Bruno de Figueiredo
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Former independent videogame journalist and researcher specialising in old Japanese obscurities. Find my work at &
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Akira Toriyama and his son Sasuke playing Dragon Quest in the late 1980s.
May he rest in peace.
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Once the single most densely populated area in the world, the Kowloon Walled City enclave was an architectural aberration whose disconcerting aesthetic was explored in a small yet consequential number of video games over the years (a thread).
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From Killer7 to Deadly Premonition, Japanese game creators have intrepidly explored the theme of mental illness in a variety of genres. The title I wish to approach today is a lesser known reference - a memory, if you will, which the collective conscious has long repressed🧵
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Siren and Siren 2 Japanese edition cover art by master Shinsaku Fujita.
For more of his work, please visit
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I'm surprised at how many expressed admiration for Toriyama's choice of name for his son. He had both a son and a daughter, in fact. Chrono Trigger enthusiasts will surely recognize their names from the so-called Dream Project ending.
Akira Toriyama wrote this message for his two children, Sasuke and Kikka, hidden in one of Chrono Trigger's endings. 💔💔💔
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'Shadow of the Colossus' was first released in the US on October 18th 2005, nine days before the Japanese edition, 'Wanda To Kyozou'. A similar-looking Chinese version was distributed on the 25th, its title concealing a small mystery which remains unresolved to this day...
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New York City on Christmas Day, 1997.
Parasite Eve
Squaresoft, 1998
(via moonlightfaust)
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On this day in '95, Human released Clock Tower for the Super Famicom, consolidating horror as a Japanese game genre. I translated the small booklet included in the ~First Fear~ PS release, authored and illustrated by Yuki Kiyama. You can read it here:
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The developer of Jingle Cats, Vantan International, is a Japanese business school which extended its curriculum to include game production in the early 90s. In 93 they created an in-house software team within the academy, CyberFactory, specializing in PC and console games.
Jingle Cats is a PS1 game where you make cats fall in love and then they sing pop songs for you.
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After Chulip, Yoshiro Kimura participated in a short stop motion animation film project named Junko, a domestic production about an encounter between a beggar and a distant woman. Unfortunately the film is no longer available online. I wonder if
@yoshiro_kimura
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I imported it in late 08 because of its title, cover art and publisher. That first hour was a tantalizing yet incredibly solitary experience. I had chanced upon one of the most ambitious games ever created and no one else in the English-speaking world seemed to know about it.
No other PS1 game impressed me more for being innovative and ahead of it's time than Mizzurna Falls
A game from 1998 that has a day/night cycle, unique enterable interiors, NPCs that you can talk with and a small town where can explore by walking or driving is hella impressive
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Creative liberties aside, Shenmue II offers the most genuine and period-accurate video game representation of Kowloon to date. It succeeds in capturing the life and mesmerizing beauty of the destitute and decayed urban agglomeration. AM2 spared no expenses, overlooked no detail.
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Mercurius Pretty is a long forgotten life simulation game originally launched on the PC9801 in 94. The entirely redesigned and expanded Dreamcast edition, dubbed 'End of the Century', contained a 40 page booklet with designs from the many artists invited to reimagine it (thread).
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Sacnoth's 2001 cult RPG Shadow Hearts proposes an anachronistic yet visually suggestive depiction of Kowloon as it existed in the late 1980s, despite the fact that its magical events take place in the early twenties.
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Reviving the Walled City through the lens of cybermystic surrealism, Kowloon's Gate is a dense, daunting adventure masterfully capturing its dark and narrow recesses. Ironically Zeque managed to embed the theme of Feng-Shui into a story set in the world's most untidy district.
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@PlayStationUK
Here's what YOU're gonna do. You're gonna delete the tweet and apologise. You'll read this page as many times as you need until you understand the difference between contractions and possessives. Then post it again, now do it right. And then you're done.
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It never ceases to amaze me the sheer number of summer/holiday-themed games you can play on the Playstation 2 system. Far more than I could fit into a single frame, in fact.
Which games best incorporate the spirit of Summer in your view?
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Videogame remakes begin by innocently toying with our memories of the original until their own aesthetic codes take over, quickly and surely. Soon, no first page search result will provide you with even a single piece of imagery pertaining the original game unless you specify it.
Don't know what I hated most: the unrelenting focus on poor combat, the clean plasticky visuals in a series envisioned to be gritty and grimy, or the wooden James animations. Ah no wait, it's that this is a Bloober game and I know everything else will be even worse. That's it.
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Kowloon's Gate made a comeback in 2017 via the crowdfunded VR project Suzaku by Jetman, a studio founded by ex-SME/Zeque staff. It is not the remaster of the original game many had hoped for, but it faithfully replicates its light-starved alleyways in competent high-definition.
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The PS2 era has been on my mind of late. I mostly miss this sort of sword-wielding, no nonsense action game from developers who knew and moved comfortably within the genre. I did not value these titles sufficiently in their day. What flaws they once had were swept away by time.
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In many ways the original Tomb Raider was the first 3D exploration game to present credible, complex interior spaces; some of which boasting an acute and entirely unseen sense of verticality. To wit, descending this area in St. Francis Folly was a thoroughly disconcerting affair.
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Maria Kimi Tachi Ga Umareta Wake (The Reason You Were Born) is a late 1997 adventure game firmly rooted in the visual novel template that earned Chunsoft great repute. It was Break studio's debut, produced over a year and half for the PlayStation and Saturn.
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Here and there, over the last 18 years, I have written most everything I ever wished to write about Wanda To Kyozou. However, I don't believe I've discussed how influential Isao Takahata's 1968 film 'Taiyō no Ōji Horusu no Daibōken' was to Ueda's work, this game in particular.
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Unrelated to the Walled City itself, the first game to be located in the Kowloon peninsula - and indeed include the name as a part of its title - was the obscure turn-based RPG 九龍島 Kyu-Ryu-Tou, released by Starcraft in 1986 for the Fujitsu FM-7 computer.
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This is how you showcased a mixed media masterpiece in 1998.
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Odo Odo Oddity is a 1997 game published by I.D.C. Media exclusively for the Playstation. It is something of an enigma in that its peculiar style was made to resonate with younger audiences, while its difficulty suffices to intimidate even most seasoned player.(Thread)
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While the cover logotype reads 'Wangda yu Juxiang', or "Wander and the Colossus", after the original Japanese name, its romanization, as printed on the manual cover, reads "Shadow AND the Colossus" - an unexpected hybrid of the Western and Japanese titles.
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The same can be found on the disc itself, ruling out a mere printing blunder. Perhaps the designer borrowed the word "Shadow" to create a parallel with the international title, directed at the English-speaking Hong Kong market, in the end neglecting to change "and" for "of".
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Yoshitaka Tamaki, illustrator and character designer for Shining in the Darkness, Landstalker and Alundra, to name a few, has passed away on July 13 at young age of 56. Though he led an uneven fight against cancer, he chose to continue working until the very end.
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Talk about hidden gems: Diamond and the Sound of a Gun Shot (Zenner Works, 2009) is a unique take on the visual novel concept due to its real-time negotiation system requiring split second decisions. It looks and sounds as luxurious as their previous PSP game, Anata O Yurusanai.
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Visual narratives in Japanese game packaging.
I - Ramen
Ore no Ryouri - Argent, 1999
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The "lost" illustrations of Shinsaku Fujita for Miyuki Miyabe's book 'ICO: Castle in the Mist' - a thread🧵
#ICO
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Photo by Atsushi Onodera, The Yomiuri Shinbum (X07098), 1988.
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Double page spread advertisement for Moon Remix RPG Adventure, from January 1998.
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Before 'Houkago Shounen', Konami had already tried its hand at replicating the 'Boku No Natsuyasumi' aesthetic with this, 'Kappa no Kaikata', released in 2004 for the Playstation 2. While derivative, it is not without its merits and justifies more attention than it has received.
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What games have the best soundtracks?
What games indeed. Ask me tomorrow for an entirely different selection.
What games have the best soundtracks?
These are some of mine
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@manfightdragon
Earlier this year I was working on an anthology of mirrors in videogames. Some interesting additions to be made as a result of this thread.
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I stumbled upon these unusually high resolution versions of Evergrace's key art, including the instantly recognizable game cover as well as the illustration used in its excellent soundtrack album.
Should you be interested, you can download them here:
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Maria's mental illness component comes to light as the story and therapy sessions progress. The key art consists of photos of women using coloured masks to visually represent the dimensions of her multiple personality disorder.
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Foreseeably, its release was followed by moderate controversy, such that worked mostly in its favour. One of the most polemical moments is found in the introduction scene, with its tasteful yet unvarnished depiction of Maria's suicide attempt, followed by her hospital admission.
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Michel Ziegler's 'Mundaun' is a triumph in interactive horror, one of a handful of genuinely artisanal and handcrafted video games. It nestles in a liminal space between macabre humour and the most feverish, scarring nightmare you have ever experienced in your lifetime.
Mundaun needs you! If you liked the game and haven't done so yet, please leave a review on Steam. It really helps a lot.
And keep spreading the word! 🙏🐐
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I once wrote to Hirofumi Taniguchi asking for help in locating some of his OSTs. At first he apologised for not having any spares but a week later asked for my address. He sent me these CD-R copies, having printed, cut and stapled the booklets himself to replicate the originals.
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I heard from
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Naoyuki Kato ilustrations for the Japanese MSX Magazine, published by ASCII Corporation, 1990-1991.
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Echo Night and Shadow Tower magazine ads. From Software's two productions of the year 1998 were released within mere weeks of one another at the height of summer. Discriminating players had their pick of the darkest, dampest place in which to seek refuge from the blistering heat.
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The WWW emerged in 91. By the mid 90s it hosted over 100k sites. Browsing the internet with a dial-up connection was considered so novel & thrilling that numerous games of the day were at pains to replicate the experience. The Kowloonet in Kowloon's Gate is a remarkable example.
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There is nothing new under the sun.
The dialogue surrounding the voluptuous contours of Eve in Stellar Blade is nostalgically reminiscent of many debates from decades past.
I remember a certain Vanessa Z Schneider was often the sprightly object of just this type of contention.
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Demonic home repossession, or the degradation of social customs and moral inheritance in Heian period Japan, as depicted in the 1995 cult CD-ROM Cosmology of Kyoto, the only child of Japan's obscurest game developer, SOFTEDGE.
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Breakdown fell prey to that prototypical XBOX user mentality whereby games were appraised by how grand they looked and how smoothly they played in relation to the most consecrated titles on offer. The few who truly revelled in it asked only how mind-bending was it likely to be.
Underrated games in my opinion people must play.
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For motives I cannot expand on with much glee, I found more time than usual this year to reduce my seemingly endless backlog. Despite all the fine new releases 2023 has greeted me with, I was able to finally delve into this eclectic handful of games I gathered over time.🧵
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Nor is it related in any way with the so-called "Maria" episode from the Yarudora visual novel game series, Sampaguita, released in 1997 for the PlayStation by Sugar & Rockets and Production I.G.
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Break was denounced for its bid to integrate so serious a derangement as a theme in a juvenile entertainment piece. Their reaction was to highlight the research done to ensure a careful treatment of the subject and sensitization of players via a bespoke message in the manual.
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What they refer to as a 'pixel pile' was a perfectly recognizable image when viewed, as intended, on a CRT TV screen. Nothing was - or needed to be - 'cleared up'.
The Super Mario RPG remake clears up a pixel pile from the original release ❤️
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Naohisa Inoue is a surrealist/impressionist artist who committed his life to painting a magical parallel universe named Iblard. 'The Day I Saw Iblard' is a CD-ROM with dozens of his works that I ordered from his gallery years ago. I made it available at:
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Before closing, it would pay to emphasize that this is an entirely different adventure game from MA-RI-A Ningōkan no Noroi, a 1996 3D CG horror adventure designed by Osamu Tezuka's son, Makoto; and scored by Kuniaki Haishima, of Kowloon's Gate and Siren 2 fame.
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Founded by Yōichi Yamaguchi, FlipFlop was active between the years 94-00, focusing on educational PC game software. They are best known for their Neo Atlas trilogy. Their first console title, Topolo, was a 96 partnership with publisher ArtDink. You won't find a friendlier cover.
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As long as the new content and features remain optional for whoever wishes to access them. The illustration shown here, for example, bears no similarity to the original game's aesthetic. For all their professed reverence of Clock Tower, I hope WayForward can respect that.
The groundbreaking 16-bit survival-horror game, Clock Tower, returns on modern consoles and PC! Featuring classic gameplay with new features like an animated intro, motion-comic cutscenes, theme song by
@MaryEMcGlynn
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While Maria is the central character, her tragedy and arc merge with that of the actual protagonist, Jun Takano, a fledgeling surgeon who, in the quality of certified psychiatrist, is assigned to provide therapy to the French-Japanese patient the morning after her admittance.
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As a work of pure fiction, scenario writer Kirie Fukuda was at liberty to carry the already divisive premise into even more exotic territory by establishing a mysterious yet playful correspondence between Maria's distinct personas and Egyptian deities.
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The game's structure is modelled after hirudorama, a Japanese word interchangeably used to describe daytime TV fiction or soap operas; each of its nine chapters lasting nearly thirty minutes, equipped with a plot twist, cliffhanger ending, and followed by rolling credits.
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My old tumblr, nonchalantly named Eastern Mind, was meant to be a junk drawer for the odd commentary on anything Japan related. Craving for greater substance, I introduced a feature dedicated to exploring some of the lesser known games of that provenance called Japanofiles.🧵
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Perhaps the single most outstanding aspect about this production results from a tireless effort to surpass the standard of authenticity in what pertains facial expressions; particularly those of the multifaceted Maria, often with stilted yet all the more fascinating results.
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OU is a Japanese independent adventure game currently in development by
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In the end it may be a desirable comparison for Natsumon, considering the popularity of BotW & TotK, but most parallels suggested here strike me as far-fetched. Ayabe's main inspiration was in fact Robinson-Yu's A Short Hike which, it's only fair to say, openly celebrates Zelda.
なつもんはブレワイ・ティアキンと操作が同じだから同じ感覚でプレイできるよ！
ということを伝えたい動画。パラセールだけちょっと混乱します #なつもん
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@damgentemp
This is a picture of Kimura-San, one of the original game concept planners for Rule of Rose, taken by Florent Gorges in 2010 when they found the game up on display in a French used games shop. Imagine the odds.
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@game_obscure
I meant to share this earlier, assuming that quality images of the game edition aren't exactly abundant. I taught myself a bit of Danish to convince its original owner to part ways with it, years before the age of free online translation. Anyway, here it is.
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The original Game Boy has been on my mind of late, more so than usual. It was pure kismet that made me stumble upon this little Japanese homebrew today, a dreamlike journey through the creator's own life as a game player. Recognising many of its thousand references was a delight.
長らく作成中だった、ゲームボーイソフト「GeeBeeパーツコレクション」を本日公開します！
今も昔もゲームが好きすぎる、GeeBeeの夢の世界がこちらです。
【リンク】
全ての世代のゲーム好きの方々に、楽しんでいただけますように…。
#レトロゲーム
#ゲームボーイ
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Seiken Densetsu 2 turns thirty today. Was it that long ago I finished homework and rushed to the settee on wintry Sunday evenings? Its finer details escape me and yet I can still play many of its melodies by heart. Surely one of the system's defining games and the S-SMP's apogee.
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Following a modest success, Break released Maria 2: Jutaikokuchi no Nazo in 99, a not-so-direct sequel which did not command the same attention as the original. The studio created other noteworthy visual novels: Ouma ga Toki and sequel, as well as the most unusual Saishuu Densha.
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Shadow of the Colossus: Tale of the Ancient Land is a carefully designed blend of strategy guide and artbook, published by Enterbrain in 2006. Among other exclusive development materials, it dedicates a few of its pages to colossi designs which were excluded from the final game.
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'Travels in Virtual Japan' (2000) is a light-hearted yet stimulating Channel4 documentary in which host Waldemar Januszczak explores how the Japanese tech revolution helped to shape a singular society. Contained in it is a segment featuring Miyamoto-San.
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Romantic love has been the beating heart of all forms of art and artistic expression, from song to film, poetry and painting. Having exceeded their age of innocence, games are increasingly receptive to love stories, some rather memorable.
Which one resonated with you the most?
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You can look at such high-res renders today and think nothing of them. But these novel layer blending techniques massified by mid to late 90's graphics editing software looked quite imposing both in print and on CRT screens, aided by increasingly wider colour gamuts on offer.
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@A_i
Contrary to popular perception, Atlas did not carry the terrestrial globe on his shoulders. He carried the celestial spheres.
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A glorious little moment from one of the most underappreciated japanese independent creations in recent years. If an imaginary blend of Strange Telephone, Ghost Trick, Undertale and Serial Experiments Lain pleases you, then Unreal Life should be the words for your next web query.
皆様！Steamアンリアルライフがセール中らしいですよ！
このゲーム、ビックリするほど演出が素敵でして、背景の月に最初ピント合ってるのにエレベーターの加速と共にズームアウトさせて被写体以外ボカしてるんです。このお陰で主人公の心細さが伝わって来ますよね！素敵！
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Ueda's work for Moon is rich in detail and subtlety. I mostly played the game for its characters and story but have often returned to it only so I could meander through its spaces. Every wee corner is a hymn to the homely, the quaint or the altogether extraordinary.
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In this and other regards, the influence of D no Shokutaku and its character, Laura, is clear and unmistakable. Maria's director and studio head at Break, Akira Okada, was an ex-Warp employee who worked as sales director precisely at the time when Eno's game was being developed.
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I always held that Capcom squandered many an inspired idea from their RE4 prototypes. To wit, this unnerving portrayal of enemies as bleary apparitions capable of weightless displacement, shown in the 2003 demo Hallucination. Playing Alan Wake 2 I often harked back to this image.
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Koudelka's OST symbolizes a period of unrestrained experimentalism in videogame music composition, boasting an audacious and uncommonly expansive stylistic range. Even so, it excels when at its most conventional. 'Requiem' and 'Ubi caritas et amor' are incontestable masterworks.
Now I am planning to release Koudelka remastered soundtrack with additional unused data. Stay tuned. ☺️👍
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To celebrate the 10 years of Kenji Eno's passing, FYTO has announced the release of several of his games' soundtracks on music streaming platforms, including Oyaji Hunter Mahjong, Enemy Zero, D2 and Real Sound, which will become available on May 5th, the date of his birthday.
「Dの食卓2」や「エネミー・ゼロ」などのサントラ，飯野賢治氏の没後10周年を記念してデジタルリリース。同氏の誕生日である5月5日に
故・飯野賢治氏が代表取締役社長を務めていたフロムイエロートゥオレンジから，同氏代表作のデジタルサントラがリリースされる。
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In my first year at school in 87, they sold this chewing gum which included 1.5" sticker versions of popular computer game covers, namely this Street Fighter ZXS/C64 one. They made quite an impression, it goes without saying. No wonder I had such an instant attraction to Shenmue.
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For years it was uncertain whether TRIPITAKA 玄奘三蔵求法の旅, by SoftEdge, had ever been published. Knowledge of the Win/Mac CD-ROM comes solely from the online CVs of producers Hiroshi Ōnishi and Mori Kōichi. This week, the game sold at a Yahoo for nearly $300 after 24 bids.
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L.O.L is initialism for Lack of Love, a 2000 Dreamcast game by Love-de-Lic. But it might as well stand for Labour of Love, as Sakamoto single-handedly composed, arranged, produced, performed and mixed this soundtrack in return for but a nominal fee.
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Far from an adaptation of the 1995 anime, developers of the Ghost in the Shell game considered this tertiary visual element of the film to be of sufficient importance to justify its painstaking reproduction in mission briefings, elegantly rendered in smooth, sharp, real-time 3D.
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One of the most impressive moments in videogame history is hidden away at the very end of Éric Chahi's most paradoxical creation, Heart of Darkness. It is the solemn, meticulously crafted valediction by which its suggestive title finally falls into place.
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Interestingly, the game was created by members of the Yokohama chapter of the Kamaitachi No Yoru fan club, an online group brought together by their appreciation of Chunsoft's sound novels, using the Kirikiri/KAG - a game development tool requiring little to no programming.
I recently discovered that there was a freeware sound novel released in 2000 called 1999ChristmasEve. The game is about the protagonist and his girlfriend taking refuge in a church on the night of Christmas Eve after their car breaks down in the snow.
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The beginning of the historical relations between Portugal and Japan dates to the year 1541, when a Portuguese ship washed ashore at Jingujiura. Nearly sixty Japanese words are of Portuguese origin. But in what way has this cultural exchange extended to videogames? (mini thread)
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If there's a Japanofiles post left in my tank it would be to finally cover the firefighting games from the 90s/00s by Human, Jaleco, SEGA, Irem, Spike, Konami, etc. It's a fairly large list of games but there's enough thematic commonality and cultural substance in there for sure.
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Echo Night 2: Ruler of Sleep
FromSoftware, 1999
via: moonlightfaust
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My Eastern Mind Tumblr turns fifteen this month!
I named it after Sato's cult masterpiece for the simplest of reasons: it accurately described the content I expected to publish while extending an instantly suggestive invitation to those who knew their Japanese game history.
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I was tempted to try Hollow Cocoon once I learned of the studio's efforts to capture the atmosphere of a Japanese country home from the 1980s. In a way, it reminded me of the joys of exploring the old Hazuki residence. By nightfall, however, it was rather like the Himuro mansion.
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It is lamentable that David Lynch's CD-ROM concept for 'Woodcutters From Fiery Ships' was never developed, of course. But if I were to persuade a fan of his work to play a single video game, this Danish rarity, 'Blackout', would be the proverbial next best thing.
@game_obscure
I meant to share this earlier, assuming that quality images of the game edition aren't exactly abundant. I taught myself a bit of Danish to convince its original owner to part ways with it, years before the age of free online translation. Anyway, here it is.
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Golly. Japan's most controversial game of the late 80s, 177 refers to the article in their penal code detailing the crime of rape. It was pulled off shelves after the Komiko party's motion to the Shūgiin (House of Representatives) for Macadamia Soft to immediately suspend sales.
PC88版の「177」をお譲りいただきました。177と言っても電話番号ではありません（お約束）
付属品も揃っていて状態も良い感じです。勿論動作もOK！（ビッグダデー村田）
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When Flash ceased to be supported by contemporary browsers, an entire chapter of glorious web design was expunged from the internet. Some content was updated or archived. And yet one can hardly estimate the true extent of that which was forever lost.
Daydream |
@qubibi
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While Mercurius Pretty and its artwork speak very little to me, I found it to be a cut above your average bishōjo. Certain that it would interest some of my followers, I took the liberty of scanning it and sharing it at the Internet Archive:
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Whichever way you look at it, a magazine screenshot shader is the obvious next step for video game emulation to remain relevant.
ironsword: wizards & warriors II, magazine screenshot, nes (1989)
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There's a baffling tendency to remake games of particularly impenetrable visual aesthetics. Panzer Dragoon, Final Fantasy VII, Shadow of the Colossus, Demon's Souls or Silent Hill 2 are all paradigmatic of how true visual magnificence can comfortably endure technical antiquation.
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