ninjainspandex wrote: also i just burnt a copy of keio flying squadron 2 and i must say this is one underated gem, its pretty cutesy but a very solid platform and has some horizontal shooting stages i sent an email to my man rancor in japan to see if he could find me a copy, i highly reccomend it.
I should be receiving my Keio Flying Squadron 2 in the mail today, yay.
Rancor is a friend of mine. Is he on this forum under a different name? I've never ran across any posts of his here.
pakopako wrote:Also, greg, no Cotton: Boomerang? And the aforementioned Bulk Slash, Groove on Fight, et al?
Sentimental Graffiti is NOT import friendly if you don't know/memorize the TokiMemo-style menus. (And in that same vein, TokiMemi: FwY -- at least the Sakura Taisen titles have very detailed walkthroughs.)
The list is of games that my friends and I pooled together from our own collections. Actually, my friend does have Cotton Boomerang, but I think I forgot to borrow that one from him. I will check my computer at home to see if I had recorded footage of that game, but I don't remember doing so. I do have Cotton 2, at least. He also has some sealed new games that he refuses to open up and enjoy. He has no intention of selling them, yet he still won't open them. He had a few other titles that were actually pretty boring. A bunch of El Hazard image discs and such that I really couldn't get into. His Pretty Samy text adventure game was cute, so I included it.
I guess the list I posted is somewhat off-topic, because it does list a few games that are 1. shmups, and 2. not-so-playable for the Japanese language-impaired. It's not a "100 import Saturn games you ought to own" project; just a "100 games we didn't get in North America for one reason or other that are worth checking out if they interest you." Perhaps most people on Racketboy don't care much for text-adventure/simulation games such as Tokimeki Memorial or visual novels like Yumimi Mix Remix. However, there are people out there who dig these. The list also contains Japanese-langauge RPGs like Slayers, Lunar, and Grandia that won't be of much use for those who can't read any Japanese at all.
Last year when I made the 100 PC Engine Games in 10 minutes" vid, some people reacted negatively and said, "Why didn't you include <game X>? It's my favorte PCE game evarrrrrr!1111" Well, 100 games is quite a lot of ground to cover, and it's necessary to pool together resources from friends and use what you have available (and what you can afford to buy). I had Groove on Fight once upon a time, and I couldn't get into it much. I rather preferred Gouketsuji 2, actually. I might get it again someday; I dunno. I've never heard of Bulk Slash until reading this thread. I will have to check it out.
