NAMCO thread

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I was going to make a Namco thread. I've been playing a lot of their arcade games recently, like Burning Force. Excellent game, and it has my favorite high score/initial entry tune of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWbTKq_1Xm0

>>3268171
You mean NAMCOT

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Favourite Babylonian Castle Saga game? mine would be Return of Ishtar (pic unrelated because quest of ki has the better box art)

https://www.strawpoll.me/10394056

>>3268410
If we go way back until a certain point in time yea, I know they were Namcot for a while. Next time I'll update the text.

>>3268410
A pedantic faggot appears. Right on cue

>>3268171
>>3268410
You mean NAMGOAT

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>>3268189
I fucking love Burning Force and Hiromi

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>>3269909
80s anime girls in hot pink, sexy space suits with mech accoutrements are the best waifus. This is why modern anime / Japan is failing.

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Best Namco game coming through. Also love the style of their PC Engine game cases.

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>>3268171
This seems to be a lesser known Namco game but what are everyones thoughts on this?

I think it's kind of shit, the story is nothing that special and the music is completely forgettable, but I liked the hack-n-slash gameplay and I thought being able to do a bunch of different moves in combat added some variety to it.

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>>3269926
I would love to own the arcade board.

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there will never be another game like Klonoa:Door to Phantomile

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>>3268425

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>>3272178
and Censored version for the sensitive people out there.

>>3269973
lunateas veil for ps2

>>3272184
thanks but now it looks like they have genitalia on their arms.

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>>3268410
>>3268426
Namcot was the consumer division of Namco. It only applied to console and PC ports.

Dumping Taco X's review of Genpei from Famitsu.

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>>3272536

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>>3272539

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>>3269931
I haven't played it too much. I think the thing I liked the most about it was the serious-looking character art. It felt like an average beatemup, though I've been meaning to get back into it.

>>3269930
This game's quite the adventure. The later levels absolutely kill me though. I don't think I've made it past the floating castle.

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>>3268425
The Return of Ishtar is such a frustrating and obtuse game. How are you supposed to know where to go? Which of the dozen doors on any given floor to go through? Where to find necessary treasures and keys? Secrets? How are you supposed to keep your lunkhead Gil alive other than just parking him in the corner somewhere and letting you do all the work?

I think the farthest I got was 8 or so rooms into the game, before bullshit like bats kill me off.

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Anyone else here play Dirt Dash? I first played it at this great arcade my parents would take me to when I was about 6 or 7. Something about the music really stuck with me, and now whenever I hear that style of Namco's 90s music, I think about that arcade (closed around 2005)

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>>3273489
Ishtar is designed to be played with 2 players. Strategywiki has a very comprehensive guide for it, as well as Tower of Druaga.

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>>3273489
i love the art style of this series so much i wish they released a artbook that features the illustrations they showed in Namco Museum vol 3 with Tower of druaga

>>3272472
wasnt as good as door to phantomile imo, it was still a fun game though

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>>3273503
Slightly related, but didn't they release, years and years ago, a book called Namco Graffiti that had a lot of their magazine art in it?

lol at Ki being the cover girl for like every issue, for some reason.

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>>3274070
>Slightly related, but didn't they release, years and years ago, a book called Namco Graffiti that had a lot of their magazine art in it?
It was basically an omnibus edition of their Monthly NG magazine.

>>3274609
I've been trying to get a complete copy of it (with the CD) but it's been prohibitively expensive.

I need to get a scanner going, eventually I want to archive the NG issues I've got (about 30 of them).