Brightis

[Anonymous No.6386890]

The Demon Souls of the PSX?

[Father Electronics Couture No.6386951]

You can draw comparisons to Brights or Deathtrap Dungeon or Blade of Darkness but what's special about Souls games is that every inch of the levels was purposefully designed. Whether you like them or not, that's what's evident and it's just not the case in other second person 3D action dungeon explorers

[Anonymous No.6386992]

I am taking too many screenshots.

[Anonymous No.6386996]

How do you get CRT Royale to look like this?

[Anonymous No.6387007]

>>6386996
Quick Menu > Shaders > Load Shader Preset > shaders_glsl > presets > crt-royale-xm29plus.glslp

[Anonymous No.6387013]

You can't take pictures at such a low scale with that shader they all look broken

[Anonymous No.6387014]

>>6387007
Right. How do you get that shader to look like it does in your screenshots?

[Anonymous No.6387028]

>>6387014
Nothing was done furhter than loading the shader. The only thing is that the jpg files are slightly blurrier than the uncompressed collages as they are 16-20 MB each. Pic related is uncompressed. Difference is barely noticeable.

>>6387013
Did you open them in a new tab and display at 100% size? They're not resized, just stiched together.

[Anonymous No.6387039]

>>6386890
What can you tells us about it? I like how the scenarios look.

[Anonymous No.6387052]

>>6386890
Yeah, OP. What can you tell us about it?

[Anonymous No.6387068]

>>6386890

Wouldn't the King's Field series be the Demon's Souls of the PSX?

[Anonymous No.6387078]

>>6387013
Take the "m" out of the filename in the URL, phoneposter.

[Anonymous No.6387198]

>>6387078
ayy

[Anonymous No.6387216]

>>6387039
Although I did take all of these screenshots during my ongoing playthrough these past couple of days, I did not make this thread. I figured very few people have played this game - I didn't even know it existed a week ago. I doubt OP has even played it. Potential audience is small because no translation exists afaik.

[Father Electronics Couture No.6387218]

>>6387068
Shhh that just makes too much sense - and Shadow Tower is closer, too.

[Anonymous No.6387448]

>>6387052
>>6387039

It was made by Quintis (same devs as Actraiser, Soul Blazer, and terranigma). They didn't just vanish after the Super-Fami! But it was Jp only so it is obscure. It's a big dungeon crawling rpg with real time combat . That's where the comparisons to Demon Souls comes in.

I'm personally fascinated by 90's and 00's attempts to make real time combat games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT_1E_-Yz4A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFE8B-Jx7wY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GK_L-LEmJU

[Anonymous No.6387462]

..../emugen/?

[Anonymous No.6387474]

[Anonymous No.6387481]

[Anonymous No.6387492]

Definitely want to try it out, but my Japanese isn't that great.

[Anonymous No.6387498]

>>6387448
Hey, did you just by chance spoil the final boss for me with that picture, you little fucking bitch? Thanks I guess.

[Anonymous No.6387562]

>>6387492
>Definitely want to try it out, but my Japanese isn't that great.
I wrote this earlier for someone on /v/ who also was eager to try and was asking for a walkthrough.

I didn't look for one (Walkthrough) as I don't need one. But when I was checking for some gameplay footage to help me decided whether or not I want to try the game, I found this complete playthrough on YouTube. So that should help you with where to go and such but the deeper systems like magic, unlocking combos, upgrading attacks and of course the story (which is not very good) might be a little more tricky to figure out. It also supports the Sony PocketStation with several minigames, one among them let's you craft new blades, another potions and such but that obviously doesn't work in an emulator. Here's the playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjotvIcBrLDl-5ngyyPVaQonIhM7qEJt0

I'll tell you this. In the village which is your base of operation from where you venture out into the dungeons, there are three swords master. They live across the bridge from the village center. Talk to them when you want to upgrade you swords skills. You can switch or level out your base attacks, buy special moves (you can stack up to three and unleash them buy holding the corresponding button for 1, 2 or 3 seconds) and buy combos step-by-step.

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[Anonymous No.6387569]

>>6387492
>>6387562
Continued

The woman in the house by the waterfall at the back of the village past the cliff is a nameless witch and she'll teach you magic. Magic and attack moves can only be switched out and set up inside the village but you have a quick call up menu seen in this webm before I use the lightning attack >>>/v/505958564 You can put items and magic in there. Weapons and armor can be switching out at any time though.

Inside the dungeons search for the "key element" shards. They are those blue crystals that function as torches, keys and batteries. Their light energy drains over time but can be recharged near light sources, when fighting (flashes from clashing blades), or when fallen enemies vanish in a spurt of light. Sometimes you'll have to pick them back up after using them in dedicated sockets to unlock other stuff like treasure chests.

Go raid the witches attic ;)
When you talk to certain characters sometimes the map will automatically appear and it shows you your next destination.
This should get you going.

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[Anonymous No.6387584]

>>6387492
>>6387562
Continued

The woman in the house by the waterfall at the back of the village past the cliff is a nameless witch and she'll teach you magic. Magic and attack moves can only be switched out and set up inside the village but you have a quick call up menu seen in this webm before I use the lightning attack >>6387474 You can put items and magic in there. Weapons and armor can be switching out at any time though.

Inside the dungeons search for the "key element" shards. They are those blue crystals that function as torches, keys and batteries. Their light energy drains over time but can be recharged near light sources, when fighting (flashes from clashing blades), or when fallen enemies vanish in a spurt of light. Sometimes you'll have to pick them back up after using them in dedicated sockets to unlock other stuff like treasure chests.

Go raid the witches attic ;)
When you talk to certain characters sometimes the map will automatically appear and it shows you your next destination.
This should get you going.

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[Anonymous No.6387589]

>>6387562
>>6387569
>>6387584
Thanks so much anon, I'll keep this in mind when I try to play the game.

[Anonymous No.6387597]

>>6386890
>Dude bashing monsters in third person
Another Dark Souls added to the list!

[Anonymous No.6387603]

[Anonymous No.6387605]

>>6387448
It was developed by Shade. Quintet was already virtually dead by the time Granstream Saga came out, which was the last sorta interesting game they made. Brightis was bellow average. They also ended up making the the Orphen game for Ps2 which also sucked ass, you can call that the dark souls of my ass too if you want

[Anonymous No.6387610]

>>6387603
that looks hella janky. Like shitty MML with a sword.

[Anonymous No.6387620]

>>6387589
you ever play the mod for Order of Ecclesia that changes Shanoa's colors to match the art?

[Anonymous No.6387628]

>>6387620
off topic non-retro discussion; I've only ever played the game on my DS so no

[Anonymous No.6387634]

>>6387628
>off topic non-retro discussion
don't be a fag

[Anonymous No.6387641]

>>6387634
Normally I wouldn't but I got fucking warned for casually mentioning fucking Lords of Shadow in a Vania thread, now I'm paranoid.

[Anonymous No.6387654]

>>6386890
english patch please!

[Anonymous No.6387701]

>>6386890

[Anonymous No.6387704]

[Anonymous No.6389898]

[Anonymous No.6389915]

>>6386890
Souls games, as well as most From adventure games, are very much in the style of Japanese CRPGs. E.g., any Falcom game feels like a proto-Souls game of some sort because it IS. Drasle, Xanadu--they're all "soulslike" in retrospect. Because Demon's Souls was very typical for its style in most respects: third person action, freedom of exploration, minimal story, a devastated fantasy-postapoc world etc.

[Anonymous No.6389927]

I discovered this entry behind a waterfall. There's an arena mode sort of challenge down there where you fight your way downward through a series of increasingly more difficult combat encounters. There are many types of enemies down there that I haven't even seen out in the wild and it gets pretty tough. The amount of yet undiscovered foes makes me wonder just how far into the game I am at this point. Seems like this game might be longer than I anticipated - I'm not complaining though.

[Anonymous No.6389935]

>>6389927

Woah, I saw a youtube of that. I actually thought that was the entire game and the waterfall was the only entrance. That was just a side challenge?

>>6387605
>It was developed by Shade. Quintet was already virtually dead

huh. But Shade was the successor to Quintet right?

[Anonymous No.6389943]

>>6387610
>that looks hella janky. Like shitty MML with a sword.

Anon, this is the PS1-N64-SS era. 3D was in its infancy and I really only think that Zelda had good combat for htis era and even then it's a little janky. You just gotta accept it. If you become one with the Jank, you can find fun in plenty of games like Castlevania 64.

>>6389927

So yeah, I think Demon Souls was the first to do this older style of gameplay and setting right in 3D. Brightis and other games would be early attempts to try to mimic this. Before then, the 3D combat game that worked were Devil May Cry or Zelda, and all the other games tried to copy those. So you get Castlevania trying to copy DMC. Even Maximo, which I think is one of the few 3D platformer action games to work and feel like an older game, tried to copy DMC for the sequel.

[Anonymous No.6389956]

>>6389915
Yep

OP this game *looks* good, but how FUN is it? How does it compare to OoT?

[Anonymous No.6389958]

>>6389935
>Woah, I saw a youtube of that. I actually thought that was the entire game and the waterfall was the only entrance. That was just a side challenge?

Well I don't know what you saw on YT but the world map is pretty open (see pic related). I just assaulted an evil magic tower, kicking its owner in the rear for blocking out the sun (one Rasalhague Dickmunch >>6389898), dodging many traps and arrows along the way and in the end, turned back on the sun. When I returned to the village I wanted to spend some of that newly earned gold and XP for new equipment and moves when I looked once more at that familiar waterfall by the lake near the houses (upper left corner >>6386890 ) - I decided to check it out and what do you know, there's this arena hidden behind it. I haven't beaten it yet though.

[Anonymous No.6389969]

>>6389956
I'm definitely having fun with it. It is very combat focused however. I am actually super surprised how smooth it plays. I mean it. Gameplay wise it reminds me a lot of Maximo on PS2. I supports the analog functionality of the Dualshock and you have full camera control. I did however map the camera rotation from the shoulder button (or triggers?) to the right analog stick. Now it behaves 100% as you would expect from any modern title, left stick moves the character, right stick moves the camera.

There aren't that many puzzles so far. One of them in particular is not solvable without being able to read Japanese (pic related) BUT I linked that complete playthrough on YouTube earlier so the solution must be in there somewhere right? It's pretty early on in the game.

The writing is TERRIBLE but hey... you probably can't tell. It's dogshit though, honestly.

[Anonymous No.6389971]

xm29 looks like pics from a magazine rather than an actual crt
i mean like someone took a pic of an actual crt or something idk

[Anonymous No.6389975]

An actual hidden gem on /vr/?
Or maybe I just live under a rock and have never heard of it

[Anonymous No.6389978]

>>6386890
The foregottem gem of youmers

[Anonymous No.6389982]

Never heard of this game, is it good ?

[Anonymous No.6390056]

>>6389956
>>6389969
To add to that, it obviously can't hang with OoT. Come on. You don't get any fun toys or gadgets, no hookshot, no bomb, no instruments, no nothing. "You have have your motherfucking swords and shields, you have your magic spells, now go fuck shit up", is the order of the day.

For its pros, combat is fun, animations are great, I love the art style (like you can't, look how many screenshots I took). The music is nice, pretty upbeat and happy most of the time so far. It introduces new enemies fairly regularly which is a big deal to me. I like that.

Cons are, the draw distance is garbage in the overworld. I thought the game was too easy for the first couple of hours but enemy damage output has gone up but so has mine - the stakes are up. I don't like that when you buy a new shield the model for that doesn't change but for swords it does. Fuck is up with that. Seems lazy. Armor also doesn't change visually only ups your stats but that one I can understand.

Overall it really plays a lot like a less difficult Maximo where sometimes the batteries on your flashlight run out on you. Combat is deeper than Maximo though. A lot more customization with the move set. You can switch them out, level them, get various special attacks and combos. And there's the PocketStation support but I am repeating myself right now.

[Anonymous No.6390061]

>>6389956
>>6389969
To add to that, it obviously can't hang with OoT. Come on. You don't get any fun toys or gadgets, no hookshot, no bomb, no instruments, no nothing. "You have have your motherfucking swords and shields, you have your magic spells, now go fuck shit up", is the order of the day.

For its pros, combat is fun, animations are great, I love the art style (like you can't tell, look how many screenshots I took). The music is nice, pretty upbeat and happy most of the time so far. It introduces new enemies fairly regularly which is a big deal to me. I like that.

Cons are, the draw distance is garbage in the overworld. I thought the game was too easy for the first couple of hours but enemy damage output has gone up but so has mine - the stakes are up. I don't like that when you buy a new shield the model for that doesn't change but for swords it does. Fuck is up with that. Seems lazy. Armor also doesn't change visually only ups your stats but that one I can understand.

Overall it really plays a lot like a less difficult Maximo where sometimes the batteries on your flashlight run out on you. Combat is deeper than Maximo though. A lot more customization with the move set. You can switch them out, level them, get various special attacks and combos. And there's the PocketStation support but I am repeating myself right now.

[Anonymous No.6390069]

>>6389956
>>6389969
To add to that, it obviously can't hang with OoT. Come on. You don't get any fun toys or gadgets, no hookshot, no bomb, no instruments, no nothing. "You have have your motherfucking swords and shields, you have your magic spells, now go fuck shit up", is the order of the day.

For its pros, combat is fun, animations are great, I love the art style (like you can't tell, look how many screenshots I took). The music is nice, pretty upbeat and happy most of the time so far. It introduces new enemies fairly regularly which is a big deal to me. I like that.

Cons are, the draw distance is garbage in the overworld. I thought the game was too easy for the first couple of hours but enemy damage output has gone up but so has mine - the stakes are up. I don't like that when you buy a new shield the model for that doesn't change but for swords it does. Fuck is up with that. Seems lazy. Armor also doesn't change visually only ups your stats but that one I can understand.

Overall it really plays a lot like a less difficult Maximo where sometimes the batteries on your flashlight run out on you. Combat is deeper than Maximo though. A lot more customization with the moves. You can switch them out, level them, get various special attacks and combos. And there's the PocketStation supported minigames but I am repeating myself right now.

[Anonymous No.6390091]

>>6386890
Dude did you Dark Souls is the Dark Souls of Dark Souls? Therefore, the Dark Souls of Dark Souls is the Dark Souls of Dark Souls.

[Anonymous No.6390152]

>>6389969
>One of them in particular is not solvable without being able to read Japanese (pic related)
Rereading my post, I definitely overstated that. That puzzle is solvable without knowing Japanese you'll just have to brute force it. You essentially just have to turn on four switches in the right order.

[Anonymous No.6390290]

1. Can you play it without knowing Japanese
2. Is it better than King's FIeld / Shadow Tower (thats a low bar by the way)

[Anonymous No.6390315]

>>6390290
You don't know Japanese?

[Anonymous No.6390325]

>>6390290
1. How am I supposed to know that? I never played any Japanese games before I learned the language and I don't know what kind of experience you're looking for when you attempt to do it. How much of the experience are you willing to sarcrifice to see what's there? Are you willing to look at the YouTube playthrough linked earlier to find your way around the map?

Look, this isn't Tetris. There's a story, there's talking, there's systems and explanations. I believe I have described quite a few of the gameplay elemtents that are present if you're willing to just read this short thread.

To give you a short answer though: No, not effortlessly but it is not a deep game by any means either. It is not 100% linear either.

2. You can make up your own mind about that if you care to try. There's no sense in me ranking them for you.

[Anonymous No.6390332]

>>6390091
Dark Souls was most people's first experience with asian CRPGs. Not everyone is an MSX freak and associated this special breed of action/rpg design philosophy with earlier games.

[Anonymous No.6390339]

>>6389956
>>6390290

OoT is an unfair comparison since it's a multi-million dollar project with tons of polish while this is very obviously low budget. King's Field and Shadow Tower are good comparisons. Imagine those games in third person. Lots of jank. But embrace the Jank.

[Anonymous No.6390343]

>>6390325
>1. How am I supposed to know that?
>2. You can make up your own mind about that if you care to try.
If you dont know the answer or dont want to answer then youre free to just... not answer.

[Anonymous No.6390383]

>>6390343
I felt that would've been rude. I honestly find this question hard to answer. I need to ask myself, would I have gotten as far into the game with as little effort as it took (studying Japanese doesn't count shut up!) if I didn't understand what any of the characters are saying? Probably not. Would it've been fun? I have no idea! Sorry.

The second question... I tried to hide the fact that I didn't play either of those games... and I think there'd be no point in my ranking them if I did. I meant that. Didn't mean to sound rude, bro.

[Anonymous No.6390997]

Difficulty is definitely picking up now. For the first few hours I was breezing through it (was my main complaint really) and the game handed me plenty of healing potions, but I actually ran out of them on my last excursion. They pretty much all but stopped dropping from fallen foes. I should've have stocked up at the herbalist in the village. I saw them slowly dwindle away for quite a while but didn't act on it. I have a healing spell and it heals fully but takes all my MP to cast and recharging takes a while.

[Anonymous No.6391037]

wow, the outdoor environments are absolutely gorgeous. thanks for posting this, op.

[Anonymous No.6392102]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT_1E_-Yz4A
Looks cool.

[Anonymous No.6392195]

>>6392102

it's very hard to find footage of the game in hd.

[Anonymous No.6392352]

>>6389975
Jap only probably did it. I only heard about this the first time in a /v/ thread not that many days ago. Happy to see a thread here about it.

I gotta say I'm itching to give it a shot but being jap only really puts me off. Maybe if we somehow get the awareness up there might be a translation for it some day?

[Anonymous No.6392363]

>>6386890
Ps-oNe-gros try so hard to sound modern and classic-like with this clunky turds.

[Anonymous No.6392459]

>>6392363
Wrong board?

[Anonymous No.6392469]

>>6387013
>>6387028
>>6387078
He meant CRT shaders work best at 4k

[Anonymous No.6392515]

retards sure love rubbing vaseline in their eyes huh

[Anonymous No.6392595]

>>6392515
so true lol!
"improve"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_D_D419S0

[Anonymous No.6392616]

Can we maybe not turn this thread into discussion about shaders and resolution? You guys have that talk every other week. Here's a game that seemingly few have heard of that's actually worth talking about for once. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.6392823]

>>6387448
>I'm personally fascinated by 90's and 00's attempts to make real time combat games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MepD2E7hcRk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoKMwOaBIz0

[Anonymous No.6392857]

>>6387028
>Did you open them in a new tab and display at 100% size? They're not resized, just stiched together.

Woops my bad. I thought expanding them in browser was 100%

[Anonymous No.6392881]

why was this not translated? christ. maybe i should try my hand at translating it

[Anonymous No.6392901]

We got necromancing, pyromancing flying wizards up in here. This guy's a bitch lol. He's a fast flyer, always hangs back and tries to avoid you. Never touches the ground. He has no melee attacks but lays down fire mines, shoots fireballs and fire laola waves at you. Oh yeah, and he can summon skeleton warriors.

[Anonymous No.6392932]

Wow, apparently he can just bail for a bit if he wants to as well. Some of these enemies have a lot of moves. Not all of them though.

[Anonymous No.6392970]

>>6392932
Same encounter when the lights run out.

[Anonymous No.6393146]

>>6387448
>I'm personally fascinated by 90's and 00's attempts to make real time combat games.
I wonder what you could achieve these days on the PSX. The DualShock is pretty much THE modern controller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOOfZPWwczw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_sB5Vi0DqE

[Anonymous No.6393151]

>all these games never released in NA

Sucked to see all this shit in magazines as a kid and no idea how to mod chip your box

[Anonymous No.6393691]

>>6387068
Every time I look at that game on one hand I am interested simply because its From's RPG series before Soulsborne blew up in massive popularity but then on the other hand the gameplay while interesting makes me wonder if in actuality its too shitty to be enjoyable today. Its intriguing at least but its definitely slow paced. All of them. I just don't know is the thing. Logically it looks shit but I know not to judge certain games until you play them yourself.

[Anonymous No.6393729]

>>6386951
>Deathtrap Dungeon

I wish that game wasn't so brutally fucking hard.

[Anonymous No.6393743]

Environmental design has kicked into overdrive the last hour or so. It's nice and varied. I'm impressed.

[Anonymous No.6393749]

Balls

[Anonymous No.6394147]

Thanks for sharing these, I enjoy the screenshots.

[Anonymous No.6394218]

>>6392352
Stranger things have happened. I remember making a thread complaining about Brave Prove not having an English translation, then lo and behold, by total happenstance, it gets one about a month ago.

[Anonymous No.6394249]

>>6392881
please do it! no one cares to translate this masterpiece!

[Anonymous No.6394258]

>>6394218
It's not really happenstance. I posted my webms over on /v/ in several emulation and webm threads, screenshots too. Someone took it back here and made this thread because of that. Now I'm in here as well posting more webms and screens. And I started playing the game because someone posted pic related taken from this site https://psxdatacenter.com/games/J/B/SCPS-10105.html a couple days before that in another /vr/ thread and I liked the look of it right away. Like I said before though, I probably wouldn't have made this thread myself.

[Anonymous No.6394310]

>>6394249
question is, which of these files do we think the text is contained in?

[Anonymous No.6394372]

>>6394310
I'd imagine some translation/emulation community would be a better place for this question but maybe the .STR files? Since STR could be short for string which is a text variable type in many programming languages. Just a guess.

[Anonymous No.6394383]

>>6394372
STR files are movies, so no.
Either way, I've found a hint as to how text is stored.
Example: 82 60 = A, 82 61 = B.
With this info, I can build a text table, and eventually do a full text dump of the game by building a text dumper (on c# or some shit).
Then proceed to translate it all and inject into the ROM.
I'll get to work on this.

I can do a quick job by having a rough/shortened translation of this, but ideally (and if I give enough shit about it), I should reverse engineer the text writing engine they've implemented to artifically add "80" before each text insertion. The 80s that precede each letter is superfluous anyway. I essentially can double the text by doing this.

Or I can expand the rom and adjust pointers when necessary, but fuck that noise.

[Anonymous No.6394389]

>>6394310

is that a .exe file? The hell is a windows file execution doing in a psx game?

[Anonymous No.6394393]

>>6392881
>why was this not translated?

It's obscure and not some massive classic like other Quintet games. It's intersting and ahead on many things but kinda wonky.

[Anonymous No.6394395]

>>6394383

Post all this on a romhacking or translation site to share this info.

[Anonymous No.6394416]

>>6394383
Sounds like you know your shit. Godspeed anon.

I'm with this anon >>6394395
It would be nice to see you post on some website so we can find it once this thread is gone.

[Anonymous No.6394419]

>>6394395
>>6394416
Progress.

[Anonymous No.6394447]

>>6394419
changing the text is showing no problems, which is good news. I think ill start getting to work.
>>6394416
>>6394395
romhacking can go fuck themselves desu they are a bunch of sjw faggots. My website is down atm, but it'll be up within the month. youll find updates there (www.dmanufacture.com).

[Anonymous No.6394458]

>>6394447
Damn, dude. You're hitting the ground running. How good is your Japanese?

[Anonymous No.6394482]

>>6394458
its alright, but that doesnt matter. i have contacts whom will help (who excel in translation). Even if they want payment, thats fine. luckily i still have a job even with all this covid-19 shit happening.

btw, the OVR.BIN is where the text is contained.

[Anonymous No.6394484]

>>6394419
>>6394447
When I posted yesterday that maybe we would see a translation some day I didn't imagine that it would start getting worked on in less than 24 hours. You're amazing anon.

[Anonymous No.6394508]

>>6394482
Well, that's great news. I'd be stoked if more people got to enjoy it as well. Quality wise I think it's a title worth investing the work in and it's not crazy amounts of text we're looking at here. It's a gameplay focused title. Do you think you'll be able to get to the item names and descriptions as well - like a full translation? Or is dialogue only looking more likely?

[Anonymous No.6394517]

>>6394484
Tell me about it! If this comes to pass, I'm definitely archiving this thread.

[Anonymous No.6394551]

>>6394508
it wont be released unless its 100% translated. thats my policy

[Anonymous No.6394565]

>>6394447

Oh nice. Inserting the text is always the hardest parto. Now you just need a translator to translate the text.

[Anonymous No.6394568]

>>6394551
You know, rereading my post here >>6394258 and now seeing you attempting to give people a full translation... it's the perfect clusterfuck. It basically has to happen. How many game translations have you been involved in so far, if you don't mind me asking?

[Anonymous No.6394589]

>>6394568
zero collabs. only solo projects, and about 7 projects. Mostly NES/SNES.
ive had my eye on this for quite sometime, as well as Planet Laika and Solo Crisis. i would move to those after completing Brightis.

[Anonymous No.6394612]

>>6394589
Two other titles carrying the Quintet name, huh? Interesting.

And 7 games is pretty impressive! I'm hopeful. Keep this thread alive people. So you would make this your first collab job, yeah?

One last question before I head to bed: Where would you release? Your own site (didn't even see the link until now, I'm super tired rn.)

[Anonymous No.6394634]

>>6394612
on my site. if someone wants to put it up on romhacking themselves, they can do that if they want. im not doing that though.

[Anonymous No.6394648]

Well, I'm off to bed. This is an absolutely crazy turn of events! Props go to the "original" OP for making this thread - I murdered his ass like the talented Mr. Ripley, lol. Looking forward to hearing from you, sir. >>6394634

[Anonymous No.6394723]

>>6389943
>become one with the Jank
Golden line.

[Anonymous No.6394741]

>>6394723

Obviously there's a limit to the jank you should accept. But generally it took until the mid 2000's for game devs to really get how to do 3D games right and along the way there was a lot of failed experiments. So if you go into 90's era 3D games and expect the same polish as later games, you'll be disapointed. But you'd be missing out on some great games. Like I've been playing Tenchu and it's fantastic, even though I could complain about the draw distance or camera not being perfect or the combat system being wonky. But it's a great 3D game that makes you feel like an actual ninja, which almost no game ever does! Ninja games are often action games where you plow through thousands of enemies (like Ninja gaiden or Sekiro). Very few games let me stalk my prey and kill them.

[Anonymous No.6394751]

>>6386890
PS, PS1, Playstation 1, PSone...
Where did the autistic X come from. Sony fans really are try hard edgelords.

[Anonymous No.6394752]

>>6389956
>OP this game *looks* good, but how FUN is it? How does it compare to OoT?

Combat is more like an unpolished Maximo. Style of gameplay is more explore big ruins with minimal plot like King's Field or Demon Souls.

[Anonymous No.6394772]

>>6394751
Please leave and don't come back.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)

[Anonymous No.6395192]

>>6394447

Have you heard of this team? Quality hackers and programmers .

http://meduza-team.ucoz.net/

[Anonymous No.6395221]

>>6395192
yeah I have heard of them and appreciate highly what theyve been bringing us.

[Anonymous No.6395267]

>hates PGXP and widescreen hacks
Wonder why this thing renders so weirdly. Seems neat enough, runes aside.

[Anonymous No.6395269]

>Bright Souls

[Anonymous No.6396145]

>>6392469
No he didn't >>6392857 but you'll keep preaching that regardless, won't you?

[Anonymous No.6396197]

To the amazing translating anon, do you plan on keeping a journal of your romhack adventure? It would be helpful for beginner romhackers... (I'm still having pointers PTSD)

[Anonymous No.6396304]

>>6386890
idk, what's demon souls?

[Anonymous No.6396326]

>>6394389
psx uses the extension 'exe' for it's executable as well

[Anonymous No.6396335]

>>6394751
the "autistic X" has been there since before the console even came out, it was a codename for the system

[Anonymous No.6396536]

>>6394751

[Anonymous No.6396550]

>>6396304
A King's Field mod.

[Anonymous No.6396558]

>>6395192
Do they do English translation or only widescreen hacks? Looks interesting, for sure.

>>6394258
>>6392970
More webms. Love the look of this game!

[Anonymous No.6396701]

>Brightis

Now that's a name I haven't heard in awhile.

[Anonymous No.6396917]

I have been bitching about a translation for this for so long I actually considered learning moon runes. Can't wait to play it.

[Anonymous No.6396974]

Another one: moldy catacombs edition

[Anonymous No.6396981]

>>6394751
>PS1, Playstation 1, PSone
Yeah, why didn't they just call it the PS1, years before the PS2 was ever conceived of or people knew what it'd be called?

[Anonymous No.6397001]

>>6387481
pretty cool boss design.

[Anonymous No.6397006]

>>6393749
two balls, staring at you, in the dark

[Anonymous No.6397018]

>>6397006
Eyeballs + daggers + darkness = A recipe for disaster, >>6387603

[Anonymous No.6397041]

>>6392363
>Ps-oNe-gros
well anon, you tried

[Anonymous No.6397732]

Wanted to show off some of the moves that are available for purchase from the sword masters. Mind you this is not everything but just one of two submenus at one of the three trainers. These techniques can get pretty expensive, like DAMN! I also never mentioned that you can craft fire, lightning and ice blades. This is also the first time I ever used XMedia Recode to make a webm. Hope it plays all right, colors turned out a tad too dark.

[Anonymous No.6397830]

>>6397732

The review I said said these attacks weren't worth it and your default was just better.

[Anonymous No.6397851]

>>6397830
I haven't even tried them all (can't even afford some of the more expensive basic slashes) but already found several of them to be pretty useful. Others not so much. I'm inclined to disagree with "the review".

[Anonymous No.6397861]

>>6397830
I have yet to try them all (can't even afford some of the more expensive basic slashes) but already found several of them to be pretty useful. Others not so much. I'm inclined to disagree with "the review".

[Anonymous No.6397948]

>>6397830
>>6397861
Okay, your reviewer isn't totally off. There are some options in there that make me scratch my head. Ridiculously expensive for marginally more damage and a few frames saved and then there are some that deal less damage than the base version.

[Anonymous No.6398364]

>>6397041
typical nintendoofus

[Anonymous No.6398857]

>>6397732
This game looks really neat. Is there something else similar to it?

[Anonymous No.6398864]

>>6398857
planet laika!

[Anonymous No.6398916]

>>6398864
That is not at all what I was looking for but I'm intrigued/baffled at these fmvs

[Anonymous No.6398919]

>>6398857
There were some early 3d action adventure games posted earlier in the thread.

[Anonymous No.6399778]

>>6386890
>The Demon Souls of the PSX?
I mean does it really have to be that, why can't it just be Brightis
Also it's Demon's Souls, not Demon Souls

[Anonymous No.6399781]

>>6398364
I don't own a single Nintendo console, your failed insult toward that crowd was just incredibly weak anon

[Anonymous No.6399936]

>>6399778
Soulsfags had their brain rotted out so games only exist in their heads how they relate to soulsgames. That's the only thing they understand.

[Anonymous No.6399940]

Another neat little feature about the dungens that I enjoy is that when you fall intro pits like this it usually doesn't kill you but drops you down to another level. Depending on the layout you might've been there before and will have to work your way back up again as punishement, or it might actually be required to jump down there in order to advance - there's no fall damage in the game. Chasms in the overworld are a different story though. Best stay away from those.

[Anonymous No.6399978]

>>6394383
You prettty much want to add half-width text, or arguably RLE compression, to any PS1 project or you'll hit the text limits real fast imo.

[Anonymous No.6400043]

>>6399778

I've made threads in the past about Brightis that never went anywhere. A little sensationalized title gave it more attention.

[Anonymous No.6400141]

These things freak me out in the dark, man. You hear their chitin legs against the cave walls as they creep around in the dark before they leap at out at you from the void. The low double swing parallel to the ground that I hit it with is one of the moves I pruchased. I think it's quite useful in certain situations.

And what dark magic is Xmedia Recode, dude? I forgot to resize this one and... it... looks all right? Doesn't it? Maybe because it's mostly black I dunno.

[Anonymous No.6400157]

>>6400141
Also, that was one loaded anthropod. 19 pieces of gold on its body, dude? I'm no gold digger but damn!

[Anonymous No.6400594]

>>6393691
I played through all the King's Field games yesteryear and 2 & 4 are now among my favorite games ever

[Anonymous No.6400756]

Holy fuck this thread is the best thing to happen on /vr/ in a very long time

[Anonymous No.6400759]

>>6386890

what other third person real time combat rpgs are there?

[Anonymous No.6401969]

>>6394419
>>6394383
>>6394447
Are their guides or do you have tutorials on romhacking/translating.

So many old interesting untranslated PS1 games just collecting dust.

All the guides and info is pretty sparse and shit or people acting like they know what they're talking about to people asking when they actually know nothing.

Seems like real trouble is when the Text is sprites/graphics rather than actual text.

[Anonymous No.6402638]

>>6390332
>Dark Souls was most people's first experience with asian CRPGs
Wut

[Anonymous No.6402648]

>>6390332
>Dark Souls was most people's first experience with asian CRPGs
maybe if you're a teenager

[Anonymous No.6402662]

>>6386890
Unrelated but how do the older /vr/ Fromsoft games hold up?

[Anonymous No.6402668]

>>6402662
the fantasy ones?
not well

[Anonymous No.6402734]

>>6402662
King's Field 4 is cool. It's weirder and more alien the deeper you explore. King's Field before that is just brown, grey, skeletons, man eating plants and ass.
First Armored Core was cool, the rest of the series is less interesting.
Eternal Ring sucked.
Adventures of Cookies and Cream is fun with a friend.
3D Dot Game Heroes was really hyped up and I enjoyed it for an hour before it really set in how uninspired it was.
Stuff like Evergrace, Forever Kingdom, Lost Kingdoms are migraine inducing with the nasty colors and music that sounds like several different tracks played at once.
The only FromSoftware games I still have is Echo Night and Kuon because I find Heian era aesthetics interesting and I like ghost stuff. Echo Night Beyond was stupid though.


There's no reason to dig up a company's whole catalogue just because a few games were great.
I happened to buy and play FromSoftware games as they came out because they were ALWAYS in bargain bins in a Costco. No one gave a shit about them. After Dark Souls they stupidly make a big fuss about them and how those games "validate" their old shit. My ass.

[Anonymous No.6402903]

>>6400759
Severance Blade of Darkness
Heretic 2?

[Anonymous No.6402927]

>>6402662
king's field remains the best thing fromsoft has done

[Anonymous No.6402950]

>>6402927

Basically just playstation version of ultima underworld. And this in fact promted them to release an Underworld PS1 port in 1997 too.

[Anonymous No.6403023]

>>6386890
>10+ years ago
>dude this looks like zelda
>nowadays
>dude this looks like souls

[Anonymous No.6403178]

Anyone has a link to the .ISO?

I want to play it.

[Anonymous No.6403210]

is this an unreleased game or something?
Why the big discussion?

[Anonymous No.6403224]

>>6403210
it's JP-only, and not very well known

>>6403178
https://archive.org/download/Sony-Playstation-JP-ASIA-Part-1/Brightis%20%28Japan%29.zip
(verified same sha1 as on redump)

[Anonymous No.6403373]

>>6402662
I played King's Field for the first time shortly before playing Souls games and I couldn't help but feel a lingering disappointment with the new games. King's Field was probably the most amazing game experience I've had in years at that point. Exploring, making my own paper map, and gradually progressing gave me overall just a really great time. Although IIRC I did modify the controls somewhat to control more similar to a modern first person game.

[Anonymous No.6403390]

>>6403178
>>6403224
About the structure of the game, I just wanted to say this more clearly once again (I feel like I really only hinted at it before) to save those some frustration who are giving it a go but can't understand Japanese: When you "finish" a dungeon, you have to retrace your steps to make it back out again. Near the entry of every dungeon you will find a totem stone that let's you fast travel back to the village again. Do this every time. I'm pretty far into the game now and thus far there hasn't been a single instance where hanging around in the overworld would've been benificial. Once you're back at the village talk to every character there until one of the converstations automatically brings up the world map and highlights your next destination that will progress the story. I guess if you knew the game well and you had already memorized the order in which to clear the dungeons, you could travel from dungeon to dungeon without returning to the village. I'm not 100% sure on that. However, you wouldn't be able to buy new weapons and armor, spells, moves and potions this way - which you can only do at the village. For more on that please read my earlier two posts here >>6387562 and here >>6387584

One more important thing: the blue crystals. They're very important. Essential to beating the dungeons. Find as many as possible or you won't be able to open certain doors. Therefore, if you carry one and use it in a socket to unlock a door or activate a mechanism, ALWAYS check if you can pick it back up from its socket and still progress. On your way through the dungeons you will encounter treasure chests that can't be opened until the evil presence dwelling in that place has been banished. You open them on your way back to the entry and you will need a blue crystals to unlock each one, losing that crystal in the process. Those chests are your reward for kicking the dungeon boss's ass.

[Anonymous No.6403640]

>>6394751
I know this is a 2 day old post, but still....

[Anonymous No.6403652]

>>6396974
>>6393743
This looks insanely good for PS1 graphics, from what I've seen on youtube the soundtrack sounds great. Why is this so obscure??

[Anonymous No.6403738]

>>6403640
it's such a common and popular codename, i'm pretty sure everyone who knew about the psx when it was still current had heard it referred to as the psx in some way, even the psx (dvr) didn't really mess that up, since that didn't take off in the west
i'd probably go as far as saying "psx" was more well known than "ultra 64", if for no other reason than "psx" persisting past the launch of the console

[Anonymous No.6403746]

>>6403640
You have to contain your autism, n64-kun. PSX is something else now.

[Anonymous No.6403808]

You really can't aggro too many of these guys at once. They'll gang up on you hard. Taking a single hit means getting poisoned and then you run as if through molasses at a snail's pace for a moment. You're essentially stuck. It's all downhill from there because blocking only guards in the direction you're currently facing and you can't hold them off coming in from all directions - sometimes simultaneously. They have pretty good eyes too and come swarming in from farther away than most other enemies.

This latest dungeon, or rather it's a cave system, is pretty different from the ones that came before it. It's pitch black down there. No natural light whatsoever - and where did the happy music go anyway? This is sounding kinda spooky now. Wandering around in the darkness with only being able to see ~4 feet in front of you can be pretty disorienting, especially in the larger irregularly shaped caverns.

So the only light sources are these fluorescent flowers but those few and far between - you have to fight in order to recharge your torchlight. Hey and here's a little quiz for you Brightis edition: What's worse than a cave dwelling werewolf? That's right. A cave dwelling werewolf with a giant meat cleaver and a shield. Man, I miss the sunlight.

[Anonymous No.6403873]

>>6403640
>Silent Hill
>the new Resident Evil killer
Why did this thing with calling things "x killer" ever start in the games industry? I can sort of understand it with WoW since it was so massive and no other MMORPG could compete but it's really dumb in this context. RE and SH are both story based single player game franchises. Can't you just play both?

sorry for OT if someone gets triggered

>>6403808
Most of these old action games were absolutely brutal if you found yourself fighting multiple enemies. Even new games occasionally fall victim to that.

Its pretty cool how much dungeon variety the game has. I really didn't expect that from an old game like this.

[Anonymous No.6403878]

>>6403873
>Why did this thing with calling things "x killer" ever start in the games industry?
The earliest I remember seeing the phrasing was all the "Doom killer" games, that obviously did not topple Doom in the early 90s. In PC Gamer and such it was the sleazy way to make a headline.

[Anonymous No.6403884]

Is it playable without understanding nip?

[Anonymous No.6403891]

>>6403873
>Why did this thing with calling things "x killer" ever start in the games industry?
It's to generate hype? It's just another way of saying: "This upcoming game is even better than this massively popular and awesome game you all loved and you should probably buy this magazine to read all about it and then preorder."

[Anonymous No.6403902]

>>6403884
>Is it playable without understanding nip?

Please read the following posts
>>6387562
>>6387584
and
>>6403390

and then also
>>6390325
and
>>6390383

[Anonymous No.6403906]

>>6403902
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.6403909]

>>6403902
thanks. sorry for lazy skim

[Anonymous No.6404026]

>>6394447
>romhacking can go fuck themselves desu they are a bunch of sjw faggots
Can i get a rundown on this? It's a bit annoying having to check a bunch of websites to find the right patch because author is a special snowflake and won't upload/link it anywhere but on their own website. I was wondering why people do that and if there's some issue that people take with romhacking.

[Anonymous No.6404081]

>>6394772
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)
So it was called that in because of advertisting focus groups.
>>6394751
>Where did the autistic X come from. Sony fans really are try hard edgelords.
The 90s were an edgy time mate.

[Anonymous No.6404090]

>>6404026
romhacking even for the sake of translations is no longer so simple. In an effort to adhere to a more fitting translation the translator used the english equivalent for what is a loosely acceptable phrase in Japan. They pulled his translation and tried to force censorship on it and the usual shit flinging began.
tl;dr trannys

[Anonymous No.6404134]

>>6402662
peak kino and ludo, very soul and age like vine, not soulless and aren't aging like milk, comfy and lit, cop them if you want, then marathon them and ask us how you felt about them.

[Anonymous No.6404140]

>>6402662
i like the echo night series a lot, but it controls a little rough and is pretty goofy

[Anonymous No.6404149]

>>6403652
It's not insanely good looking and it sounds like a generic SNES RPG with better samples. But it's got nice art direction and lighting.

>>6402950
Neat.

[Anonymous No.6404169]

PSX souls is Kingleys Adventure

[Anonymous No.6404179]

>>6404169
actually haunting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIyAI-DjEHw

[Anonymous No.6404195]

>>6404169

That one really feels proto maximo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewAk2CfWzKg

[Anonymous No.6404295]

[Anonymous No.6404391]

>>6404295

That lunge looks useful.

[Anonymous No.6404417]

"I'm not lost. You're lost!"

[Anonymous No.6404523]

>>6404391
Nah, the most useless move in that video is the Shoryuken-style combo finisher at 13 seconds. It whiffs on most enemies. Only these guys are tall enough for it to connect. But luckily there's mix up ending the combo in a quick heavy downward slash. I think there's a fourth hit unlockable after that one as well.

[Anonymous No.6404529]

>>6404391
>>6404523
Oh yeah, and you can occasionally hit airborne enemies with it as well.

[Anonymous No.6404671]

>>6404195
>>6404169
Same engine as Rascal. Sadly, it controls like shit.

[Anonymous No.6404732]

>>6404169
not mentioning MediEvil

[Anonymous No.6404746]

>>6404529
I don't know why I see anons ITT saying this looks clunky, this looks really smooth and impressive.

[Anonymous No.6404759]

>>6404090
So they threw a hissy fit because someone used a phrase that can be seen as politically incorrect in the west? That's pretty pathetic, desu.

[Anonymous No.6404791]

>>6404746
Maybe because they're watching players with cerebral palsy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT_1E_-Yz4A&t=4m31s

[Anonymous No.6404796]

Maybe because they're watching players with cerebral palsy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT_1E_-Yz4A&t=4m31s

[Anonymous No.6404797]

Nintendo really had it figured out with Zelda. Action is so much more dynamic.

>>6404295
Is this game all about blocking and attacking? Maybe shooting a spell here and there. Blade Arts seems to have the better Combat.
https://youtu.be/EaAIaeMA4rM?t=471

[Anonymous No.6404798]

>>6404746
Maybe because they're watching players with cerebral palsy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT_1E_-Yz4A&t=4m31s

[Anonymous No.6404814]

>>6387448
It really is fascinating it has a very nice charm to it.

[Anonymous No.6404873]

>>6404797
>Is this game all about blocking and attacking? Maybe shooting a spell here and there.

The combat is pretty much about just that, yes. But I think there's some nuance to it. I can do several different combos and end them differently - mix ups. The hits are also delayable and sometimes changes in timing change the move that will come out. I have a combo I can do out of a blocking stance, a dash attack and jumping attack as well. Some combos are just like hit square, circle, square or square, circle, circle while others are command moves that require directions inputs as well.

You are very nimble on your feet too. There is no turning animation at all and you can do a 180° turnaround to block something when standing still in a single frame and change directions while running just as fast. So dodging attacks by moving out of harms way is also a legit tactic and it gives you time to "charge" some of your special moves that you can stack 3 of on a single button (press / hold & release 1 or 2 sec). The swords thrust I do here at 24 seconds I put into the 1 sec hold slot >>6404295 and you can see a little "1" appear for a second at the bottom of the screen.

Being able to block indefinitely though is one of my complaints. Not all attacks are blockable but I see the worth of stamina system implemented in the Souls games compared to this. The enemy in that webm you quoted is a beefier variant of a known beast and it's attacks you with a flurry of blows that will kill you while the tamer versions only have like a 3 or 4 hit variant. So that might make it seem a little boring but you're taken by surprise the first time it happens. Also by the fact that this one now breathes fire.

[Anonymous No.6404881]

>>6404797

>>6404873 Continued
The combat is at it's best when it mixes different enemy types into a group. Arches hanging back, harrasing you with arrows while you're trying to deal with brawlers. Stuff like that. I tried to aggro as many of them possible sometimes but often they have clearly assigned areas they stay in and won't leave them even if you fight another group next to them. Sometimes you can even cheese them by staying right outside the edge of their combat zone so they won't attack you but you can still hit them.

Finally blade length is kind of important. The game even tells you this and at the weapon smith the length of the blade you're currently looking at is always clearly stated. Longer is indeed better. Sorry it's just true. Deal with it. And you can craft fire, ice and lightning blades. I already said that earlier.

[Anonymous No.6404896]

>>6404797
>>6404873
>>6404881
Oh yeah, and one more thing. With the environment being as open as it is most of the time, you can literally run past all the enemies. All of them. I think some players have the tendency to abuse something like this once they find out but not me. Not until at least several hours into the game when I'm backtracking or have gotten myself lost. But it is a possibility.

[Anonymous No.6404942]

>>6404797

Blade Arts is like 75% Tomb Raider with 25% Zelda.

[Anonymous No.6405118]

>>6404873
>>6404881
Thanks! So no dodge or jump to mix things up? Being able to just block everything is lame.
I love variable sword lenght, but it needs to be balanced.

>>6404942
Looking at longer videos, it seems to be more of a scifi game. Don't like that as much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vbsgeFH7VQ

>>6387007
>>6386992
Those untextured cartoony pics are cute! I'd like to see the golems in Action!

>>6404179
Is that the lofi hip hop Remix?
Granstream Saga has a great OST!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHczX_ygh8c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPefua9DR0o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz87lvkf_K4
Gives me some Ghibli vibes.

[Anonymous No.6405159]

>>6405118
>So no dodge or jump to mix things up?
There's jumping and you have a jumping attack too. You can only slot one though but it is customizable (I think there's only 2 available?). It was very useful against the Bane Altar >>6396974

> I'd like to see the golems in Action!
The one in the left column here? >>6396974 I'll show it to you. I have save states for days.

[Anonymous No.6405292]

>>6404090
>>6404759
As usual they infest communities where they just attention whore and try to make everyone dance around their insanity. I doubt a single tranny there has contributed anything to any fan translation.

We're loosing ground fast.

[Anonymous No.6405360]

>>6405118
Here's your golem, bro.

[Anonymous No.6405362]

>>6405118
Actually, I made this too.

[Anonymous No.6405385]

>>6405118
Also wanted to show this neat little thing where they can turn their upper body independently of their legs.

The seems like they should have heart of stone... or rather clay, right? But they hang around in groups. I guess they're very sociable.

[Anonymous No.6405462]

>>6405360
>>6405385
Adorable! I also wanted to see Bane Altar.

>>6389898
Going through the screen shots again. I see that they made good use of untextured polygons. I don't see that very often.
It gives the charactesr a nice clean look and the bold Colors make them stand out.

[Anonymous No.6405470]

>>6405462
Bane Altar will have to wait unfortunately. I need sleep. But I'll do it.

[Anonymous No.6405819]

>>6404797
does it use the analog?
or is it dpad only?

[Anonymous No.6405859]

>>6405819
nvm just had a go and it definitely does, you can see soul blazer in it a bit but I don't think I'll play it unless it's in english unfortunately

[Anonymous No.6406013]

>>6393146
>>The DualShock is pretty much THE modern controller
You saying that made me realize that Nintendo has not had an industry standard controller since the PSX set the industry standard for controller layout. Seems intentional to me, based on what I've gleaned of Japanese corporate butthurt and necesitative ingenuity.

[Anonymous No.6406056]

>>6406013
PS controller is literally just SNES controller with analog sticks at the bottom

[Anonymous No.6406065]

>I made Brightis threads before
>never went anywhere
>this one somehow got replies

[Anonymous No.6406068]

>>6405385

Having an adjustable camera behind the character is such a big improvement and it's very rare for PS1 games to have that. It's quite odd and today it seems obvious. Can anyone think of any others? Ape Escpae maybe?

[Anonymous No.6406069]

>>6406065
Did you make them during covid-19 quarantine?

[Anonymous No.6406190]

>>6406065
Did you post a whole bunch of screenshots, webms and extensively answer questions? In actuality, it's just chance though.

[Anonymous No.6406204]

>>6406065
maybe people started playing it only after you posted them, now people have played it they are talking about it

[Anonymous No.6406315]

>>6404081
and it stuck because it was convenient, you need an abbreviated form for various purposes, like NES, SMD, DMG, GCN, etc, "PS" is sometimes used, but can be confusing since it's already a common abbreviation (postscript), and PS1 (also fairly common now) didn't really make sense until the PS2 for obvious reasons

[Anonymous No.6406360]

>>6406068
spyro has a fully controllable camera

[Anonymous No.6406483]

>>6405462
Here you go.

[Anonymous No.6406519]

>>6400043
To think, all you had to do was link it to Demon's Souls.

[Anonymous No.6406567]

>>6406519
Oh, what could've been! Could've been his breakout thread. Make it to the big boy league.

[Anonymous No.6406584]

>>6406519
>>6400043
No, kids, this thread got going because op bothered to post good screenshots and even videos. Comparing it to Demon's Souls was a bad move--we dodged a bullet there.

[Anonymous No.6406598]

>>6406567
I've never seen /vr/ talk about Breakout. It's always about clones like Arkanoid.

[Anonymous No.6406605]

>>6406584
>>6406584
Naaah, that doesn't sound plausible to me. It's the "Demon Souls of the PSX" part. Has a nice ring to it, you know.

[Anonymous No.6406608]

>>6406598
lmao yep, always Arkanoid
I'm in fucking tears here.

[Anonymous No.6406617]

Well, I'm adding this thread to my CV. "Hey baby, remember that Brightis thread in in 2020 during Covid-19? That was ME! So... your place or mine?" Because that's what I do when I meet girls, I show them my resume.

[Anonymous No.6406624]

>>6406584
You've really got no idea how marketing works, do you gramps? Why do you think game magazines used to stick [insert popular game here] killer in big letters on the front of their magazines?

[Anonymous No.6406627]

>>6406624
Yeah man, these screnshots ain't shit!

[Anonymous No.6406629]

>>6406617
>Because that's what I do when I meet girls, I show them my resume.
Gotta do what you gotta do to make the joke work.

[Anonymous No.6407015]

>>6406584
>Comparing it to Demon's Souls was a bad move--we dodged a bullet there.

it resulted in multiple bumps through people complaining or disagreeing though.

[Anonymous No.6407208]

>>6405118
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vbsgeFH7VQ
>Blade Arts: Tasogare no Miyako R'lyeh Full OST [PSX]
>R'lyeh
If Brightis is the Demon Souls, than this is Bloodbourne.

>>6406065
Here's you're second chance.

>>6406013
>>6406056
And they were pretty close. SNES has the standard layout, N64 has the analog stick and the focken Virtual Boy had two dpads. If they had combined these qualities, they would've had the dualshock.

[Anonymous No.6407309]

Ok I found the toughest enemies in the game. It's these guys. I'm not even joking.

[Anonymous No.6407881]

There's another challenge dungeon in the game! This one is a noble family's crypt and a side quest the villagers kept telling me about. Unlike the other one it's relatively far from the village too and pretty annoying to travel to because of some mazy platfroming sections along the way.

It's a little different from the arena challenge I found earlier inside the village permeter in the way that it presents itself. That one felt more like straight combat training as it lead you from just a single room filled with enemies to the next. This new one loads an entire floor plan filled with enemies you can freely move around in that you then have to clear out to get to the next level. They do have one thing in common though: they're both randomized - it's different each time you drop down there. You know I'm keeping this save state!

[Anonymous No.6407890]

Loving coming back to this thread every now and then and seeing new stuff. Godspeed whoevers translating this and to the one posting new stuff too

[Anonymous No.6407926]

Uh, guys? Man fuck this dungeon. Not only is it stuffed with all sorts of critters, there are traps everywhere. Look at this little guy though.

[Anonymous No.6407974]

>>6407926
I mean, thread title redeemed right? Right? Ca'maahn!

[Anonymous No.6407998]

>>6407926
Oh, it's got a first person view! Could you give us a look around of some nice Areas?

[Anonymous No.6408083]

Eh, I can show some villager protraits.

[Anonymous No.6408108]

>>6407998
Eh, I can show some villager portraits.

[Anonymous No.6408126]

>>6408108
Okay I guess I'm playing it blind then

[Anonymous No.6408150]

>>6408126
It's not possible to walk around while in first person view. All you can do is turn and look up and down.

[Anonymous No.6408230]

>>6408150
I meant without understanding anything haha

[Anonymous No.6408242]

>>6408108
I hoped it had some nice vistas but I'm probably expecting too much from a PS game.
But the NPC do look good and the one in the corner is like a painting.

[Anonymous No.6408428]

how well does it work with OC, 60fps, and PGXP?

[Anonymous No.6408441]

Low poly was a low point in the history of video games.

[Anonymous No.6408454]

>>6408428
It doesn't.

[Anonymous No.6408607]

>>6408441
based retard

[Anonymous No.6409440]

[Anonymous No.6409447]

>>6409440
There's something about those scenarios that look so lovely and unique.

[Anonymous No.6409541]

>>6404391
Wow, I only just now realized that it says "useful" and not "useless": I even wrote a whole thing in response. The brain is a strange beast.

[Anonymous No.6409558]

>>6387704
game looks cool

[Anonymous No.6409567]

>>6409447
The colors are very well done.

[Anonymous No.6409693]

>>6409541
should have pretended it was sarcasm

[Anonymous No.6409907]

13 floors down and no end in sight. Found a book though. That hasn't happened before. These guys needed a workout. Hm, is that bacon I smell?

[Anonymous No.6410120]

[Anonymous No.6410135]

[Anonymous No.6410182]

Holy shit, this game really looks amazing. Kind of weird that a western release didn't happen, since it looks like something that would be a moderate hit.

[Anonymous No.6410231]

>>6409907
The scope of this game seems pretty large. How long did you play by now?

[Anonymous No.6410282]

>>6410231
>The scope of this game seems pretty large.
Yeah this. I was amazed by the scope 100 posts ago and it just keeps going. How the hell did they cram all of this in a psx game?

[Anonymous No.6410335]

>>6410231
Last time I consciously looked it was something +8h but that was quite a while ago. Might be well +11h now. I can answer it precisely when I get to a save point after beating this goddamn dungeon - 30 floors down right now, *whew*. I'm hoping this is the last one. But that hour count will be pure progression time. I have been playing for longer than that because I'm using save states, so I can play some encounters twice to take screenshots & videos.

Sometimes I do it during the 1st time but mostly I want to be able to enjoy it without having to worry about this stuff. Also depends on how difficult the fight is. I take screenshots by clicking the left analog stick. Using save states exposes some of the inner workings of the game as well. Through using them I realized that not only are the floors in this dungeon completely random but also what enemies will spawn within the individual rooms is up to RNG right as you enter the room. Reload the state, walk one step to reenter the room, complete different set of enemies will spawn.

1/2

[Anonymous No.6410340]

>>6410231

>>6410335 continued
If you look the world map >>6389958 it shows 12 locations. One of them is the village and one is the clan cryp I'm doing right now. But I haven't yet been to all of them. Story wise it seems the final encounter should be coming up now but apparently the villain still has a card up his sleeve - grand schemes. How that will pan out, I can't say. He might get away and I'll have to chase him to another location. This dungeon is definitely a side quest but I wanted to do it before beating the main story. I'm not sure I'll be able to afterwards. My gut instinct was to not do it, because I wanted to see all the cool enemies in their actual dungeon environments first but oh well... better than potentially missing out on content entirely.

Man, I better get something good in return for last 30 floors of straight combat. I'm not content with finding two books, a few magic rings and a lost child. Pic related is one of the 30 floors. The map is rather useful with how it shows a history of your movement pattern.

2/2
>>6410282
>Yeah this. I was amazed by the scope 100 posts ago and it just keeps going. How the hell did they cram all of this in a psx game?
It's less than 100 MB in size, lol.

[Anonymous No.6410373]

>>6410340
So it's kinda like a special challenge dungeon you're doing now?

[Anonymous No.6410398]

>>6410373
Yeah, this is not main story stuff. 38 floors down and still going. No more! I need a break.

[Anonymous No.6410614]

>>6410335

Does the map literally track all your movements?

[Anonymous No.6410675]

>>6410614
Every step. Even after you leave the area and a new map was loaded, when you come back that is still there. The line color fades with time though, or rather with steps. It's also zoomable and the scale indicator changes accordingly. You can set waypoints as well which was extremely handy in this latest randomly generated dungeon for marking the exits of each floor since you often come across them before meeting the necessary clearance criteria (which varied).

If you hit the map button a second time, it brings up the world map >>6389958 and that just highlights the section you're currently in and you can highlight the dungeons to see their names. Since they get mentioned in conversations that's handy as well.

I just read some things in a Japanese thread about this aristocrate's crypt and there's some mystery surrounding this place and when best to tackle it. I only skimmed it for now but I think I saw mention of skill bound and hidden items and ring's that make them visible and loot on floor 50 that might mutate a boss fight (???). Maybe that was supposed to be a bug description? I don't know. I'll think about it later, I had enough sword fighting for the day.

Because it's randomized the crypt isn't exactly the prettiest area of the game either. Almost no verticality, just very basic rooms stitched together. I guess it's charmes lie elsewhere (rewards).

[Anonymous No.6410708]

I am right now watching the review by Ultra Healthy Video Game Nerd posted by someone earlier >>6387448 He says the attack moves are almost all entirely useless and that you can't outskill many of the bosses and have no choice but the use the stuff like the defense-up potion? I haven't used a single potion in this entire run so far lol. I'd say that part of the game is superfluous more so than the sword skills. I actually thought about it as a point of criticism thus far but I haven't finished it yet of course.

[Anonymous No.6410715]

I am right now watching the review by Ultra Healthy Video Game Nerd posted by someone earlier >>6387448 He says the attack moves are almost all entirely useless and that you can't outskill many of the bosses and have no choice but to use stuff like the defense-up potions? I haven't used a single potion in this entire run so far aside from "health packs" lol. I'd say that part of the game is superfluous more so than the sword skills. I actually thought about it as a point of criticism thus far but I haven't finished it yet of course.

[Anonymous No.6410731]

>>6410715
Yeah okay, I'm not gonna finish watching that review. Talking about specifics of the final dungeon now. Closed it immediately.

[Anonymous No.6410751]

>>6410715
>>6410731

So the game does have a quantity vs quality when it comes to sword skills. I'm sure that with some experimenting and research we can find out the most useful ones to get. The "stinger" seems useful.

[Anonymous No.6410796]

>>6410751
His statement is just not true. You don't even have a single combo when you start out iirc. Just single slashes as you hack away at the enemies. Later enemies have shields and some block A LOT. But they don't always manage to block your entire attack string and you get your second, third hit in which tend to become more powerful, knocking them back or down or at least stunning them out of their attack animation. That can alone can save your life. But hey, maybe if you just keep spamming your basic heavy slash from start to finish that works out too. I don't think that sounds very fun however.

I can't really imagine this working out. There are small enemies that some lower that your knees and hitting those with your basic top-down heavy slash is really annoying because there's no lock on. A horizontal swipe close to the ground helps with that. In this combat heavy crazy shit I find myself now in, I wish I had bought that 360° because I AM GETTING MUGGED sometimes, ugh.

This crypt has no problem dropping you into the middle of a group of four enemies at the start of a floor and they are ready for you. You're getting hit before you even know what you're up against and there are no save points. Since calling up the quick select menu grind time to a halt, I resorted to doing that. It's tricky but if you time it right you'll be suspended still in mid-air but you still have control of the camera so you form a strategy if need be. Other times the room will just be empty.

[Anonymous No.6410802]

>>6410796
And attacks that are being blocked by enemies still give you XP. So there's that.

[Anonymous No.6410985]

Just crypt chaos, it's 'kay. For a moment I thought they were in-fighting there at the end. Never had seen the knight to that move before. Does it look like a wake up attack to you? I think it kind of does.

[Anonymous No.6411079]

[Anonymous No.6411178]

got a problem. Everytime i move the camera goes up and doesnt return to normal view (straight i would say) unless i press right joystick.

Is this a bug?

[Anonymous No.6411183]

Off-topic: Does anyone know who made Blade Arts? It is published by Enix (like all Quintet games before) and surprisingly enough I could find some IGN articles about it. They claim that "Nobuteru Yuki, also responsible for character designs in Chrono Cross and Seiken Densetsu 3" worked on it.
And that it should get a NA release.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/06/02/now-playing-in-japan-418
https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/06/02/blade-arts
I'm also surprised they casually mention Seiken Densetsu 3. Who knew that game back then?

>>6411079
That skeleton has a dope armor design!

[Anonymous No.6411186]

>>6394419
How are you debugging like this?

Or do you just have the game open in a Hex Editor?

[Anonymous No.6411189]

>>6411178

is this the only PS1 game that uses right stick for camera?

>>6411079

Truly the Dark Souls of gaming.

[Anonymous No.6411206]

>>6411189
No a few games use it. Love and destroy and mega man legends 2 come to mind.

[Anonymous No.6411245]

>>6411183
Seiken Densetsu 3 was all the rage back then because the emulation community had just been taking off and were romanticizing the RPGs that didn't come over, like that and Final Fantasy V
It received its fan translation the same year

[Anonymous No.6411250]

>>6411178
Like right at the very start? That's not supposed to happen of course BUT there is a moment early on where the game tells you about the first person view near a pick up item. If it happens consistenly every time you touch the stick then that is of course a bug. What emulator are you using?

[Anonymous No.6411276]

It's strangely enjoyable to watch and skip through this playthrough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XCLtRs-tX8&list=PLjotvIcBrLDl-5ngyyPVaQonIhM7qEJt0
I'm surprised there seems to be no interest in translating the late Quintet games. The SNES games seem so popular.

>>6411183
Ah man, I forgot the pic. Not really important. But I wanted to show off.

>>6411245
Ah, right. Didn't know it was that popular. Or was IGN just more hardcore back then?

[Anonymous No.6412485]

>>6411250
ePSX.
I don´t know if i choose anything about a static view or not since i don´t understand japanese and im playing with google lens.

[Anonymous No.6412630]

>>6412485
>epsxe
what is this, 2003?

[Anonymous No.6412635]

>>6412630
Is there anything better?
I´ve never bothered 2much with emulators desu, always went for the things that i used back in the day.
Although i could use a new one tbf. When i played during this quarantine the first 3 Resident Evils textures where a mess, same for sound sometimes.

[Anonymous No.6412643]

>>6412635
lets get you caught up, then
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PlayStation_emulators#Emulators

[Anonymous No.6412664]

>>6412635
>Is there anything better?
Absolutely. Try Mednafen. It's very compatible and accurate - ePSX can't hang in that regard. There's not tinkering with settings to get the games working properly. Though it doesn't have a GUI. You can install an aftermarket one if you want to. Like MedGUI Reborn or MedLaunch.

There are also two ports of Mednafen running on RetroArch. That's like a program that has many such ports combined in one place. You download these emulator ports individually from inside the program depending on what system you want to be able to play. The two Mednafen ports are called Beetle PSX and Beetle PSX HW.

There are others of course but these two get recommended the most and for good reason. You can get a lay of the land here: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PlayStation_emulators

>When i played during this quarantine the first 3 Resident Evils textures where a mess, same for sound sometimes.
I personally think you can't do better than these when it comes to RE2&3:
https://www.reshdp.com/re2/
https://www.reshdp.com/re3/
Resident Evil 1's not done yet.

[Anonymous No.6412679]

>>6412664
Oh yeah, one more thing that I think many expect functionally from an emulator of the 3D era and are then disappointed to find out it does not support that - Mednafen does not allow you for a higher internal rendering resolution. It's native resolution only. Its RetroArch ports do have that functionality however. or maybe just the HW variant I don't remember. But if you think the screenshots posted in this thread look acceptable then rest easy because that is native rendering resolution - although there's a shader applied to it which changes the look. Withouth it it would look more like this >>6394258

[Anonymous No.6412732]

>>6412643
>>6412664
>>6412679
Thanks guys, really appreciate it. I´ll give Mednafen a try.

[Anonymous No.6412747]

>>6412732
highly recommend you install retroarch, and use the mednafen core in that
i was never much of a frontend person before, but retroarch has changed my mind, it goes far beyond just a dumb launcher
i gaurantee you won't be disappointed

[Anonymous No.6412754]

>>6412664
>>6412747
In my experience retroarch was just fucking annoying to use. The GUI is terrible.

[Anonymous No.6412785]

>>6412754
i admit i was a bit confused about where things were to begin with, especially the difference between the menu and the quick menu, but i got the hang of it
definately worth all the Nice Things(tm) it provides, like good vsync/low latency/shaders/run ahead/etc

[Anonymous No.6412796]

>>6412754
>>6412785
-- oh yea, if you don't like the new UI, you can change it back (wish i knew that sooner)
settings > drivers > menu

[Anonymous No.6412835]

>>6412635
You could try out PCSX2. It's primarily a PS2 emulator, but the backwards compatiblity is improving. And it offers texture correcting and filtering, if you like that.
It's got an update just this week.

[Anonymous No.6412858]

>>6412835
I do use PCSX2, just updated it yesterday to 1.6 in order to play Code Veronica X. Although i´ve heard that it´s not the best.
After this run i´ll probably update this emulator as well.

[Anonymous No.6413071]

Screw the challenge crypt. I'm 90% sure it just goes on forever. I called it quits on floor 52 - spent 2h10m down there, that's 2:30 per floor on average and I think I level up 3 times down there since it's all combat all the time. So you get something on floors 10, 20 and then again I believe on floor ~36 you find who you were sent there for. After that you can keep going down and floor 50 will hold a relatively powerful item but not what I was hoping for. I read that this dungeon is tied to obtaining an elemental sword and I saw pictures of what looks like a blade made from ice. Though it may only be possible after a certain point in the story.

[Anonymous No.6413103]

Screw the challenge crypt for now. I'm 90% sure it just goes on forever. I called it quits on floor 52 - spent 2h10m down there, that's 2:30 per floor on average and I think I leveled up 3 times. It's non-stop combat with no save points but every 10th-ish floor or so will be a bonus floor containing a lot of items like health potions and such. It's definitely nerve wracking when you get corned by a combination of enemies that you never had to fight in this setup on the outside and you're running low on health.

Not only are there all sorts of enemies down there, it also plays a mix of musical themes from all over the game. Requirements for clearing a level may vary from having to kill all the enemies or a specific enemy to obtaining a certain item. Some floors require a key to clear and these you might even have to carry over multiple floor. But it's programmed in a way that you can't miss the key because picking it up is the criteria to leaving the floor it spawns on.

So you get something on floors 10, 20 and then again I believe on floor ~36 you find who you were sent there for. After that you can keep going down and floor 50 will hold a relatively powerful item but not what I was hoping for. I read that this dungeon is tied to obtaining an elemental sword and I saw pictures of what looks like a blade made from ice. Though it may only be possible after a certain point in the story and allegedly you don't even get the sword inside the crypt itself. It's all very mysterious.

[Anonymous No.6413107]

Daylight!

[Anonymous No.6413125]

>>6413103
Oh yeah, and let's not forget that the game supports the PocketStation. Things might be tied to player progress in those minigames as well. Think you get like rated on a weekly bases or something? Maybe it's like an Animal Crossing sort of situation? I've held a PocketStation in my hand once, so my interest in finding out about how this stuff works isn't exactly through the roof.

[Anonymous No.6413143]

>>6393691
Stop looking at gameplay and just try it for yourself. It's the kind of game that watching doesn't do justice. You need to go in mentally prepared to immerse yourself in the world and embrace the slow burn.

[Anonymous No.6413150]

>>6413103
Oh yeah, and let's not forget that the game supports the PocketStation. Things might be tied to player progress in those minigames as well. Think you get like rated on a weekly bases or something? Maybe it's like an Animal Crossing sort of situation? I've held a PocketStation in my hand once, so my interest in finding out about how this stuff works isn't exactly through the roof.

PocketStation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jhD5HJqyAY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketStation

[Anonymous No.6413151]

>>6403873
>I can sort of understand it with WoW since it was so massive and no other MMORPG could compete
Hey ZoomZoom you're telling on yourself by thinking WoW was the only time this happened in gaming.

[Anonymous No.6413152]

>>6394447
>romhacking can go fuck themselves desu they are a bunch of sjw faggots
lol what are you talking about you schizo

[Anonymous No.6413325]

>>6413150
There's no emulation for the PocketStation?

[Anonymous No.6413370]

>>6413325
It works with XEBRA.
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/XEBRA
It's also generally a nice emulator but doesn't do anything fancy, besides this feature. >>6412635

[Anonymous No.6413394]

>>6413325
There is but I'm doubtful the data could used in any way inside the main game when emulating: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/PocketStation_emulators

I gave the two books I found deep down in the crypt to the nameless witch back in the village and apparently she can read them - tells me they're about ancient forbidden magic. She's studying them now to see if she can make sense of it all. Said to come back later ;)

But granny who told me about the secrets of the land and the stupid crypt in the first place still says I haven't finshed my mission yet. Whether or not she's actually refering to the crypt I don't know. I found the missing boy down there but Granny never said anything about that. She did say the crypt had a powerful illusion spell cast on it to guard it from tomb raiders (looking at you,Lara). But since I wasn't a grave robber it would probably be fine. FUCK YOU OLD HAG! I checked my magic rings again and stuff. Nothing that I can equip seems to fit this job yet.

Moving on with the story now.

[Anonymous No.6413483]

Now post screenshots without the filter.

[Anonymous No.6413505]

It's winter now, iunno.

[Anonymous No.6413526]

>>6413483
You like this look better? Too bad, I don't.

[Anonymous No.6413546]

>>6413483
You like this look better? I don't.

[Anonymous No.6413549]

>>6413483
>>6413546
Same frame for comparison.

[Anonymous No.6413553]

>>6413549
Please keep the CRT filter on, it looks very nice on this game

[Anonymous No.6413809]

>>6413553
I'm sorry! You can not make the spider / scorpion even MORE ugly, give that one a HUGE red facehugger-like mouth on its underside and then call it "THING". Like, it doesn't even have a name. Not okay. I don't like that. No thanks!

[Anonymous No.6413817]

Ominous. I can tell by the cutscene that follows finding the key to this gate that this is indeed not the final dungeon. But they're gonna unleash their ultimate weapon against me it seems. It's called Metal Gear or whatever...

[Anonymous No.6413823]

It occured to me none of the screenshots I took shows the main villain - probably because he looks like a little bitch. Hi, Bitch!

[Anonymous No.6413864]

It's okay, he only has a slight reach advantage. It's not like he also breathes fire or anything, right? Right? Hehehe... oh man...

[Anonymous No.6414119]

>>6411276
I'm mostly interested in this game because it's one of the rare psx action games that has a lock-on option
the combat, especially during the boss battles, looks fun

[Anonymous No.6414127]

>>6414119

The virgin lock ons

The Chad free aim

[Anonymous No.6414153]

>>6403640
the "nobody called it PSX" thing is just stale bait at this point right? it's not even a funny meme it's just to get replies from people.

[Anonymous No.6414161]

You know what it is you know what it do

[Anonymous No.6414383]

Oh yeah, I bought this combo. It's the one for 3800 skill points from here >>6397732 Has two variants, short and full. You drop it into any of the 4 or 5 (?) predefined command move slots. I put this one in the "back, forward, attack" slot. It is my second command move. The first one was the low double swing from this video >>6400141 The input for that one is "forward, forward, attack".

This new move, as you can see, has a dash up at the start. That needs to hit for it to come out. It tracks a little but not too much. If the enemy you are attacking dies from one of the slashes, you immediately turn towards the next enemy for the following hit. If they're close enough they get the rest of the business until the combo is done.

It probably wasn't the most useful move to buy but it looks cool. I should've tested it in the arena challenge dungeon inside the village. I realize now that this is its prupose. D'uh. It's inside the village right next to the sword master's housings. But in the end I didn't test it. I just rolled with it.

[Anonymous No.6414604]

>>6408242
idk, /vr/ introduced me to terracon recently, and i've been pretty amazed by it so far
in some ways it feels like i'm playing an early ps2 title
and that moving star effect in the mission select screen, holy shit

excuse the basic bilinear filter, i'm still looking for a nice shader that'll work well on my 12 year old laptop

[Anonymous No.6414824]

are there any similar games to this that are actually in english?

[Anonymous No.6414831]

>>6414604
kinda looks like destroy all humans

[Anonymous No.6414956]

>>6414119
>that has a lock-on option
I thought it didn't have a lockon?

Also this >>6414127
Lockon is trash.

[Anonymous No.6415442]

>>6414604
Yeah, Terracon is kind of crazy. Doesn't even look like Playstation game. Brightis can only dream of draw distances like that.

[Anonymous No.6415471]

CRT filters are cool and all, but could someone please post some HD screenshots with filtered textures and perspective correction?

[Anonymous No.6415475]

>>6414956
blade arts definitely looks like it has lockon

[Anonymous No.6415487]

>>6415475
Oh right you were talking about Blade Arts. Dunno about that. Brightis doesn't have one I think.

[Anonymous No.6415510]

>>6415471
running on my old laptop that doesn't support opengl 3.3, so no texture filtering, but here's higher resolution and pgxp, also 16:10 widescreen hack (modified beetle psx source for it since it normally only does 16:9)

[Anonymous No.6415532]

>>6415471
>>6415510
no wide area shots here, things fade out to nothing after about 30 metres

[Anonymous No.6415550]

>>6415532
interesting design choice with the camera controls.. right analog up/down moves camera up/down, but right analog left/right zooms in/out, with L/R being camera left/right
i can only assume this is so you have consistent controls between digital and analog controllers (where L/R for camera left/right is common)
i think i'd prefer if it was swapped so L/R was zoom instead, control edit menu doesn't list analog sticks though

waterfall area from OP picture

[Anonymous No.6415562]

>>6386890
Why this shit only 70 mb? How this is possible?

[Anonymous No.6415574]

>>6415562
no cd music, and not many videos
this is not considered really small, i'd say most psx games are around this size, if not smaller, if you exclude streaming audio and video

like terracon here >>6414604
is technically quite impressive, and it's track 1 (the game) is only 54MiB, the rest of the 618MiB cd is all cd audio

[Anonymous No.6415614]

>>6415510
>>6415532
>>6415550
OP here, I strongly suggest remapping camera rotation to the right analog stick and zooming to the triggers in order to get a more modern control scheme. Here's how I have it set up:

L-Stick = Movement
R-Stick left / right = Camera left / right
R-Stick up / down = Camera up / down
L2 / R2 = Camera in / out
R-Stick lick = FPS view
R-Stick click = Screenshot
---
X = Jump
□ = Attack
○ = Special attack
L1 = Block
△ = Map

Feels like any modern game's control scheme like this and you can get smooth action going like here >>6404529

[Anonymous No.6415619]

>>6415510
>>6415532
>>6415550
OP here, I strongly suggest remapping camera rotation to the right analog stick and zooming to the triggers in order to get a more modern control scheme. Here's how I have it set up:

L-Stick = Movement
R-Stick left / right = Camera left / right
R-Stick up / down = Camera up / down
L2 / R2 = Camera zoom in / out
R-Stick lick = FPS view
R-Stick click = Screenshot
---
X = Jump
□ = Attack
○ = Special attack
L1 = Block
△ = Map

Feels like any modern game's control scheme like this and you can get smooth action going such as this >>6404529

[Anonymous No.6415628]

>>6415510
>>6415532
>>6415550
OP here, I strongly suggest remapping camera rotation to the right analog stick and zooming to the triggers in order to get a more modern control scheme. Here's how I have it set up:

L-Stick = Movement
R-Stick left / right = Camera left / right
R-Stick up / down = Camera up / down
L2 / R2 = Camera zoom in / out
R-Stick lick = FPS view
R-Stick click = Screenshot
---
X = Jump
□ = Attack
○ = Special attack
L1 = Block
△ = Equip Slot Action / Menu

Feels like any modern game's control scheme like this and you can get smooth action going such as this >>6404529

[Anonymous No.6415630]

I´ve just beaten Hellhound, damm didnt spect this mobility from a boss after Stone Golem.
Really enjoyable, music is comfy af, wish i knew some japanese to learn about the story though.

[Anonymous No.6415637]

>>6415630
Nice. Did you read the posts about how to find out where to go next?

[Anonymous No.6415664]

>>6415637
I might, but i forget this kind of stuff, same goes for spoilers.

I just came back to the village, heal & check for upgrades done, i´m saving for the 700g sword though, only need 200 more for it.

Maybe i should go to that lady in the house or another guy? Both of them showed me the entrance and location in my map of the first dungeon.

[Anonymous No.6415670]

>>6415664
You can read my posts linked here to get an idea of what to do. I've explained the game's general structure and its most important systems >>6403902

[Anonymous No.6415674]

>>6415664
Most important for you at this point is teleporting back to the village by using the totem stone at teh dungeon entrance. In the village talk to everyone until one of the dialogs brings up the map again and shows you where to go. When you obtain one of the four big crystals from one of the bosses go to the witch. You can slot a magic spell into it and the put it in one of your quick equip slots to use during battle.

[Anonymous No.6415686]

>>6415674
Yup i´ve seen the mechanics and the basics, that´s how i got my first skill before going into the first dungeon.
I was kind of wondering how could i get my first magic since i though crystals = little ones, not the big chunk that i just got now.

I was kind of lost with the locked by darkness chests until i figured out that you need to kill the boss in order to loot them. It´s interesting how you play with crystals and their possitions, i hope the game exploits this a lot with puzzles.

[Anonymous No.6415862]

>>6415471
There is a video of that early in the thread. >>6392102

>>6414604
I mention that game a lot around here.

>>6415442
I wonder, is there any (action) adventure or RPG with a draw distance like that.

>>6414824
Soul Reaver maybe? King's Field?

>>6415562
Actual game assets are tiny because they have to fit into 2mb of RAM. N64 games are way smaller.

[Anonymous No.6415960]

Notice how the little piggy that tried to creep up from behind before I healed up suddenly wasn't an issue anymore? You can barely see it but he got zapped by the tower at the 24 second mark. Things like this have happened to me multiple times by now with these turrets. They come in different models. If you line them up right the sometimes even destroy each other. If you time it right you can also power through their shots with sword attacks as with most projectiles like arrows. You can deflect them using your blade. Fire though? Hostile flame attacks are among the deadliest in the game. Insane damage!

[Anonymous No.6416004]

Anyone feel like translating the overly drawn-out credit sequence? I'd like to know who worked on it.
https://youtu.be/n6OU3Ud5lv4?list=PLjotvIcBrLDl-5ngyyPVaQonIhM7qEJt0&t=2402
This whole thing is really bittersweet to me. 20 years later this game still brings joy to us, even just by following this thread, but the original devs will probably never know. At least I'd like to know who they are.

>>6414824
What do you mean exactly? 3D action RPGs? A handful. Megaman Legends, Alundra 2, Darkstone and Crusaders/Warrios of Might and Magic is all I can come up with.

>>6415960
The orcs are so cute.

[Anonymous No.6416010]

Notice how the little piggy that tried to creep up from behind before I healed up suddenly wasn't an issue anymore? You can barely see it but he got zapped by the tower at the 24 second mark. Things like this have happened to me multiple times by now with these turrets. They come in different models. If you line them up right the sometimes even destroy each other. If you time it right you can also power through their shots with sword attacks as with most projectiles like arrows. You can deflect them using your blade. Fire though? Hostile flame attacks are among the deadliest in the game. Insane damage!

*Edit*
Cut out the fumbling with the menus part since I didn't have a health potion set up in a quick slot. Used it from the menu instead. That's why you see me healing even though I have the fireball selected.

[Anonymous No.6416069]

>>6416004
I would've done it but since there is like a cutscene playing while the credits roll I won't do now to avoid spoilers. Only saw the first name before closing the video.

Ryoji Akagawa was the producer, President of Arc Entertainment Inc. according to Wikipedia.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88_(%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E4%BC%9A%E7%A4%BE)
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,534237/
https://www.giantbomb.com/ryoji-akagawa/3040-39977/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1676073/

I can't see any tweets if there are any since his account is set to private but his Twitter bio says he founded a company called Larcx or L'arcx in 2009 and that he's still working in the industry. Last update on the larcx website seems to have been in 2012. Link to another site from there with his name attached to it leads nowhere. I found a short biography though: Born in 1959, graduated from the faculty of literature of Tokyo University with a degree in Japanese literature in 1982, joined Sony Computer Entertainment in 1993, blah blah blah, blah blah blah...

Maybe I'll do a list short list of names for you after I beat the game - if the thread isn't dead by then. What's the bump limit on this board anyway?

[Anonymous No.6416070]

>>6414153
I have seen proof of it now that some magazines called it PSX, however I know for a fact that at the time nobody ever called it PSX in conversation. If someone had said PSX instead of Playstation I genuinely would have had no idea what they were talking about.
I'm also very certain that if you went out onto the street and asked normal people who weren't heavily into video games "what is the PSX" they wouldn't be able to answer, whereas if you said PS1 they would know.

[Anonymous No.6416074]

>>6416070
No. One. Cares.

[Anonymous No.6416078]

>>6416074
I'm just answering a question, chill out.

[Anonymous No.6416321]

Ambushed! That last stab tho

[Anonymous No.6417031]

Suddenly that rare, hard to get armor I got down in the crypt doesn't feel so overpowered anymore... send help

[Anonymous No.6417335]

Ambushed! That last stab though.

[Anonymous No.6417338]

[Anonymous No.6417415]

[Anonymous No.6417439]

[Anonymous No.6417494]

>>6415862
Is Terracon worth playing?

[Anonymous No.6417736]

It's unbelievable how unnoticed this game went until this thread. Who do I have to pay to translate this?

[Anonymous No.6418034]

>>6417736

Saturn and PS1 have a ton of great JP only games.

I foudn out about it and others from this vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSlGv9aFk4o

[Anonymous No.6418189]

>>6417415
>>6417439
That's a neat room.

[Anonymous No.6418191]

>>6417736
>Who do I have to pay to translate this?
Some anon already started working on the translation.

[Anonymous No.6418198]

>>6417736
Spamming a thread with pictures pays off.

[Anonymous No.6418208]

Should I make another thread if this one dies before I finish my run? Does anyone care to see these screenshots and webms through to the end? I'd also do some commenting ofc, i.e. on whether or not you can still roam the overworld after the main quest etc.

I'd also provide help if anyone's trying to play through it with no knowledge of Jap right now and gets stuck. Sound off!

>>6418034
I've actually watched the entire video before and downloaded some of the titles shown in it - skipped over Brightis though. Guess ~10 sec of footage weren't enough to make me see its potential.

[Anonymous No.6418242]

>>6418208
yea, i'm curious to see more of this game

[Anonymous No.6418301]

>>6407208
>blade arts
Keep these hidden-in-the-earth's-core gems coming bros. And plz translate Brightis and Blade Arts.

[Anonymous No.6418319]

>>6418301

It's late era PS1 games that American-Euro publishers didn't think were important enough to bring over. The hype was for Dreamcast and PS2.

[Anonymous No.6418327]

>>6415628

I was thinking souls style controls.

[Anonymous No.6418334]

>>6418301

It's late era (1999-2001) PS1 games that American-Euro publishers didn't think were important enough to bring over. The hype was for Dreamcast and PS2. However for us PS1 fans these late games are very polished compared to early PS1 games. Blade Arts is Tomb Raider x Zelda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Qsw_RsB2I

I can think of a few others like this.

[Anonymous No.6418347]

>>6418327
The main thing is fixing the camera rotation to not be L/R but the right analog stick. The rest is a matter of taste.

One thing though and I don't know if this is emulator weirdness or has to do how the original DualShock worked in analog mode, when I touch the D-pad the characters turns in that direction but doesn't walk. This is kind of actually useful because I can still enter the command moves without moving an inch from the spot. I'm wondering if this is on purpose.

[Anonymous No.6418357]

>>6418347
>The main thing is fixing the camera rotation to not be L/R but the right analog stick. The rest is a matter of taste.

I like the idea of L and R buttons to be the main attack buttons. The Souls controls are focused around the inherant awkwardness of the Dual Shock controller. You can't use the analogs and the main buttons at the same time.

[Anonymous No.6418358]

>>6418334
i'd say 1998-2001 was the best period for psx games, late enough that devs were squeezing the console hard, but not so late that it was starting to get budget titles

[Anonymous No.6418367]

>>6418334
>zelda x tomb raider
For the love of God translate it somebody

[Anonymous No.6418401]

>>6387448
Looks cool. The music kind of reminds me of Dragon Quest.

[Anonymous No.6418406]

>>6418357
>You can't use the analogs and the main buttons at the same time.
Very true. Maybe I'll try some adjustments later today.

[Anonymous No.6418573]

>>6418034
Hold up, Brightis isn't even in there. How is this game flying under everyone's radar?

[Anonymous No.6418624]

>>6418573

Damn you're right. It was another series of videos that introduced me to the game. It was one of the "PS1 games you've never heard about videos". There's like 5 in the list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV5jtEebRJE

[Anonymous No.6418630]

>>6418624
>>6418573

2nd one at #99

https://youtu.be/fZVJTJZeoEo?t=1575

[Anonymous No.6418654]

>>6417736
>>6418573
On this board most people barely care for the interesting, obscure games that were released in English.

>>6418208
I'd like to see the full credits translated!

>>6416069
>Ryoji Akagawa was the producer, President of Arc Entertainment Inc. according to Wikipedia.
Dude worked on some interesting games. Didn't know the Utopia port was made in Japan.

>>6418630
And neither have Blade Arts.

[Anonymous No.6418776]

If you talk to the witch back at the village after beating this horned smurf, she tells you that your biggest challenge is yet ahead of you and that she has a gift for you in the attic. If you check her treasure chest has respawned and inside you'll find a phase stone. An item that if you have it equipped raises you form the dead once should your HP reach 0. I've only found 1 other such stone throughout the entire game. Should come in handy.

>>6418624
>>6418630
I see. Thanks for the links. I'll be sure to download these videos later.

>>6418654
>I'd like to see the full credits translated!
Right. Almost forgot about that. Though I can almost guarantee that I won't do the entire credits. Japanese names are kind of hard, dude. Even to Japanese.

[Anonymous No.6418792]

>>6418208
Absolutely and please. I've been checking into this thread every day.

[Anonymous No.6418793]

I guess doing the crypt was worth it after all. From the books I gave to her she whipped up an entire arsenal of new magic spells. Every spell (fireball, lightning stike, ice shot and healing) received two upgraded versions bringing the number of available spells from 4 to 12. Among them "Heal", "Healer" of course "Healest". kek

[Anonymous No.6418807]

Japanese site that has game credits. Quite useful.

http://raido.moe/staff/ps1/ps1_brightis.html

What google translate spits out:
https://pastebin.com/aAukwBrX

[Anonymous No.6418843]

>>6418807

Looks like it was co-directed by Koji Yakota and Atsushi Nagashima.

Director Koji Yakota interview in Gamers' Republic but not about the game.

https://archive.org/details/Gamers_Republic_Issue_27/page/n93/mode/2up/search/%22brightis%22?q=%22brightis%22

[Anonymous No.6418860]

>>6418793
Might as well show you guys this stuff, right?

[Anonymous No.6418863]

>>6418793
Hm, first time upload seemed corrupted. Wouldn't play properly. Here are the new fire spells.

[Anonymous No.6418891]

>>6418793
Had to rerender this webm. Site wouldn't play it properly even after a reup. Hope it works now.

Here are all 3 fire spells available to me now. Doubt there are more. This last one, I don't know. Not my style.

[Anonymous No.6418914]

>>6418208
New thread yeah. Maybe we'll hear more about the anon doing the translation too.

[Anonymous No.6418948]

>>6418793
>>6418891
Ice spells new and old. Next up: Lightning. I won't bother with the healing spells since is taking quite a bit of time to do and I want to move on.

>>6418914
I will still only create a new thread if my playthrough isn't finished by the time this thread falls off. The translator has kindly linked his own website (www.dmanufacture.com). Though it seems down atm, everyone now knows how to keep track of how that is going.

[Anonymous No.6418990]

>>6418793
>>6418891
>>6418948
Lighting bolt! I find these to be very disappointing, especially with how similar lvl1 and lvl3 are to each visually? Is there even a difference? The descriptions read:

L1 - Thunder "Strike nearby enemies with lightning from above."
L2 - Horizon Thunder "Strong lightning that travels horizontally."
L3 - God Thunder "Devine Lightning"

[Anonymous No.6419360]

Dude no! Just stop! They knew what they were making. They're even bigger now. Awesome!

This hadn't actually happened to me before. Numerous anthropods had attached themselves to me like this but it never cause such sever state of poisoning. I don't know if the smaller ones can even do it to you. Usually it paralyses you for a bit (player model and health bar turn yellow) and I always shook them off quickly. Only this time I turned the camera around because I wanted to see that facehugger-like underside (wish I hadn't btw). I had only glimpsed it in on the smaller specimen since I encountered them just once in a cold dark cave in the snow mountains.

I've been poisoned several times in the last hour or so. I hadn't realized how severe it is. I wore a ring that protected me from poison for most of my playthrough. I thought the effects of paralizing venoms would just wear off quicker and I could get back into the fighter quicker instead of taking another dose. The thing is, there are different poisons. Several DO NOT wear off until you take an antidote! Your health drains until you die and quickly. Even after I used the phase stone, that item that brings you back from the dead, I was still poisoned.

[Anonymous No.6419553]

[Anonymous No.6419567]

>>6419553
Don't know if you can tell from the video but he laughs at you when his attacks land. His teeth chatter when he does it. All skeletons in the game do it. They're all assholes. Probably have a great sense of humor though.

[Anonymous No.6419628]

>>6418624
i love you, op.
and you >>6418630

[Anonymous No.6419971]

[Anonymous No.6420078]

>>6419971
>6419971

if this game were merged with vagrant story it would be the best ever.

[Anonymous No.6420209]

>>6418891
>>6418948
>>6418990
am I the only one that's using 4chanx and his webms takes an eternity to load?

[Anonymous No.6420214]

>>6420209
*their

[Anonymous No.6420237]

>>6420209
All of them or just those few? They gave me trouble and I have had to redo them. Still they behave kind of funky when I try to look at them from my phone. All the other ones are fine I hope? If not it would've been nice if someone had said something earlier.

[Anonymous No.6420240]

>>6420237
all of them

[Anonymous No.6420246]

>>6420240
Well shit. Anyone else having these issues? Have you tried without 4chanx? I've seen this stuff with other people's webms before. Sometimes I'll run into some that will not play smoothly. Again, mostly happens when I look at the on my phone. Rarely on PC. Looking at my own always seemed fine. Is all my stuff busted, /vr/?

[Anonymous No.6420249]

>>6420246
all of them, I mean every single webm in existence, not only yours

[Anonymous No.6420252]

>>6420249
You specifically wrote "his webms". Did you just turn this into a 4chanx help thread?

[Anonymous No.6420258]

>>6420252
their webms >>6420214 as the ones I am reproducing
you know, forget it

[Anonymous No.6420282]

>>6420246
No, they are fine.

[Anonymous No.6420508]

>>6418301
>plz translate Brightis
my bad, i now see someone in fact is hard at work translating it and that they are collaborating! very great of you, anon. you're doing a great service to this community and all who care about this awkward period in gaming, especially myself. maximum excitement.

[Anonymous No.6421527]

So i noticed that the big sword in Blade Arts looks like Cloud's Ultima weapon sword, but then looking further it even includes Zidane's double swords!

[Anonymous No.6421575]

>>6418807
Thanks

[Anonymous No.6421613]

>>6419360
This was the first encounter.

[Anonymous No.6422158]

Been playing for a while this morning, just defeated Venom, i know that it was hard as hell since i didnt upgrade my weapon neither i bough magic, but now i have the best sword that i could buy + lightning magic.

Should be handy now in the next dungeon. Is there any way to upgrade magic? I feel that lightning is a bit weak in terms of dps, but great for farming though.

[Anonymous No.6422169]

>>6386890
Too brightful. King's Field or Vagrant Story are PSX's DS.

[Anonymous No.6422307]

>>6422158
There is but it's not easy. You go to this place I marked for you. It's a noble family's crypt. There's a randomized challenge dungeon down there. You can find to books there 10 and 20 levels down. Give them to the witch lady at the village and she'll study them to teach you stronger spells BUT seemingly you have to first finish another dungeon run after you hand her the books. On level 50 of the crypt you can find stronger armor than I have seen anywhere else in the game. Only took me ~2 hours of non-stop combat, bro. IMPORTANT: I am not sure if you can only enter the crypt after a certain point in the story. You can for sure do it after the old lady appears by the save point in the middle of the village center by the save point. I don't know about than that. My guess is you can. If you're yet strong enough is another question.

You can read all about that stuff here if you want
>>6407881
>>6410335 (2nd paragraph has a little bit about the randomization of that dungeon)
>>6410675 (3rd paragraph has guesswork(!) based on me skimming Japanese threads)
>>6413103 (review of the crypt experience after 2h of combat)
>>6418793 (me discovering that the books lead to new magic spells)

>>6418891 VIDEO of new spells 1 SPOILERS
>>6418948 VIDEO of new spells 2 SPOILERS
>>6418990 VIDEO of new spells 3 SPOILERS

There are more posts by my about that dungeon inbetween but these are the only useful ones.

[Anonymous No.6422310]

>>6422158
>Is there any way to upgrade magic?

There is but it's not easy. You go to this place I marked for you. It's a noble family's crypt. There's a randomized challenge dungeon down there. You can find to books there 10 and 20 levels down. Give them to the witch lady at the village and she'll study them to teach you stronger spells BUT seemingly you have to first finish another dungeon run after you hand her the books. On level 50 of the crypt you can find stronger armor than I have seen anywhere else in the game. Only took me ~2 hours of non-stop combat, bro. IMPORTANT: I am not sure if you can only enter the crypt after a certain point in the story. You can for sure do it after the old lady appears by the save point in the middle of the village center by the save point. I don't know about than that. My guess is you can. If you're yet strong enough is another question.

You can read all about that stuff here if you want
>>6407881
>>6410335 (2nd paragraph has a little bit about the randomization of that dungeon)
>>6410675 (3rd paragraph has guesswork(!) based on me skimming Japanese threads)
>>6413103 (review of the crypt experience after 2h of combat)
>>6418793 (me discovering that the books lead to new magic spells)

>>6418891 VIDEO of new spells 1 SPOILERS
>>6418948 VIDEO of new spells 2 SPOILERS
>>6418990 VIDEO of new spells 3 SPOILERS

There are more posts by my about that dungeon inbetween but these are the only useful ones.

[Anonymous No.6422326]

>>6422158
>Is there any way to upgrade magic?

There is but it's not easy. You go to this place I marked for you. It's a noble family's crypt. There's a randomized challenge dungeon down there. You can find two books there 10 and 20 levels down. Give them to the witch lady at the village and she'll study them to teach you stronger magic spells. BUT seemingly you have to first finish another dungeon run after you hand her the books. She tells you she needs time to make sense of them and to come back later. On level 50 of the crypt you can find stronger armor than I have seen anywhere else in the game. Only took me ~2 hours of non-stop combat, bro. IMPORTANT: I am not sure if you can only enter the crypt after a certain point in the story. You can for sure do it after the old lady appears by the save point in the middle of the village center. I don't know about earlier than that. My guess is you can. If you're yet strong enough is another question.

You can read all about that stuff here if you want
>>6407881
>>6410335 (2nd paragraph has a little bit about the randomization of that dungeon)
>>6410675 (3rd paragraph has guesswork(!) based on me skimming Japanese threads)
>>6413103 (review of the crypt experience after 2h of combat)
>>6418793 (me discovering that the books lead to new magic spells)

>>6418891 VIDEO of new spells 1 SPOILERS
>>6418948 VIDEO of new spells 2 SPOILERS
>>6418990 VIDEO of new spells 3 SPOILERS

There are more posts by my about that dungeon inbetween but these are the only useful ones.

[Anonymous No.6422357]

>>6422326
Looking at those red arrows with the pixel shader in the behind them hurts my eyes lol. I should've made them white or something.

[Anonymous No.6422536]

This final dungeon is fucking massive! Environmental puzzles and timed platforming, too.

[Anonymous No.6422826]

>>6386951
>what's special about Souls games is that every inch of the levels was purposefully designed

Except for the rushed job of Lost Izalith, that is.

[Anonymous No.6422865]

>>6422826
except for the entire second half of the game, you mean

[Anonymous No.6422903]

>>6422826
>>6422865
Yes, the second half drops off a cliff in quality. If it was as good as the journey to get the Lordvessel, it would unironically be top 3 best games ever made.

[Anonymous No.6422973]

>>6422903
nobody would've complained if the game ended after O&S

[Anonymous No.6423189]

>>6421613
I realized just now. Why are the monster names in english?

[Anonymous No.6423243]

>>6423189
Don't know but they all are. They are the only English words in the entire game aside form Gold, Skill Points, Exp etc. in the pause menu. Most of the menu is Japanese though.

[Anonymous No.6423307]

[Anonymous No.6423528]

>>6410135
Can you see how the spikes darting out ever so slightly wobble after getting stopped so abruptly? That's a nice little touch.

[Anonymous No.6423606]

>>6423189
>Why are the monster names in english?

Why not? Japanese games tend to use a lot of English and Japanese gamers have a passing understanding of English. Engough to read words. Ever watch Game Center CX? They say "Chansu", "hit and run", "continue", "pinch", etc. Loads and loads of english.

[Anonymous No.6423697]

I call this one: Enlightenment.

[Anonymous No.6423928]

>>6421527
cant seem to find an iso for blade arts but before i ask you where2cop, ill look some more

[Anonymous No.6424378]

>>6403640
Sony don't. End.

[Anonymous No.6425034]

Okay, so my main complaint throughout this run so far turns out to be the quick euqip menu. There's nothing wrong with it per se. Actually, I like how it stops time when you bring it up. It can show you cool little character animation moments and lighting effects that way. It looks and sounds nice too, every icon is distinguished visually and sloting them plays a satisfyingly chunky soundeffect like your loading a gun. BUT the controls are all inversed!? All of them. My brain can't get used to it. Even after 13h I mess it up more than I get it right.

Usually you only see a single icon and if you press △, you use that icon. When you hold down △, the icon expands into pic related. The middle one marked by the cursor is ofc the one you had previously selected. So in this picture, how do you get from the fireball to the lightning strike on the right? You press because you want the cursor to move to the right, right? WRONG! So wrong. You press . How to you get to the map icon up there in the middle? You just press up, no? NO! What are you? Stupid? It's . You press . God how fucking stupid is that?

Essentially in this menu you don't control the cursor at all. You control the direction in which the icons are moving. It's like a piece of paper you're slide around under a stationary crosshair or something. You're not the crosshair, you're the icon. You can't think how do I get to this icon but rather I am the icon, how do I get to the crosshair. It's so weird. I can't count the number of times I have messed this up and you can't change it in the options menu.

/rant

[Anonymous No.6425049]

Okay, so my main complaint throughout this run so far turns out to be the quick euqip menu. There's nothing wrong with it per se. Actually, I like how it stops time when you bring it up. It can show you cool little character animation moments and lighting effects that way. It looks and sounds nice too, every icon is distinguished visually and sloting them plays a satisfyingly chunky soundeffect like your loading a gun. BUT the controls are all inversed!? All of them. My brain can't get used to it. Even after 13h I mess it up more than I get it right.

Usually you only see a single icon and if you press triangle, you use that icon. When you hold down traingle, the icon expands into pic related. The middle one marked by the cursor is ofc the one you had previously selected. So in this picture, how do you get from the fireball to the lightning strike on the right? You press right because you want the cursor to move to the right, right? WRONG! So wrong. You press left. How to you get to the map icon up there in the middle? You just press up, no? NO! What are you? Stupid? It's down. You press down. God, how fucking stupid is that?

Essentially in this menu you don't control the cursor at all. You control the direction in which the icons are moving. It's like a piece of paper you slide around under a stationary crosshair or something. You're not the crosshair, you're the icon. You can't think how do I get to this icon but rather I am the icon, how do I get to the crosshair. It also doesn't help that it loops around in a 3x3 configuration because one icon disappearing on the left will simultaneously reappear on the right. That throws you off even more. It's so weird. I can't count the number of times I have messed this up and you can't change any of it in the options menu. Though the game lets you remap the buttons. Commendable.

/rant

[Anonymous No.6425069]

>>6425049
sounds like scrolling on a website, not sure how that'd take more than a minute to get used to

[Anonymous No.6425079]

>>6425069
Yeah, usually I don't have a problem with adjusting to things like that. It's weird how it keeps happening to me in this one. Maybe I'm just getting old.

[Anonymous No.6425373]

[Anonymous No.6425390]

Hi, me my name am Anon who is dumb boy that forgets to pick back up his crystals that took forever to acquire and would rather run around in the dark for a bit before realizing his mistake. Here's that same mini boss fight but this time you can SEE! Crazy, I know. Game has graphics and shit.

[Anonymous No.6425396]

The more I see of this game, the more incredible it looks.

Translation wise, how much luck am I going to have optical character recognition and machine translation?

[Anonymous No.6425418]

Bridge scene against turrets 2.0

CHANGELOG:
- More graphics

[Anonymous No.6425424]

[Anonymous No.6425464]

I can't dude. What is even going on anymore? I was lost for a bit ok, but then got back on track and thought to myself: "Finally, I'll manage." But now? They just blew the door of its hinges. This last dungeon is ginormous compared to the other ones. I have no idea which way to go first atm. This is actually the dungeon the game starts out in. But you only see like 0.5% of it that time before you leave. Things coming full circle.

[Anonymous No.6425469]

>>6387007
Is there any way to get CRT-Royale working on non emulated games?

[Anonymous No.6425476]

>>6386890
These shaders look like garbage

[Anonymous No.6425705]

[Anonymous No.6426320]

Fucking I don't know... 2 hours? 3 hours? Into this dungeon this is how you find a map of the place.

[Anonymous No.6426328]

>>6386890
>>6386992
>>6387007
Looks like a fun Legend of Zelda.

[Anonymous No.6427221]

>>6425396
someone ITT is translating it, just wait!
>>6423928
found it i think from a nip site

[Anonymous No.6428289]

Another situation I imagine could potentially mess up a playthrough courtesy of the language barrier:

When you are at that point in the story where you're about to assault the magic tower marked in (A) while traveling there you find that you can't reach it directly. Instead you run into your buddy (B) who tells you to go to location (C) where you find the item marked in (D), a dagger that can cut through rock. Upon returning to your friend (B) you use that dagger to destroy a rock formation and finally reach your destination.

Several hours later however inside the game's final dungeon, you might trip and fall or - being the fearless adventurer that you are - even jump down voluntarily one of these hollowed out gargantuan trees that lead all the way down into the vast stronghold's catacombs. Upon doing so you find yourself trapped inside the bark with this Deatharmor (G) who's been very lonely for a long time and has forgotten all his manners. So you remind him... and he understands. But how do you get out? There's still questing to do. Well you guessed it, the only way out is to cut through that rock face (H) to create a hole (I) that leads out into the extensive basement. Time to make your way back up. Don't fall again.

[Anonymous No.6428293]

Another situation I imagine could potentially mess up a playthrough courtesy of the language barrier:

When you are at that point in the story where you're about to assault the magic tower marked in (A) while traveling there you find that you can't reach it directly. Instead you run into your buddy (B) who tells you to go to location (C) where you find the item marked in (D), a dagger that can cut through rock. Upon returning to your friend (B) you use that dagger to destroy a rock formation and finally reach your destination.

Several hours later however inside the game's final dungeon, you might trip and fall or - being the fearless adventurer that you are - even jump down voluntarily one of these hollowed out gargantuan trees that lead all the way down into the vast stronghold's catacombs. Upon doing so you find yourself trapped inside the bark with this Deatharmor (G) who's been very lonely for a long time and has forgotten all his manners. So you remind him... and he understands. But how do you get out? There's still questing to do. Well you guessed it, the only way out is to cut through that rock face (H) using the dagger you got earlier (D) to create a hole (I) that leads out into the extensive basement. Time to make your way back up. Don't fall again.

[Anonymous No.6428385]

>>6428293
Forgot to put (E) and (F) behind "game's final dungeon" and "gargantuan tree".

[Anonymous No.6428412]

>>6423928
>>6427221
https://archive.org/download/Sony-Playstation-JP-ASIA-Part-1/Blade%20Arts%20-%20Tasogare%20no%20Miyako%20R%27lyeh%20%28Japan%29.zip

[Anonymous No.6429328]

Elemental sword get - allegedly because I fought in the crypt? No one said anything about that at this point. I'll talk to granny back at the village.

I beat the boss. And... apparently the game isn't over yet? On my way back to the surface now. I'll show some more later.

[Anonymous No.6429613]

So it appears I didn't beat the REAL final boss yet and holy shit this motherfucker is hard to beat! I don't think I can do it today. You barely even get a chance to hit him, he just hangs back 95% of the time and if you're not potion buffed you do maybe 0.5% damage upon hit. All the while he's is battering you with a barrage of dark magic and each of his talons is about man sized. If you ever make it this far... bring potions, lots of potions! Even the aphrodisiac agents.

[Anonymous No.6429642]

>>6429613
>Even the aphrodisiac agents.

[Anonymous No.6429668]

>>6429613
That's such a Quintet final boss.

[Anonymous No.6429854]

This is probably the final collage you'll get out of me now that we've seen the final boss. I will of course banish this devil back to the underworld but maybe not today.

I hope you had at least a little bit of fun reading this thread that I didn't create - it's sort of my step child but treat it no differently from my own kin. I had a total blast playing this game as it kept surprising me again and again with it's enormous scope (playtime is sitting pretty at ~15h btw), unique atmosphere, beautiful art direction (took over 1k screenshots wtf) and fast paced combat. I hope you'll be able to play it for yourself in the not too distant future - remember we've had an Anon announce in this very thread that they would make Brightis their next fan translation project! So please look forward to and keep tabs on that over at www.dmanufacture.com - site is said to return later this month.

I'll still stick around though as long as the thread's alive. I'm sure I'll have some more thoughts and tidbits on the entire thing. I know now for example that the magic ring I read about in that Japanese thread that let's you see things hidden by illusion magic is indeed in the game - and I'm pretty sure I know where to get it. I do not know where to use it though once I have it. I'm like 90% sure you can keep playing after the main quest is over. There are so many combat moves I haven't bought yet, some of them so expensive that the would've stayed unaffordable even if hadn't bought anything else throught the entire run. Also, it seems I can leave the final dungeon without killing the boss and stock up on potions at the village and then come back.

Later

PS: I've you're one of those playing right now and get stuck, as away

[Anonymous No.6429974]

>>6429854
Thank you! It was very interesting!

[Anonymous No.6430047]

>>6429854
Thank's for all the cool collages, it got me playing this even if my Japanese is very weak. Still having a good time so far, it's a very interesting game

[Anonymous No.6430195]

>>6427221
>someone ITT is translating it, just wait!

Given the amount of time I've been waiting for the completed translation of the Sega CD Shadowrun, I won't hold my breath.

[Anonymous No.6430368]

No more collages. I said nothing about webms.

[Anonymous No.6431298]

>>6430195
I guess the guy doing it has 7 completed projects and this time he is even collaborating. But fair enough anon

[Anonymous No.6431336]

>>6431298
I have faith since he even went through the trouble of posting proof that he can do it. Just a matter of actually doing the work which doesn't happen overnight.

[Anonymous No.6431346]

>>6431336
For sure. Any eta you can pull out of your ass? I can't think of a window because there's too many variables i dont know (amount of text though it doesnt seem like much i still have no idea what translating entails for this game, how busy he is otherwise, if game length matters etc)

[Anonymous No.6431364]

FINAL BOSS SPOILER:
The summoning of Zeraword

[Anonymous No.6431375]

>>6431364

That's a woman right ?

[Anonymous No.6431383]

>>6431346
Like you said there's too many variables. Not that I personally have any real experience in translating. If he's actually collaborating and someone else is doing the translating and he's doing the work putting it into the game then the first bottleneck would obviously be how fast he will get the translation. On the translation itself there's a bunch of fact checking and just trying to keep it coherent with terms and names and such.

I'd say remember that it's happening but don't expect it to happen soon.

[Anonymous No.6431448]

>>6431375
How could you tell? Did the long blonde hair, breasts, arm free dress and lipstick give it away?

[Anonymous No.6431593]

>>6420214
>What if the poster is a real woman, we can't afford losing her!

[Anonymous No.6431628]

thread will cease to bump in one more day.

[Anonymous No.6431670]

>>6431448
these days you just can't be too sure

[Anonymous No.6431775]

>>6431628
I can still slip in another video before it's over. More Zeraword final boss spoilers!

[Anonymous No.6431797]

This game does look pretty interesting, thanks for posting. Hopefully it gets a translation someday.

[Anonymous No.6432482]

>>6431383
good decision, pretty much what im doing. plenty of vidya to play in the mean time.
>>6428412
thank you anon, youre a /vr/ star. the one i got from the nip site is a lot less convenient

[Anonymous No.6432536]

I couldn't let it end like this. Just beat Zeraword. Really wasn't as difficult as I initially though. There's a pattern you have to go through to be able to hurt him. Once you figure it out and buff your attack strength with cypress seed before the critical strikes it really isn't that bad. Yesterday I only tried for a brief moment and couldn't figure out how to hurt him and then I took a look at that YT playthrough. Holy hell, that person fights it for +30 minutes. I thought to myself "I'll never pull this off, this player brought a hundred health potions." I ended that demon's entire career in less than 5 minutes.

[Anonymous No.6432601]

Weird, it seems you can not keep playing after the story ends. It asks you to make a game clear save and you can load that from the main menu just fine but i starts the story anew and I'm back to lvl 1.

"You have been ranked level 8. Two stars. You still have a ways to go."

[Anonymous No.6432623]

Oh, we have reached the bump limit. Glad I got that final bit of info in then.

[Anonymous No.6432891]

>>6432601
You really need to brush up your skill coin game.

[Anonymous No.6432928]

>>6432601
I guess you gotta do everything you want before going for the last boss then.

[Anonymous No.6432948]

>>6432891

That just reminded me. Dropping this link. You might find it useful. It's a Japanese wiki but very much incomplete: https://w.atwiki.jp/ps_brightis/

Most useful is probably the item page: https://w.atwiki.jp/ps_brightis/pages/16.html

[Anonymous No.6432974]

Also these. It's the same thread:
https://2ch.pet/contents_nozomi_game90_1287493301_s
https://2ch.vet/re_nozomi_game90_1287493301_a_0

[Anonymous No.6433052]

>>6432974
Just did some reading. I was mistaken earlier. I had said something along the lines of there potentially being a ring in the challenge crypt that might make one of the bosses mutate if you acquired it beforehand. There is no such thing in the game.

It was a mistranslation of figure of speech I had neither seen nor heard before. It says that you have a chance of the guard ring dropping down in the crypt and that it trivializes a certain boss fight if you have (and use) it.

[Anonymous No.6433173]

>>6432601

what are skill coins?

[Anonymous No.6433192]

>>6386890
Thanks for the thread, this game is now on my radar ansd I'm grateful that you brought it to my attention.

[Anonymous No.6433275]

>>6433173
They raise your max skill limit. There's still stuff I never talked about, like XP multipliers.

[Anonymous No.6433302]

>>6433275

Do you find them like hidden items?

[Anonymous No.6433324]

>>6433302
Yeah, they're strewn all over the entire game.