• Canon has the turn system of Shining Force, the graphic style of 16-bit Square RPGs and funny death screams like Langrisser 1.
• The story is a liberal adaptation of the chinese novel Investiture of the Gods, and has much of the tropes and issues of chinese literature.
• The game can be fairly long, and a lot of battles overstay their welcome, the...
Behold: it's Taiwanese Shining Force!
Greatest SRPG of a generation? Hardly. But for what it is, it's a solid game. This is a 1996 bootleg title, originally for the Sega Genesis, made in Taiwan by an obscure studio by the name of "Chuanpu Technologies" and localized recently by Piko. Astute followers of fan translations will recognize a familiar face...
UPDATE: I have beaten the game. It is a super slow slog and it only gets worse towards the end, with little originality or surprises on the way there. I have only a few minutes of gameplay time due to the default installation being the usual Mednafen lagfest. Running the ROM with Kega Fusion is vastly more functional. Get it on a super deep sale if...
I mean it seemed like it was panning out to be a totally fine JRPG. Ended up playing it for a little over 2 hrs before I wanted a break. Come back to find out that saving doesn't work and the game just isn't THAT good to want to leave it running 24/7 to finish. Oh well.
