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Looks like our winner is Phantasy Star IV! I've never played it more than a couple of minutes before, so I'm looking forward to getting into it.

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Patience was a huge factor, sure. We generally didn't own many games so we had to stick it out with the ones we did own. Of course, sometimes we got a little help from Nintendo Power (I certainly remember seeing Milon's Secret Castle in the Classified Information or Counselor's Corner) or some...

2 lengthy RPGs in a holiday month? No thanks. I'll flip a coin!

You just gotta be among the first 10 people to make a nomination! Next nomination round should be the last week of December. Not like anything else is going on then.

When I was eight years old this was the soundtrack to my life. 30 years later and I still love it.

You gotta be kidding me with this "it's" shit. The bard is clearly animated as singing his song, even though he says it has no words. This was cute. The timeless trio: Mirror, Ball and Stick. Soul Blazer with the life lessons!

Again with the "it's"... Damn straight! So not worth it... (Spoilered for ending content) (Spoilered for tricky emblem)

I had forgotten I had an active IMGUR account. Here's a few screen grabs: That's how you do toilet humor. "It's animals"??? Goddamn, this shit drives me crazy. Super Bracelet, bitches! Yeah, every moment counts. Our lifespan is one year. Let's race SNAILS.

Rygar was also one of the first games I owned! My dad actually woke me and my brother up one night because he had reached the last boss and wanted us to watch him beat it. Wasn't until years later that I was able to beat the game myself. It's really not half bad as a Metroidvania lite, although...

Kickle Cubicle is one of my favorite puzzle games. I've come back to it many times over the years.

I was a SNES guy, so I only played a few Genesis RPGs at my Sega buddys' house once in a while. My first Phantasy Star was III, and I loved it. The graphics were crisp and vibrant, the soundtrack was impactful, and it had a sense of progress (at least for the bit I played). It wasn't until many...

The poll for December's game is already up! We're not taking any more nominations until the last week of December.

Earthworm Jim is available on Steam, but unfortunately it's the worst possible version of the game. You get the graphics of the Genesis version with none of the Genesis-exclusive levels and none of the Sega CD Special Edition features, and it ain't cheap either (11 bucks CDN). Very...

Here's the crop of nominations for December's RGOTM. This time we've got a C64 game in the bunch, although it's also available on NES so it's still pretty accessible. A 2000 Windows game, too, which has no nostalgic value for me but it got some solidarities so I included it. There are also a...

Now accepting nominations for December's Retro Game of the Month. 1 nomination per person, first 10 will become part of the poll.

This is the thread we'll come back to every month to decide what next month's game nominations will be. We're going to try to stick to games we have had reasonable access to growing up, so mainly stuff from the NES, SNES, and Genesis eras (although there's no reason we can't make exceptions...

Yeah, Faxanadu has a lot of flaws that make it difficult to play today. If I were to go back to it now I would definitely use a guide, I have nowhere near the patience it would require to figure out how to get through that game blind.

I usually play until that part where you have to scale a wall being assembled by falling blocks. That part's bullshit.

For the sake of completion, I looked up how to find the last 2 emblems I was missing. One of them (F) I had missed because I didn't follow an NPC's advice well enough. The other (G) I doubt I would have ever found without help, as unless I missed something it doesn't seem the game gives you any...

Alright! Finally beat Soul Blazer again for the first time since my teens. In fact, I'm almost certain I followed the exact same steps I did all those years ago: Gain access to the last boss, spend a bunch of time retracing my steps trying to find the last 2 emblems, failing, then beating the...

Found this while looking for images:

The sunlight on the snowy mountains in the background of the mountain stage is gorgeous.

We'll do another nomination/voting round during the last week of November. I'll probably restrict it to one nomination per person and cut off nominations at 10, though, so we don't have too big a list to choose from.

I loved Secret of Mana, but the combat is pretty awful. The only "skill" is trying to time your strikes around enemy invincibility frames, but you'll still regularly miss with no indication why. There are several reasons why I'd consider SOM a better game overall, but give me Soul Blazer's...

What does "muh vagina" have to do with it? It's a game with a clever mechanic that does zero handholding and forces the player to use their actual wits and deductive skills to piece together what happened. It's not a game you can come back to and play repeatedly, but it was really unique and...

I played another couple of hours yesterday and learned that Soul Blazer is not the best game to play after having a few beers. At my best I've never been great at spacial awareness and being able to keep track of my location in an area. Post-booze, I was backtrackin' and loopin' like a madman...

I'm gonna stream my progress for maybe a couple of hours.

Yeah, even as a teen I was impressed with the strafing animation. Nice attention to detail.

My friend @Mire used to own this game and beat it several times. I asked him today about the lettered emblems because I didn't want to later find myself in a position where it might be too late to get a specific one. He assured me that you can always backtrack to get the ones you haven't found...

I definitely picked up on the same damage grunt, but I can't believe I missed the metallic clang!

So I put about 3 1/2 hours in today. I beat the mermaid level, so I already got further than I did the last time I played. It's kind of reminding me of Zelda 3 with how nice it feels to swing that sword around. Unlike Zelda, though, there's no knockback. Instead, enemies are briefly stunned so...

I was actually just wondering if the same team developed both games. I didn't realize Soul Blazer was a spinoff, but there are definite thematic connections. In both games, you go back and forth between real-time sword-slashing action and town-based segments. The actions in one mode feed into...

I have had mixed results using these as pickup lines.

The only ones I played all the way through were the Back to the Future games, which I quite enjoyed. Despite the fact that they got Christopher Lloyd and a great Marty sound-alike, I still find it hard to consider the events of the games as taking place in the same universe as the movies. I was...

Well they are both in my Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Classics collections, so I'm game! I'm embarrassed to say I've never really played much of either.

Personally, I'm looking forward to playing this again. I did beat it in my teens, but the last time I gave it a genuine effort a few years ago I got stuck in the mermaid town with no idea how to progress. I'm hoping I won't find myself in the same predicament this time. @Szlia is correct in...

Yes, November started a while ago, but that's no reason we can't discuss this classic gem from Enix's pre-Square merger heyday! Soul Blazer (SNES) Wikipedia Blurb: Soul Blazer, known in Japan as Soul Blader (ソウルブレイダー Sōru Bureidā), is an action role-playing game for the Super NES...