• Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      Lately, I’ve been emulating Chrono Trigger in Japanese, Secret of Evermore, Cave Noire, Treasure Hunter G in Japanese, and Sigma Harmonics!

      (Sigma Harmonics is a weird one; it’s a DS game that came out in '08, and has been so extensively written and presented in Japanese that I think it’s impossible to patch, because all the text is vertically written, as the DS is held in book form, and that the text is so thoroughly embedded in concepts inherent to Japanese culture that I wonder how it would be presented in English, but the main conceit of the game goes like this: this dude Sigma is trying to investigate weird circumstances related to time travel, and he does so in a Danganronpa/Ace Attorney kind of way, and the more accurately he makes and defends his case, the easier his partner, Neon, has a time of fighting the end-of-case boss battle. Notably, the soundtrack is by Masashi Hamauzu, and it’s goddamn brilliant.)