Earthbound, which in many ways was just an extremely quirky Dragon Quest clone, was actually one of the best-localized games of my childhood. While there was a bunch of censorship and a few localization changes, the US version of the game managed to have both a decent fidelity to the original and a ton of personality.

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A romhack of A Link to the Past that was advertised as being “relatively low difficulty.” I’m not sure what scale they’re using for that because sure, it isn’t Parallel Worlds bullshit, but it’s a fair sight harder than vanilla.

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8 Links (Puzzle/Casual, PC game) - A very simple game of dragging links with prongs in various directions onto a 4x4 grid and trying to make them connect up. If you get enough connections, you can bank them and remove those tiles, making room for more and giving you points. Another fun little casual game.

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Wyldvir (standalone ttrpg) - A relatively rules-light system where everyone has a small amount of elemental wild magic (based on their race and home city) and wizards can have more. It supports combat, but clearly isn’t designed around it-even the monster descriptions indicate you’re supposed to wear them out and tame them, not hurt them. Mostly, ( Read more... )

A number of the games “included in this bundle” are, in fact, free-to-play browser games. That feels disingenuous.

Basil goes O.U.T.S.I.D.E. (Platformer, Browser game) - Basil is a little purple man who wakes up in a cave and goes on an adventure that leads to him dying a lot, because touching most things kills him instantly. You have to love wall- ( Read more... )

Something’s gone wrong with the elemental crystals (again) and this time they shatter, but grant four warriors power through the remaining shards. Those warriors are tasked with saving two worlds from an evil sealed by the previous generation of heroes.

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Castlevania Legends (GB, Replayed on Gambatte on RG350) - Improvements over the other Game Boy Castlevania games: There are dead ends and alternate paths; the game isn’t just a single straight line. The five hidden objects that lead to the best ending offer replayability. There’s an Easy mode. Cons: Pretty much everything it keeps. The power-ups ( Read more... )

There is a tower that is said to lead to Paradise. You’re gonna climb it.

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King Magridd made a deal with the demon Deathtoll to trade all the souls in his kingdom for gold. When the kingdom stood empty, the Master sent down an angel to destroy the monsters that sealed the souls: A Soul Blazer.

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This game doesn’t offer a New Game Plus…unless you use the hack that provides it. It rearranges a bunch of items so you get the best equipment and most of the mobility relics early, opening up more of the game and dropping the difficulty for most of it.

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