/vr/ - Retro Games

is this game actually any good?
is it worth learning japanese to play it?

>>4581447

If not Velldeselba, another stranger option is Linda3 (or Cubed) Again, an enhanced port of a TGX-16 RPG also developed by Alpha System. This is one of the more bizarre RPGs on the system, where you play as a man and woman tasked with gathering males and females of a planet's various fauna before it's wiped out by a meteor in eight years. Visually it's a very simple game, with the typical top-down view and first-person, turn-based RPG battles. But you are encouraged to capture beasts instead of simply kill them, which requires more strategy. The story is also divided into three distinct scenarios, each with increasingly bizarre premises. The third scenario is the hardest to complete on time and has the most nonsensical story, but is allows you to explore the entire game world pretty much from the start in order to gather the required 100 species in order to pass.

Exploration in Linda Cubed Again is really fun, because the world changes noticeably with the seasons. Some species become more common than others, some parts of the world flood while others thrive, some NPC services are available and others aren't, and so on. Completing the game's third scenario requires intimate knowledge of the world's inner workings.

The story of Linda Cubed Again is also famously bizarre and surprisingly graphic, with fully-animated sequences to narrate it. It's a fiercely original and strange game, definitely not perfect, but worth trying if you're up to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LejME5lKwoA