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I could eat an octorok!
Kittyhawk is back, and we’re talking about video games AGAIN!
Yes, this week it’s all about cut scenes and other ways that animation has found its way into video games over the years. Laserdisc, FMVs, and cinema scenes. Some of it good. Some of it bad. We’re going to be talking all about it.
I also threw in some game music interludes, because you know I love game music. Choices are from Lunar 1 and 2, from both the Sega CD and PlayStation soundtracks, plus a little something from Dark Wizard.
I got Xenogears when it came out and remember thinking that bullet point on the back of the box about the 20 minutes of animation being kind of a weird selling point for what was an 80 hour jrpg.
I remember the animated cut scenes in that game being at random intervals and in short spurts and being more distracting than enhancing of the experience. I thought it was kind of middle of the pack PS1 jrpg at the time (and think its worse now) and am still kind of surprised when I hear people say its their favorite game ever let alone favorite jrpg ever.
Has there been a really notable jrpg since ff6?
Chrono Trigger
Super Mario RPG
Grandia
Lunar Eternal Blue
Phantasy Star IV
Shining Force II
Shining Force III
Suikoden
Golden Sun
Arc The Lad 1 and 2
Great list! I would include
Grandia II
Paper Mario series
mario & LUIGI Superstar Saga
Dragon Quest VIII
Odin Sphere
Muramasa
XENOBLADE
…I know Ben is just joking, but this is fun.
I don’t know, is there? You know, there has been some Shin Megami Tensei, Tales of, Suikoden, Shadow Hearts, Fire Emblem, Dragon Quest, Grandia, and even some post FF6 games that I have heard of being notable. But who knows.
I didn’t grow up on final fantasy. I grew up on Quest for Glory, a real rpg
Good for you? Are you having a conversation with yourself? I don’t really know where you are going with this.
My first animated cut scene was from Megaman X4, I pretty much was laughing on the flood every time one come up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hu_TW2hoK4
I still don’t know what Iris accent
Anyway, wish they would bring Slayers Royal 1 & 2 over (don’t care if they bad, just want them)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxsiQrvkhoU
Words cannot describe those Zelda games…
A modern QTE-only game you say,? That honor goes to Asura’s Wrath.
Man, I had high hopes for that game because of how hardcore the titular character was. If that wasn’t the prime example of how NOT to implement Quick-Time Events in today’s games, I don’t know what is.
Oh, thank God, Girly Voice MegaMan ended with X4. I enjoyed that game till X’s ending… *shudder*. Let’s not forget Zero’s “stellar” catchphrase…
This was a great episode! It was very well researched with a breadth of information on many interesting games. I’d like to see more of this in the future!
Those were great picks in the episode. Most of my cutscene rewards with PS1 were Final Fantasy V, IV, and Chrono Trigger. You know who won there! Chrono Cross and MegaMan X4 had decent ones too. Ok Cross’ were fantastic, but wish the game had better pacing. I keep trying to play through it, telling myself it’s a 10/10, but it just gets slow after you meet up with Kid again. I don’t know.
OK here we go-Shantae tangent!
This project get better by the day, well there’s only one day left officially. The Wayforward live/saved streams on twitch.tv are hilarious! They’ll keep paypal open a few months for Half-Genie Hero (2014), but I’m not sure it will get to the “TV series Quality Animated Cutscenes” goal. Oh well, here’s some stuff that will be in the game as of now http://i.imgur.com/bRkqBnp.png OG Risky
Sword for Risky http://i.imgur.com/3rfcTPV.png
Red/Blue for Shantae http://i.imgur.com/Lx9SG2E.png
and possibly this Dancer costume!http://i.imgur.com/G3JoABV.png
Dancer Costume is FREE on iOS along with the FREE Shantae-Risky’s Revenge Game on iOS for a limited time.
Sorry if I come off like a shill, but many of us are excited in these last hours of the kickstarter. To bring it full circle, Daphne has some competition wouldn’t you say?
http://i.imgur.com/9qy65DH.png
Oh right! For anyone interested
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1236620800/shantae-half-genie-hero