showing 6 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super Morph | Millenium;Sony | 1993 | labelimageminimize | |
| Wolfchild | Virgin Games (Core Design) | 1993 | labelimageminimize | |
| Flashback: The Quest for Identity | Sony;US Gold (Delphine) | 1993 | The year is 2142. The planet is Titan... Playing the role of Conrad B. Hart, a confused young man with a memory loss, you must escape your enemies and find your missing girlfriend. FLASHBACK: THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY is chock full of slick animations, superb sounds and tons of atmosphere.*** [32]*** [29]*** [27]***Rather simple but effective scenario: the game begins with your escape from a base but your guards catch up with you and cut down your vehicle and you awake in the jungle, amnesic. You find a message recorded by you but you do not remember it. Your prime objective is to find a friend who will be able to help you. | labelimagesubject |
| Shadowrun | Data East;Laser Beam (Beam Software) | 1993 | According to game developers, this game was built upon the "core" of [game=#8055]Nightshade[/game]. This was done to meet the short deadline they had to complete a game based on the Shadowrun license. Another reason they needed to take this shortcut was because most of their adventure game designers left the company after Nightshade was done. To further complicate things, the game's development was put on hold for years and restarted with 6 months left to finish. Even though there was a new team and a new writer, everything had to fit with the story that had already been approved by FASA (there was no creative control to alter this previously approved story)***Loosely based on the novel [i]Never Deal with a Dragon[/i], by Robert N. Charrette.***The hilarity of the Johnny Mnemonic movie review aside, the story actually seems inspired by William Gibson's short story title [i]Johnny Mnemonic[/i] published via Omni magazine in 1981 and again via his [i]Burning Chrome[/i] collection of short stories in 1981. The Johnny Mnemonic movie actually came 3 years [b]after[/b] this game. You wake up on a slab in a drawer in the local chop shop (morgue) in Seattle. Find out what happened. Discover Jake's life path. Discover who you can trust. Retaliate against the ones responsible. Fight against and with elves and dwarfs. Banish the undead. Battle sea monsters and dragons. Hack computers. Augment you body with technology and learn magic. Use a bit of detective work, lots of bullets, and public transportation. [Zerothis]***This game is one of those timeless (although strangely unknown) games, which I so enjoy playing. Set in the 'distant' future, it follows the same path as the movie, no doubt based on this, staring the infamous Keanu Reaves, Johny Mneumonic. Summed up: You got a harddrive in your head, it's costing you a hell of a headache, and damn, you're going to get it out. Very creative RPG-type level system, multiple weapons, but system of conversations get tiresome. Definitely a game worth playing, but you better be ready to try EVERYTHING to beat it.***Loved this game right from the start when i bought is for my snes 10 years ago for christmas. I bought secret of mana at the same time and shadowrun ranked before secret of mana. i spent all christmas holidays to finish the game. Unfortunatelly i felt it was a bit short. Nevertheless if there would have been a part2 i would have bought it for sure. [otaku-kun] | labelimagesubject |
| Secret of Evermore | Square | 1995 | Late in the game the hero fights a boss named Coleoptera which is a palette swap of the first boss Thraxx (see the package shot for a drawing of that boss). Thraxx is probably a corruption of the word thorax, whereas Coleoptera is the scientific name of the order of beetles. The boss that goes by that name bears however no resemblance to a beetle at all. The literal meaning of the word Coleoptera does not make much sense either, as "coleo" comes from ancient greek [i]κολεός[/i] (koleos) which means sheath and "ptera" from [i]πτερόν[/i] (pteron) which means wing, referring to the chitinized front wings (elytra) which are characteristic for beetles and serve as a protection ("sheath") for the hind wings. Coleoptera from Secret of Evermore has no wings however.***When waiting a long time on the "The End" screen another screen appears which credits Brian Fehdrau for Dolly Grip. In movie production the Dolly Grip is responsible for operating the camera dolly. Brian Fehdrau revealed that he added that message for his wife Dolly.***In Dr. Sidney Ruttleberg's old, decaying mansion, a boy and his dog stumble upon a mysterious machine. By sheer accident they are propelled into Evermore, a one-time utopia that now has become a confounding and deadly world. A world of prehistoric jungles, ancient civilizations, medieval kingdoms and futuristic cities. During his odyssey, the boy must master a variety of weapons, learn to harness the forces of alchemy, and make powerful allies to battle Evermore's diabolical monsters. What's more, his dog masters shape-changing to aid the quest. But even if they can muster enough skill and courage, even if they can uncover the mysterious clues, they can only find their way home by discovering the Secret of Evermore.*** [46]*** [27]***[b]video games[/b] — the world of Evermore was originally a "video game" itself, but something apparently went wrong and became a reality of its own (based on the description in Wikipedia)***Secret of Evermore has a really involving story but is definitely directed towards a younger audience. The gameplay is almost completely the same as the Secret of Mana series, but the one thing that truly stands out about this game is the Alchemy system in which the spells you learn take ingredients for you to cast them, making the challenge level a lot better than games like FF3, where your characters basically become gods(at least in my opinion).***Decent RPG. If you want to play this game with your buddy in 2 player mode like Secret of Mana, you can do so by getting FuSoYa's patch: [[link:http://fusoya.panicus.org/ http://fusoya.panicus.org/]] [cjlee001]***Watch out for extremely cheesy humour within. [Haoie] | labelimagesubject |
| Seiken Densetsu 3 | Square | 1995 | [[link:http://www.uvlist.net/game-6408 Seiken Densetsu 2 (Secret of Mana)]] goodness with better graphics and music. This time around there are six characters to choose from and each have their own storyline in the beginning of the game. You can choose 3 characters to be in your party, and the story dialogue (and possibly the story progression) will change slightly depending on who is in your party. You can also choose to develop your characters into different classes to suit your playing-style. Each character specializes in one type of weapon instead of being able to use any weapon like in SD2. SD3 boasts some of the most beautiful graphics on the SNES and is, in my opinion, one of the best RPG's for the SNES (or for any system for that matter). Unofficial English translation available: [[link:http://www.neillcorlett.com/ http://www.neillcorlett.com/]] [[link:http://www.romhacking.net/trans/440/ http://www.romhacking.net/]] Although SD3 has 3 characters in the party, only two are controllable by players. This patch makes it possible for the 3rd character to be controlled by players: [[link:http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/179/ http://www.romhacking.net/]] There's also a nifty utility that lets you edit the save game SRAM files called ST_SD3: [[link:http://vsnes.aep-emu.de/ http://vsnes.aep-emu.de/]] [cjlee001] | labelimageminimize |
