/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2114119
Huh. Knew about the subs being easy to locate, but I forgot about the time limit and clock. I also learned the Santa Fe Mysteries ain't from Riverhill as I'd previously thought. Shannon Gilligan wrote and produced them couple of years after making the first QuickTime adventure mystery; Suzuki and co. just localized the games + Private Eye from Activision.

>>2114120
Shouldn't have forgotten about Kiya! I've read the shop economy in these games lets you get the best gear quickly, though 999K randomly-generated floors and low difficulty sounds dreadful. He didn't need to feel so bad about Romancia if Gekirin's that easy in reaction to difficulty (though the former's badly designed).

If I'm counting Windows 9X: GruppoOne's Wind Seekers franchise, Nihon Create's Elder/Master Blaze, and Nihon Softech's Buster Sword would be the main Rogue-likes of the era:

http://www26.atwiki.jp/gcmatome/pages/4604.html
http://n.shop.vector.co.jp/service/catalogue/sr027311/index.php
http://www.amazon.co.jp/日本ソフテック-バスターソード/dp/B00008I34R

Speaking of former Nihon Falcom employees, GruppoOne was founded by a whole bunch of them. Got a hunch the character artist (designer?) for the Gagharv trilogy worked on Wind Seekers.