PCE, SNES and Genesis, screen comparison.

[shubibiman]

LOX is just amazing. It's even more amazing when you see it in motion (8th picture from top to bottom in the right hand column). Fantastic!

[blueraven]

  I had to see this again on the next page!!!

I will be posting screens of games that really didnt match up with any thing on the genesis or snes.


                                         legend of xanadu

   

Baddest RPG eVaR!

[ceti alpha]

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...did I mention I really need this game?

[Joe Redifer]

Yeah, me too!

[Tatsujin]

it's a very cheapy and so common game. i'm now a lil bit surprised of the fact, that not every PCE & TG16 owner already owns one of those.

it's successor is a bit more rare though.

[Tom]

I bought this game BITD when it first came out. Imported it. Loved it. It was my second Japanese RPG on the Duo I beat. One loooooooong ass game. Required lots of shotty dictionary translation on my part ( thank god the game used lots of Kanji. I could never translate all Kana based games because I couldn't tell the start/end of word when they don't put any spaces in the sentences!!! WTF? Jerks!). On a side note, my 7 year old son got to the 3rd chapter in this game. We used Gamemusicfreak's youtube video walkthroughs to help him out.

[Tatsujin]

so how did you decipher all the kanjis back then? search them by its strokes in a word tank? or are you chinese?

[Joe Redifer]

It requires knowledge of Japanese?  It looks like an action game to me.  I don't even know what this game is called.

[Tom]

so how did you decipher all the kanjis back then?

 Visually matching them up ;>_>

 But I kept a record of all the the ones I encountered. But to be honest, a lot of the translations made little to no sense and I only did it when I was stuck in the game

[Black Tiger]

It requires knowledge of Japanese?  It looks like an action game to me.  I don't even know what this game is called.

It's like Ys gameplay-wise with Dragon Slayer style progression (chapters and all). Unfortunately, each chapter is basically a long string of specific fetch quests and it's very gaijin unfriendly.

At the end of each Chapter, there is a brief section where you side scroll across a short distance battling enemies with a little platforming before taking on the main boss.


A good comparison graphic-wise would be Popful Mail for SFC and MCD.

[Joe Redifer]

Someone needs to produce a translation patch.

[awack]

Follow the directions below(very simple) and you can play Legend of Xanadu like a straight forward action game.



At the title screen move the cursor to the middle item, press and hold Select, then press and hold Run (hold both through the "File Selection" screen), when the game starts you'll hear a chime (you can then release the keys). Now move to the right of this area, and you'll see a bunch of signs. The bottom 3 rows take you to various parts of the game, the first 3 on the top row are "hints." The second section on the top row (8 signs) do the following:
1: saves the debug file and exits the current game;
2-6: individualt cinemas;
7: lets you play all the action sequences (in order);
8: shows all the cinemas in a continuous loop.




Some cutscene screen shots.


                                           Legend of Xanadu

A good comparison graphic-wise would be Popful Mail for SFC and MCD.

I didn't even think about Popful Mail, that definitely has a very similar graphic style.

[Black Tiger]

The cinemas, like the action sections, have to be seen in motion and both have lots of cool effects.

[Tatsujin]

PC ENGINE, c'est cool!!

[Necromancer]

...did I mention I really need this game?

I'm in a similar boat; I have the game but haven't played it much yet.