I’m playing Alundra

[Anonymous No.8829196]

This is uh wwwwwwwwwow

[Anonymous No.8829206]

I like Alundra.

[Anonymous No.8829217]

I thought this was going to be more like Illusion of Gaia but instead it feels like Diablo, with this droopy little town full of tense, off-putting people. I expected the tone to be closer to Zelda or Crusader of Centy but it’s more story-driven and … horror-focused? What the fuuuu

[Anonymous No.8829234]

Alundra AKA Everybody Dies: The Game.

[Anonymous No.8829267]

>>8829196
I LIE WOUUUUUUUNDEEEEEEEEED ON WINTERY GROUND

[Anonymous No.8829495]

>>8829196
It's fucking great. Only problem is how Working Designs inflated enemy HP. And did a bunch of other dumb shit. Ruined an otherwise (near) perfect game. Some of the platforming sections in the later section of the game are absolute bullshit.

[Anonymous No.8830351]

It's Landstalker but worse:
-wrong perspective
-worse music
-worse dungeons
-no fun and light hearted interactions with NPCs
But it's still playable. Try the Unworked Design hack by Supper if the fights feel too tedious.

[Anonymous No.8830359]

>>8829196
Greenish Beige: the Game.

[Anonymous No.8830361]

>>8830351
>-different perspective
>-different music
>-different dungeons
>-different tone
ftfy

[Anonymous No.8830384]

>>8830361
Anon, there's no functional difference between what I don't like and what is not good. Non-solipsistic mindsets are for PUSSIES

[Anonymous No.8830632]

It's an enormous game. It has about 10,000 "screens" of gameplay. To put that into perspective, Link to the Past has 1,000 or so.

[Anonymous No.8830646]

>>8830632
How much MEGA POWER is that?

[Anonymous No.8830651]

>>8830646
idfk bro. a lot.

[Anonymous No.8830657]

>>8829196
This art rules.

[Anonymous No.8830664]

>>8830657
Guy (girl? idfk) who did Alundra also did the Shining series and a fucktonne of filthy, filthy hentai.

[Anonymous No.8830672]

>>8830664
Very filthy you say?

[Anonymous No.8830681]

>>8830664
Guy afaik; Yoshitaka Tamaki. I really liked his character designs for Shining Force and Landstalker.
What I did not know is that he drew smut too, source on that? For research purposes of course.

[Anonymous No.8830695]

>>8829196
too many puzzles

[Anonymous No.8830703]

>>8830695
And yet not enough from my point of view

[Anonymous No.8830753]

>working designs
I never played Alundra but I hate that company like you wouldn't believe.

[Anonymous No.8830770]

>>8830351
Retarded faggot.

[Anonymous No.8830772]

>>8829196
I want to replay/finish this game in the near future and still remember the horrible american translation and retarded amount of monster buffs just to annoy the player. Is this like a SOLID no meme fan translation of the japanese version. Would prefer to play the jap version with a solid us translation if something like that is even an option.

[Anonymous No.8830779]

>>8830772
A hack that restores the enemy difficulty was released this past March. Unfortunately no retranslation or un-Working Designs patch yet.

[Anonymous No.8830960]

>>8830770
Not an argument.

[Anonymous No.8831006]

How come everyone hates working design? I love vanguard bandits and didn't they port lunar as well?

[Anonymous No.8831009]

>>8830632
I rented the game, got so far I thought I beat it and it just kept going. Also got stuck at the part where you get some desert boots and there's an area with a patch of sand but I had no idea how to use them or if that was the right place or what.
Also, may be in the minority, but I loved Alundra 2.

[Anonymous No.8831015]

>>8829495
I didn't think the inflated enemy HP values were that big of a deal really. Game was still fun. And the translation is one of their more sober ones, besides a few things like Bonaire.

[Anonymous No.8831026]

>>8831006
I don't. Generally I like Working Designs a lot. They really screwed up with balance changes for some games like Exile II, but did fine for the most part with others like the Lunar games and Alundra. I understand being against their style of localization or localizers changing game balance at all, but for many of their games the issues are exaggerated.

[Anonymous No.8831056]

>>8830681
>>8830672
Oh, I thought his name was Tony Tama. They're two different people. Scratch that about him doing hentai.

[Anonymous No.8831098]

Finished Alundra 2 in my youth, but didn'y get far on a recent gameplay

Does the hero kiss the pink lady at one point?

[Anonymous No.8831117]

>>8829196
It's a shame the music is so shitty

[Anonymous No.8831127]

>>8831056
I'm disappoint ngl

[Anonymous No.8831134]

>>8830960
Ok. You’re still a retarded faggot.

[Anonymous No.8831135]

>>8829234
Gaining new items in a Zelda game is usually an exciting and happy event.
The sword smith in Alundra outright says he gets inspired to make a new weapon whenever someone dies. That is some conflicting emotions.

[Anonymous No.8831147]

>>8831006
Working Designs ruined not only the translations (making dumb shit up, inserting dated commentary, putting meme shit into the main story) and wrecked the gameplay and balance of multiple titles they worked on.
As in there are games they "localized" (that's american for ruined) that require you to grind for over an hour at the start to not get one-shotted by bosses and plays fart sound effects during dramatic main story cutscenes.

[Anonymous No.8831152]

>>8831135
I like it, it's subversive. Overall the game feels like an edgy spiritual successor to Landstalker dropping the less accessible isometric angle

[Anonymous No.8831159]

>>8829196
I'm playing it right now too. I just unlocked the warp system and went back to town.
Everyone keeps talking about a new girl with the same powers as you, but no one will drop a hint on where she is. I swear I've checked every unlocked house in town.

[Anonymous No.8831164]

>>8831152
>spiritual successor to Landstalker
The Nincel and the Chadlundra

[Anonymous No.8831175]

>>8831147
I don't think I've ever heard a fart noise in a WD localisation. Fart jokes, sure. The fairie from Vay, for example, as well as the inventor guy from Lunar, but not sounds. Which games had fart sounds?

[Anonymous No.8831180]

>>8831175
One of the Exiles. I forget if it's the first one or wicked phenomenon.

[Anonymous No.8831225]

>>8831159
Is the fact that shit is so hard to figure out due to the translation, or was it always like that?

[Anonymous No.8831268]

>>8831225
So far it seemed like NPCs would always talk about where to go next (for example, they wouldn't stop talking about the beach until I finished the cave there) and there's a fortune teller that shows you a map on where to go. But oddly enough her door is locked right now.

[Anonymous No.8832794]

OP here. I love Working Designs. Bonaire is a great character who is probably completely forgettable in the jap version.

[Anonymous No.8832853]

>>8831009
>Also, may be in the minority, but I loved Alundra 2.

It's a great game as a kid haven't played it since. I only recently started playing Alundra and it's a bit boring desu.

[Anonymous No.8833039]

>>8831015
You start to get a feel for how the game ought to play after so many play-thrus and normal slimes taking four hits with the starting dagger just makes things feel like more of a slog than it need be.

The biggest offender in the localization isn't so much the puns but how they utterly fucked the puzzle for the fire charm bracelet forcing you to go through thar section of the game without it. They intentionally obfuscated the hint that was otherwise presented and only gave you the solution well after you would ever have any need of the bracelet.

Iirc the manual talks about how they did some rebalancing because they found that enemies took too long to kill. Except they exacerbated the issue by making enemies harder to kill while adding the Legend Blade as the solution. Awful on all fronts. (Just remember that magic is broken whenever you're in a boss fight.)

[Anonymous No.8833262]

>>8829217
Yeah Alundra is basically a dark Zelda.

[Anonymous No.8833263]

>>8833039
And by broken he means overpowered as hell.

[Anonymous No.8833286]

How is the second game? It looks like Brave Fencer: Musashi, which was such a fucking good game that I almost can’t believe it, but I’ve heard from many sources that it’s disappointing overall.

[Anonymous No.8833303]

>>8833286
It's an Alundra game in name only. Doesn't have anything to do with the first game, new story, new characters. The game is also very childish and light-hearted compared to the first one. All around, it's nothing special. It's not a bad game and you can have fun with it. The camera was fucking horrible. Takes some time getting used to.

[Anonymous No.8833323]

https://youtu.be/UMdNJ5gPKNw

[Anonymous No.8833856]

>>8833303
I think the basic Herb healing item being called and looking the same is literally the only reference to the original game besides the title

[Anonymous No.8833975]

>>8831006
I dont mind the few wd games ive got but having someone mention mountain dew in lunar is kinda not cool.

[Anonymous No.8834070]

>>8833286
It's annoying. The camera is at a fixed angle so you're essentially in an isometric view the entire game. You only have eight directions of movement, for your character and camera. There is plenty of platforming so have fun doing it in nearly isometric perspective with only eight directions of movement. If you or an enemy gets hit you have to wait for a long wake up animation. You cannot hit enemies when they are knocked down after an attack and need to wait for them to get back up. The best way to net more damage is to collect puzzle pieces to add more swings to your base attack since if you do your combo attack the enemy will continually get hit until one of the swings whiff or you complete your combo. Boss arenas are fixed camera which is annoying because sometimes threats come off screen due to it. I highly suggest skipping it. It could have been much better if enemies didn't take so long to down, a better camera, and smoother turning movement, but as is just play a different game.

[Anonymous No.8834108]

>>8833286
I didn't like it when I played it as a kid, compared to the original at least. Yet I still completed it and sunk about fourty hours into it. It's actually got some really good stuff going for it and feels more like a one piece video game than the somber melancholy of the original. If you can check your expectations at the door and approach it with an open mindset it has some pretty great dungeons. Camera kinda sucks at times.

Just be sure to play on "EASY" which is actually the NORMAL difficulty mode because Activision decided to pull some shit when localizing it. And yeah, you can totally just play on "NORMAL" (which is effectively HARD mode) but all it does is give enemies more HP and make them hit harder. It needlessly drags fights out to the point where bosses you go through 1-3 more cycles than necessary. Doesn't explicitly make the game harder.

[Anonymous No.8834151]

>>8834108
I wish I knew the difference between easy and normal. I'm at the final dungeon right now and it's really dragging on. I need to defeat Zippo but I had enough for the night. They made such garbage changes to the game. The game was based on simple puzzles and platforming and they made a minor part of the game take away from the meat of it.

[Anonymous No.8834397]

>tfw no Sybill doomer GF

[Brandi R No.8834418]

>>8834108
Never knew that, I played on Normal as a kid and it took me some tries to get past some parts.

[Anonymous No.8834557]

>>8833975
I don't remember Mtn. Dew being mentioned. Was that in the PSX remake? The original mentioned wheaties and Lunar 2 original mentioned GI Joe.

[Anonymous No.8834790]

>>8834108
It's Alundra in name only but a good game. I like the fighting, the sword feels heavy and hits hard, plus the combos are cool. The minigames however are awful, and later on the puzzles get a bit too much.

[Anonymous No.8834873]

>>8834790
Never did beat Alundra 2 but I remember enjoying what I did play. Some of the minigames seemed soul-crushingly difficult with what they expected you to do.

[Anonymous No.8835140]

>>8834557
They thank Mountain Dew in the credits of Alundra.

[Anonymous No.8835161]

>>8835140
Fourth wall breaking during credits is fine. Do whatever the fuck you want with the credits.

[Anonymous No.8835231]

>>8835140
It's been so long since I beat that game (booted it up last year but stopped playing fairly early, at the dream where Alundra and Girlundra have to do stuff together) that I guess I forgot.

[Anonymous No.8835712]

>>8829196
>This is uh wwwwwwwwwow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiHMy6V5Qjc

[Anonymous No.8835719]

>>8835712
Yes, it's been referenced already. >>8829267

[Anonymous No.8835736]

>>8835719
don't care, didn't read the thread, don't bother replying, I won't read that either

[Anonymous No.8835770]

>>8833975
That's hilarious, it would actually make me care about the credits to some extent if they did this more.

[Anonymous No.8836069]

>>8835736
Okay.

>>8835770
I want some current gen game to say "Epstein didn't kill himself" in the credits. Cuz he didn't. Epstein didn't kill himself.

[Anonymous No.8836084]

WD humor is really hit and miss, when it hits it feels cozy like an 90s anime club but when it misses it feels miserable.

[Anonymous No.8836092]

>>8831152
>I like it, it's subversive.

IT BROKE NEW GROUND

[Anonymous No.8836094]

>>8836084
I liked when they referenced Barnes and Barnes.

[Anonymous No.8837782]

>>8835712
>>8835719
Oh so that's what that was. lol sick, Varg is based

[Anonymous No.8837792]

>>8836084
I like them because they are racist. I would not change the Dragon Force localization even if you put a gun to my head.

[Anonymous No.8837823]

>>8834790
I remember reading an interview or a preview when the second game came out and a dev admitted they just named the game Alundra to sell it but it has nothing to do with the first game.

[Anonymous No.8837869]

>>8837823
It begs the question: why didn't they make a true sequel? It wouldn't have required much effort, just say it's the same dude.

[Anonymous No.8838258]

>>8833323
How can anyone say this has bad music?

[Anonymous No.8838304]

>>8829196
Rented this game like 10 times as a kid until I beat it, the holographic cover lured me in. Psx had some great game covers

[Anonymous No.8838767]

>>8838258
The only music I remember from it is the town theme.