/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10075510]

SNES games unreleased in the west thread

Which ones have you played? Which one is your favorite? Which ones do you think deserve more recognition?

I fucking love Tales of Phantasia, it's not necessarily my favorite but it was the first fan translated game I played on an emulator and I still think it's better than every remake that has come since.

[Anonymous No.10075525]

Most DBZ games of Super Nintendo actually came out in the west (Europe), but not the Super Goku-den games, and I love them, played them much later on emulators and then I got the real carts to play on real hardware too. Replay them often, very addictive.
They're fan favorites in Japan as well, a shame they didn't try to localize but I guess the weird VN/RPG hybrid nature and the fact they were late SFC games didn't convince Bandai, also lots of text to translate.

[Anonymous No.10075529]

>>10075510
Tetris Battle Gaiden

[Anonymous No.10075540]

>>10075510
Everything Fire Emblem

[Anonymous No.10075545]

In the topic of RPGs, Star Ocean is another banger. The amount of content and replayability in this game is crazy for a game of this era, and like ToP it's got that fantastic pixel art, great music and gameplay

[Anonymous No.10075549]

>>10075510
Bahamut Lagoon had some cool ideas and some cool moments, but was too easy (in typical Square fashion)

[Anonymous No.10075579]

Fuck yeah it's VN time

[Anonymous No.10075667]

super bonk 2 doesn't get enough attention. it's far better than bonk 3 and super bonk. it retains some of the features that made bonk 2 so good, like high road/low road level design, and mini boss fights

zenki battle raiden is another one. its by the devs who made hagane and sapphire. the moveset is very impressive and the graphics are beautiful

[Anonymous No.10076681]

>>10075510
Seiken Densetsu III

[Anonymous No.10076745]

This is the most egregious to me. The prior game had a good following in the west. They wasted money on Evermore instead of just translating this if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.10076765]

>>10075545
>gameplay

Can you explain how combat works? I've played this up to the group getting beamed up to a space ship and I just mashed buttons and hoped my partners didn't die.

[Anonymous No.10076770]

>>10075579
It's been released since s does it count anymore?

[Anonymous No.10076952]

I just started playing "Far East of Eden - Zero" and it's kinda lame. I wish there was a translation of Far East of Eden 4:Apocalypse because it's set in a whacky version of America. The monsters look great though and the dialogue is very, very extensive so the world feels fairly fleshed out.

[Anonymous No.10076965]

>>10076745
I just got a translated rom with all the hmong balance updates on romhacking net. This guy released like 7 or 8 different balance patches that improve or change various things in the game. It truly feels like an amazing overhaul playing it updated like this. And they really only came out in the last year or so, the amount of amazing overhaul patches for SNES games has been great to see recently. I have overhauled/bug fixed/balanced/added content patches for FF4, FF5, and FF6 as well all made in the last 2 years.

[Anonymous No.10076972]

>>10075510
I'm about to start easy mode (balanced) romhacked Growth or Devolution otherwise known as Earthbound for adults.

[Anonymous No.10076987]

>>10075510
Go go ackman def needs more recognition is a game with cute nice sprite animation.

[Anonymous No.10077000]

>>10075510
Front Mission Gun Hazard is one of the most fun ARPGs I've played. It's just really cool that such a good almost arcade side scrolling shooter comes with an epic mecha RPG story and tons of weapons and items and levels to gain. Easily one of the best games that never left Japan.

[Anonymous No.10077004]

>>10075545
Nah. The first one sucks major ass. 99.9% filler

[Anonymous No.10077007]

I have a powerful love/hate relationship with Umihara Kawase.
The game is beautiful and adorable and creative and fun and I FUCKING HATE PLAYING IT SO MUCH AAAAGGH WHY WHHHHHY WOULD YOU SPAWN A FUCKING FISH RIGHT ON TOP OF ME WHILE I'M TRYING TO MAKE THE HARDEST JUMP IN THE UNIVERSE FOR THE EIGHTH TIME FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

[Anonymous No.10077132]

>>10075510
>Tales of Phantasia
Great game. Unironically my favourite SNES RPG.
>>10075525
>Super Goku-den
Better than expected
>>10075540
>Everything Fire Emblem
Mystery of the Emblem Book 1 is a good remake of FE1, Book 2 is a mess with poorly designed maps.
Seisen no Keifu is a must-play.
Thracia is... good (it's complicated).
>>10075545
>Star Ocean
Boring gameplay. Story lacks focus. Final boss come out of fucking nowhere. No world map, inter-town corridors are boring to go back and forth through. I don't like it.
>>10075667
>super bonk 2
All the Bonk games are meh.
>>10076745
>Seiken Densetsu 3
Must-play masterpiece.
>>10076952
>Far East of Eden - Zero
Fun game. Generic story. Great graphics.
>>10076972
>Growth or Devolution otherwise known as Earthbound for adults.
Earthbound for assholes. Shit story. Shit graphics.
>>10076987
>Go go ackman
Short. Meh.
>>10077000
Must-play. Unlike the original Front Mission you don't spend too much time in menus.
>>10077007
>Umihara Kawase.
Ass. Enemies spawn out of nowhere and fuck you up mid-jump.

[Anonymous No.10077159]

>>10075510
>>10077132
so which Tales of Phantasia is the best. SNES, PS1 or GBA? they're not really remakes so much as remasters right?

[Anonymous No.10077167]

Anyone played Energy Breaker? Is it worth getting into or needlessly complex?

[Anonymous No.10077190]

>>10077167
skip it i was disappointed

[Anonymous No.10077194]

>>10077159
If you speak Japanese the PSP has full voice acting and skits. If not the PS1 is good enough. Don't touch the GBA version.
Every version after the SNES version has an improved battle system so i'd say don't touch the snes version either, unless you already played the game and are curious to check out the original.

[Anonymous No.10077223]

>>10077190
>>10077194
thank you anons

[Anonymous No.10078673]

>>10077132
fe5 is better than fe4 if you let your units stay dead. it's thematically appropriate with the number of forced losses

[Anonymous No.10078871]

>>10077167
>>10077223
Don't listen to that anon Energy Breaker is some good comfy stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktOCSROmE_4

[Anonymous No.10079040]

>>10075579

[Anonymous No.10079048]

[Anonymous No.10079104]

Gundam wing endless duel
They should have ported it to the ps1 with extra content from the OVA. People would have gone nuts for this game in the west after it aired on cartoon network.

[Anonymous No.10079219]

>>10077159
Psp > ps1 > snes > gba