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Apr. 16th, 2016 06:12 amI beat The Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch yesterday morning.
While it wasn't really a bad game, it could have been a lot more challenging. Enemies are usually easy to outrun (which I spent most of the game doing), except for in tight areas like the final dungeon's many hallways. And for all the level-grinding Robobvious advises in his walkthrough, enemies that you do engage with in battle still aren't that hard, even when you're under-leveled and under-equipped, and I didn't even use items that often. The only pickups there are all game long are in some (optional) ruins late in the game and the aforementioned last dungeon.
Still a worthwhile purchase from that event back in October. I do feel refreshed enough now to continue working on stuff related to Starbound, and also got some ideas to describe in the game mechanics file that playing that game has just inspired (such as avoiding excessive battling and making battles not too repetitive). It also had one song in particular that I'd love to hear in Day of the Beehive (whenever you explore the arid regions of Northern Africa and the Middle East)... along with one 16-bit-worthy song (the Coliseum theme). And best of all, it's exactly the reason why I figured out how to use Mednafen and tried out Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes, which I found truly enjoyable, a month later.
On that note, though, even though the Dragon Slayer series proper has its games's stories mostly isolated from one another, I do understand that the first two TLoH games are directly related to eachother. I get why the Dragon Slayer moniker was dropped starting with the third game, but considering that the Gagharv trilogy itself supposedly has some kind of bearing on later games, I don't see why those three games weren't just given their own series instead of retaining the former subtitle of two very dissimilar games that they apparently had little relation to. Especially since it was only two years after game 2 that Prophecy was first released for the PC-9801 (one of the systems both of the first two games appeared for) as The Legend of Heroes III: White Witch. Guess I'll have to ask on ROMhacking.net today.
In any case, I don't think I'm gonna bother with A Tear of Vermillion. Will probably play Song of the Ocean later on, though, since I already paid for that as well.
While it wasn't really a bad game, it could have been a lot more challenging. Enemies are usually easy to outrun (which I spent most of the game doing), except for in tight areas like the final dungeon's many hallways. And for all the level-grinding Robobvious advises in his walkthrough, enemies that you do engage with in battle still aren't that hard, even when you're under-leveled and under-equipped, and I didn't even use items that often. The only pickups there are all game long are in some (optional) ruins late in the game and the aforementioned last dungeon.
Still a worthwhile purchase from that event back in October. I do feel refreshed enough now to continue working on stuff related to Starbound, and also got some ideas to describe in the game mechanics file that playing that game has just inspired (such as avoiding excessive battling and making battles not too repetitive). It also had one song in particular that I'd love to hear in Day of the Beehive (whenever you explore the arid regions of Northern Africa and the Middle East)... along with one 16-bit-worthy song (the Coliseum theme). And best of all, it's exactly the reason why I figured out how to use Mednafen and tried out Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes, which I found truly enjoyable, a month later.
On that note, though, even though the Dragon Slayer series proper has its games's stories mostly isolated from one another, I do understand that the first two TLoH games are directly related to eachother. I get why the Dragon Slayer moniker was dropped starting with the third game, but considering that the Gagharv trilogy itself supposedly has some kind of bearing on later games, I don't see why those three games weren't just given their own series instead of retaining the former subtitle of two very dissimilar games that they apparently had little relation to. Especially since it was only two years after game 2 that Prophecy was first released for the PC-9801 (one of the systems both of the first two games appeared for) as The Legend of Heroes III: White Witch. Guess I'll have to ask on ROMhacking.net today.
In any case, I don't think I'm gonna bother with A Tear of Vermillion. Will probably play Song of the Ocean later on, though, since I already paid for that as well.