zelda game or even Donkey Kong 3 or Junior as Donkey Kong games.

For a while now, most games considered as 'sequels' are titles that have some sort of themed connection, with gameplay meaning nothing.

Technically, Perfect Dark's not supposed to be a real sequel to Golden Eye, but Rogue Agent is.

In my personal judgement, I consider true sequels to be games that forward established gameplay instead of completely reinventing it.

This is why it pissed me off so much back in the day when Bonk's Revenge & Big Adventure were dismissed by mag reviews as rehashes and therefore mediocre. But each new Sonic game got rave reviews all round.

I don't consider Granzort a true Wataru sequel, but I don't consider Norcturne/Symphony' to be a true sequel to Drac X either.

[Keranu]

Hmm, decent points.

[esteban]

I'll say it for the last time...

GRANZORT IS NOT THE SEQUEL TO KEITH COURAGE!    

It's based on the same anime (Wataru) but it's not the sequel to KC. This is a classic piece of PCE scene misinformation.

Yeah, but by video-game-sequel-titling standards, its one of the most 'faithful' sequels around.

Since a game like Yoshi's Island is called a Mario Bros/World game, Link's Adv being a Zelda game or even Donkey Kong 3 or Junior as Donkey Kong games.

For a while now, most games considered as 'sequels' are titles that have some sort of themed connection, with gameplay meaning nothing.

Technically, Perfect Dark's not supposed to be a real sequel to Golden Eye, but Rogue Agent is.

In my personal judgement, I consider true sequels to be games that forward established gameplay instead of completely reinventing it.

This is why it pissed me off so much back in the day when Bonk's Revenge & Big Adventure were dismissed by mag reviews as rehashes and therefore mediocre. But each new Sonic game got rave reviews all round.

I don't consider Granzort a true Wataru sequel, but I don't consider Norcturne/Symphony' to be a true sequel to Drac X either.

Yeah, there are many different ways to define "sequel"... personally, I use many different definitions -- but I am always careful to explain precisely what definition I am using to avoid confusion. Things get messy very quickly, though. And I am not always consistent.

I will happily accept Zelda 2 as a true sequel to Zelda. Zelda 2 seemed to capture the mood / atmosphere / universe of the original game. I also accept Ys III as a true sequel (for the same reasons)... even though both games significantly changed the gameplay formula found in their predecessors.

[Keranu]

I agree with Steve about Zelda 2 being a true sequel (and I'm not just saying that because it's my favorite game in the series, I love it). Zelda 2 still captures and uses elements used in the first Zelda game, but the whole view of playing in towns and dungeons is a whole different genre than the original, but it's pretty similar when you consider the other aspects, such as items, gameplay mechanics, music, etc...

However while I do consider Ys III a sequel to I & II since it's officially made that way, I don't consider it as true of a sequel as Zelda II was to the original, because Ys III lacked fewer elements that Ys Book I & II had, unlike Zelda II with Zelda, though there were still a few similarities. And for what Ys III was missing which Ys Book I & II had is why I don't like Ys III nearly as much as a sequel as I liked Zelda II as a sequel, though I still enjoy Ys III.