Obscure /m/ games thread

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Apparently this one was made by Compile (shares brand-identifying sound effects and they're credited) but published by Telenet (not, surprisingly, Nihon Telenet of Valis and other games). Pretty cool MSX2 mecha fighting game.

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>>13457784
Love Vanguard Bandits. One of the better WD translations too, from what I remember.

I think I've seen Frame Gride talked about only a few times on /m/. Weird, since it's basically a more arcade-y Armored Core in a fantasy setting.

Frame Gride x Souls when.

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>>13457784

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My answer hasn't changed since last thread.

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Best jrpg plot ever.

>>13457784
Andrew best husbando

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Heavy Unit! Pretty cool game so long as you stick to only the arcade version.

>>13459545

By plot you mean 'half the plot is a dude sitting in a chair remembering boss fights'.

I discovered this today. Sounds like a lot of fun. Anyone here give it a go?

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>>13460757
Forgot pic

>>13459741
the evangelion of mecha

>>13460763
Once you get used to the controls it's fucking amazing. The awkward control scheme actually captures the heavy ground-pounding of a super heavy mech and once you get good with it you'll feel like a real pilot.

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Sequel where they shamelessly go full X-Com clone never ;_;

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Megazone 23: Aoi Garland, and my god the battle system is simple yet effective. So glad to know that there was somebody in Japan who had not forgotten the Megazone 23 OVA existed.

You can still find this game on Play-Asia for like $30, believe it or not.

S.L.A.I?

>>13460763
RAD is radical

Are there any Mazinger Z games?

>>13465798
Yea, an arcade shmup with Z, Great, and Grendizer. It's pretty good.

>>13465825
I mean aside from that one.

>>13459136
From really fucking like robots, don't they?

>>13465830
There's a sidescrolling bmup for the SNES.

Are there any /m/ games out there that are kinda like Ace Combat, but with robots? I think I remember playing some Macross game on the PSP that was like that.

>>13465825
There's Mazinsaga on Genesis then, and what >>13465879 mentioned.
>>13465891
Macross Triangle Frontier? I think that's what you're talking about.

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>>13457784
> Ctrl + F.
> No Metal Fatigue

I swear people, this game deserves at least either a HD remake with better pathfinding or a spiritual successor.

>>13466251
Well, this thread is about obscure games. I'm not too sure why you're surprised nobody has mentioned that game.

>>13459136
>One of the better WD translations too, from what I remember.

actually it was them at probably they're most WD. There's a hidden song where Jenny Stigle sings about farts

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Anybody else take notice of this when it came out? What did everyone think, if you played it?

>>13466548
I played a little bit of it, I should play more. It was pretty fun.

>>13466572
Cool, good luck. Post progress in a thread, yeah? A fully English, original and decently fun /m/ game is hard to find nowadays, it deserves a thread.

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For the Sharp X68000 there is Mad Stalker and Aquales.

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not that obscure but dat Ershin

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Fun shmup game. It's inspired by 70's mecha anime.

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>>13467482
There's also Geppy-X, but even more obscure is Kiaidan 00 for the PC-Engine CD. Check out this awesome OP, song starts at 3:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1H-ujAlSrY

>>13467484
When the hell did Wares Blade get a vidya?

Anyone got a download link?

>>13467510
Let's not forget about Zeroigar for the ill-fated PC-FX.
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2451/

>>13466548
HOLY
CRAP!

I recall playing the SHIT outta the psx version back in the day; it rankled that none of the sequels ever got out of Jp.

Now you say there's a PSP version?

Welp, there went my social life for the forceable future...

>>13467482
there's also the rest of the games from Astro Port, all really good, and all very /m/ related(and also all on Steam for dirt cheap)

>>13467510
Looks cool. Is there a translation?

>>13467972
Yeah. I own all of the except Armed Seven.

>>13468370
you should get Armed Seven it's great

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>>13457784

>Choice between being a Kamen Rider-ish Mutant thing or a inspired Space Sheriff
>Is basically Super Robot Wars for Toku and features Original Kamen Rider,Black,Black RX,Goranger, Kikaider and even fucking Ultraman

It's probably worse that you even know it exists as a Toku weeb because it's so obscure by now that you just have to deal with the fact that it's basically translation FUCKING -NEVER- status forever.

>>13468963
It's also one of the worst tactics games I've ever played. It's seriously complete shit on every level, writing included. Actually, I take that back. The original designs are cool.

>>13469036
>writing included
How's that?

>>13467510
>Kiaidan 00
I played that awhile back on a PCE kick. Fun shit, anon.

I'll have to boot it up again some time. Same with Geppy.

>>13468963
I've played that game, and it isn't very good. Quality is all over the place, balance was thrown out of the window, and so on.
>obscure secrets out of the ass, and most times it's just useless shit like a girl with a pistol
>the game introduces the vehicle creation/modification in the early 20s and never touch upon it again... SUDDENLY, you have to fight a giant monster with just vehicles - didn't upgrade them? TOUGH LUCK!
>the giant robots are used so sparsely throughout the game that you'll feel no incentive to upgrade them - until they get defeated by a single jet plane, IN A SINGLE ATTACK
>too many of the stages are useless from a story point
>almost every map has a ton of special events that will probably leave you in a very vulnerable position sooner or later

It's not all that bad, though.

>>13469137
It strikes me as something that would've been drastically improved in a sequel or two. The frame work is there, but it never pulled itself together.

What are some good /m/ action games?

Preferable something that feels sort of like Target in Sight or Battle Record. Heavy but not completely slow

>>13457784
Solid Runner for the SNES.
Weird sci fi JRPG where you pilot Power Armors and fight robots and shit in a noir storyline.

>>13467510
Is that Nobuo Tobita (Kamille) as the main character?

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Every time we have this thread, I mention this game, and I do it in hopes that one day, I can stop calling it obscure.

(Also Seek and Destroy)

>>13468963
>Is basically Super Robot Wars for Toku

It's called "Super Toku Wars" and is made by Banpresto, so yeah.

Well, there's ToME 4 if you're looking for a roguelike where you can be /m/.

>But anon, that isn't /m/!
Alchemist golems are pretty much robot buddies, and now you can actually play as one: http://te4.org/games/addons/tome/effigyrace

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>>13473081
Speaking of RLs, for something actually /m/ there's pic related.

You can be a robot, go to a mecha city, and beat up mechwarrior-looking things. Way more fun than you may or may not think from looking at screenshots.

>>13473081
But anon, golems are only /m/ if they go pshhhhhhh clunk or you can ride in them.

>>13469051
Horrid pacing because everything is literally Monster of the Week plots save for the originals who only get plot advancement every 8 or 9 stages. And plot holes like why Luciferd doesn't just explain to Gavan that he was brainwashed as soon as they meet up on earth. He just lets everyone on the team assume he was evil and is probably planning on betraying them so there can be conflict and have the brainwashing as a "twist".

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>>13473081
I enjoy ToME 4, but if you want a properly /m/ roguelike you're better off with Caves of Qud (for cybernetics) or Cogmind, where you can end up being one of these.

do doujin games count? if so, look for Combat DX9 Kinryu vs Xentex. awesome game.

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>>13457784
Not LoE with a dating sim and cuter girls. Not-Cybuster was pretty sweet.

>>13465891
Project Nimbus but it's still in early access.

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>>13457784
If anyone here owns a Genesis I absolutely can not stress how much you should get this game while it's still moderately cheap. It's fucking fantastic and the price has been slowly creeping up lately so you all should get it while you have time.

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>>13459251
Alphonse?

>>13474661
There actually is a Patlabor game on the Mega Drive.

>>13474788
FDS, PS1, and think SNES, too

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>>13474492
This x1000. Ranger-X is one of my favorite Genesis games.

also, it's Saturn semi-counterpart Bulk Slash is also fucking fantastic (sadly, it's much more expensive -- runs great in SSF though)
It's very much Ranger-X in 3D, although you have an unlimited flight mode.
Solid visuals, controls great, you get to pick up cute navigator girls.
You don't need to understand any moon to enjoy it.

only dim spot is the one escort mission, but that's also not too hard

>>13474854
Bulkslash run wel on Saturn emulator?

>>13473151
>you will never see this mecha in combat

>>13474860
I've emulated it on a toaster before, so yeah.

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Zettai Hero Project for PSP is one continuous toku/mecha reference. A great dungeon crawler by the people who made Disgaea, and funny to boot. Emulates well I assume, I had it on the actual PSP so I wouldn't know but it shouldn't be be taxing since it's 2d. I'm the same anon who recommended >>13466548 and my taste is a bit odd I think, but I hope these games can be enjoyable to /m/en.

>>13476120
I remember playing this for a while, it was pretty fun.

Until I stopped playing as soon as I got the Kino outfit

>>13476156
What did that do? Overpowered, I take it?

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>>13476181
Nah, that was the entire motivation of me playing ZHP in the first place.

>>13476211
Oh, Kino like Kino's journey? Still discovering references to this day, this game sure was chock full of them.

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>>13476211
>>13476181
Kino is pretty boss, so I can understand that completely.

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>>13476225
Real shame Kino never got her own game.

>>13474860
Oh yeah. Emulated it on my 6 year old laptop, 2.1GHz Pentium Dual-Core crap. SSF is pretty damn great.
You just need Daemon Tools to mount disc images for SSF to use (remember to uncheck all the adware and bullshit, but other things like VirtualCloneDrive don't emulate the disc drive well enough for SSF).
remember to mount the game before opening SSF, it won't open otherwise if you don't have a real disc drive
Any recent i3 machine or better will have zero problems.

there isn't any Saturn emulator other than SSF that actually works well, yabause is garbage and extremely slow

>>13460763
I remember the X-Play review of this thing. So they thought it was bad because they didn't get enough time with it?

>>13459536
I remember playing this when I was younger, having to deploy flares in dark light blew my mind back then.

>>13476234
So I wasn't the only one who played this.
Neat.

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This one was gangster as fuck

>>13476234
>>13478139
I rented it from Blockbuster as a lad and enjoyed it, but never managed to finish it. I should give it another roll on emulators now...

>>13465798
>TFW no Mazin Musou

>>13476120
>>13476156
I'm playing this one right now. When do you get to fight the Dengiki characters?

>>13469998
I used to see it at the store every day and I always thought it looked like shit.

>>13459136
I'm pretty bad at this game, but it's pretty cool so far. Lost my save twice so far to corruption in an emulator though, so looking forward to play it on real hardware.

>>13476120
>Emulates well I assume, I had it on the actual PSP so I wouldn't know but it shouldn't be be taxing since it's 2d.
Disgaea 2 actually emulates like shit on Android.

>>13478667
It's not. It's really, really good.

(AND I JUST GOT MY COPY OF IT BACK TODAY SO WE GONNA PARTY TOMORROW)

>>13465798
I've played the SNES one, and it's surprisingly not shit. Although you'll be destroyed in seconds if you don't know most of the movies.
Hell, I got through two stages without knowing you could block. Once you learn it, the game becomes much, much easier. Blocking is almost totally invincible in the game, the only exceptions being throws, being hit on the back or from above.

>>13478689
I thought Disgaea is usually the first game that gets emulated somewhat properly?

>>13469998
I played that at a friends house all the time when I was a kid, I remember it being hard as shit but good.

>>13478755
You'd think so, right? But I couldn't make it out overworld.

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Faselei. Simple and fun, albeit a bit easy. Plays a bit like front mission.

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Rengoku 2 is a weird ugly action dungeon crawl. You're a cyberrobot and you go and kill everything and get loot and upgrade yourself and kill everything more.
Looks better on a monitor than a psp. Nice way to kill a few minutes here and there.

Not pictured is my current build, all homing missiles so I basically run around and itano circus everything.

>>13479765
>In a nutshell Faselei! is a turn-based strategy-RPG where instead of controlling several characters to perform a single action in alternating turns, you control one character (a giant mecha) for several actions in each turn. You do this by queuing each of your actions and then letting them play out against the enemy's queued actions. The premise is that your mecha (or Toy Soldier, referred to as a TS), has a CPU which starts off with the ability to remember 5 actions, and can be upgraded to queue 6 and later 7 actions. Each action meanwhile is based on a series of "program chips" you collect.

So it's basically Front Mission meets Carnage Heart? I need this.

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There was this, it plays a little like Front Mission. Fully voiced, too.

>>13480111
Aren't those budget titles? I've played one of those on the DS, it was kinda shit.

>>13480156
Yes, they're budget as hell. But again, it was fully voiced. It even had an 'opening' and an 'ending' for each level/episode, which to be honest got kind of tiring but added to the animu charm.

>>13480156
>>13480292
If I recall right, being budget games the Simple Series gets a lot more freedom in experimental design, so there's no guarantee it'll always be raw kusoge with them.

>>13480361
This. Isn't that how the Earth Defense Force franchise essentially got born?

>>13478203
>one of the most famous arcade games of all time
>obscure
Maybe to an underage.

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PC game never

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These thread really help you find what you were missing.

>>13476234

I really need to check this.

>>13479765

Was this ever released elsewhere?

>>13485538
other than the NGPC?
I don't think so. Maybe a cell phone game?

>>13486463
>>Maybe a cell phone game?

I know that it's an unlikely dream but a compilation (cellphone, 3DS, anything) would be really nice to have.

>>13457784
Loved this.

I still remember making it to the final battle and then my character goes dark(the bad ending) and you end up having to murder all your friends to win. I was like WTF!

>>13489905
>I know that it's an unlikely dream but a compilation (cellphone, 3DS, anything) would be really nice to have.
double-checked a little bit, looks like I had it mixed up with something else, that was Neo Geo Pocket only according to hg101's writeup, at least