Message-ID: <33E23063.F0D9E864@uhavax.hartford.edu> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 14:52:19 -0400 From: Craig Noyes To: megami@usagi.jrd.dec.com Subject: Re: Sakura Taisen? Reply-To: megami SHIMIZU KENJI wrote: > On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Lord Raphael von Matsch wrote: > > > I've often heard you speak about "Sakura Taisen". All the knowledge > I've > > gained about it is that it's a video game and Fujishima-sensei made > the > > chara design for it. But... What kind of game is it? > > SHAME ON YOU!!! (You must buy it (Sakura Taisen)!!! along with Tales > of > Phantasia, for the Super Famicon...) I bought a Sega Saturn, JUST TO > PLAY > Sakura Taisen! (It's that good! It's good enough to make you "wna to > pay > about 30000yen (about $290US or so) just for a game. ^o^) > Just out of curiosity, would I have to buy the Japanese Saturn to play it? (I've always wanted to ever since I found this really neat web page on it.) > > I myself own a PC, a Super Famicom and a Sega Saturn and I'm a great > fan of > > RPGs, especially Japanese ones like Final Fantasy and anything by > Square. > > Forget Final Fantasy... it all polygon... (unless you lov polygon > over > 2-D Gals... (I never liked polygon gals... ^_^;) > > > But I know that *sigh* a lot of interesting Japanese games are never > > > translated into English, and also Japanese computers use different > OSs than > > Western ones, etc. ;_; Is Sakura Taisen an RPG, or other sort of > adventure > > (plot based) game? > > It's a Bishojo-Roman, action-romance, adventure RPG simluation, with > mini-games....... (everything... it's a new kind of game. That's why > most > games looked like Sh*t after I played Sakura taisen... (a very > dangerous > game... I thin I played it and cleared it more than 12 times... who in > > the world would play RPG 12 times??? (well, I know that most people > played at least 6 times ^_^;) > Heh heh, sounds like you haven't met a couple of my friends who are avid Lunar fans. (I love this game) > > What I like the most in Japanese games is the attention > > they pay to their story and plot, while Western games are often > based on > > just action and display of superior technical features, with plots > like > > "save Earth from the Nth invasion from outer space". BLAAAAAH! ;_; > > .....^_^; Sakura Taisen might be a bit similar to that ^_^;;; (but a > VERY GOOD PLOT... the Staff is incredible!) (I've got that song stuck > in > my head again... "Hasre, Kousokuno, Teikoku Kagekidan---......" ^_^; > > > But the surprising thing is that RPGs seem to be best-sellers in the > Rising > > Sun Islands! (here in Italy, it's hard to meet someone who knows > what the > > term "RPG" means T_T) > > What was that strange show again?... Non Elai ra??? or somehting like > > that??? (Italian version of Onyanko club...) all they need now are > lots > of Otaku games ^_^; > > Kenji Shimizu > > PS. Someone, please tell this guy how wonderful Sakura Taisen is, and > that he should get the game, no matter what the cost ^_^;