#famicom rpg

Dark Lord (ダークロード  1991)

Game Review: Lagrange Point

Taking place in the distant future at a space colony, the people of these locations are under siege of engineered creatures gone rouge. My first impressions were on the music as it is the only Famicom game to ever make use of the VRC7 chip, giving it a sound comparable to that of the SEGA Genesis. A unique change of typical 8-Bit music. There are arranged albums and the OST on vinyl so it is definitely worth putting on my wishlist to get.

The different cutscenes of traveling are very satisfying to watch. Spritework is definitely a quality I judge in story-based RPGS. Every character is enjoyable as well, the game has a fun atmosphere and the antagonists are cartoonishly villainy. More than three characters can be recruited and the extras would stay in a lounge at a satellite base. There is replay value with the game to use those extra characters because some NPCs would have unique dialogue towards characters you picked to walk around as in the party.

There are many items to collect and use which relate to the progress of the story. Battle combat is in typical RPG fashion of either manually deciding moves or an auto-battle feature, but what I like about the auto-battle is that each character has their own tactic. They would say a battle charge and do their stuff, specials or healing focused, depending on who’s leading. There’s also a thing called ‘techs’ that can be used during or out of battle. Can be for healing or whatever, but I like that Gene has one that’s called ‘cheer’ and it cures nervousness to ‘hype’ up the person. Other ailments present can be ‘maimed’ or ‘anemia’. Buy eyewash or iron-pills to help yourself about it.