#like earthbound and the Mario rpg

[wtfgaylittlezooid]

Going to actually force myself to make a video game.

There are plenty of rpg tutorials on YouTube for Unity, so I’m going to be doing that. Going to be reusing old ideas, since I don’t know how to make Hallows Harvest on Unity and can’t find tutorials to help me.

[akanemnon]

Do you like any other RPGs besides Undertale and Deltarune and do you think thar it's important to vary your game library?

I keep repeating myself, but Final Fantasy 9 is my favorite game of all time. I also enjoy the Mario & Luigi RPGs as well as some of the older Pokemon games (which are also RPGs). I grew up watching my brothers play FF7 and 8 (the soundtracks are ingrained into the deepest crevises of my brain). I also used to play an MMORPG named GuildWars 2, played a bit of Octopath Traveler and Digimon Cybersleuth but never finished them. I do wanna play Earthbound and Mother 3 especially in the future once I get my motivation back.

Other than that I watched plenty of Let's Plays of various RPGs.

I think that especially if you wanna write a story, having plenty of influences will only add to your product.

[ponett]

i’m certain you’ll post your thoughts on the thousand-year door remake, but god isn’t it still crazy that this even happened

It really is wild. I thought for sure we'd just get a GameCube ROM library on the Nintendo Online service before we'd ever get a full-blown remake, and then they went and made this. And only half a year after they did a full remake of ANOTHER famously weird beloved Mario RPG that we never thought would get a remake.

I'll admit I still wish they would put up a GameCube ROM library so that we could (officially) play GameCube games on Switch other than the ones that have been given $60 remakes, but like, I can't complain much when it's a good remake. The art direction is gorgeous. There are lots of nice little quality of life updates, which I don't necessarily think the game needed but are still nice to have. And, of course, yes, the localization finally got updated to acknowledge Vivian is trans. In general it's just a treat

The only thing that I don't completely vibe with is the remixed music. Like, in any other game, I'd say a soundtrack like this whips ass. Origami King's soundtrack sounded similar, and that was great! But I think it leans too hard into epic orchestral rock and recurring leitmotifs and whatnot in a way that the original TTYD soundtrack didn't, and that lessens the game's unique vibe. Lots of tracks have also been extended, presumably to cut down on repetition, but they tend to do this with meandering new bridge sections that just kinda feel like musical filler before getting back to the original tune

Like, listen to this new orchestral rock minor key version of the standard battle theme that plays in Hooktail Castle

On its own merits? Great track! Awesome! And I'm all for JRPGs having more than one standard battle theme. But this is a wildly different vibe from the original, which relied heavily on quirky selections of synths that set it apart from other JRPG soundtracks. It feels like this new mix is overselling how epic it is, and in the process becomes more generic. It's like if you swapped the EarthBound soundtrack out for Bravely Default's. It wouldn't fit! An incredibly rare instance where I'm like "no, the composers really for real did not have to go this hard here"

But also before leaving Rogueport you can buy a 0 BP badge that swaps everything except the wholly new tracks back to the original GameCube versions, so that solves that

[grayve-mistake]

this is just kind of a big tangent but like I fucking hate when nerd ass losers see a game with even vague similarities to another game and go "ERMMM. HOW ORIGINALL (SARCASTIC). THIS IS JUST ANOTHER GAME IN THE STUPID TREND OF-" and then they list every genre/label under the sun to try and discredit the game as unoriginal by comparing it to other games. 90% of the time they haven't even played the game they're complaining about. they just see pixel art and get angry ig.

like look at this image. look at this and tell me it's not just alphabet soup. what do half of these words even mean. congrats on discovering what a genre is I guess?????????? good for you?????? do you want a fuckin award or something???? a little handclap??? shall I pour you a little glass of wine for being oh so smart and sophisticated for figuring out that Things Can Have Little Similarities Sometimes?????? just say that 7 years later you're still bitter that undertale got popular and leave oh my god "quirky dialogue" oh I'm sorry did you want your dialogue boring and soulless yeah let me just remove the personality from the game. here's your Nothing Burger I hope you're happy. "pixel art" oh so i guess like almost every game that came out in the 80s and 90s is actually just part of a so-called "2010s-2020s trend". These people genuinely think earthbound and celeste are "Basically The Same". it's not even an rpg. You had to throw in platformers in your disgusting word smoothie because otherwise you couldn't even find any real similarities besides "has a story and contains pixels". they think the psychological horror game Omori is just Undertale 2. yeah sorry guys Super Fuckin Mario Brothers is part of the quirky rpg metroidvania fjhksdgjhlkfgsdhkfgh-like diarrhea trend. cant play it now or you're cringe and bad. do you people ever get TIIIRRREEDDDDD. DO YOU EVER ENJOY THINGS. ON THEIR OWN MERIT. DO YOU EVEN GIVE THINGS A CHANCE. YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL FOR NOT LIKING THINGS YOU'RE BORING AND ANNOYING AS FUCK. I'm so fucking done

[tmos-time]

Do you think Eridan and Sollux game together? If so what types of games? Co-op or competitive?

On that note it's probably my own brainrot, but I've been thinking Sollux probably enjoys bullet hell games from time to time, like Touhou titles and Savant Ascent for example. (The song Ism (Original Mix) by the artist Savant specifically makes me think of that wet ferret of a nerd.)

OHHH, this is a fun one >:)

so USUALLY when im thinking about them playing video games together, i think of them playing older games; it's typically sollux playing a game like earthbound, original super mario rpg, world of goo, psychonauts, whatever solluxcore game hes gotten his hands on recently, while eridan sits around to watch him play-- which then leads to eridan either wanting to try the game himself or the two swapping to multiplayer mode if the game has it. sometimes they reverse it and eridan picks the game, somehow convincing sollux to sit down to experience more atmospheric games like superliminal, the beginners guide, and the stanley parable (AND its ultra deluxe version AND the demo because eridan is simply deranged about the themes in that game <3)

and sometimes they just find a game with co-op that meshes decently enough with the both of them! they'd probably like portal 2 co-op; im sure rain world co-op would have something for the both of them, even if its biased to sollux lol; they might have fun with katamari damacy and we love katamari's co-op stuff? im sure they'd find more overall entertainment being complete dickheads to each other in we love katamari actually lol

as for sollux liking bullet hells; literally he's an everhood enjoyer to me of course he'd like bullet hells in general alongside rhythm games LMAO. he likes when a game can go fast!!

[serialexperimentsviolet]

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💜💜💜💜hi i'm violet. i'm 18, use she/they pronouns, i'm bi, and i'm a trans woman and non-binary.

i've had tumblr for a while and since instagram is run by a misogynist neo-nazi that looks like he's trying to cosplay as a 15 year old boy, twitter is run by an almost comically evil manchild, and tik tok just did a pr stunt for donald fucking trump, i want to try and distance myself from those apps so i'm gonna try and be active here more instead so it's introduction post time.

music is like my favorite thing ever. one of my hobbies is literally just laying in bed and listening to music. (partly because my adhd + insomniac ass sometimes doesn't have the energy to do anything else.) right now i'm totally obsessed with björk, and one of my most iconic character arcs was when i became extremely hyperfixated on kali uchis in october 2023 and she quickly became my most scrobbled artist on last.fm. (@VioletBlueAlbum if you want to follow me over there. 😳😳😳😳)

Some of my other favorites are beach house, slowdive, duster, sweet trip, charli xcx, my dead girlfriend, sophie, magdalena bay, ethel cain, the cure, parannoul, a tribe called quest, anri, marina, etc. etc. i'm always trying to discover new music so if you want totally feel free to send me recommendations.

i play violin and guitar and try to write and produce my own music, although i'm awful at committing enough to get anything anywhere near finished. if i ever do finish anything maybe i'll share it here.

another main hobby of mine is gaming. i've mainly played rpgs ever since i played undertale and earthbound when i was like 9-10 and they altered my brain chemistry. four years ago i played 13 sentinels aegis: rim and it's been my favorite game of all time ever since. (if you like it let's PLEASE be moots the fandom is so small i need to talk to more people that have played it. 🙏😭)

yet another iconic character arc of mine is falling in love with and being hyperfixated on final fantasy 7, leading me to spending the majority of the past year going through the entire compilation. i'm currently on rebirth and i adore it so far.

some other games/series i'm a fan of are megaten, splatoon, portal, dragon quest, insomniac's spider-man, animal crossing, guilty gear, hades, mario, celeste, (obviously 🏳️‍⚧️) portal, ultrakill, the last of us, the legend of zelda, cave story, omori, sonic, (the few that i've played) class of 09, and astrobot. and while most people have an annual two week minecraft phase, i have an annual two week fortnite phase.

i don't watch a ton of shows and movies but when i do it's usually anime. my favorite of all time is k-on, followed pretty closely by violet evergarden, which i connected to so much that i stole her name. jojo's bizarre adventure, and serial experiments lain have both been huge parts of my branding for years.

other favorites of mine are attack on titan, the disastorous life of saiki k, neon genesis evangelion, kaguya-sama: love is war, monogatari, fooly cooly, dr. stone, clannad, cyberpunk edgerunners, madoka magica, chainsaw man, and goodnight punpun. (i know the last two are manga but i don't read enough to make a whole seperate manga section.)

ok that's all, if you read through that whole snoozefest i really appreciate it i know it got really long. 💜💜💜💜

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[heartbeatbookclub]

What do you think the dokis favorite games are.

Personally, I genuinely think yuri would be into the fear and hunger games. The horror and lore in them just seem like they'd be right up her ally.

I think it's probably easier to assign them genres? I agree that Yuri would like Fear and Hunger tho.

I don't think Monika would be big into video games, and also she sucks at them. She strikes me as a big puzzle game fan. Tetris. She's a tetris wizard. Oh, and the Sims. One day she accidentally burns someone's house down and feels incredibly guilty...but grows progressively more cavalier in her demented actions towards her Sims. The other girls like to push Monika into different games, to varying effect. She's a real sucker for games like Undertale, though.

Sayori's favorite game is Minecraft. She'd probably like games that are slower paced and easy to understand. She's the type to abandon the tutorial and say "I wanna play a game, not read a book!" then shamefully trot back to the tutorial 10 minutes later after dying 30 times in a row. She also kinda sucks at games, but can be surprisingly competitive. She'll kick your ass at Mario Kart.

Yuri is big into RPGs. Every one of those quirky Earthbound inspired RPGs, she's played, and will gush about at length if you let her. She played through a bunch of old JRPGs too, but don't let Natsuki hear that...She gets into a game for its story, typically, and she also is kinda bad at anything more gameplay oriented (Like Hades) but she will keep trying to the point of heavy frustration because she wants more of that story content (Like Hades). She probably used one of those free trial versions of RPGmaker to try and make her own RPG (or one based on a book series).

Natsuki probably has the most varied tastes. She's big into shooters, probably plays a few battle royales and is somewhat toxic (typically as a joke). She's probably the biggest gamer and the most skilled out of the lot. And, consequently, the most competitive. She probably played a bunch of fucked up flash games as a kid. And, predictably, also a bunch of visual novels & JRPGs (don't tell anyone, but I think she mightve even played a few dating sims....)

Sayori gets them all into Minecraft. Natsuki thinks the idea's kinda dumb but gets really into building a cute little house. Monika dies like 12 times on the first night and hides in a hole. Afterwards Sayori helps her learn the ropes and they build a house together. She puts her bed next to Monika's. Monika is clueless. Yuri is quietly mining the entire time and occasionally types in chat rather than using VC.

Thanks for the ask, anon!

[slugdragoon]

RPG Role Analysis Series #15 - Mother 2/Earthbound

Mother 1 analysis here

Ness - Ness' stats are a little bit different than Ninten, opting instead of perfectly balanced stat growth to give him the stats of a secondary damage-dealer role as the character with the best Offense next to Poo, but also the best ability to get critical (SMAAASH!!) hits. That's actually the same as Ninten, but Ninten got it by default by having a base stat total so much higher than Ana and Lloyd that "balanced" was really strong. Ness also has a higher base stat total, but the gap is closer here and Ness's stats actually have an emphasis on critical physical hits, and if anything, is a bit slow compared to Ana and Poo, so it feels like more of a choice here.

However, when looking at Ness's PSI ability list, he's also a flavour of support PSI user, much like Ninten. Ness has HP-healing moves, both more of them and faster than Poo, but gets status-healing abilities later and can't guarantee revival of party members to full health (but has a 75% change to do it to half-health). Ness can also do single target shields. His signature offensive ability is a multi-target, no-element wave of PSI that might decrease enemies' resistance to PSI attacks. Ness is the only character to be able to put enemies to sleep or paralyze them, or use PK Flash which does a random detrimental effect (status and instant death among them). This is a major change from Ninten who gets no offensive PSI at all (but who could still hit really hard). I think Ness, even more than Ninten is an all-rounder. He really can do everything just a bit worse than the best. Maybe a little more luck-based, too, given his gamble on revival, gamble on PK Flash, gamble on criticals instead of consistent high damage like Poo. Effects like PK Flash, Hocus Pocus (Dragon Quest), and Metronome (Pokemon) always make me think of a wild mage, but Ness is deep into healing too. A wild cleric maybe?

Paula - So I realized my memory was faulty, because although Ness, Paula and Jeff are very clearly modeled after Ninten, Ana, and Lloyd, Paula isn't much like Ana mechanically at all. Paula has the same emphasis on being the party's PSI whiz kid with the highest IQ, like Ana, but notably uses it entirely for combat. She's fast too, but isn't using her Speed to go first as a healer and stabilize the party. Paula uses Fire, Freeze, and Thunder to attack her enemies, and she's kind of a glass canon with miserable defensive stats. She can also drain PSI from enemies, buff your Offense and Decrease enemies' Defense, all of which are pretty aggressive abilities. The support skill she does get is a PSI nullifying or reflecting shield, depending on the rank, like any good dueling wizard. No status effects though, which always makes me think more battlemage than black mage. The exception to her lack of healing and her inability to deal status effects are the random results of her Pray ability, which really can't be described in any other way than a wild magic effect that covers many scenarios, a small fraction of the time, randomly.

Jeff - Jeff get the exclusive ability to Spy, which give you information on the enemies' Offense and Defense, a PSI weakness, and any items they might drop, which allows you to take them after battle. I wouldn't say the looting ability suggests thief at all for Jeff, as you can't take the item and run, and I think that distinction makes the difference, but the other side of Spy is much like Goombario or Goombella from the Paper Mario series. In terms of using items to attack, Jeff is a lot like Lloyd from the first game, but with a larger set of items. Unlike Lloid, some of them have no chance to break after use, so become his defacto attacks, and he's less about inventory management, despite still using Bottle rockets. Jeff's tools also can drain HP and debuff and remove shield from everyone, including the party. That last one, plus the inherent HP-splitting effect of draining moved makes Jeff a character than levels the playing field, in theory. Reset buffs when they get out of hand, and in terms of HP, take from the rich to give to the poor. OK, so maybe he is a thief of a different kind, but I would overall call Jeff a tactical scholar/scout type who can read enemy weaknesses and choose the best moment to strike with, often limited use items, but in the meantime keeps the party from getting in a bad tactical position.

Poo - You would think Poo, a martial artist, would be a lot like the remaining character from Mother 1, Teddy who was a huge physical damage dealer, and Poo can hit the hardest of anyone in Earthbound, but he can also use PSI this time. Poo is the best at fixing status effects and reviving party members, though a bit slower at learning HP-healing abilities than Ness, and he gets multi-target PSI Shield while Ness can only apply it one party member at a time. The difference between the usefulness of this is even greater in a game with 4 party members instead of 3. Poo can also confuse enemies, guarantee fleeing from battle, and drain PP, and attack with PSI, but his damage output won't be as good as Paula's until he gets PK Starstorm. Poo has the Mirror ability to copy a move from an enemy for one turn. Honestly I don't think that one is very notable, but it's like a magical counter ability, fitting for a martial artist. I feel like it's common to see monks get status-healing in JRPGs, like Chakra in Final Fantasy, and everything else about Poo's design says monk, plus they sometimes get confusion as a physical ability like dazzling them with your fast strikes, and Poo is the fastest. However, mass-party shielding and full revival is so strong that he has strong protection cleric energy as well.

[somethingsomethingeden]

Heyo, I noticed you wanted game requests so I'll be the first one to ask!

The game is called....

BLOCKTALES

Very cool game if I'm gonna be honest. I love it a lot. It's an RPG turn based game like the Earthbound series and Paper Mario!

Hope to see your ratings on it!

《I've honestly never seen a game set up like this one. It has pretty funny dialogue, wasnt sure what was going on most of the time but it did entertain me》

《Story/Plot - 6/10》

《Action - 5/10 I GOT BORED》

《Dialogue - 10/10》

《Creativity - 8/10》

《Some moments that made me exhale quickly out of my nose》

[andy-spurs]

I need some game recommendations. my favorite is night in the woods but I also like games like hyper light drifter, katana zero, smile for me, earthbound, the mario rpgs, nonary games, ace attorney, yttd, and eastward. the game I am most anticipating rn is knuckle sandwich. please help me please PLEASE

[gaysheep]

now my experiences might not be universal but as far as im concerned you asked far fewer questions about video games when you were a kid. the first time you encountered waluigi in mario tennis or mario party or whatever other mario spinoff you encountered him in for the first time because they only put him in spinoffs you didnt say "who's this goofster stomping around like he's a member of the crew?" you said oh ok that's waluigi i guess.

super smash bros melee the crossover fighting game starring all your favorite nintendo characters (well pikachu was second party but thats pikachu everyone knows who pikachu is) had a whole three characters who nobody in north america knew who the fuck they were, two of which were from games that weren't localized at all and one of which was from a game that was enough of a commercial failure in the united states hardly anyone remembered it a little under a decade later. now to be fair ness was in the one on the n64 also but its not like he'd gotten another game. "oh earthbound's failure was overexaggerated" you say that but my brother lived the super nintendo era and not a single one of his gaggle of friends had even heard of earthbound it was not on anyone's radar come on. but no one said "hey these aren't iconic nintendo characters" we all went "well i guess they can be here too" and now we say "you cant main a smash character if you havent played their game" like we werent saying "thats marth i dont know who the fuck he is but hes like a brother to me" in 2001

youd just go into the store and look at a game's boxart and decide you wanted that one and yknow what it usually worked out for you. i did this longer than you'd expect too i was in 7th or 8th grade and thought to myself "yknow i havent really played any console rpgs lately" so i looked up "rpgs for the wii" and i saw a gamefaqs rec thread or some shit where a guy went "well xenoblade is coming out." and i looked up xenoblade and found virtually no information about it other than that it was coming out and thought to myself "yeah xenoblade... that looks like an rpg i could get into." and you know what i did? i preordered it this may very well have been the first game i ever preordered i thought "well they were talking about it on gamefaqs so it must be a big deal i wanna make sure i can play it day 1" but i didnt need to reserve a copy of fucking xenoblade chronicles the store probably could have given me every copy in stock for no profit loss when i walked in there with my gir t shirt and my little receipt because i was one of all three and a half people in north america who played this game counting the gamefaqs guy. and xenoblade chronicles knocked me flat on my ass it was one of the best games i'd ever experienced i'd played plenty of story heavy rpgs before but this one hooked me in a way none of them ever had.

fast forward around 4 years the 4th smash game comes out but this one was different. this was when we really started to go in on the crossover fighters, character slots were now real estate that potential entrants had to earn the right to occupy as if one game ago they didnt make a failed NES peripheral a playable fighter and give it an emotional subplot in subspace emissary. no longer was it "cool i guess this guy is here" it had become "who the hell is this and what do they think they're doing in smash bros?"

and thus came that fateful night when amidst crazy new character reveals like the fucking wii fit trainer they unveil a cinematic trailer and announce that shulk from xenoblade chronicles was joining the fight. to which the unilateral reaction was "who the fuck is shulk why was this trailer framed like we already have a rapport with shulk i dont know this man why does he say stuff like 'im really feeling it?'"

but i knew who shulk was.

[blackknightax]

Research slows me down. I Don’t know any of the remaining franchises very well so i gotta look into them. We had Mother’s Day not to long ago so let’s do the mother franchise. So, Ness and Lucas represent this franchise and… I admit, to me, they’re just smash bros characters. I know there are several big people in the video game fandoms that LOVE this series, mostly Earthbound, or rather, Mother 2. I can name 3 but I’ll only mention 2, this being Youtube’s Stephen Georg, and the creator of Undertale Toby Fox. So people are VERY passionate about this franchise. Easily one of the most vocal fandoms I know of, not usually in a toxic way that I know of. But I’m not an RPG guy so i don’t go out of my way to play this franchise, it doesn’t help that only one of them released in the west for a very long time being Mother 2 which released as Earthbound. So that being said, let’s get to the topic at hand!

We are meant to choose, well, I am meant to choose another character from this franchise to add to smash. So, let’s do that. Automatically, I do not want a PSI user and i can scratch off characters like Kumatora and Paula, this is because most of Lucas and Ness’s moves, actually come from these girls. I’m gonna go off topic and say that I do not play Lucas or Ness, I don’t like using PK thunder to recover, I don’t like PK flash or PK freeze, I like PSI magnet in theory but never think to use it when I play them, I’ll be the one to admit, I don’t play them, because I am not good at them, not that I’m good at smash at all, but I’m Awful with these Mother Series characters, as both of them I just use PK fire spam and hope of the best. So all that to say, I want a non PSI character for this. For this purpose I’ve chosen…

Duster from Mother 3. I’ve chosen this character due primarily to how fundamentally different from Lucas and Ness he will be. I admit I almost chose Porky Minch but, much as I love Porky’s theme that was used in Brawl, I think playing as that, would be so strange. Also this character feels more interesting anyhow. In game Duster is a bit of thief character and he outright uses thieves tools as weapons in combat. Also apparently this character walks with a limp but he’s still one of the faster party members. So let’s make a move set, shall we?

For his Neutral B he will use the siren beetle, he will release it as a projectile rather than throw it. When hit by the siren Bettie, the enemy will be forced to turn around, like Mario’s cape swing but as a projectile.

For his Up B he will use smoke bomb, mostly because there isn’t a much better option. When using smoke bomb he will teleport a distance after disappearing. Think Shiek’s Up b since i can’t imagine it would work any differently.

For his Side B he will use wall staples. He will dash forward holding them, if he collides with an enemy he will place the staples on them causing a short stun for follow up attacks. If the collides with a wall while using this (like the side of the stage) he climb up till he reaches the ledge.

For his Down B he will use scary mask. He will put it on and do some kind of scary pose, causing a short flinch and reducing attack damage very briefly but also does massive shield damage.

All in all, I think Duster would a good character to use for this series, he would be a great character simply to be different from Ness or Lucas. I thought about wall staples as Up B but that felt strange. I don’t know much about Mother 3 and especially Duster as a character who all I’ve done is simply thinking about it from a gameplay perspective, and nothing else. I hope the next ones will be faster. I have most of my characters chosen. Just not Kingdom hearts or Xenoblade because, Xenoblade has been oddly difficult to research…

[squwooshk]

I like RPGs, some of my favorite games are RPGs. I love strategic turn based combat. When it's interesting. The Mario RPG games (Mario RPG, Paper Mario, Mario & Luigi) do this well. The combat is very simple, but the dodging systems and badge systems and the perfect amount of complexity and interactivity that it's still fun and engaging. Undertale and Deltarune also do this really well (especially Deltarune) they combine the turn based strategy of an RPG with an amazing bullet hell dodging system and a attack timing system. Brutal Orchestra is another fantastic RPG, the strategy inherent to the battlefield system in combination with pigment management creates an incredibly engaging and fun turn based battle system. However, I sometimes have a hard time calling my self and RPG fan. Earthbound is a well written game, but it took me a bit to get into it because it is way too simple in early game, and there's a lot of grinding. I like Pokémon a bit, especially Black and White, but the grinding also brings that one down for me. RPGs are at their best when they emphasize strategic combat or combat that engages in another way, and minimizes grinding

[rose-learns-japanese]

Japanese Video Games and Your Consoles

Hello! This post is for people that want to play video games in Japanese and want to know which consoles play them, so I'll go through the ones I know about, here. (Not going to talk about sailing the high seas here)

I've been mostly a Nintendo nut my whole life, so most of my info is about Nintendo!

Hopefully this helps someone!

Gameboy Color/Advance

Region Free

The Gameboy, Gameboy color and Gameboy Advance are all completely region free. Your Gameboy models will all play Japanese games just fine.

I recommend:

Pokemon Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Crystal, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald

Pokemon card game and the sequel GR���参上

The Legend of Zelda the Minish Cap, Oracle of Ages, Oracle of Seasons

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Super Nintendo

Region Locked, simple devices available

The Nintendo and Super Nintendo were both region locked by the cartridges themselves being of a different shape. You can either buy a Super Famicom (The Japanese equivalent) or buy a peripheral to make your Super Nintendo play super Famicom games. It's not too cost prohibitive to buy what's called a "Cartridge converter". Another option is to buy a Retron system that plays them.

I recommend:

Mario RPG

Final Fantasy

Earthbound

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N64

Region locked, easy modification

N64 is region locked based on the shape of the cartridge back. To get your Japanese games to work on yours, switch the back off of the actual cartridge using a 3.8 mm Gamebit screwdriver with the back from any other US cartridge.

I recommend:

Mario Story (Paper Mario)

Mario Party

Pokemon Snap

Legend of Zelda games

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Gamecube

Region locked

Buy a Gamecube capable Japanese Wii.

I recommend:

Pokemon Coliseum

Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness

All the Mario Parties

Fire Emblem Path of Radiance if you can get it (EXPENSIVE)

Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess

Legend of Zelda Windwaker

Battle Houshin

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Wii

Region locked

I bought a Japanese Wii, but skipped the WiiU in Japanese.

I would recommend:

Captain Rainbow (Japan Exclusive)

Takt of Magic (This one is FUN! It's Japan exclusive and you use your WiiMote to cast spells by drawing shapes)

Earth Seeker (Japan Exclusive)

Legend of Zelda (Skyward Sword)

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DS

Region Free

The DS is completely region free. Any DS game will play on your device.

My recommendations:

Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass/Spirit Tracks (You can hold your stylus on a kanji to read it in Hiragana, but it won't show by default! Awesome!)

Any Pokemon Game (You can choose Kanji or hiragana and switch mid-game)

Ace Attorney series - If you want to struggle but skyrocket your reading level, play Ace Attorney, called 逆転裁判. There are a lot of games and they're mostly great. If you can get ahold of the spin off, 逆転検事, I played through the first one and it was a bit slow, but the second one is not released in the US. I've started it, it's supposed to be good.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days

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3DS

Region locked

Having a Japanese 3DS has been an invaluable tool. If you save up to buy one Japanese version of a console, get this one. However, with the e-shop closed, if you would rather sail the high seas here, this would be... The prime time to do so, but I did not say anything.

Recommended:

Fire Emblem Fates

Fire Emblem Echoes

Pokemon Moon

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

Sonic games

Bravely Default (Fully Voice acted)

There is SO MUCH on there

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Nintendo Switch

Region Free

The Nintendo Switch will play any region game you put in it! On top of that, the Japanese language track is available on most Nintendo branded games, so if you have the English version, you might already have the Japanese version!

To buy on the e-shop, make a Japanese Nintendo account. You will need to buy gift cards from a third party site like Playasia to purchase.

Recommended:

Get the online pack, then download the Japanese version of the N64 and Super Nintendo apps! I recommend Paper Mario on the N64 app.

Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom (Has Furigana on all dialogue!)

Mario Odyssey

Princess Peach Showtime

Mario RPG

Luigi's Mansion 3

Pretty much anything you can play on Switch can change to Japanese. (Splatoon not included)

This thing is a learning machine.

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PSP

Region Free

PSP is completely region free!

I have played Birth by Sleep on here in Japanese and it was good.

Recommended:

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

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PS1/PS2

Region Locked

There's a trick to make these region free, but I bought a Japanese Ps2. If you want to unlock your non-Japanese Ps2, you can look into something called Disk Swapping.

My recommendations:

Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2

I haven't explored much by way of Japanese only Ps2 games yet, but I'm going to be getting Endonesia because it's made by some of the same people that made Moon. Look into Moon, it's an awesome game too.

I am aware that the Japanese only library for this particular console is large.

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PS3/PS4 (I do not own PS5)

Region Free

PS3 and PS4 are region free, and I have heard PS5 is as well.

My collection of Japanese games for these, however, is low so I don't really have any recommended games. Maybe I'll update this later.

To buy on the Japanese PS3 and 4 shop, you will need to make a Japanese playstation account. After this, you will need to use a third party website to buy gift cards, such as PlayAsia, to add money. You should be able to buy and download as long as you have the money in the account.

[guest0666]

Got any good Roblox games ?

I'm looking preferably for ones I can play with friends and co-op !!

CAME TO THE RIGHT PLACE MY FRIEND! rubs hands together.

So there are 3 games I'll recommend!! They are very different in contrast but I gen recommend each of them...

Pressure is a horror game similar to a much more popular game Doors where you go through a variety of rooms to seek out a crystal. Now what sets this game apart from Doors is the aesthetic, lore, and in general more love for the game in general. You can play with 8+ players with the standard 4 to single player with a variety of anomalies to worry about. There is also a guy voiced by Giovanni! You know the ultrakill guy who voices Gabriel? That guy. Also the game is based off of Ultrakill and SCP as well! Highly recommended

However if you do NOT like horror games... Let me steer you towards a game that I've been getting more fixated on

BlockTales is a RPG game inspired by games such as Paper Mario and EarthBound as well as Classic Roblox from the early 2010s! You play as yourself going through the various locations to collect the SFOTH swords to save Builderman! Currently only Demo 2 is out with Ice Dagger and Venomshank respectfully in their own locations. But I personally love the game for the genuine thought and care put into it! So many different items are based on old roblox gears as well as different enemies too! I personally like one of the bosses but I won't spoil that for ya :3. You can only play with 4 in a party but you still can play with multiple people beyond that!!

Now let's say you are more of a chaotic guy... You like more or less high paced games. I've got a game for you!

Phighting is a game similar to the likes of Splatoon, Overwatch, and TF2 with the variety of classes to choose from! There will be 10 final "phighters" but in general the game is SUPER FUN TO PLAY!! You have Melee, Ranged, and Support with each character allowing the 5v5s to always be a unique experience. I personally like being Subspace, Banhammer, Sword, and Rocket but!!! All in all its very fun. Recently they finished a phrenzy for the new plush they came out with!!! So I recommend checking it out when you can!!

[gekken]

Tried writing a post with my thoughts about the current state of turn based combat in JRPG style games, how it's stagnated if not regressed, but it was very quickly just going to turn into me whining about Atlus, and I don't want to just whine about Atlus. Flashy and stylish animations from pressing one button do less than nothing for me, especially since I feel like they tend to just make fights take longer. I mainly just wish there was more experimentation in combat systems beyond "add Paper Mario type reactions" and for ATB to come back into fashion. I think it's a shame that there are notable indie rpgs like Undertale/Deltarune, LISA, and even YIIK that have very different combat systems from standard, and despite that, other indie rpgs just go for Earthbound with basically none of the nuance.