Hi, everyone! It's time for another Together Retro category poll! You can vote twice, but you can't change your votes, and this will run until the 25th of February (my time, so it might be pretty early in the morning on the 25th for some of us ^^;). Happy voting~
Fit for a King
It's good to be the king. It's good to be the village elder. It's good to be the leader of the cosmos! And presumably it's good to be everything in between those things. This is a category all about exploring games where you play as a leader of a kingdom, nation, tribe, or whatever. There are a lot of games about BECOMING a ruler, but the big rule for this category is that you need to play as a ruler for SOME part of the game. It doesn't need to be the entire game, and you can even be a deposed ruler trying to get back into power, but you need to be playing as the ruler for some period for it to count here.
Possible Entries
- Kings Quest series
- Bokosuka Wars
- Katamari Damacy series
Final What? Dragon Who?
Everyone knows Square Enix has their two big franchises: Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. But what about the lesser appreciated names that Squenix has brought into the world, even before their merger? This category is all about diving into RPGs from Square, Enix, or Square Enix that fall outside of the realm of their two biggest franchises. While this DOES mean that spin-offs aren't allowed (no Dragon Quest Monsters), what is allowed are things like Final Fantasy Adventure or Final Fantasy Legends, where they weren't REALLY a part of the series, and they just had their titles changed to make them sell better in the West.
Possible Entries
- SaGa series
- Seiken Densetsu series
- Star Ocean
- Valkyrie Profile
Japan Studio. Yes, THAT One!
"Japan Studio" is a weird name, to be sure, but it's been one of Sony's golden boys for quite a long time! This is a category all about taking a look at games developed by the first party Sony developer. Finding exactly what games they personally made is a bit of a pain in the butt (their Wikipedia page lists EVERY game that Sony Computer Entertainment has ever worked on or published in any respect as if they're all Japan Studio games), I'm personally going off of their Japanese Wikipedia page (which is easily toggled into English), as it seems to be much better compiled.
Possible Entries
- Ape Escape Series
- Legend of Dragoon
- Loco Roco series
- Patapon series
- Team ICO games
- Puppeteer
One Hit (?) Wonders
Not every game gets to be a franchise. Even for big publishers and developers, some games don't even find enough success to get so much as a single sequel. This category is all about appreciating those games that, despite being from big publishers/developers, have no choice but to stand on their own in the halls of gaming history because they're the only entry in their franchise. As the title of the category sorta implies, the quality of the game is actually pretty unimportant here. All that matters is that it's the only entry in its series (has no sequels, prequels, spinoffs, etc., but games with spiritual sequels are okay) and that they were either published or developed by a big company. I'm talkin' household names like your Nintendos, your SEGAs, your Capcoms, your Microsofts. Companies you would expect likely develop things with the intent of making more, but that "more" just never materializes.
Possible Entries
- Nintendo regional exclusives/flops (Disaster Day of Crisis, Cubeivore, Doshin the Giant, etc.)
- Treasure's Genesis games (basically all published by SEGA)
- Capcom and Konami's PS1/PS2 output (there's a lot of weird stuff there)