Not that gaijin knew it but Aretha was a SNES best seller RPG in Japan. Help 17 year old Aretha and her dragon friend Fang save the world from the evil Vantar Empire. Previous entries in this series were on the Gameboy; this was actually #4 and another SNES sequel arrived a year later.
There you go again playing up some average game that will be outed as an average game when it gets a translation
it's been translated
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>Not that gaijin knew it but Aretha was a SNES best seller RPG in Japan.
Questionable claim. Basically, Wikipedia states it was on best sellers chart in one mag in march 1994. It was #9 best seller in that chart, and it could be weekly / monthly, so it doesn't mean much.
https://sites.google.com/site/gamedatalibrary/game-search states the game sold around 13k copies. this is believable, Ys IV is above that game on the chart and it sold 18k copies. this isn't even in top 200 SFC games. hell, the game got outsold hard by Fatal Fury 2.
There are Japanese websites which tracked sells data from Famitsu you know, could always look there
that's what
>https://sites.google.com/site/gamedatalibrary/game-search
is
So does that website, assuming there isn't more reliable data.
Fatal Fury 2 is dope.
Mediocre game that nobody gave a shit about: 😐
Mediocre game that nobody gave a shit about, JP-only: :0
It has a mediocre sequel too, and it's also got a translation. For me, if I want to play some era-appropriate JRPG nipslop, I'd rather play the Super Shell Monster games.
I've been listening to a lot of SNES/SFC soundtracks lately and this game's soundtrack is one of the ones that stood out to me. It's unusually difficult to enjoy.
I don't know why they used that cymbal sound so much. Replacing that with something less overbearing might help a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Ex3T7IQ4k
Her name is Ariel in the screen shot. What's going on?
She's the reincarnation of the goddess, similar to Luna being Althena
The one on the right's got armor on. How in the world are you supposed to hurt that one? I guess surrender is the only option.
Hmm brat with boob cover. Needs correction!
I just don't like these kind of battle screens, they look so cheap and unimmersive
Agreed. The first-person view could theoretically improve immersion in some ways but I think the value of showing everything (including playable characters and everybody's actions) from a comfortable spot off to the side is going to be far greater, at least in a normal JRPG. If this were an especially open game like NetHack, then hiding the playable characters could allow the developers lots more useful freedom to implement characters with widely varying appearance without having to expensively draw sprites for them all. But it's a JRPG not named SaGa so of course it's not really going to need much freedom.
the SNES had an overabundance of RPGs and many of them were fair to poor especially when coming from obscure publishers/developers like this one
Though I do enjoy going through and playing average JRPGs. Particularly of that era since the average JRPG was actually pretty short and breezy.
the two Aretha games are 16 megabits so they're a bit longer than average
That's not really to their advantage usually. A good, generic JRPG is a pretty quick affair.
I played both the SNES games. The Lunar series were spiritual sequels, but I like to think that the events of Aretha occur on Lunar's Blue Star prior to its destruction thousands of years before The Silver Star begins. It's just too bad that the fanslation is terrible, the first games battle system is so fricking tedious, and the second game is too short. Lots of monster tiddies though.
>It's just too bad that the fanslation is terrible
if it's any consolation, it would likely be as bad if this got an official localization back in the 90s.
The guy that did the Aretha games is on another level. Renaming characters when their name itself is a plot point is beyond moronic, but at least the game lets you change names at any time.
If it was any good, it'd have been localized.
It wasn't, ergo it's shit.
Tale as old as time.
Is there a guide for the crafting somewhere? Or at least some basic dos and don'ts so I don't waste my time and crafting resources on shit items.
>best seller RPG
Your point?