/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8646430]

My buddy and I finished Crystalis yesterday and we're looking for another action RPG to play through together, preferably NES. What are some under rated action RPG's on the NES?

[Anonymous No.8646439]

I got this during a phase of buying retro NES games. It's pretty good.

[Anonymous No.8646443]

>>8646439
Played through this a while back! Loved it. Good recommendation.

[Anonymous No.8646469]

Zelda II is an action RPG, if you didn't know about that.

[Anonymous No.8646479]

Willow

[Anonymous No.8646556]

>>8646439
>>8646469
These and Battle of Olympus if you want to know what true suffering is

[Anonymous No.8646653]

>>8646469
did complete this

>>8646479
Is this based on the movie? damn wtf lol

[Anonymous No.8646820]

>>8646653
Other way around. The game came first.

[Anonymous No.8646823]

>>8646820
why would you go on the internet and tell lies?

[Anonymous No.8646956]

>>8646430
if you don't mind a bit of shoot-em-up in your adventure games give The Guardian Legend a spin.

[Anonymous No.8646978]

>>8646556
in BoO just make sure to select 'retry' as itll save all your olives

[Anonymous No.8647162]

Zelda 2 is great, Willow is bland but decent, The Guardian Legend is good but its overhead-view sections aren't very polished, I haven't played Battle of Olympus... you kinda started the thread with the peak of this kind of game on the NES. Might wanna switch consoles

[Anonymous No.8647195]

>>8646956
Is Guardian Legend an RPG? I forget. Anyway, how about Star Tropics? I forget if that's an action RPG or just a Zelda-like.

[Anonymous No.8647340]

>>8646430
>>8646430
The first two Ys games have Famicom ports with translation patches. They don't get talked about much because of all the Ys ports to more powerful systems, but they have some exclusive content you won't find on the others.

[Anonymous No.8647465]

Simon's Quest

[Anonymous No.8647836]

>>8647195
Startropics is like zelda with more platforming. It's still good and you should play it anyway.

[Anonymous No.8648046]

>>8647195

Ah yeah StarTropics is a great choice.

[Anonymous No.8648053]

Hydlide, if you are just the right kind of people for it somehow.

MORE SERIOUSLY you two should try 8 Eyes since it lets you cooperate (one person gets to be the falcon).

[Anonymous No.8648179]

Grand Master

[Anonymous No.8648378]

>>8646430
Fucking loved Crystalis. What a surprise that was. Just picked up what sounded like a random cheap as fuck NES RPG and ended up being a great game. So blessed to have found it

[Anonymous No.8648392]

>>8648053
Gotta second Hydlide. Feels very early RPG, has cryptic stuff sometimes and isn't long but damn is it fun.
People make fun of it and call it awful but the seemingly strange and "bad" mechanics are very interesting and take a little getting used to.

[Anonymous No.8648516]

>>8648378
Damn shame we never got a possible sequel.

[Anonymous No.8648526]

>>8646430
>My buddy and I finished Crystalis
Wait. Crystalis had a two-player mode?!

[Anonymous No.8648532]

>>8648516
well that's because SNK went full arcade mode

[Anonymous No.8648539]

>>8648532
Damn...

[Anonymous No.8648563]

>>8648539
Have you tried the Y's series?
or at least 1-4

[Anonymous No.8648586]

>>8648378
I played it only because the rental store didn’t have Zelda and the cashier recommended it. Great game.

[Anonymous No.8648630]

>>8647195
>Is Guardian Legend an RPG?
Nah, it's more of a Zelda-like in the sense that you have to traverse an overworld to find or buy power-ups to strengthen your MC. And instead of dungeons, you have to locate entrances to corridors where you go full shoot-em-up to clear out a boss and get the key to access a new area.

You do collect points by defeating enemies, and your max health increases permanently whenever you reach certain point totals.

[Anonymous No.8648658]

I have a soft spot for this one. Not a particular pretty game, but the hack-and-slash gameplay is good fun. Unfortunately you can also equip bows and arrows, and they're grossly overpowered: you won't want to go back to swords/knives afterwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb4Txg-PxAU

[Anonymous No.8649005]

Two games that partially fit this and have surprisingly been mentioned on this board recently are Chronicle of the Radia War and Armed Dragon Fantasy Villgust. They aren't pure action like Crystalis is since you walk around and transition into battles, but the battles themselves are real time and insanely fun once you get the hang of them. In Radia, the battles even take place right where you were as there's no screen transition to an abstract battlefield, and you attack in real time controlling the main character while delegating commands to the other characters and relying on their (sometimes goofy) AI. In Villgust, you walk around an overworld and transition to a battlefield not too dissimilar from Zelda 2, being a platforming sideview.

[Anonymous No.8649165]

Clash at Demonhead is pretty rad.

[Anonymous No.8649171]

>>8649165
Very cryptic though.

[Anonymous No.8649293]

>>8648526

No, OP and buddy just did a driver-passenger thing prolly

[Anonymous No.8649326]

Little ninja bros.

[Anonymous No.8650086]

Magic of Scheherezade is an odd mixture of action-RPG and pure RPG at different points.

[Anonymous No.8650337]

Faxanadu

[Anonymous No.8652615]

>>8650086
Gotta love the angry merchant