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Despite plumbing the depths of the SFC and PCE rpg libraries for several years now I had never heard of this one before. Definitely looks like it's worth a try.
I finished this in 2019, I loved it. It is a more adult Earthbound and the appearance of aliens surprised me. As for the the encounter rate you can set your charka to lower the encounter rate. I love how level ups actually mean something
Loving these videos about fan translated RPGs. I have recently set up a modded snes classic so have been scouring the internet for any obscure gems to play. Its great having these videos as a reference. There's so many good games that almost no westerners have played
Thanks for reviewing this game, when I saw the thumbnail I thought the characters looked familiar so after watching this I looked it up and the mangaka of Golden Boy did the character design.
So many to choose from! Your channel has given me the feeling of comradery. So many games with fond memories and many more I never got the chance to experience. Most of the games I played were rentals. Once emulation became a thing, I had little time to learn how to make it work properly, and with the fear of braking something I couldn't fix, it kept me away from much of it. Finding a clean rom to try something was difficult. To this day, I still can't figure out how to get M.U.G.E.N. working. I suck. lol😅
First of all thank you for covering this amazing game! I will have to say though, It's only an earthbound clone for the first hour of gameplay. After that is' really nothing like Earthbound other than quirky humor. I thought the game intentionally made itself seem like Earthbound in order to subvert your expectation when you play as a much older character thrust in much more adult situations. Doesn't feel like earthbound after that intro. To me it felt more like Terranigma for much of the game.
This is one of my favourite RPGs - story and graphics are super - although I think the translators got Basil the monk's age wrong - he is referred to as gramps in the game sometimes when clearly you can see on the original artwork he is child
I don't think that's a reliable indicator. He may not be that old necessarily, but he's got to be the oldest of the party... He has been all over the world already when you get to him.
SPOILER ALERT: Later in the game, there is a story arc revealed where you find out that he had an old love interest. Not sure how old he is but I think it's safe to say he's not a child.
I need to get back to this one. Played a few hours into after discovering it had been finally fully translated. I have a soft spot for over-the-shoulder for combat thanks to Phantasy Star heh.
If it has a fantranslation, then anyone can call it overlooked, lol. It's really a surprise that we're still getting fan translations of snes games in this day and age of indie games. The translation groups are still churning out 2 games per year, almost.
I wonder what the Japanese reception was when it came out. It is easy to laugh off the similarities to Earthbound now but it may have been more serious when it was released.
When you talk about the frequency on encounters being too much, is it to much like breath of fire 2 or MORE?? Either way, i want to try it, never heard of it, thanks!
Just discovered this gem of a game last week and I'm loving every moment of it's story :) I know I'm probably really late on this,but does anyone know how to link chakras? I've searched everywhere but couldn't find anything on it,no guides,no small posts,nothing so any help would be greatly appreciated.
This game plays like a more “Simple” Earthbound, in that you will not die as much when you first start, and saves the more complex stuff (The stuff that makes this game standout from the others) the “Chakras” for after you’ve had a bit of time with the game to see if you enjoy it. Fan translations for life, and thanks to this channel for showing me this little gem!
after I played this I always wonder why it didn't get a remake or port to a modern console it's good also this game predicted the death of Michael Jackson
oh man I played this years back but never beat it i think I may lost the save at some point and completely forgot about. Definitely gonna give it another as I did enjoy it.
Memorable aspects include a bug that causes you to instantly level up to a very high level once your EXP gets high enough and a final boss that is....well. Both unexpected and thematically appropriate
@Xygor Gaming, if you happen to need portuguese subtitles just like Supet Splash Wave channel keep theirs, please let me know. I'm really into your content and am playing G-O-D this 2023.
this game looks cool. I prefer over the shoulder IMMENSELY to first person. I strongly dislike not seeing your own character. It's one of the things that makes me not really that into playing the Earthbound/Mother series. Also why I'm not a huge fan of the original DQ games. I'm also a HUUUGE fan of your characters looking different when you equip different armor.
The most memorible part of this game, was when you go to the moon base and get hit by a truck of mixed emotions. Like when the alien parents mourn their son dying at Angkot Wat, which was your doing and then you can even decide to destroy the base or not
In the first few minutes of this video I immediately noticed the resemblance to Earth Bound, then with all the similarities you pointed out, it's obvious it is basically an Earthbound clone. But one thing I noticed about this games presentation that is superior to Earthbound is that during battle yoiu can actually see your own characters, something I feel Earthbound clearly lacks. To me, that makes a huge difference.
I'm playing the game right now and it's ok at best. Without the easy patch, get ready to grind for HOURS. Some of the music is quite good but some tracks just go on your nerves.
Those Snake Demons in one of the dungeons look interesting, I am sure if this Fan Translation attracts a bunch of fans to this hidden gem of an SNES JRPG, there would be plenty of Fan Fiction material for this.
The weird negs on earthbound feel unwarranted when you realize earthbound itself was largely a remake of Mother 1. You could do a video about Earthbound and have all the sideways comments showing Mother 1 videos while being pithy.
As much as I think this game is indeed underrated and sadly overlooked, I can't personally feel comfortable playing the translation or supporting the work of the people that made it. Dynamic Designs are notorious for heir far-right extremist ideologies and open supporters of racists and bigots, who actually have, on more than one occasional been guilty of inappropriately inserting harmful, toxic and fascist ideologies and support for such individuals into the translations of various games, completely unprovoked and out of the blue in the past, when absolutely none of this was included in the original Japanese version of those past games and translation projects, and promoting their own political views by re-writing and changing the source material. I can't support or reasonably enjoy anything Dynamic Designs works on, knowing what they've done in the past and the kinds of people they are. It would be one thing if they kept this out of their translation and localization work, but the fact that they've blatantly inserted their own politics into rom hacks and altering the original Japanese source material to do so, leaves me unable to support their work.
Your post made me curious, and indeed, they re the ones who translated Daikaijū Monogatari, and as you can see here... legendsoflocalization.com/game-translations-that-turned-surprisingly-political/
I think the bloke known for his bad takes (Wildbill?) didn't work on this one actually (they used to have plenty of members IIRC, but their hacker retired, so they're done for). So this one is probably done better overall. I'd have to check the Japanese game again to compare some bits and pieces of the script myself, though. I remember playing through it ages ago (in Japanese) and finding it quite dark at times... with some themes I never saw coming. Hopefully they conveyed that well enough here.
2:48 - OKAY WE BLOODY GET IT! The story is similar to freakin’ EARTHBOUND! Christ, it’s unbearably cringy BS like that that makes videos like this worth never finishing, you know!
you joke but this game is 1,000X better than Earthbound in every way. Like not a joke Earthbound sucks and I'm sick of people pretending its anything but a good idea done horribly. If that garbage can get this much rope then G.O,D should get no such criticisms
Heck, Idea No Hi is better too. Just the opening scene, it's like straight out of Elfen Lied, lmao... And you get to play dress up and recruit pets to fight alongside you! I really wish it were translated.
@@chavesa5 That's fair. I just thought it was kind of funny. Also anything not by Square, but Treasure of the Rudras is as overlooked as their games got on there.
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Despite plumbing the depths of the SFC and PCE rpg libraries for several years now I had never heard of this one before. Definitely looks like it's worth a try.
I finished this in 2019, I loved it. It is a more adult Earthbound and the appearance of aliens surprised me. As for the the encounter rate you can set your charka to lower the encounter rate. I love how level ups actually mean something
there is an easy mode patch who doubles exp and lowers encounter rate . there is also cheats in bsnes in retroarch to turn them off
I know this is a older video but for those wanting less random battles, we’ll there’s a patch for that now on romhacking
Interesting, didn't realize that, thanks for letting me know!
@@Xygor it’s called GOD easy mode and cuts the random encounters in half while doubling exp, money, etc
Loving these videos about fan translated RPGs. I have recently set up a modded snes classic so have been scouring the internet for any obscure gems to play. Its great having these videos as a reference. There's so many good games that almost no westerners have played
Glad you like them! Many more to come!
I got a Miyoo Mini and man it's amazing! Because of this channel I have download and patched so many roms that never got release in the US!
I'm finally doing a play through of this gem now and there are times when I'm forgetting this is an old 16-bit game. I'm liking it a lot so far!
Looking forward to this.
I admit, I still haven't gotten very far in this game yet, but I was quite surprised by it's opening act.
A rare title that looks really interesting. Thanks for covering it with a high quality review!
Like Earthbound with a class/job system? Got me interested.
Man, I love finding out those gems, another one for my "to play" list. Thanks a ton chief.
My pleasure!
Thanks for reviewing this game, when I saw the thumbnail I thought the characters looked familiar so after watching this I looked it up and the mangaka of Golden Boy did the character design.
Never heard of this. Thanks Xygor! Glad I found your channel.
Me too!
So many to choose from! Your channel has given me the feeling of comradery. So many games with fond memories and many more I never got the chance to experience. Most of the games I played were rentals. Once emulation became a thing, I had little time to learn how to make it work properly, and with the fear of braking something I couldn't fix, it kept me away from much of it.
Finding a clean rom to try something was difficult. To this day, I still can't figure out how to get M.U.G.E.N. working. I suck. lol😅
Glad you enjoy it!
First of all thank you for covering this amazing game! I will have to say though, It's only an earthbound clone for the first hour of gameplay. After that is' really nothing like Earthbound other than quirky humor. I thought the game intentionally made itself seem like Earthbound in order to subvert your expectation when you play as a much older character thrust in much more adult situations. Doesn't feel like earthbound after that intro. To me it felt more like Terranigma for much of the game.
This is one of my favourite RPGs - story and graphics are super - although I think the translators got Basil the monk's age wrong - he is referred to as gramps in the game sometimes when clearly you can see on the original artwork he is child
I don't think that's a reliable indicator. He may not be that old necessarily, but he's got to be the oldest of the party... He has been all over the world already when you get to him.
SPOILER ALERT:
Later in the game, there is a story arc revealed where you find out that he had an old love interest. Not sure how old he is but I think it's safe to say he's not a child.
I need to get back to this one. Played a few hours into after discovering it had been finally fully translated. I have a soft spot for over-the-shoulder for combat thanks to Phantasy Star heh.
If it has a fantranslation, then anyone can call it overlooked, lol.
It's really a surprise that we're still getting fan translations of snes games in this day and age of indie games. The translation groups are still churning out 2 games per year, almost.
Cover looks like its been done by the Golden Boy Manga-Ka Egawa.
That must be why I feel a lot of lewd energy from it, lol.
I saw the cover art and thought: "there was a Golden Boy rpg?"
Dude, hell yeah. Never knew about this one! Gettin to the age where I'm almost paranoid of running outta new snes titles to discover. Ha~
Just found your channel! Great work! Please cover Tengai Makyou IV The Apocolypse!
thanks for this review bro
Glad you like them!
I wonder what the Japanese reception was when it came out. It is easy to laugh off the similarities to Earthbound now but it may have been more serious when it was released.
I still remember when these were called console-style RPGs.
When you talk about the frequency on encounters being too much, is it to much like breath of fire 2 or MORE?? Either way, i want to try it, never heard of it, thanks!
From my experience, it seems to be more. Just my gut, I don't have like empirical proof of that or anything.
@@Xygor thanks for your reply man!!
I played through almost all of it. It’s an incredible and very heavy story.
The thumbnail art looks like the artist of Goldenboy's style.
Just discovered this gem of a game last week and I'm loving every moment of it's story :)
I know I'm probably really late on this,but does anyone know how to link chakras? I've searched everywhere but couldn't find anything on it,no guides,no small posts,nothing so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Wow I have never heard of this game before. I can't wait to play it!
Hooray! New SNES to play... thanks!
Again surprised to find a game I never heard of. Thanks for bringing it to everyone's attention.
No problem, hope you enjoy it!
This game plays like a more “Simple” Earthbound, in that you will not die as much when you first start, and saves the more complex stuff (The stuff that makes this game standout from the others) the “Chakras” for after you’ve had a bit of time with the game to see if you enjoy it.
Fan translations for life, and thanks to this channel for showing me this little gem!
This looks soooo good!
Absolute great game....Don't know why he keeps banging on about Earthbound. Nothing like it at all.
after I played this I always wonder why it didn't get a remake or port to a modern console it's good also this game predicted the death of Michael Jackson
I thought the same thing!
Gonna download and try this one. Thanks.
oh man I played this years back but never beat it i think I may lost the save at some point and completely forgot about. Definitely gonna give it another as I did enjoy it.
Memorable aspects include a bug that causes you to instantly level up to a very high level once your EXP gets high enough and a final boss that is....well. Both unexpected and thematically appropriate
@Xygor Gaming, if you happen to need portuguese subtitles just like Supet Splash Wave channel keep theirs, please let me know. I'm really into your content and am playing G-O-D this 2023.
Adding this one to the list. I also need to play Treasure of the Rudras.
I love my old school gams. So that's my reason
I would recommended the "easy mode" romhack which makes the random battles happen 50% less and give double XP and gold
I just finished G.O.D this week, great game.
Never heard of this before, good job!
There is an Easymode patch that reduce the encounter rate and gives more xp/gold, making this game way way better to play and really enjoyable :)
this game looks cool. I prefer over the shoulder IMMENSELY to first person. I strongly dislike not seeing your own character. It's one of the things that makes me not really that into playing the Earthbound/Mother series. Also why I'm not a huge fan of the original DQ games.
I'm also a HUUUGE fan of your characters looking different when you equip different armor.
There are a ton of snes game I don't know. Ill try it.
Hmm the chakra system looks interesting.. i probably give it a try.
Dude this is a mix of saga/earthbound/chrono but hey... awesome references BTW
Yep, lots of influences! I thought Earthbound was the most obvious though for sure.
@Xygor the world map is much similar to chrono's
Great video.
Subbed 👍
Awesome, thank you!
I'll consider playing this game. Thanks for suggesting
I found this accidentally and I’m glad I did!
Me too!
What is the name of the game of this footage? 00:26
Rudra no Hihou - or "Treasure of the Rudras." I reviewed that one too.
@@Xygor thanks
Damn, an RPG I've never heard of...
It seems like a more serious Earthbound, is that correct?
To some extent, I think that is a fair assessment.
cover of the game drawn by the manga artist Tatsuya Egawa. only that suffice to have me interessed in the game. thanks for the discovery.
Even better that the dark one himself, Demon Kogure, did the music! You can't get more ironic than that!
This game absolutely blew my mind, for SNES games I would go as far as saying this surpasses FF6.
Wow, that’s big praise!
What's the name of the song at the start?
Magus' Theme from Chrono Trigger
@@Xygor thank you so much!
The most memorible part of this game, was when you go to the moon base and get hit by a truck of mixed emotions. Like when the alien parents mourn their son dying at Angkot Wat, which was your doing and then you can even decide to destroy the base or not
In the first few minutes of this video I immediately noticed the resemblance to Earth Bound, then with all the similarities you pointed out, it's obvious it is basically an Earthbound clone. But one thing I noticed about this games presentation that is superior to Earthbound is that during battle yoiu can actually see your own characters, something I feel Earthbound clearly lacks. To me, that makes a huge difference.
I like chalk
Me too
The flute sound remind me of golden sun
Interesting, didn't realize that!
WOW an SNES surprise after all these years I guess I don't know everything, I never even heard of this.
Hi everyone!
I'm marking an what if scenario
for G.O.D in RPG MAKER2003!
please give it some time,
And now I know why its one of few rpgs on the snes I haven't played with it just now getting a trans hack.
Im gonna download it tonight and play it.
I think the skill system is what is drawing me to wanting to try it. 🤔
This looks fantastic! I don't care about the earthbound ripoff, I'm really gonna enjoy this one! Thanks for the cue
I'm playing the game right now and it's ok at best. Without the easy patch, get ready to grind for HOURS. Some of the music is quite good but some tracks just go on your nerves.
excellent videos
Thank you very much!
i finally beat it
damn, one of the best rpgs of all time
Nice, congrats!
Those Snake Demons in one of the dungeons look interesting, I am sure if this Fan Translation attracts a bunch of fans to this hidden gem of an SNES JRPG, there would be plenty of Fan Fiction material for this.
Played this Game long ago
GOD is the shit. I should jump back in and finish it.
Seems so good yet so overlooked!
@@Xygor people act like it's really mediocre or something. It's totally not. Vibe is everything.
It looks more interesting than Earthbound based on what I'm seeing. I thought Earthbound is pretty overrated in term of gameplay.
Don't even try telling me that isn't Tatsuya Egawa's art.
It is.
G.O.D. It's bigger than God.
I never knew this game existed and I never played Earthbound. This is all new to me.
Play EarthBound
@@leonidas6682 i no longer have a SNES😥😭
@@billcox8870 as a kid I kept overlooking earthbound then I played it on Wii U virtual console and kicked myself for overlooking it for that long
@@leonidas6682 lucky you. I only have an Xbox and a PC. I guess maybe it is time to look for an emulator and a ROM.
Waiting for dragon quest story
The weird negs on earthbound feel unwarranted when you realize earthbound itself was largely a remake of Mother 1. You could do a video about Earthbound and have all the sideways comments showing Mother 1 videos while being pithy.
How is he negging Earthbound? He's negging _this game_ for ripping off Earthbound
That download is bunk, did not work, doesn't even have an SMC file in it....
About to fire this up on a miyoo mini. This is one I never got to enjoy.
It really is worth it if you haven't played it, solid game that so few people know about.
looks like an Earthbound with better graphics lol
You could say that!
As much as I think this game is indeed underrated and sadly overlooked, I can't personally feel comfortable playing the translation or supporting the work of the people that made it. Dynamic Designs are notorious for heir far-right extremist ideologies and open supporters of racists and bigots, who actually have, on more than one occasional been guilty of inappropriately inserting harmful, toxic and fascist ideologies and support for such individuals into the translations of various games, completely unprovoked and out of the blue in the past, when absolutely none of this was included in the original Japanese version of those past games and translation projects, and promoting their own political views by re-writing and changing the source material.
I can't support or reasonably enjoy anything Dynamic Designs works on, knowing what they've done in the past and the kinds of people they are. It would be one thing if they kept this out of their translation and localization work, but the fact that they've blatantly inserted their own politics into rom hacks and altering the original Japanese source material to do so, leaves me unable to support their work.
Your post made me curious, and indeed, they re the ones who translated Daikaijū Monogatari, and as you can see here...
legendsoflocalization.com/game-translations-that-turned-surprisingly-political/
That's rather bizarre if they are in fact xian though, and working on something as "sacrilegious" as this... Holy cow.
I think the bloke known for his bad takes (Wildbill?) didn't work on this one actually (they used to have plenty of members IIRC, but their hacker retired, so they're done for). So this one is probably done better overall. I'd have to check the Japanese game again to compare some bits and pieces of the script myself, though. I remember playing through it ages ago (in Japanese) and finding it quite dark at times... with some themes I never saw coming. Hopefully they conveyed that well enough here.
2:48 - OKAY WE BLOODY GET IT! The story is similar to freakin’ EARTHBOUND!
Christ, it’s unbearably cringy BS like that that makes videos like this worth never finishing, you know!
Love this game…
Steals EVERYTHING from EarthBound…
Then quietly steals Lufia battle system
Yeah, I didn't think of it at the time, but the battle system does look a bit like Lufia come to think of it.
you joke but this game is 1,000X better than Earthbound in every way. Like not a joke Earthbound sucks and I'm sick of people pretending its anything but a good idea done horribly. If that garbage can get this much rope then G.O,D should get no such criticisms
Heck, Idea No Hi is better too. Just the opening scene, it's like straight out of Elfen Lied, lmao... And you get to play dress up and recruit pets to fight alongside you! I really wish it were translated.
Is anything not the most overlooked RPG on the SNES?
It would have to be still untranslated stuff right?
@@hitkid2456 no you're right I was just in a salty mood
@@chavesa5 That's fair. I just thought it was kind of funny. Also anything not by Square, but Treasure of the Rudras is as overlooked as their games got on there.
I would never play this
red hat. aliens. art style.......yup earthbound clone lol
In the beginning at least, heck you even have a bicycle for a bit. Then he becomes something like a red mage I guess, without the hat... and cape.