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Game of the Month Club (Secret of Mana)

Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sun Jan 26, 2014 5:42 pm

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I'd like to start a game of the Month Club. Every 2-4 weeks we pick a game and play through it as a group. Take screenshots and discuss its merits and flaws.

Right now I'm finishing up a playthrough of Illusion of Gaia. We can pick a new game over the next couple of days.

I've enjoyed this game so far. I had never heard of it as a kid, so this is my first time through it. If you're unfamiliar with this game, it is unusual in that its settings are ancient wonders of the world. The Great Wall of China, Angkor Wat, Nazca Lines, etc. It's really neat to see level design that's based on the actual architecture of places I'm familiar with.
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One of the mechanics of this game is a character swap system (spoiler it's father son and holy ghost) that you have to use to solve the dungeon puzzles. It's a neat system, although the puzzles are fairly elementary.
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Also this game is really dark. That's a corpse on fire. You murdered him. With a trap. How whimsical! The story is fairly engaging and the writing is better than the average mid-nineties Square Enix game.

If I have one quibble about this game it's the controls. They're clunky and it's absolutely essential to play this game with a controller. Also the stat increase system is "you get a power up when you kill all the enemies in this area". It gets you to explore and forces you to get familiar with the controls which, while you will figure out efficient attack strategies, gets fairly tedious. Also, I wasn't super into the boss battles, but a. they're not the focus of the game and b. it's probably a taste thing more than anything else.

I've had a good time with this game. It has a unique tone and art style, and is definitely worth a playthrough.
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:03 pm

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I'd be willing to /in for this. I keep meaning to play through a bunch of old ROMs, but I keep getting distracted by
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:16 pm

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The third person narration is a little odd. I think this is one of the very few SNES RPGs I haven't played.
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:19 pm

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it's definitely worth your time, even if you don't finish it.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:34 pm

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Definitely /in for this. I take it there'll be a preference for RPGs and longer games for this?
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Sun Jan 26, 2014 8:39 pm

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I'm so in
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:24 am

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Id likely at least pretend to play them I guess maybe.
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:11 am

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In post 4, Empire wrote:Definitely /in for this. I take it there'll be a preference for RPGs and longer games for this?
Not necessarily

in fact, I kind of want to suggest Cool Spot for the first game :shifty:
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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:28 am

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Shit, that first boss was pretty tough.
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:30 am

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the bosses are KINDA bullshit imo
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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:35 am

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so my current suggestions:

Cool Spot
Terranigma
Secret of Evermore
FF III/V
Maui Mallard Cold Shadows
Soul Blazer

I don't want to just pick one, so let me know if you have any suggestions
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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Mon Jan 27, 2014 6:35 am

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/in
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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:08 pm

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Secret of Mana
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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:09 pm

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Secret of Mana is a strong choice. It'll be a replay for me, but I'd be totally happy for that to be up first.
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Post Post #14 (ISO) » Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:17 pm

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Secret of Mana, Terranigma, or Secret of Evermore would all be great.
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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:20 pm

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I haven't played any of them, am interested in playing the FF though.
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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:35 pm

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Let's just go with Secret of Mana. I'm going to start tonight.
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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Mon Jan 27, 2014 5:55 pm

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I'll play Secret of Mana after I'm done with VLR which should be in a day or so!
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Post Post #18 (ISO) » Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:17 pm

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Can someone explain how to access this? I'd love to play if I knew how to work things
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Post Post #19 (ISO) » Tue Jan 28, 2014 2:56 am

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Post Post #20 (ISO) » Tue Jan 28, 2014 3:07 am

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:thumbsup:

also I highly recommend this. the secret of mana in particular is far better with a controller.

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Post Post #21 (ISO) » Tue Jan 28, 2014 3:28 am

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oh jeez.
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Post Post #22 (ISO) » Tue Jan 28, 2014 3:44 am

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you can search google for "secret of mana rom download"

get zsnes as an emulator
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Post Post #23 (ISO) » Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:18 am

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In post 22, Untrod Tripod wrote:you can search google for "secret of mana rom download"

get zsnes as an emulator
zsnes is a horrible piece of shit, use snes 9x 1.4 or bsnes
stream

ffxiv/speedrunning sometimes/other things?
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Post Post #24 (ISO) » Tue Jan 28, 2014 6:04 am

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I've been using zsnes for like 5 years now, so I hadn't looked into updating the emulator. I'll give snes 9x a try on this playthrough.
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