Vasteel 2

[ddd1234]

What are your thoughts on Vasteel 2?

I recently saw the only gameplay video on YouTube on this game, and the music had me hooked. Soulful Pc-engine soundtrack...love it.

How is the game? Will I be able to sail through it If I don't know Japanese?

I really wanna grab a copy of this one. The music rocks.

[esteban]

What are your thoughts on Vasteel 2?

I recently saw the only gameplay video on YouTube on this game, and the music had me hooked. Soulful Pc-engine soundtrack...love it.

How is the game? Will I be able to sail through it If I don't know Japanese?

I really wanna grab a copy of this one. The music rocks.

The Professor may chime in (I noticed—and was surprised—that he recently recommended it as a decent game).

Personally, I was hoping for it to follow its predesessor more closely, but, in fact, it shares little if anything with its predesessor. I'll have to give Vasteel 2 another chance, but I haven't been in the mood to play it. 

[Black Tiger]

I hated it and didn't give it a chance. It doesn't play at all like Vasteel.

[td741]

Yeah, I was disappointed that it reverted to a plain strategy game and removes the action elements.

That said, it does a neat routine at the beginning to scan your peripherals and finds out if you're using an AC card, Memory Base 128 (or save kun) and mouse.

[ddd1234]

What does the arcade card do for this game?

[ParanoiaDragon]

Also, there's a "sort of" Vasteel 3.  It was made by the same team........& I could be wrong, but I thought I heard they considered calling it Vasteel 3.  However, I have no way of confirming that.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_Bandits  I have it, but haven't ever played thru it, so I don't know how closely it resembles either game for sure.

[td741]

What does the arcade card do for this game?

If I remember correctly (haven't booted it up in a long time) it pretty much preloads the whole game at the start neo-geo CD like.  Hmm... Actually, it might also improve the cinemas as well like 3x3 Eyes...  (So there might be some loading after the cinemas.)

[ProfessorProfessorson]

Yeah this one took a bit of a different route then Vasteel 1. Regardless, its a fairly easy game to get into. To point out though, Vasteel 2 DOES play basically just like Vasteel 1, minus the action battles. In the end they were both isometric grid strategy games. The only real difference is Vasteel 1 battle system employed something similar to Archon, and the art style is somewhat different.

[esteban]

Yeah this one took a bit of a different route then Vasteel 1. Regardless, its a fairly easy game to get into. To point out though, Vasteel 2 DOES play basically just like Vasteel 1, minus the action battles. In the end they were both isometric grid strategy games. The only real difference is Vasteel 1 battle system employed something similar to Archon, and the art style is somewhat different.

Archon is awesome, of course (Apple ]['s version, anyway). I would gladly take a port of Archon over Vasteel 2.