#Tecmo cup soccer game nes soccer upgrade#
Milon must upgrade his bubble gun throughout, obtain special armor to pass through fire, upgrade his life meter, acquire various new abilities to progress.Ĭastlevania II: Without it, there would not be the term: "Metroid/Vania." Dungeons are accessed through doors, windows, secret passages. Instead of an overworld map its an upright castle map. There are dungeons, weapon upgrades, armor, keys, talking to people, towns, lots of hidden stuff, having to take your donut up the sacred mountain to get properly basted in cherry slurpy before turning it over to the village elder to consume so he can feed it to his sick daughter saving her life and making him so grateful he gives you the magical squoink that's been secretly kept in his family for generations. Livingston: Metroid/Vania style (we really need to come up with a new name for this.) Stanley navigates a grid of the Congo accessing each grid point for Zelda 2 style play. Link also has to seek out and explore dungeons, find hidden items, upgrade his weapons etc. For me this factor along with the particular sort of excitement that comes with exploring such a world is what defines an RPG more than anything else. In my day The Legend Of Zelda was referred to as an Action- RPG. I always thought Defender of the crown was a strategy game which is to say rpg-like in some ways, but definitely not an RPG to me. Yeah, ask a hundred different people what constitutes an RPG and get 100 different answers. Any insights into that?Įdited Wednesday at 07:44 PM by Crabmaster2000 Zelda and Hydlide are so close to being the same game, but most people don't want to include Zelda as an RPG, but have no problem with Hydlide. The only one I really considered was Gemfire. I thought about strategy games and I think the thing that makes me not include them is that you essentially are a god controlling events and not following any characters are even a narrative in most of them.
You could argue its RPG merits, but comparing it to any other sports game on the NES I don't think works. You follow a main protagonist through a story (or quest if you will), gain exp/stats, and the play is done as a traditional turn based jrpg style. Tecmo Cup Soccer is quite a bit different. well if playing the role of commanding a team as such fits, would not Baseball Stars fit then? Sure you play the game, but you equally play as the actual team manager sorting rosters, planning seasons, player trades, pinch hitters, pulling pitchers, etc. Then you get into the murkiness of RPG elements in another genre like Zelda and Crystalis which are adventures with active play as is Ys on Famicom too, or you have RPG elements with action like River City Ransom and to be fair even Castlevania II if that counts.those are what later turned into your metroidvania types really action, buy/sell gear, level up, get stronger.ĮDIT: I see sports thrown in with that Tecmo title. Is it the western approach of the Wizardry/DnD/Ultima style stuff along with your JRPG stuff with FF/DW(Q)/Ghost Lion/Hydlide?ĭo you add in also other strictly turn based stuff like the KOEI etc sims you play a role in your game such as a chinese or japanese warlord or a pirate? I think the problem here is how do you define what is an RPG? Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord Might & Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum Main list is first and the 4 I'm more on the fence about are separated at the end.Īdvanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the LanceĪdvanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance Please don't just write "X doesn't belong" or "Y does belong". So I'd love to hear opinions on what does and doesn't belong on this list. They aren't as cut and dry as the rest, but they share enough in common I'm kind of leaning towards including them. I'm fairly confident in my list with the exception of 4 games. Trying to come up with a list of all the RPGs on the system (licensed library only) and want a little feedback.
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