felipepepe.bsky.social
Brazilian living in Tokyo. Editor of the CRPG Book, a free book on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games: https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/
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Ah, I think I found it!
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Knowing this helps understand why it has random horny naked dudes as enemies lol
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Digimon World 1 in particular I feel it's a formative game for a lot of people. I know it was a huge hit in my school. And yet, it seems oddly absent from retrospectives and "Top PS1" lists.
Also weird how few people pointed out that Pokémon Z-A is now copying its combat system, 26 years later lol
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The biggest challenge is that it supports custom portraits, but the game's style is quite particular... I'm struggling to find something that matches well :/
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Impossible to unsee
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O Phil Collins é 100% essa vibe, vc não sabe se o cara vai mandar um puta clássico ou apresentar o novo Windows 98: youtu.be/dYV6KZpnEak?...
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Parece BR mesmo, mas já descobriram q é um maluco da Dinamarca
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Funcionou, valeu!!!
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As vezes é no hardpower, às vezes é no softpower.
Anos 90 tava todo o leste europeu e ásia (menos Japão) pirateando os jogos dos EUA e usando a grana pra criar estudios locais tipo CD Projekt. No Brasil o dono da Brasoft tava indo pros EUA visitar o Rancho Skywalker e pagar royalty pro George Lucas
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The French game devs were doing a lot of fun experiments in the 80s, I wouldn't be surprised if they had something like that already...
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Isso, e tem vários outros detalhes. Tipo, o Papyrus é o único no jogo q tem o texto na vertical hahaha
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É muito interessante isso, eles tbm adoram usar dialeto de certas regiões pra dar personalidade, como se fosse um paulista falando "porra meu!!"
Tem um livro chamado Legends of Localization Book 3 q é sobre como traduziram Undertale pro japonês usando esses elementos culturais, é bem legal ver.
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Yeah, which is why you must first ask - influential to whom?
Even between Brazil & the US there's a huge difference, imagine when you factor all the other countries...
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I mean... imagine being from Latin America, buying a book called "1001 TV Shows You Must Watch Before you Die" and it not having El Chavo / Chaves.
From that moment on, you know the game is rigged.
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It's also super easy to pirate books, music and movie. Doesn't mean you have read, listen & watched every important cultural piece ever made.
It's important to have the context, the connection, the guidance... and the time.
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Honestly, being from the 3rd world helps a lot with this.
I always knew there are things extremely important & influential to 200 million Brazilians but that no one outside the country heard about. That no "Western canon" mentions.
Makes it much easier to care when other cultures go "yeah, same".
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Earthbound is from 1994, 31 years ago.
Imagine you as a kid/teen, coming out of the cinema after watching Lord of the Rings in 2001, only for a grumpy old man to tell you it's "bait" that you say you like Fantasy movies but don't know about 1973's The Golden Voyage of Simbad.
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Link here: store.steampowered.com/app/652410/B...
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Some doors are better left closed... I do not have the money & space to get into painting miniatures 😅
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But that's just one style of Japanese RPG. In the 90s you had stuff like Parasite Eve, Terranigma, Secret of Mana, Vagrant Story, EVO: Search for Eden, King's Field, Lunatic Dawn, Digimon World, etc...
It's hard to see all these games and go "JRPG = turn-based with 4 guys".
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It's convenient, recognizable, and easy to understand IF you belong to a certain group.
It's very alien to others, which is what led me to write this article. Search "CRPG" on Reddit these past few years and you'll see all sort of crazy definitions pop up.
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It certainly is A THING I MUST DEAL WITH that it took me longer to write the book than it took for genre definitions & the entire industry to change.