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Post by Joseph Joestar on Jul 28, 2014 14:22:04 GMT -5
Faria might count, but... it's apparently a guy's mind in a girl's body?
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Post by Jungyin on Jul 28, 2014 14:34:23 GMT -5
Yeah, though the player character being female at the beginning of the game wasn't entirely clear in NA if I recall. At least I didn't know until the king said he couldn't uphold the reward of the princess's hand in marriage due to me being a girl. The manual or back of the box might have said something, but I had neither. Then came the twist near the end which made my restarting the game to change my name after rescuing the princess pointless.
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Post by moran on Jul 28, 2014 15:10:00 GMT -5
How about Baseball Stars? It has a whole team of women, plus there is a woman option in the create-a-player menu.
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Post by Joseph Joestar on Jul 28, 2014 15:17:40 GMT -5
Yeah, though the player character being female at the beginning of the game wasn't entirely clear in NA if I recall. At least I didn't know until the king said he couldn't uphold the reward of the princess's hand in marriage due to me being a girl. The manual or back of the box might have said something, but I had neither. Then came the twist near the end which made my restarting the game to change my name after rescuing the princess pointless. Yeah, it was not made clear at all in the US version; it was weird seeing the cover of the Famicom version and lo and behold... |
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Post by Allie on Jul 28, 2014 15:21:54 GMT -5
Yeah, though the player character being female at the beginning of the game wasn't entirely clear in NA if I recall. At least I didn't know until the king said he couldn't uphold the reward of the princess's hand in marriage due to me being a girl. The manual or back of the box might have said something, but I had neither. Then came the twist near the end which made my restarting the game to change my name after rescuing the princess pointless. I tried to make myself play Faria. The whole concept just seemes completely cracked out (The weird looking town guards, the "It looks like the princess, but it's not!" with the forest insect thing, etc.) enough to be interesting... ...but ugh, those dungeon layouts, no thank you. I'm no good at drawing maps. |
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Post by Discoalucard on Jul 28, 2014 15:50:55 GMT -5
How about Baseball Stars? It has a whole team of women, plus there is a woman option in the create-a-player menu. Probably not, that's kind of doing down a rabbit hole. That sports game was only featured because it's an early noteable example. |
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Post by Amelia on Jul 28, 2014 16:59:43 GMT -5
You could also include Aphrodite from The Maze of Galious (MSX 1987).
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Post by moran on Jul 28, 2014 19:27:57 GMT -5
How about Baseball Stars? It has a whole team of women, plus there is a woman option in the create-a-player menu. Probably not, that's kind of doing down a rabbit hole. That sports game was only featured because it's an early noteable example. Got ya. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 10:08:50 GMT -5
Not sure if either one of these will count, but I'm going to mention them anyways:
- Anne from Jagur: Golden Triangle (MSX, 1987). While the game will always be started with Jeff, once you have gathered all the four members to your group in the first town, she's one of the characters that you can play as thereafter (there's only one level in the game where you're forced to play as Jeff alone).
- Arle Nadja from the Madou Monogatari series. While most of the Madou Monogatari games were released in the 90s, there was a prototype of Madou Monogatari Episode II: Carbuncle released in 1989 for the MSX2, in Disc Station Special 5: Christmas Edition issue.
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Post by Discoalucard on Jul 29, 2014 10:12:38 GMT -5
You could also include Aphrodite from The Maze of Galious (MSX 1987). She'd technically qualify, but she's just a pink palette swap of Popolon IIRC, which is hilariously lazy, so I don't think it counts enough to feature her. |
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Post by corsair on Jul 29, 2014 16:57:08 GMT -5
Would Christine from Arkista's Ring count? The game was physically released in 1990, but the copyright and trademark on the title screen is 1989. |
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Post by Narushima on Jul 30, 2014 19:05:33 GMT -5
That's all very interesting, good job!
Some notes:
Page 1:
"infamout" > infamous
"as a women" > woman
"she takes onto her old wooden broom" > gets onto?
"percentages" > is plural necessary?
"she gets it" > hit
"incontrollable" > uncontrollable
"a crush for a diver" > a crush on?
"Japanese computer game" > games
Page 2:
"swuitsuit" > swimsuit
"some of the more famous Japanese video game leading lady's Namco's Wonder Momo" > probably needs rephrasing
"it's damsel-in-distress" > its
Page 3:
In the Major Locke bit, the male hero is called Arcos ans Arkos
"fever" > fewer
"families old fashioned farm" > family's old-fashioned farm
"the disappearance of Chaney's Hill" > the disappearances?
"based based" > based
"where her go-getter attitude was replaced with a stereotypical Disney princess personality, and her primary goal is to find a man" > I feel like the auxiliairies (in red) should both be either present or past tense
"mata" > Mata
The link to the Final Fantasy II article leads to a 404 error
"the most remarkable aspect about her" > didn't establish who "her" is prior to that
"is a rather unremarkable" > should be "is rather unremarkable", since the noun completing this adjective (unremarkable) would be plural
The two covers of the White Lion Densetsu bit are just one image, but the clickable larger version shows only one
"Roberta Williams revisted in the murder mystery theme" > revisited the?
"find his lost beau" > her
"confident women" > woman
"Ellinoir" > Ellinor
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Post by moran on Jul 31, 2014 15:02:19 GMT -5
Konami Girl in Wai Wai World?
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Post by magus on Aug 3, 2014 13:13:32 GMT -5
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Post by llj on Aug 4, 2014 11:23:13 GMT -5
You could also include Aphrodite from The Maze of Galious (MSX 1987). She'd technically qualify, but she's just a pink palette swap of Popolon IIRC, which is hilariously lazy, so I don't think it counts enough to feature her. Or...you could look at it like Popolon is a blue palette swap of Aphrodite. It's all in the mind, maaaan! |
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