/vr/ - Retro Games

Not as vibrant as Kirby, it's fun nonetheless.

>10 replies an hour in the eroge thread
I wonder where last thread's Anon who bought FILE has gone.

Alright, now it's time for Little Shaker.

Developed by Bottle Cube.404 and released for Windows 9x, this one's an action-adventure game set in the remote U.S. countryside, where Americans have grey or blonde hair and pigs stand on two legs. Playing the young man Cliff, you gotta use the eponymous device (a multi-tool you customize to explore and solve puzzles, much like in a Zelda game) to help what neighbors you have, as well as go on some unknown quest. There's a good amount of combat involved, too, and platforming along the likes of Landstalker and other isometric adventures. Overall, the script deals with some themes Mother 3 would tackle (humans vs. the environment, small-town culture vs. urbanization, &c.), and your character progression's tied to earning hearts from NPCs (think Moon RPG), so it must be a side-quest game more than anything.

http://homepage1.nifty.com/PC-GAMER/games/li_sha.htm
Developer's profile: http://www.eants.co.jp/game/etc/404.html
http://polsy.org.uk/play/nico/?vidid=sm15407196

Finding screenshots is a pain, but someone did an incomplete playthrough on NND recently. Not sure why he's suffering from graphics layers popping in and out all the time—hopefully that's just a consequence of compatibility mode or emulation, not a native bug. This was the company's first and last PC game release before retreating to the PS1, and they also put out a demo CD. Unfortunately, I can't read shit on the game's old page in Wayback thanks to gibberish. Melancholy PC Gamer's impression is that it's quite good, though he doesn't like isometric controls and doesn't like the maps for some reason.

>>1996510
Dayum, I want to read this.