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bob

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Do I want Alundra?
« on: January 31, 2014, 06:17:45 AM »
I've been on the lookout for a "Zelda" style game for the PS1. All roads so far have pointed me to Alundra.
Anybody have any experience with this game?  Worth the $20 or so I see it go for?  I value opinions here.

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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2014, 08:04:20 AM »
Brave Fencer Musashi was better

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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2014, 08:10:05 AM »
Alundra is a very tedious f*cking game.   The dungeons are often really brutal and long winded, but not really interesting.

It has a great story, but a sort of dumb ending, too.   

Brave Fencer Musashi is indeed a better choice.   Or try Legend of Mana.  It's not QUITE Zelda, but it's actiony.
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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2014, 09:27:32 AM »
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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2014, 06:49:33 PM »
Alundra is fine it's by the same team behind landstalker.Though id avoid it's sequel since it has nothing to do with the original.

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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2014, 06:59:44 PM »
I liked Alundra, though I lost interest before finishing it. Never played Brave Fencer Musashi, though now I'm intrigued.

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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2014, 10:03:47 AM »
I loved Alundra, no doubt.  But the puzzle's are brutal IMO.  Still, I finished it all the same.  I did play thru Alundra 2.  If they could've found a way to use the same engine as the first one, I think that game would've rocked.  But, with it's 3D, it turned out sloppy.  I still gotta play Musashi one of these days.  I also want to play thru Monkey Hero, though I think most people consider it trash.

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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2014, 11:27:09 AM »
My problem with Alundra is similar to my problem with Ultima VIII.    It's repetitive.  The dungeons have no variety.    Practically every dungeon is like the same dumb looking cave.

The story/characters blow Zelda away though, I think.

Alundra's last dungeon was the best part.
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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2014, 11:55:33 AM »
I personally love Alundra. The main thing i find tedious about it is some of the jumping parts. There are some that are very hard to judge and get boring quickly because of the perspective. I also love the soundtrack. I think it may have actually been the first rpg i actually owned

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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2014, 12:21:20 PM »
wait, you can jump?

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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2014, 12:56:02 PM »
I personally love Alundra. The main thing i find tedious about it is some of the jumping parts. There are some that are very hard to judge and get boring quickly because of the perspective. I also love the soundtrack. I think it may have actually been the first rpg i actually owned

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YES!  Jumping can be a beeeyotch!  That was the thing that got my wife to stop playing, she's tends to hate jumping in games in general, with exception to platformers like Mario or Rayman she has no problem with it.

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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2014, 01:48:16 PM »
Yeah, now that you mentioned it, I recall some of the jumps making my blood boil.

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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2014, 08:44:16 PM »
Yeah, now that you mentioned it, I recall some of the jumps making my blood boil.
That it does just like in landstalker there are times where it's hard to judge,where you can jump !

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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2014, 12:43:32 PM »
The dungeons piss me off in this game. They aren't logically laid out and I usually end up running around in circles until I give up and quit playing.
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Re: Do I want Alundra?
« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2014, 03:28:32 AM »
The dungeons piss me off in this game. They aren't logically laid out and I usually end up running around in circles until I give up and quit playing.

Yeah, that's basically correct.

Some of the jumping related puzzles were just a giant cocksucking mess.   

Like those ones where you have to quickly run/jump across those things to make a door open. 


and then sometimes like when you're up on the mountain, you're f*cking around for hours before you realize there's a spot you can jump to if you aim just right, and you have to go that way to progress, lol.

If the game would have ditched the jumping, it would've been a far better game.
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