Super excited to be hosting another Together Retro
The voting was really close, but One Hit(?) Wonders eventually won out. This month is all about celebrating and looking into not just games but series that only ever had one shot at life. These are games that are the only entry in their franchise. That means no sequels, prequels, or even puzzle game spin-offs (however, very importantly, ports are totally okay). Whether it was due to the financial situation at the company, the intended lifecycle of the product, or simply poor sales performance, these were all the fruit that these could-be franchises ever bore, so let's give them a look and take a look at why they may've been abandoned~
My suggested titles from the voting thread were:
- 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)
And AJ & Prfsnl were kind enough to make several more detailed suggestion lists in the voting thread. Thanks a bunch, guys
For me, I'm gonna be playing Onion Games's "moon RPG" that got ported to English (finally) on Switch for the first time last year~. A very preferable alternative to shelling out like 6000+ yen for the Japan-exclusive PS1 original ^^;
Happy gaming, everybody~