#sorcery saga

[puyopuyoconfessions]

Whoever was in charge of writing Schezo's personality in Madou Saturn, I'd like to have a talk with them *cracks knuckles threateningly*

Wait what did they do wrong in the writing sorry haven’t played that game yet.

[modmamono]

Blue Demon Story

A Madou Monogatari/Sorcery Saga side-story.

Follows up directly from Madou Monogatari 1 in MSX2.

[evajellion]

So… Madou 4… or Fia rather?

On one hand, I'm happy at least the non-human characters are coming back! They were my favs! It might be good to breathe new air into the Madou world with a new protagonist.

Skeleton-T as a teacher/staff member? Pog. That's a cute development for him! Seems all the returning characters (that SEGA allowed to relinquish) are staff members. And I love the non-humans so that's a W for me.

On the other hand, not telling fans that the OG main cast was not returning until now feels kind of… deceitful.

Japanese users seem to have that sentiment.

So that's not a good sign. Well, okay! It doesn't need Arle and co. to be a good game, just needs to have that nice old Madou tone and old school gameplay that people loved!

Oh… it… doesn't have that either, huh? It's another 3D game with visual novel cutscenes with a more complex elemental spell system…

And with copypasted dungeon layouts, joooooy-

Yeah, okay, I'm gonna pull off the optimism mask. I'm sorry, but as someone who has poured hours into Neptunia and Compile Heart's other work, this is just… them retreading the same mistakes they did ten years ago.

To which at this point-

Why not just make a sequel to the previous Sorcery Saga?

You would be telling the truth to people on what they should expect, you would bring back the roguelikes that are taking off in popularity in recent years- you could do something with Pupuru and co. rather than leaving them to rot since the game bombed by being Vita exclusive for a long while.

If SEGA cannot relinquish the rights of Arle and co, that's fine. Pupuru was still right there to use. If they didn't want to affiliate with Pupuru, that's also fine, Fia seems cute.

The problem here, is not that there is a new protagonist. Amitie and other characters worked just fine because Puyo Fever was fun and the characters were good! Sorcery Saga could work if it leaned more on having its own identity rather than reusing the Madou characterizations.

The problem is that this is yet another typical Compile Heart / Idea Factory game. Nine months ago, I literally said "Compile Heart being involved is worrying given their track record."

Things like mediocre gameplay, frequent crashes/lag, and very, very uncomfortable perverted jokes. SEGA may not have trusted them with Arle and the rest for a good reason. (if SEGA was the reason for the main charas being barred from use, rather than some other issue)

So please be aware of that. I'm not trying to be a hater here, I'm just… someone who has played these games and them being super grindy/crashing a lot. I would love to be proven wrong and for this to just be cute with some random horror final boss moments. I really would!

If not, then I think it's time for some indie game creator to make a Madou successor.

[pancake-moth]

uhh yeah

Its the satan lemres hybrid guy

[rainbwspctrm]

Weird evening thought:

Feeling a bit out of place being into Sorcery Saga/Madou Monogatari but essentially having only ever touched a Puyo Puyo game maybe like once or twice and only knowing like a few of the post-Compile characters and almost no post-Compile lore.

Can anyone tell me how good Puyo Puyo is in general, specifically post-Compile/Sorcery Saga era and/or in regards to the gameplay? (As someone who's only ever played Tetris and a bit of Dr. Mario and Panel De Pon!)

[satoshi-mochida]

Basement Brothers- Madou Monogatari 1-2-3 (PC-98 Paradise) - 'The origins of Compile's Puyo Puyo characters!'

[zerorock41]

For the Puyo Pop fans out there! Yes, I know it's Puyo Puyo now, but Puyo Pop rolls off the tongue better.

[annon-guy2]

King of Fighters Tournament Poll: SEGA Edition

Note 1: Atlus is now a subsidiary of SEGA and thus the Persona characters are allowed here.

Note 2: Rovio Entertainment has been bought out by SEGA and thus the Angry Bird characters are allowed here.

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Here's a gameplay example from The King of Fighters to give you all an idea;

[tngmpersonal]

Has anyone tried writing AUs for the Sega-era Puyo cast? Like what if Ringo, Amitie, Sig, and the others existed in the Madou Monogatari continuity?

[pitagain]

#365DaysOfVGM Day 13:

Let’s Go on an Adventure! (Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God [2013])

A cheerful melody followed by a great Piano Roll & more! This World Map theme should be followed as a good example!

(Length before loop: Nearly 1.5 minutes)

[whataboutsorcerysaga]

[puyopuyoconfessions]

Honestly, I really like Arle Rulue And Schezo as a trio. They're silly, they're silly friends, I love them so much

[modmamono]

[zoishi]

Todo por un buen Curry | SORCERY SAGA: CURSE OF THE GREAT CURRY GOD

[retroillustrates]

Barbarian, who taught you how to talk to people?

[rainbwspctrm]

May be goofing around.

Might be doing a bit of hex editing.

MIGHT be interested in translating a certain Win95 dungeon crawler.

To be fully transparent: Sorcery Saga (Madou Monogatari): Tower of the Magician!

Dunno if I'll do much, the dialogue's all over the main executable and even adding or removing a single byte from it makes the game entirely unlaunchable. (I found that out just trying to format the window title nicely!)

I'm also having to find stuff purely through mojibake shown in an existing YT playthrough.

The one major blessing I have, is that the game has no qualms with properly writing english text, having a font for it and all!

Might not go through with this since I have no Japanese fluency, unless other people are interested and willing to hop on board.