Hello! Welcome back to the first episode of The MoeGamer Podcast for 2019, featuring my good self and my good friend Chris Caskie ofΒ MrGilderPixels.
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With it being the start of the year, we didn’t want to discuss anything too heavy, so this is a fairly breezy episode.
We kick off with some discussion of recent news, includingΒ Ys IX: Monstrum NoxΒ and a few interesting rumblings from a number of developers around Japan. Imageepoch might be making a comeback, it seems, andΒ Another Eden,Β a cool-looking mobile RPG from some of the creative minds behind some all-time classics, is coming West.
Then we move on to a discussion of what we’ve been playing recently, includingΒ Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise,Β theΒ Atelier Arland Trilogy, Diablo III, Atari Flashback ClassicsΒ and more.
And finally we have a chat about our most anticipated games of 2019, includingΒ Death End Re;Quest, Dragon Marked for DeathΒ and plenty of others besides. Hope you enjoy! And, as always, if there’s a topic you’d like to see/hear us cover, please do feel free to let us know.
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Oh, so theyβre releasing a new Ys game? It didnβt seem that long ago when Ys VIII came out. Iβll definitely be looking forward to that. Recently, Iβve been attempting to marathon the series with the intent to review every single entry. Being such a long-running series, it will be interesting to see how it evolved over the years firsthand. So far, Iβve completed the first three games, and now Iβm on one of the games labelled Ys IV. Itβs quite confusing, but there are indeed apparently two Ys IVs β one on the Super Famicom and one on the TurboGrafx-CD. Neither were released in the West, though there was apparently a remake of both released in 2012.
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I’ve actually covered Ys up to Memories of Celceta (the modern remake of IV) here on the site if you want to read up: https://moegamer.net/all-games/ys/
Which version of III did you play? Don’t miss out on Oath in Felghana if you played one of the 16-bit versions — it’s a spectacular reimagining of it.
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I ended up playing the SNES version because that was the easiest one for me to get. I personally didnβt think it was all that great; in fact, between the first three games I felt it to be by far the weakest one. I do intend to play Oath in Felghana. Because it apparently provides a vastly different experience, it will get a separate review from the original.
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Yeah, that’s why I mention it — old-school III is regarded as one of the weakest in the series, but Oath in Felghana is one of the best, particularly of that distinct era that comprises Ys VI, Oath in Felghana and Ys Origin. (I recommend playing those three games in that order to see the evolution of the formula!)
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You can count on me to do that. I donβt intend to leave any stone unturned.
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