Super Famicom RPGs, Part 5 - SNESdrunk 

PART ONE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u8Fgv3XbZfw.html PART TWO: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lP57dnJdu1k.html PART THREE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xrM25PYW3wo.html PART FOUR: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_zP5Xte-c1U.html

Hey, cool! Thanks for the love! I really liked working on Slayers, Lodoss, and Gulliver Boy. I glad they are a part of your series!

Ah Slayers, also known to Italian TV audiences as _"A spell hatched between the petals of time for Rina"_ I'm not even joking, that was the title they rolled with.

You're the only channel on youtube who cares if I have a great rest of my day. I WILL, and subbed.

After four years, JJBA has become so ubiquitous that it's kind of hard to imagine someone being unfamiliar with it

The Dragon Ball Z RPG was a really interesting game for its time, and I still really appreciate some of things it did. It's an extremely faithful retelling of the story up to Freeza that allows the player the chance to alter history: (It's been almost twenty years since I've played it, but if I recall correctly...) You can keep characters like Yamcha alive and playable all the way through Namek if you train them enough to not die in the battles they canonically did, which can make the game easier. On the other hand, allowing characters to die when they are supposed to unlocks cutscenes, special dialogue, and occasionally special powers for your existing characters. It gives the game a replayability many RPGs lack, and fans of the show should enjoy getting to monkey with the continuity if they so desire. Lastly, while I think you're right on the graphics being pretty "rough", I feel that's more than compensated for by how well animated it is, and the attention to detail the devs had for all the shows little quirks. You can walk or fly on the map. If you "sprint" while flying, you're surrounded by energy. Neat! But it's really all about the random battles. The game is a grindfest, with little else to do but run through random encounters until you feel sufficiently powerful enough to tackle the boss of the area, (for better or worse this is very accurate to the source material) but thankfully random battles are actually pretty fun to mess around in thanks to the animation and character details. Every single character has multiple special moves taken from the show, all nicely animated, and occasionally with cartoony cutscenes, and even regular attacks are diverse: The power of the card you choose affects the animation of the attack, from flurries of punches or kicks to piledriving downward blows and kicks up into the air. The animation also changes depending on your relative power level: Fight someone much stronger than you and they won't even flinch as you strike them. Fight someone much weaker and you can punch them across the screen, triggering cutscenes where you knock them through mountains or pound them into the dirt, complete with explosion and crater. Fight over water and you instead knock them into the drink. Turn-based RPGs just didn't have attack animations anything close to this at the time, and heck, they still don't! Whatever the game lacks in substance -- and it may lack quite a lot -- it makes up for in style to spare. Kinda like the show itself. Not for non-fans, but if you love DBZ, or at least have memories of loving it once, long ago when you were young, I think it's absolutely worth a play.

I'm not a huge Sailor Moon fan, but that SNES midi version of the main theme started making me nostalgic.

As if your channel doesn't introduce me to enough classic games to play as it is, now it's reminding me of classic anime I badly need to watch on top of that like Slayers and Record of Lodoss War. Damn you (in a thankful way), SNESdrunk!

We need a part 6 with Arabian Nights: Sabaku no Seirei Ou, Chou Mahou Tairiku Wozz, Emerald Dragon, Eien no Filena, Magna Braban, Hourai Gakuen no Bouken and Nekketsu Tairiku Burning Heroes - they all got English fan translations by now :D Please make it happen! Thanks ^^

My very first emulated game was Tenchi Muyo. I was a huge mark for it when I was 10 or so and thrilled to find a game based on it that we never got. It may well have been my first SRPG too!

Thank you for taking your time to summarize the games. What a nostalgic treat watching your vids. Keep them coming.

This was a really good series. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

The Dragon Ball Z game was also a remake and combination of two of the NES games so that's why the graphics aren't so hot. It's only slightly redrawn and re-shaded from its 8-bit counterparts.

Great to see you cover Rama~XDD its a fun game really. if you live in Asia in the 90's, Rama is so famous especially in Japan that no need to explain why and how its more like a continuation of the anime. Sad that kids after that era dont see Rama the way we old ppl sees it.

I played so much of the DBZ and Sailormoon RPG on a PC emulator...great games. The DBZ game for SNES is my favorite Dragonball Z game to this date.

Really cool video. I’m a fan of Sailor Moon and I enjoyed how the game combined enemies from all three first seasons (and movies) in a way that kind of makes sense. For fans of the show, it gives you a brief glimpse of Queen Beryl before going corrupt, something that the anime never showed. Gameplay-wise, it was nice to be able to discover special attack combinations between two or three se senshis, and some combinations were never showed before in the anime or manga. Thank you for a great video, once again.

It's funny hearing you say the Sailor Moon game is hard. For anyone interested in playing it, use Mercury every chance you get if you want the game on easy mode. Use her Bubbles Blast attack and no matter who the enemy is- random battle, boss, even final boss- they can't do more than 2-6 points of damage anymore.

These were definitely some of the best RPG'S I have ever played. And the fact that I loved these anime made it even better.

This was a fantastic series. Really appreciate your hard work put into this.

Slayers is a great anime/manga rpg adaption. been playing this with eng patch since the late 90s. Retains the series humor. thanks for covering it.

Every time you say "Breath of Fire" series, an angel is born ^__^

Thank you for this series! Very informative to RPG fans

in every part I find at least 1 game that looks interesting to me so thank you for making these

I see Sailor Moon. I click like

You never heard of JoJo? I'm not into anime but it's a really famous series. Damn, when I was playing all these SNES RPGs in my youth I really wanted to play the Record of Lodoss War one but it wasn't translated yet.

I'm watching these back to back with Romhacking open in another tab grabbing those patches. We need more of these! lol

BEST INTRO SO FAR

So a game I discovered recently with a solid translation that would be an excellent contender for the next list would be Metal Max Returns. I mean, coming of age tale about a guy who rolls around in tanks with his buddies in a post apocalyptic world (with familiar but fairly unique RPG mechanics), how could you go wrong?

I really enjoyed all 5 parts of this series!

In case you didn't know, there is a cool Dragon Ball Z RPG for Nintendo DS called DBZ Attack of the Saiyans. Man, I'd really love a sequel, since it only covers Vegeta saga.

I adored the 'Magic Knight Rayearth' game as a child and it was one of the first RPGs I played from start to finish...without realizing there were two endings to the game. Before playing it, the only thing from CLAMP that I was aware of was Cardcaptors and had no idea of their other series like MKR or Tsubasa Reservoir. I definitely agree that the game was kind of simplistic, but all of the powers, Guardian Spirits and the story really sucked me in - especially the ending as I hadn't played a game before that that had a Pyrrhic victory as an ending. Sailor Moon: Another Story was a very welcome surprise when I discovered it as I was a fan of the show and I totally agree with all the points you made in your video!

This was a cool idea for a series. Thx for doing it.

Ages ago, my sister actually played through the Sailor Moon game (emulated, of course). She took the time to grind until everyone on her party was max level. She was somewhat upset with how easy the final boss ended up being. :P Yes, my sister can be quite hardcore. I remember playing through that DBZ game, I didn't think it was horrible besides the looks, but then, again, that was a long time ago. I don't think it would hold my attention that much nowadays. As for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, I'm kinda surprised to learn that this game exists. First time I heard of the series was with that Capcom fighting game (itself based on the third Jojo series, Stardust Crusaders, just like this RPG). As for your channel, I discovered it recently and already got through quite a lot of your videos. :) Keep it up! Keep'em coming! ;)

Been wanting to play that sailor moon rpg forever.

I gotta get that Ranma game. I downloaded an emulator years ago, but it was in Japanese. Guess I'll look for it again. Nice video!

Honestly, If you want to play a JoJo turn-based JRPG, I'd recommend The Seventh Stand User. It's an RPG maker game, where you make your own character and join the Stardust Crusaders to defeat Dio. A personaly test determines which one of the 18 availible Stands you get, and with multiple endings and many easter eggs, makes it a terrific Jojo experience.

Thanks for covering these!

This is a pretty interesting video series. Kudos on the encyclopedic format and knowledge for each one of them. It turns your work into great "bookshelf" material for future reference. I hope there's a part 6 in the works; it'd be fun to know about two of the Nintendo Japan Only RPG series (at the SFC time at least): Fire Emblem (IV is incredible and one of the franchise's best) and Famicom Wars (the prequels to the cult series Advance Wars). I just found your channel and been enjoying your videos so far. Keep up the good work.

6:27 "Oh to hell with it, SPECIAL BEAAAAM CANNNNOONNNNNN~"

Love this series!

When watching these back to back, you really use "scratch that itch" too much I have to say. haha

Hey dude ur vids always make me smile

Nerd in 2016 and you haven't heard of Jojo? Man, we must live in different worlds. I haven't watched an anime in ten years and I still see jojo shit *everywhere*

A lot of these games (particularly Slayers, Tenchi Muyo, and Sailor Moon, and Lodoss) are on my list of games to pick up reproduction carts for eventually. I played a lot of these WAY back in the day when many were still not translated, and of course I got no where with them. Another great entry into this series!

Great stuff SNES Drunk! This all the more pretty much tells me the SNES is a god given RPG machine haha!

JoJos bizarre adventure is a great anime i recommend it.

Back when I was a kid Slayers was my fav Anime i knew out of like probably 25-30 i knew of back at the time like 20 years ago. Ranma was so saucy back then. XD

Lodoss Wars started as a DnD campaign popularized in the media with novelizations and quite successfully so. This RPG covers parts of that pre-anime story. The anime is a sequel to those original DnD campaigns. There is now also a newish metroidvania indie game in the Lodoss Wars universe but based more on the anime characters and play as the elf waifu. It's decent if you like these games but apparently quite short.

I need a translation for a Legend of the Galactic Heroes game!

I remember having playing the Tenchi Muyo game. The series hadn't arrived to Chile and neither the patch but the game was so simple you could still play it. Ryoko, who at the time I just called "ghost girl", was OP. She could teleport through enemies and had close and long range abilities.

Big Slayers fan here too. Didn' t get to know if Jojo' s Bizarre Adventure has openworld or different movement modes or exploring, or it' s just what we see (combat & cards). Another great job, SnesDrunk.

I did not know there was a Tenchi game. OMG imma have to check it out

Best intro

2016..... "jojo's bizarre adventure... never heard of it *shrug*". Such innocent times.

Fun fact: Record of the Lodoss War was actually originally a Table Top RPG that got adapted into a light novel than anime.

number five already? awesome!

I didn't know about Jojo until a few months ago (heck, I didn't even know Toonami still existed until I heard of the new season of Samurai Jack, hurray for live streams) and it's a great show, the best anime I've seen in recent years. The game you showed looks like it's based on another Jojo so I'll have to wait until I see it's corresponding anime to check it out. I suppose I'll enjoy it more that way. The one I'm definitely checking out right now is Gulliver Boy. It looks really, really fun.

Jojos bazaar adventure is in my top 5 anime of all time yo!!! Though, I never knew there was an famicom game of the 3rd season lmao

Can you do a run down and review of the Yu Yu hakusho for the Snes ?

Love the suggestions. Some of these I played back in the day but with no translation available it was hard to get into. What about Tengai Makyou Zero?

nice vid. nostalgia coming up

The Dragon Ball RPG series already started on the NES/Family Computer (Famicom was a sharp oven lol) and I think it was decently popular in Japan. Not sure if they all already got translated but some were. Also, 92 wasn't super early anymore in Japan, which got the SNES/Super Famicom (this time, they could use the common abbreviation officially) in 1990...while we Europeans only got it in 92. I get what you mean with early-ish, they certainly didn't put much effort in the graphics and likely didn't have the technical experience for it then.

can you review super mad champ for the sfc

I had no idea Sailor Moon had an RPG ( the Arcade game was sweet) are there any other translated Sailor Moon RPG ?

Time for a part 6. There are still plenty of games that could be covered. Do it. DO IT NOW!!! :P Love ya.

Whatever happen to ogre battle: March of the black queen?

How the fuck do you continue to find new ways to make that 2 second voice clip for the intro? rofl

I love Slayers, but l couldn't get it to load a saved game. l played for a while, saved, came back later, and it loaded to a black screen and stuck there. Anyone else having that problem?

have you done review for Dragon Quest 1-3??

6:28 demon wave. Also known as "NAIL GUN !!"

A couple neat ones I really like you didn't go over on your 5 part series. Lennus II (paladin's quest sequel), Magical land of Wozz (eng name), and Dark Half (a dark atmospheric game)

So do you think more of these teams will start moving toward the hundred or so saturn only jRPGs?

Where is Part 6? Come on, lets get to 10 episodes! :D

There are three untranslated games I'm really looking forward to play from this system: Shin Momotarou Densetsu, Idea no Hi and Jungle Wars 2. Then there are a few ones more I have interest, such as The Last Battle, the Elfaria games, Gokinjo Boukentai, the ONI games, Granhistoria, Down the World, etc. There was also Daikaijuu Monogatari 2, but in the end I managed to play it, so I've ruled this one out.

Slayers, best anime series ever. My man

I looked through your videos and don't think you've covered it, but have you checked out Hourai Gakuen no Bouken!: Tenkousei Scramble? AKA The Adventures of Hourai High? It's apparently wacky and somewhat similar to the Mother series. At least according to the only review on romhacking.net. If you ever do another of these videos, I'd love to see you cover it.

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War is a Strategy RPG(more emphasis on the strategy than RPG, though) for the SNES that was not released in the US. There are two other Fire Emblem games on the SNES, but I believe Genealogy of the Holy War is the only one that currently has a patch that is mostly complete.

I came for Sailor Moon lol and other anime

I played the Sailor Moon rpg through emulator it's really good

I've played the Dragon Ball game in japanese over 15 years ago! I never knew there was a translation, will look on that!

I'd like to play the translated Record of Lodoss War game!

black dog & majimeya are the only folks that got me into sm

Hey, SNES drunk. Do you have a video on tactical turn-based strategy RPGs, and if not, would you be willing to make that video? Thanks.

I'm not sure if uve covered it before but there is a jrpg made by game freak that DYKgaming covered this week. it's kinda like tales of phantasia. it looks awesome. I don't think theirs a English patch though. id love to play it.

Where can I buy these !!

Good job man! Can you review far east of eden zero?

Part 6??

8:17 Is that the undersea palace from Chrono Trigger?

When are you gonna cover the Super Robot Wars series!?

Sailor moon another story is broken af. Theres a code where you can start at level 16 or level 99 during the opening intro crawl, and Pluto and Mercury are broken beyond belief. Mercury's attack that lowers attack is 100% hit rate, even on bosses (and the final boss), and Pluto's time stop is the same way. Final boss is so easy: turn 1 all out attack, with pluto using time stop. Turn 2 pluto restores her MP or whatever while everyone goes all out. Turn 3 time stop while everyone else attacks. The times you cant use pluto, use mercury to lower the bosses attack power. Its a great game, but its easy as hell, outside of each of the inner's side quests at the beginning of the game.

Sailor Moon is the only one I've played and finished. It is hard but you eventually became unstoppable. It's also a good length game. Grinding is made easier on an emulator because you can increase game speed.

Go watch Jojo, it's well worth it.

The graphics on these games are mostly great.

As I go through the backlog... I hope to hear about Super Robot Wars

Could they just make modern day RPG’s for DragonBall and Sailor Moon! These games look awesome and would be better with a fresh coat of paint! Classic Anime > Current Anime

Where are Princess Minerva or Arabian Nights?

3:40 wild water heater attacks!

it's now 2020 and still no part 6! also you have yet to cover Super Robot Wars

Didn't look through the comments section yet, sorry if I'm parroting anyone; he did sum up Dragon Ball Z (291 episodes in and of it's self) in a much shorter sentence than this one however and that show is the most drawn out thing I have ever watched.

Ah man the sailor moon one was a great game. Reminds me of the show so much! Check it out