Popful mail (Sega CD)

[Anonymous No.9742432]

Finally got around to playing Popful Mail (my 2nd Sega CD game after Snatcher). This is also the 'un-working design patched version' that was recomended by many.
Took me about 10hours to complete.

Game also seems fairly unique for the era (especially with the voice acting and cutscenes)

Overall I liked the game a lot, but it's quite easy. Even the last boss gave not much of a challenge.
Early game was much harder as you don't have your buddies yet and no ranged attack.
Without having played the US difficulty I can understand why it was ramped up.

Maybe controversional but I enjoyed the translation and English voice acting, lot's of nonsense and fits the game well, e.g Arnold:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6WudT-bctM

[Anonymous No.9742719]

Should've played the unpatched version. Un-Worked Designs patches are just casualization with a fancy name.

[Anonymous No.9742991]

>>9742719
Based! Fuck these hipster tryhards

[Anonymous No.9742998]

>>9742719
>>9742991
Vic, this is pathetic.

[Anonymous No.9743013]

>>9742998
The patches don't address the main issue people have with Working Designs: the translations. And OP said the patch made Popful Mail too easy.

[Anonymous No.9743159]

>>9743013
>The patches don't address the main issue people have with Working Designs: the translations.
They address equally important issues like fucking with the difficulty and breaking the game (i.e. Exile II). I wish they were retranslated too but at least they play correctly more or less.
>And OP said the patch made Popful Mail too easy.
OP played them as they were originally made, good for him.

There's no rebuttal to this btw, Ireland and everything he did was retarded. His legacy will always be that of a fanboy who thinks he's above the games he was licensed.

[Anonymous No.9743985]

>On Exile 2 it was an issue of limited number of modifications because we weren't doing the game reprogramming, Telenet was. It was a small number of tries. And on the second-to last time, we had it *almost* right, so we added like +1 to the monsters, but it was like that scene with the fat guy in Meaning of Life where the waiter gives him that one wafer and he explodes. That +1 exceeded some limit internally and made the monsters exponentially harder rather than incrementally. Since it was our last "fix" and we had production discs, I thought we were screwed and had made an unwinnable game. Fortunately, with some time and special strategies, we found out you could finish it. We made one of the hardest games ever - by accident.

Why is Vic such a liar?

[Anonymous No.9744578]

>>9743159
Also paying to save in Eternal Blue? Like what?
Popful Mail is goofy to begin with, so all the weird translations and such fit the game. But seeing weird shit in the Lunar games for instance where they say something along the lines of "if I had a creditcard I could open this door"

On another note, are there any other games like Popful Mail?
All I can think of are the two Genesis wonderboy games.

[Anonymous No.9744687]

>>9742432
Now play the superior regular WD version, ViCHADtor Ireland did nothing wrong.

[Anonymous No.9744694]

>>9744687
>ViCHADtor

[Anonymous No.9744735]

>any other games like Popful Mail?
Ys III: Wanderers from Ys
Faxanadu
Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon
Link: The Faces of Evil
Zeliard

[Anonymous No.9744775]

I don't understand the hate for Working Designs. Their changes to the original versions are all for the better in my experience.

[Anonymous No.9744782]

>>9744735
>Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon
>Link: The Faces of Evil

Wut

[Anonymous No.9744815]

>>9744578
>On another note, are there any other games like Popful Mail?
Super Adventure Island II.
>All I can think of are the two Genesis wonderboy games.
Try Dragon's Curse (PCE).

[Anonymous No.9745095]

>>9744578
Cadash
Zelda 2

[Anonymous No.9745103]

>>9744735
>Link: The Faces of Evil
So The Adventures of Link and it's spiritual successors. Got it.

[Anonymous No.9746860]

>>9742432
i always wanted to try the PCE version of popful mail

its more similar to the computer versions but it has some extra levels that even the sega cd doesnt have

[Anonymous No.9746902]

>>9746860
But doesn't that one play poorly? Same with snes version which looks nice but poor gameplay from what I understood

[Anonymous No.9747134]

>>9742719
Nah, inflated health and weakened for difficulty is crappy balancing

[Anonymous No.9747146]

>>9746902
No, the PCE version is the best version I played, I liked it better then the Sega CD version. It's not janky like the SNES version, it's rock solid design, slower gameplay then the Sega-CD version but still fun and proper difficulty. Falcom had great gameplay with the PC98 version, but it's held back by hardware, the PCE version fixes that.
If you liked the Sega-CD version of Popful Mail, I highly recommend trying the PC engine version, even if you don't read Japanese, try and power through it.

[Anonymous No.9747308]

>>9742719
From what I remember, the only changes they made to Popful Mail is giving the enemies more health. Damage sponges don’t make a game more challenging, just more tedious.

[Anonymous No.9747315]

>>9742432
i refuse to play any romhacks of anykind
i will only play the japanese original release or usa retail release

i dont care if working designs fills the entire game up with dick jokes i am playing the fucking original, whatever the flaws may be

anything else is faggy

[Anonymous No.9747380]

>>9747308
No, enemies also got an attack boost. Some of them 2x-3x greater then the Jap version.
They also increased shop prices.
And decreased invincibility time after getting hit.

The decreased invuln time is the most frustrating.

[Anonymous No.9747643]

>>9747315
>I refuse to play romhack
>I will play the official romhack though

[Anonymous No.9747657]

>>9747380
Sounds like it's a lot more grindy? Is it still fun overall?

[Anonymous No.9747808]

>>9747315
Based
>>9747643
Yes