What does /vr/ think about the Tengai Makyou series?
What are we supposed to think? No one here knows Japanese
It was a high profile game when the first one came out, what with being the first JRPG in CD-ROM, and boasting a soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto.The nihonjinron philosophy of the series' ethos managed to make the series special and also different from DQ and FF which were mostly based on classic western fantasy, Tengai Makyou is 100% Japanese.It's the Ganbare Goemon of JRPGs
>>12559925Games are great the sega saturn one was a master piece specially going the western style and the ankmations and battle made it better.The snes version is great as well and is the only rpg that has tons of enemies without using recolors if other sprites to save space.
1: Outside of the excellent presentation, the music and the fact that it was the first console game ever with voice acted cutscenes, it's just an okay DQ clone the kind of you see a lot of on Famicom and better ones too.
2: This is where it's at, it's a masterpiece. The game with the highest budget ever at the time (and it might have staid at the top until FF7 blew that tenfold) It's like DQ on steroids and I love how there are so many moves and so many different strategies you can adopt. You talked with another anon who played the game once and we had completely different strategies to go through the game. The presentation is even better than the first and the story has some good beats like the whole part with the dog, and I'm not even a dog person. The game is crazy long too, it took me 60+ hours and it's not even the kind of RPGs where you'd spend half of that time drawing maps.
Fuun Kabuki Den: It's shorter, only about 30 hours playthrough, more simple too with less moves and a party of only 3 characters; but the story and characters are fun and the cutscenes are equally great. Okuni is my waifu.
Zero: this one is boring anyway. It looks good graphically but combat was a bore, characters were boring, the Real Time Clock was almost meaningless, and I don't even remember anything about the story. Some people like it but I didn't.
The Apocalypse IV: worse gameplay in the series, it's really braindead. There is also a serious lack of enemy variety too with most areas only have 2 enemy types and sometimes even a single one. But, it's worth playing for the presentation and story alone which are truly excellent. The story had me laughing several times like the lady pig's song. All the racial jokes wouldn't fly today, but to be fair they're no 'mean' racism, they're just jokes, and the first thing they make fun of is a Japanese man.
>English version never ever
I was a NES-owning kid when I first came upon screenshots of Manjimaru’s OP in a magazine. I was floored.I’ve been waiting for a translation in order to play it ever since.
>>12560080>Okuni is my waifuher line delivery is awkward and she comes across as a first time actress but her performance is very endearing and, dare I say, moe. her wikipedia profile is cute it says one of her interests is kabuki which is fitting obviously and she admitted in an interview that she is bad at narration and voice over work and constantly flubs her lines. Its funny shes an actual actress, while kabuki den was being made she was starring in a drama series and randomly all the episodes are on youtube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSxbZzWOITM&list=PLtg4dUOpphTXIllK0rmxQsRhQS4aKy-zI&index=2you can hear her voice very distinctly in the first 10 seconds of this episode.
The original appeal of this series was just "Dragon Quest if he voiced"
