Why had I never heard about this before? it kicks so much ass. it also feels remarkably ahead of its time

>>3792521 (OP)
It didn't get fan translated until 2022 (the PSX version, Saturn 2023) and youtubers didn't boost it for like another year after that.

>>3792550
you know that is a pretty good reason.

>>3792550
That's not right. It was on the ps2. I made a whole thread about it back when the board was new

>>3792562
Okay but the remake looks like a pretty pure downgrade, I'm not too surprised that I never saw this game.

>>3792562
anime

>>3792521 (OP)
i actually played through this for the first time a month or two ago and it was great. really, deeply strange game, very interesting, with a completely insane story. i hate 99% of roguelikes and roguelites so when i say i liked this game a lot it's kind of surprising even to myself.

>>3792521 (OP)
god it's fucking dogshit.
It's not worth anyone's time.

>>3792636
I disagree

Was this the one that gave you a powerful weapon but if you used it, the game would block progress and force NG+?

>>3792665
I could see someone telling you this game worked like that but it's not right

>>3792665
sorta. it gives you a powerful weapon, that if used in a single particular context will give you an ending, but not one that progresses you towards the true ending. it doesn't lock you out of running other endings. There's also a much later situation where if you have used it during that run, you will have to start over, but you really should know better by then. also a third instance where a character will reward you with a nice stat upgrade if you haven't used it. "forcing ng+" is misleading, you will always need multiple runs to complete the game, it's a roguelike, you need to do multiple dungeon runs just to progress certain variables, in that sense there's a ton of things that will "force ng+" since the true ending needs various criteria

>>3792670
I see. The person only talked about the There's also a much later situation where if you have used it during that run, you will have to start over, but you really should know better by then. bit and made it seem like there were multiple of these across the entire game.

So is the PS1 port mostly identical with the original version or do I really need to setup a Sega Saturn emulator to play this?

Sex with God

>>3792678
I've only played through the PSX version and enjoyed it but the Saturn one did look better visually. If you can imagine yourself playing through a really long and difficult postgame roguelike dungeon only the PSX has that.

>>3792678
ps1 game unnecessarily adds more dungeon floors in a game that felt perfectly paced on saturn, and it adds a post game dungeon I could never imagine playing