Iriliane
@iriliane.bsky.social
Japanese to English translator and retro game enthusiast.
May have an unhealthy addiction to retro game shopping.
May have an unhealthy addiction to retro game shopping.
This being on Vita means I can take screenshots that aren't just me pointing my cellphone camera at the screen. Fancy.
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This being on Vita means I can take screenshots that aren't just me pointing my cellphone camera at the screen. Fancy.
Day 167 of posting games I own.
This time, Exist Archive for PS Vita.
I picked up a Vita last week and needed a game to test it with, and this is what my 550 yen got me.
It's a pretty decent RPG so far. The cast is good, and I like the presentation, but...it's sadly let down by frequent crashes.
This time, Exist Archive for PS Vita.
I picked up a Vita last week and needed a game to test it with, and this is what my 550 yen got me.
It's a pretty decent RPG so far. The cast is good, and I like the presentation, but...it's sadly let down by frequent crashes.
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Day 167 of posting games I own.
This time, Exist Archive for PS Vita.
I picked up a Vita last week and needed a game to test it with, and this is what my 550 yen got me.
It's a pretty decent RPG so far. The cast is good, and I like the presentation, but...it's sadly let down by frequent crashes.
This time, Exist Archive for PS Vita.
I picked up a Vita last week and needed a game to test it with, and this is what my 550 yen got me.
It's a pretty decent RPG so far. The cast is good, and I like the presentation, but...it's sadly let down by frequent crashes.
You pick one of the six interviewees (the seventh storyteller not having shown up) and depending on the order you ask them in, they'll tell a different story.
Once everyone's finished, you may or may not trigger a seventh story. (We got thrown out by the teacher on night watch on my first loop.)
Once everyone's finished, you may or may not trigger a seventh story. (We got thrown out by the teacher on night watch on my first loop.)
October 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
You pick one of the six interviewees (the seventh storyteller not having shown up) and depending on the order you ask them in, they'll tell a different story.
Once everyone's finished, you may or may not trigger a seventh story. (We got thrown out by the teacher on night watch on my first loop.)
Once everyone's finished, you may or may not trigger a seventh story. (We got thrown out by the teacher on night watch on my first loop.)
Day 166 of posting games I own.
This time, Gakkou de Atta Kowai Hanashi for Super Famicom.
Exactly what it says on the tin, this sound novel is a collection of short scary stories told to a member of the Newspaper Club doing an article on the seven mysteries of the school.
This time, Gakkou de Atta Kowai Hanashi for Super Famicom.
Exactly what it says on the tin, this sound novel is a collection of short scary stories told to a member of the Newspaper Club doing an article on the seven mysteries of the school.
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Day 166 of posting games I own.
This time, Gakkou de Atta Kowai Hanashi for Super Famicom.
Exactly what it says on the tin, this sound novel is a collection of short scary stories told to a member of the Newspaper Club doing an article on the seven mysteries of the school.
This time, Gakkou de Atta Kowai Hanashi for Super Famicom.
Exactly what it says on the tin, this sound novel is a collection of short scary stories told to a member of the Newspaper Club doing an article on the seven mysteries of the school.
Day 165 of posting games I own.
This time, Zombie Hunter for Famicom.
I was in the mood for an action RPG earlier this month and initially pulled this out. It doesn't have a system for saving progress, so I died a lot and bounced off of it.
Impressive hearing voice clips on the Famicom, though.
This time, Zombie Hunter for Famicom.
I was in the mood for an action RPG earlier this month and initially pulled this out. It doesn't have a system for saving progress, so I died a lot and bounced off of it.
Impressive hearing voice clips on the Famicom, though.
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Day 165 of posting games I own.
This time, Zombie Hunter for Famicom.
I was in the mood for an action RPG earlier this month and initially pulled this out. It doesn't have a system for saving progress, so I died a lot and bounced off of it.
Impressive hearing voice clips on the Famicom, though.
This time, Zombie Hunter for Famicom.
I was in the mood for an action RPG earlier this month and initially pulled this out. It doesn't have a system for saving progress, so I died a lot and bounced off of it.
Impressive hearing voice clips on the Famicom, though.
Playing with a guide did mean that I ended up with all of the Zeus equipment, which kind of trivialized the final boss. Poor Hades couldn't do more than one damage a turn as I crushed him in only a few hits. Oops.
(Me not having them wouldn't have saved him. The next best stuff was hard to miss.)
(Me not having them wouldn't have saved him. The next best stuff was hard to miss.)
October 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Playing with a guide did mean that I ended up with all of the Zeus equipment, which kind of trivialized the final boss. Poor Hades couldn't do more than one damage a turn as I crushed him in only a few hits. Oops.
(Me not having them wouldn't have saved him. The next best stuff was hard to miss.)
(Me not having them wouldn't have saved him. The next best stuff was hard to miss.)
The monster designs are noticeably weird and alien. Some of these guys here show up not more than a few steps outside of the starter town.
October 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The monster designs are noticeably weird and alien. Some of these guys here show up not more than a few steps outside of the starter town.
The game has a heavy emphasis on exploring the world and finding the items you need to progress by talking to NPCs in town. Its hints can be obtuse sometimes, but there were only one or two places where it felt particularly egregious.
(Definitely appreciated having a guide sometimes, though.)
(Definitely appreciated having a guide sometimes, though.)
October 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The game has a heavy emphasis on exploring the world and finding the items you need to progress by talking to NPCs in town. Its hints can be obtuse sometimes, but there were only one or two places where it felt particularly egregious.
(Definitely appreciated having a guide sometimes, though.)
(Definitely appreciated having a guide sometimes, though.)
Day 164 of posting games I own.
This time, Toujin Makyouden: Heracles no Eikou for Famicom.
A DQ clone with some ideas of its own, it has a weapon durability system (ugh), talking to boss monsters (barely used), and towns directly on the world map without separate load zones for them (kinda neat).
This time, Toujin Makyouden: Heracles no Eikou for Famicom.
A DQ clone with some ideas of its own, it has a weapon durability system (ugh), talking to boss monsters (barely used), and towns directly on the world map without separate load zones for them (kinda neat).
October 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Day 164 of posting games I own.
This time, Toujin Makyouden: Heracles no Eikou for Famicom.
A DQ clone with some ideas of its own, it has a weapon durability system (ugh), talking to boss monsters (barely used), and towns directly on the world map without separate load zones for them (kinda neat).
This time, Toujin Makyouden: Heracles no Eikou for Famicom.
A DQ clone with some ideas of its own, it has a weapon durability system (ugh), talking to boss monsters (barely used), and towns directly on the world map without separate load zones for them (kinda neat).
As proof of that, here is Ichigo doing the Sunrise Stance before cutting down a Christmas tree.
(Image borrowed from Google image search.)
(Image borrowed from Google image search.)
October 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
As proof of that, here is Ichigo doing the Sunrise Stance before cutting down a Christmas tree.
(Image borrowed from Google image search.)
(Image borrowed from Google image search.)
There were a few points where I consulted a walkthrough, but the progression is smooth and feels pretty good outside of the olive grind.
I eventually managed to make it to Hades and then hack his ankles off the first time. (Easy fight if you just duck and keep stabbing.)
I eventually managed to make it to Hades and then hack his ankles off the first time. (Easy fight if you just duck and keep stabbing.)
October 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
There were a few points where I consulted a walkthrough, but the progression is smooth and feels pretty good outside of the olive grind.
I eventually managed to make it to Hades and then hack his ankles off the first time. (Easy fight if you just duck and keep stabbing.)
I eventually managed to make it to Hades and then hack his ankles off the first time. (Easy fight if you just duck and keep stabbing.)
It has solid gameplay, and a really nice soundtrack, with the one disappointment being that it occasionally decides to make you grind olives to buy an item, and since you lose half your olives every time you die, I was always starting from zero, and had to throw fireballs at snakes for an hour.
October 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It has solid gameplay, and a really nice soundtrack, with the one disappointment being that it occasionally decides to make you grind olives to buy an item, and since you lose half your olives every time you die, I was always starting from zero, and had to throw fireballs at snakes for an hour.
Day 163 of posting games I own.
This time, Ai no Densesu:Olympos no Tatakai/The Battle of Olympus for Famicom.
I was in the mood for an action RPG, and hadn't plugged in the Famicom in a while, so I picked this Zelda 2 inspired one about charging into Tartarus and making Hades give your wife back.
This time, Ai no Densesu:Olympos no Tatakai/The Battle of Olympus for Famicom.
I was in the mood for an action RPG, and hadn't plugged in the Famicom in a while, so I picked this Zelda 2 inspired one about charging into Tartarus and making Hades give your wife back.
October 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Day 163 of posting games I own.
This time, Ai no Densesu:Olympos no Tatakai/The Battle of Olympus for Famicom.
I was in the mood for an action RPG, and hadn't plugged in the Famicom in a while, so I picked this Zelda 2 inspired one about charging into Tartarus and making Hades give your wife back.
This time, Ai no Densesu:Olympos no Tatakai/The Battle of Olympus for Famicom.
I was in the mood for an action RPG, and hadn't plugged in the Famicom in a while, so I picked this Zelda 2 inspired one about charging into Tartarus and making Hades give your wife back.
The game also features a combat system where you have to draw pentagrams before the, so far fairly lenient, timer runs out.
October 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The game also features a combat system where you have to draw pentagrams before the, so far fairly lenient, timer runs out.
I've only played up through the end of the Heian chapter so far, where you're the talentless younger brother of Abe no Seimei, but I'm having a good time, aided by having read enough other onmyouji stuff to make the reading experience go smoothly.
October 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I've only played up through the end of the Heian chapter so far, where you're the talentless younger brother of Abe no Seimei, but I'm having a good time, aided by having read enough other onmyouji stuff to make the reading experience go smoothly.
Day 162 of posting games I own.
This time, Kuon no Kizuna Sairinsyo for Dreamcast.
In this novel game, our protagonist's strange dreams are tied into a story of love and reincarnation that plays out across the Heian, Genroku, and Bakumatsu periods, and the present.
This time, Kuon no Kizuna Sairinsyo for Dreamcast.
In this novel game, our protagonist's strange dreams are tied into a story of love and reincarnation that plays out across the Heian, Genroku, and Bakumatsu periods, and the present.
October 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Day 162 of posting games I own.
This time, Kuon no Kizuna Sairinsyo for Dreamcast.
In this novel game, our protagonist's strange dreams are tied into a story of love and reincarnation that plays out across the Heian, Genroku, and Bakumatsu periods, and the present.
This time, Kuon no Kizuna Sairinsyo for Dreamcast.
In this novel game, our protagonist's strange dreams are tied into a story of love and reincarnation that plays out across the Heian, Genroku, and Bakumatsu periods, and the present.
You play hanafuda matches for the right to take photos of the girls, and also get challenged to play at various points in the story. (I lost and had to sleep in the car the first night.) It's not a game I knew going in, but learned while playing several dozen games to finish the main girl's route.
September 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
You play hanafuda matches for the right to take photos of the girls, and also get challenged to play at various points in the story. (I lost and had to sleep in the car the first night.) It's not a game I knew going in, but learned while playing several dozen games to finish the main girl's route.
Part galge, part tourism propaganda, the game's art style with anime girls imposed over real world photographs from a variety of locations across northern Japan is distinctive, and went on to be inherited by later titles like Fuuraiki and Kita E.
September 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Part galge, part tourism propaganda, the game's art style with anime girls imposed over real world photographs from a variety of locations across northern Japan is distinctive, and went on to be inherited by later titles like Fuuraiki and Kita E.
Day 161 of posting games I own.
This time, Bishoujo Hanafuda Kikou Michinoku Hitou Koi Monogatari Special for Sega Saturn.
Romance game about a guy traveling to take photos for a contest instead of inheriting his folks' hanafuda school and the girl he meets by chance and enlists as a model.
This time, Bishoujo Hanafuda Kikou Michinoku Hitou Koi Monogatari Special for Sega Saturn.
Romance game about a guy traveling to take photos for a contest instead of inheriting his folks' hanafuda school and the girl he meets by chance and enlists as a model.
September 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Day 161 of posting games I own.
This time, Bishoujo Hanafuda Kikou Michinoku Hitou Koi Monogatari Special for Sega Saturn.
Romance game about a guy traveling to take photos for a contest instead of inheriting his folks' hanafuda school and the girl he meets by chance and enlists as a model.
This time, Bishoujo Hanafuda Kikou Michinoku Hitou Koi Monogatari Special for Sega Saturn.
Romance game about a guy traveling to take photos for a contest instead of inheriting his folks' hanafuda school and the girl he meets by chance and enlists as a model.
Guess I could've gone for this photo of the case and twin sticks instead? Eh, it's probably fine.
September 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Guess I could've gone for this photo of the case and twin sticks instead? Eh, it's probably fine.
Made it to the final area due to the game's merciful inclusion of infinite continues, but then the continues stopped being quite so infinite when the game crashed on me after getting wrecked a dozen or so times. Came close to winning once, though!
September 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Made it to the final area due to the game's merciful inclusion of infinite continues, but then the continues stopped being quite so infinite when the game crashed on me after getting wrecked a dozen or so times. Came close to winning once, though!
Day 160 of posting games I own.
This time, Cyber Troopers Virtual On for Sega Saturn.
Spent a couple hours playing this for the first time today. I'd been meaning to for awhile, but it's a bit of a pain setting the twin-sticks up on my desk.
I wasn't good at it, and got killed a lot, but had fun!
This time, Cyber Troopers Virtual On for Sega Saturn.
Spent a couple hours playing this for the first time today. I'd been meaning to for awhile, but it's a bit of a pain setting the twin-sticks up on my desk.
I wasn't good at it, and got killed a lot, but had fun!
September 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Day 160 of posting games I own.
This time, Cyber Troopers Virtual On for Sega Saturn.
Spent a couple hours playing this for the first time today. I'd been meaning to for awhile, but it's a bit of a pain setting the twin-sticks up on my desk.
I wasn't good at it, and got killed a lot, but had fun!
This time, Cyber Troopers Virtual On for Sega Saturn.
Spent a couple hours playing this for the first time today. I'd been meaning to for awhile, but it's a bit of a pain setting the twin-sticks up on my desk.
I wasn't good at it, and got killed a lot, but had fun!
Order I played through was Rihoko -> Sae -> Kaoru -> Ai -> Ayatsuji -> Haruka -> ???
I liked Rihoko the best, Ayatsuji was the most interesting, with different conversation options in public/private, while Sae was cursed with one awful route where the protagonist takes his past trauma out on her.
I liked Rihoko the best, Ayatsuji was the most interesting, with different conversation options in public/private, while Sae was cursed with one awful route where the protagonist takes his past trauma out on her.
September 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Order I played through was Rihoko -> Sae -> Kaoru -> Ai -> Ayatsuji -> Haruka -> ???
I liked Rihoko the best, Ayatsuji was the most interesting, with different conversation options in public/private, while Sae was cursed with one awful route where the protagonist takes his past trauma out on her.
I liked Rihoko the best, Ayatsuji was the most interesting, with different conversation options in public/private, while Sae was cursed with one awful route where the protagonist takes his past trauma out on her.
Day 159 of posting games I own.
This time, Amagami for PSP.
Been working through this one off and on over the course of this year. The format with lots of short scenes that you select from a grid made it pretty easy to pick up and put down.
Still a bunch of mahjong content to go back to sometime.
This time, Amagami for PSP.
Been working through this one off and on over the course of this year. The format with lots of short scenes that you select from a grid made it pretty easy to pick up and put down.
Still a bunch of mahjong content to go back to sometime.
September 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Day 159 of posting games I own.
This time, Amagami for PSP.
Been working through this one off and on over the course of this year. The format with lots of short scenes that you select from a grid made it pretty easy to pick up and put down.
Still a bunch of mahjong content to go back to sometime.
This time, Amagami for PSP.
Been working through this one off and on over the course of this year. The format with lots of short scenes that you select from a grid made it pretty easy to pick up and put down.
Still a bunch of mahjong content to go back to sometime.
Taking a bit over 20 hours, I found this was a fun little journey through a now familiar world, with a handful of new folk tales thrown in. Good sequel, I think, and I'll probably check out the other remaining games some time.
August 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Taking a bit over 20 hours, I found this was a fun little journey through a now familiar world, with a handful of new folk tales thrown in. Good sequel, I think, and I'll probably check out the other remaining games some time.