/vr/ - Retro Games

Linda3 Again (Linda Cube Again) is a deeply weird port of a monster-collecting JRPG. The premise is that an asteroid is hurtling towards Earth (actually, "Neo Kenya"), and a man and a woman are chosen by the military to gather one of every animal in order to load them unto an ark. Thus you go off to fight all sorts of creatures real and mythical in first-person, turn-based combat, with the goal of capturing one of each. Captured creatures can also be sold for money, or turned into weapons and equipment. Though the graphics look rather dated, the character portraits are fresh and stylish, and the game has frequent anime cutscenes.

However what I mentioned previously is only Scenario A of the game. Once you get into Scenario B and C, things get weird and twisted: a Santa Claus death cult appears, characters get killed off, and a dark god gets prayed to. The whole game has a weirdly cheeky and dark sense of humor that is unusual to find in a game of this time, but is never too in-your-face about it. Though the gameplay itself may come off as somewhat basic, in terms of story and tone, it's pretty much an RPG like no other.