The First RPG Session of the Neo Arcadia Cast! In this episode, you will meet Alucard the Fox Ranger, Zeke, the Badger Medic, and Eric Burdon, the Gorilla Fighter, and watch them potentially botch up a stealth mission.
Mind your Volume a bit, as I was recording rather loudly, and before I did anything about it, I let my PC's SFX slip and it was a mite annoying. No prizes for figuring out what those SFX Came from.
As a bit of an aside note, this RPG takes a number of cues from the Webcomic DreamKeepers, a rather well-done Graphic Novel Series which has a Prequel Webcomic aptly named Prelude. Have a read of either one. They're both quite nice tales.
Edit: Download Link, Ho!
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
The Adventures of Hourai High School Review
Hey, hey! We're not dead! Well, while we are still on our stint of hiatus, I feel it appropriate that we (and by we, I mean I, the great and powerful AdamTheHedgehog) need to freshen up this blog with a new post. Today's post is, *GASP* a Review?!
Anyway, the Game is Called Hourai Gauken, or for those of you who found the more recent translation patch for it, "The Adventures of Hourai High School: Transfer Student Drama Bomb"! Try saying the English title 5 times. To describe it in as few words as humanly possible, it's basically what would happen if you took Earthbound, gave it a Final Fantasy V-esque class system, then blended it thoroughly into a High School setting for good measure.
Basically, you're a transfer student in Japan headed to Utsuho Island (not to be confused with the Touhou Character, Utsuho) to attend school at Hourai High. But, when you were supposed to get there by plane, the pilots fell asleep and went off course, so, in an outrage, you talk to the stewardess about how you'll be late. Fed up with your complaining, the Stewardess takes the proactive approach; She gives you a parachute, says "Now you'll be the first one there. Bon Voyage!", and pushes you out of the plane.You would've gone splat, had the parachutes not deployed in time.
After the stewardess shoves you out, you end up skydiving the school when, get this: The Parachutes break when you get to the assembly hall. Thus, you end up crashing through the roof, and fall on a dude named Roko, who, as you learn, works for the Newspaper known as Hourai Sports, or Hospo. You meet the gang, and henceforth gain a new party member named Hidachi, and you get his partners Horo and Hiroko later on. Hidachi's specialty? He practices Kendo. Probably the best thing about Hourai High is that, like in the SNES Final Fantasy Games, you're given the opportunity to pick and choose classes for you and your friends. However, like in an actual High School setting, they're called Clubs. There are 3 different types of Clubs: Athletics, Cultural, and Science. Athletics Clubs include Cheerleading, Baseball, and Kendo, Scientific Clubs include things like Surgery, Computers, and Physics, and Cultural includes things like Theater, Gaming, and Anime. Naturally, as you and your intrepid friend, Hidachi are journalists, you have to examine some of the goings on in the school. As the intro explains, Students rule Horai, and two common enemy factions you encounter are the Safety Committee and the Patrol Squad, who make sure the students have as little fun as possible.
Like in Earthbound, Battles take place in a First-Person perspective, with each of your four(of eight) party members at the bottom. Status effects are pretty standard fare for a typical RPG, but the names of them are anything but. a few examples include:
Some of your (Mis)Adventures include things like investigating the actions of the Student Committee, enduring a bizarre Jungle Joust, Finding the Whereabouts of Exam Papers, and even sneaking into the Girl's Dorm to shut down a Hacked Computer that's making everything go nuts around the school!
The only real problem I see in this game is that, as with many ROM Translations like it, even a fully translated game will have bugs, this game notwithstanding. Most of them are simple graphical errors, but some may end up needing you to reset the game, and sometimes, you may lose your saved game. So, exercise caution when playing.
Overall, it's another one of Aeon Genesis' better translated games, along with the first two Shin Megami Tensei games for the Super Nintendo, Ball Bullet Gun, Live a Live, and Act Raiser.
I give it Recommended, especially for fans of Earthbound like games.
Hourai Gouken's translation patch can be found here: http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=hourai
Have fun, kids!
Anyway, the Game is Called Hourai Gauken, or for those of you who found the more recent translation patch for it, "The Adventures of Hourai High School: Transfer Student Drama Bomb"! Try saying the English title 5 times. To describe it in as few words as humanly possible, it's basically what would happen if you took Earthbound, gave it a Final Fantasy V-esque class system, then blended it thoroughly into a High School setting for good measure.
Basically, you're a transfer student in Japan headed to Utsuho Island (not to be confused with the Touhou Character, Utsuho) to attend school at Hourai High. But, when you were supposed to get there by plane, the pilots fell asleep and went off course, so, in an outrage, you talk to the stewardess about how you'll be late. Fed up with your complaining, the Stewardess takes the proactive approach; She gives you a parachute, says "Now you'll be the first one there. Bon Voyage!", and pushes you out of the plane.You would've gone splat, had the parachutes not deployed in time.
After the stewardess shoves you out, you end up skydiving the school when, get this: The Parachutes break when you get to the assembly hall. Thus, you end up crashing through the roof, and fall on a dude named Roko, who, as you learn, works for the Newspaper known as Hourai Sports, or Hospo. You meet the gang, and henceforth gain a new party member named Hidachi, and you get his partners Horo and Hiroko later on. Hidachi's specialty? He practices Kendo. Probably the best thing about Hourai High is that, like in the SNES Final Fantasy Games, you're given the opportunity to pick and choose classes for you and your friends. However, like in an actual High School setting, they're called Clubs. There are 3 different types of Clubs: Athletics, Cultural, and Science. Athletics Clubs include Cheerleading, Baseball, and Kendo, Scientific Clubs include things like Surgery, Computers, and Physics, and Cultural includes things like Theater, Gaming, and Anime. Naturally, as you and your intrepid friend, Hidachi are journalists, you have to examine some of the goings on in the school. As the intro explains, Students rule Horai, and two common enemy factions you encounter are the Safety Committee and the Patrol Squad, who make sure the students have as little fun as possible.
Like in Earthbound, Battles take place in a First-Person perspective, with each of your four(of eight) party members at the bottom. Status effects are pretty standard fare for a typical RPG, but the names of them are anything but. a few examples include:
- Happy - Causes a Regeneration Effect, at the chance of losing Intellect at Each Turn.
- Daze - Unable to Act
- Time Out - Dead. Curable with Houraitimin (basically, a Phoenix Down)
- Pumped! - Probably a Status effect meaning that the person under it can deal more damage.
- Doze - Asleep. Curable with skills like "Stay Alert", and things like canned coffee.
Some of your (Mis)Adventures include things like investigating the actions of the Student Committee, enduring a bizarre Jungle Joust, Finding the Whereabouts of Exam Papers, and even sneaking into the Girl's Dorm to shut down a Hacked Computer that's making everything go nuts around the school!
The only real problem I see in this game is that, as with many ROM Translations like it, even a fully translated game will have bugs, this game notwithstanding. Most of them are simple graphical errors, but some may end up needing you to reset the game, and sometimes, you may lose your saved game. So, exercise caution when playing.
Overall, it's another one of Aeon Genesis' better translated games, along with the first two Shin Megami Tensei games for the Super Nintendo, Ball Bullet Gun, Live a Live, and Act Raiser.
I give it Recommended, especially for fans of Earthbound like games.
Hourai Gouken's translation patch can be found here: http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=hourai
Have fun, kids!
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Neo Arcadia cast Episode 30 Gexup
This episode is dedicated to special guest Gexup from the Boochow Radio podcast. He is both a close friend and a survivor of the Japan disaster. This is by far our longest episodes and one of my favorite. The audio is a little loud at first but gets better part way through.
Gexup's youtube
Download mp3
Saturday, May 14, 2011
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