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Post by Discoalucard on Jul 13, 2017 21:52:15 GMT -5
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Post by GamerL on Jul 13, 2017 23:21:53 GMT -5
What is the image on the right referencing?
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Post by mainpatr on Jul 13, 2017 23:40:20 GMT -5
What is the image on the right referencing? Oneechanbara.
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Post by kaoru on Jul 14, 2017 1:45:36 GMT -5
No, it's the cover to The Ninkyou / Yakuza Fury. The Oneechanbaras are by Tamsoft, of Battle Arena Toshinden fame, not by Vingt-et-Un Systems.
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Post by JoeQ on Jul 14, 2017 4:41:57 GMT -5
This is one of those games that have bizarrely appreciated in price. Used copies on eBay regularly go for 20-30€.
I think you should clarify this a bit, since it doesn't mean that the European version is region free, it just has the option select 50Hz (PAL) or 60Hz (NTSC) refresh rate.
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Post by Discoalucard on Jul 14, 2017 9:30:56 GMT -5
That should be obvious though, all PS2 titles are region locked.
I actually didn't know this was released in Europe. I had picked up the Japanese version when it came out because just the title was enough to get it onto the major blogs at the time. I never put any significant time into it though. Anyway, it seems that that version can still be had dirt cheap, new copies on Amazon JP are 2700 yen and used ones are 200 yen.
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Post by Arale on Jul 14, 2017 10:42:29 GMT -5
I sometimes wonder how many interesting gems might be buried in the piles and piles of the simple series. "The Tairyou Jigoku" is one interesting one that I've found, but it's fairly undocumented.
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Post by toei on Jul 14, 2017 16:46:02 GMT -5
I sometimes wonder how many interesting gems might be buried in the piles and piles of the simple series. "The Tairyou Jigoku" is one interesting one that I've found, but it's fairly undocumented. I can't speak of those that stayed in Japan, but I've tried most of the PAL releases (there's quite a few) and so far, the only good to decent ones I've found were those 4 Vingt-Et-Un Systems games: Yakuza Fury, Splatter Master, Adventures of Darwin (which also got a NA release) and Zombie Virus. All-Star Fighters is sort of half-decent, and it's interesting in that its characters are from the more popular Simple 2000 games (it's mostly women in bikinis) but realistically there are dozens and dozens of better SF2-style fighters. I've heard good things about Global Defence Force, though it's not really up my alley. There's a 3D fighter by Opus (makers of Half-Minute Hero) that would be okay if it were more responsive (Hard Knock High, with a pretty cool single-player mode ). In general, you can assume that all of Tamsoft's games in the series are pretty awful. The best is probably that one 3D beat-'em-up they made involving juvenile delinquents, the PAL title escapes me. It's broken and ugly but still kind of fun. I wonder if Tamsoft ever made anything good besides Guardian Knight?
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Post by GamerL on Jul 14, 2017 21:17:37 GMT -5
As a big fan of the PS2 and all the oddball games that came out for it, it always bums me out when an interesting one never made it stateside.
I still want to play Michigan: Report from Hell.
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Post by DrakeDwarf on Jul 15, 2017 4:59:53 GMT -5
I sometimes wonder how many interesting gems might be buried in the piles and piles of the simple series. "The Tairyou Jigoku" is one interesting one that I've found, but it's fairly undocumented. The shittiest of shit of Simple series, the anti-gem: "Party Girls" CERO 18+ in Japan, PEGI 3 outside Japan (WTF)As a big fan of the PS2 and all the oddball games that came out for it, it always bums me out when an interesting one never made it stateside. I still want to play Michigan: Report from Hell. I will always remember Michigan for being that one game published without Suda even knowing it.
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Post by kaoru on Jul 15, 2017 5:21:26 GMT -5
The Simple series even includes low budget re-releases of more high profile games. Bust-A-Move, Gundam: Battle Assault or Puzzle Quest got Simple releases in Japan for example.
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