/vr/ - Retro Games

the screenshots are very intriguing to me. very atmospheric, magical even.

im also hearing that this has combat in it which is curious to me since i thought it was a VN game.

gameplay wise what can i expect?

It's an great "what if" scenario that you will enjoy if you like CC and are familiar with it. The atmosphere is thick and spooky. Soundtrack is nice with a few tracks that would go on to be redone for CC. There are multiple endings, many of them being joke endings but they are hilarious. Just play it, it's short. Plays a bit like an adventure game where you choose where to go sometimes but there's no pointing and clicking iirc

>>4757630
How long is it? Can I save in it?

>>4757624
Is this Kid?

>>4757693
I think so

Basically it's story is like a prototype version of Chrono Cross. If you really enjoyed that game RD is definitely worth checking out, personally I think it handled some story elements better. Also, a lot of the music in Chrono Cross are remixes from tracks in this game.

Seems like the creators pretty much disowned this game though, IIRC they planned to rerelease this with CC in Japan but decided against it.

>>4757624
>say yer prayers
There's only one thing that comes to my mind when I read this...

>danganronpa
>zero escape
Well, for starters the characters aren't a bunch of anime stereotypes. You almost never see their faces too.
It has battles and other dangerous moments, but it's all done by choosing options. For example, there are some traps in the mansion, like a ceiling with spikes. You have to choose accordingly.

The game is rather short, but there are 6 or 7 endings, I think. Each playthrough takes between 15 minutes to 2 hours.

>>4757654
You can complete every ending in like 3-4 hours with a guide.
A blind play-through might take 1-2 hours for the first ending.

It's a choose your own adventure style game.
There is combat, but it's entirely in text, and your health points are vague (you DO need to heal occasionally in certain rooms), and encounters are mostly scripted. Once you know how to beat a specific encounter, that method will always work. There's about 30-40 scripted encounters they randomly select though, and several story-based ones that never change.

You will need to draw your own map.
There's like 16 rooms in the mansion, and it's easy to get lost.

The music is pretty great, and it's very atmospheric. Well worth spending an afternoon on.

>>4757693
>>4757698
Kid on the left, then Serge and Magil.
This is an alternate universe, so it's not the same as Chrono Cross.

In this one, Serge is a bard.

Ok.
I’ll check it out

>>4757776
>>4757693
Radical Dreamers is a third Dimension in Chrono Cross. The opening text is mentioned in a computer in either Dead Sea or Chronopolis (I forgot).

It's actually really atmospheric and there's so many branching paths. The Chrono Trigger license is just the cherry on top. Really wish they made more adventures like this

I’m considering getting a repro cartridge of this. I want a real authentic exerpience

>>4757873
You can't. It's a BS Satella View game, it can't be reproduced without the adapter cart thing.

>>4757876
I see English repros for it al the time.

>>4757876
yet other Satella view games like the BS Zeldas have been released as repro cartridges (AND WORK)

There’s rom hacks of games you can eat repros of and they fucking work perfectly. bs satellaview games are not off limits at all

Kato's team completed Radical Dreamers in only three months under a rushed production schedule, prompting him to label the game "unfinished" in an interview for the Ultimania Chrono Cross guide. Kato regretted that the schedule hampered the quality of his work, and explained that the connections to Chrono Trigger were evoked towards the end of the project:

>When I originally started working on Radical Dreamers, I never thought that it would have such an ending. We only had three months for development, and I was just making up the story while inputting data. When I finally realized the connection of the identities of Kid and Magil near the final stage of development, I even amazed myself, saying, 'So, that's who they were!?' (laughs) Also, since there were issues with the media, the connections between Radical Dreamers and Chrono Trigger were intentionally left blurred in the background so that it'd only be recognizable by those who would understand.

>made Radical Dreamers in 3 months

how the fuck is that even possible? indie devs today need like 3-5 fucking years to make one mediocre game.

>>4757876
Except there is a patch that fixes the SRAM location to work like a normal cart.

>>4758148
It's a VN, not terribly hard.
You make backgrounds, you write story, you write music, and then you put in a linear movement system controlled entirely by menu.

A dedicated team working full time can easily pump out a 2-3 hour VN in that time.

>>4758180
theres indie devs today that take years to make one VN that has only one ending, like that faggoty Read Only Memories gay snatcher game.

>>4758148
We used to have real devs back then

>>4758183
Most indies are not dedicated, nor are they working full-time on their games.

>>4758253
not dedicated? how long do they need? if radical dreamers could be made in 3 months, the longest id expect an indie today is 1 year and thats with the ease and efficiency of modern technology.

>>4758264
Newsflash, something I do in my own time while dealing with my real life will go on the backburner every time it needs to.

>>4757802
By third dimension you mean in CC you have the two universes that are connected at the beach that Serge is able to go between and a third, which is the RD universe?

>>4758562
IIRC there are more like an universe where Lavos never fell, which is where Dinopolis came from.

Anon, just fucking play it yourself and find out.
The time you're wasting making and checking this thread could be used to read the game.

>>4758874
I'm waiting for it to arrive at this point.

i bought a high quality repro.

It’s alright, though rather short. If you want to play something that is fantasy related just play Ring of Dias; it has better graphics, music and a more varied story.

>>4759465
whats ring of dias?

>>4759479
Google it?

>>4759527
I did. I’m finding nothing. Just lots of lots of the ring shit.

>>4759536
*lord of the rings

>>4758279
Found the indieshit developer.

>>4758148
>made Radical Dreamers in 3 months
I miss when talent was a thing.

>>4759549
Same

>>4759465
Ah sorry it was supposed to be Ring for Sias リング オブ サイアス

>>4759687
Sorry again Ring of Sias is the correct name. That’s what I get for posting at work.

>>4759687
Ok I’m still not able to find much other than a few EBay listings and some rom sites.

Can’t find out much about the game itself.

>>4758562
Yes. Another, Home and Radical Dreamers.

I've just beaten the game. I actually found it to be quite mind blowing

>>4758264
Anon, the point is that this team worked on the game as their full-time job. Most indie developers work on games in their spare time as a hobby project.

>>4759714
It’s a Japanese visual novel that is set in a medieval fantasy world. The amount of branching paths are pretty ridiculous. It revolves around Sias, a powerful wizard, who was trapped in a ring by the evil witch Beatrice. Whoever wears the ring is possessed by Sias, since his physical form was destroyed, kind of like a phylactery. The game deals with the the different characters who are either possessed by the ring, whoever accidentally picks it up, or the various nefarious plots surrounding the people who want to either cover the ring for themselves or bring it to Beatrice so that she can destroy it. It’s pretty cool actually, you can find a ISO online to play it probably, or if you have a Japanese PSN account you can download it for 600 something yen. It’s a really interesting story with lots of replayablitiy and has really great art work and music to add.

>>4760034
Also if you’re playing a visual novel I assumed that you read at least some level of Japan. Because it’s in a medieval fantasy setting it does use some basic archaic Japanese grammar but with a guide it’s not that hard at to understand; unlike some historical Japanese games like 下天の夢 which uses a lot of complex archaic grammar, kanji and pronunciations.