/v/ - Video Games

>>14413086

I really would like to discuss imported games myself, hell the Race series makes me want to learn Japanese.

Do you like the game OP?

>>14413278

Yeah I like it so far. It's unique as a jrpg which is a rarity. It's also as hard as any game I've played. I didn't like 9 much, but loved Quest a lot (and spent a solid 6 months just on translating it).

Is there an english patch?

>>14413314

No it's only been out a week. I think Quest is supposed to be released some time this year.

>>14413312

Yeah, Rance was always an interesting series to me. It's basically a legitimate game with some hentai in the mix, makes me surprised it was never properly localized. Could've been one of the biggest JRPGs if it was.

>>14413366

Mangagamer recently picked up Rance Quest and Sengoku Rance, so there will be official english releases of them in the near future.

>>14413444

yeah but what about the other games?

>>14413456

They are all released already.

>>14413456

The older games aren't particularly popular or good enough to actually be worth paying for by modern standards (aside from maybe 6 and kichikuo), and they'll likely pick up 9 and 10 after they're done sengoku and quest.

>>14413569

They're good I just don't know if there's a big enough market willing to accept the more dated graphics style and the crushingly tight pace you need to get a good ending in kichikuo.

>>14413086

So did you actually use the chaos blades? They prevent human deaths, and NG+ is more or less required for the strict time management/ However you're not actually supposed to get the true end until you've seen a set amount of other endings beating the game. Some had a hard time reconciling this story wise but Ludo was obviously not satisfied with the outcome so he kept reseting the fight giving Humanity some extra boosts so they'd put up a better fight.

>>14413456

>>14413510

All the older games have already been translated. All of them have top-tier comedy writing with pretty strong plots. They're a must play if you ever want to really understand the plot of later games, as the continuity is very strong, and it's not unusual to see Rance 6 makee callbacks to Rance 1 and 2 (which would be decades old by the time of Rance 6 release). Sengoku Rance is the most stand-alone game of them all, yet it also has plenty of refferences to past titles

>>14413086

For someone that really never really acquainted with the series,which game in the series would make a good starting point in terms of the best and more fleshed out gameplay mechanics?

>>14414048

Sengoku Rance (the 7th) is the one everyone started with. It's more strategy game than rpg and it's really hard until you figure out how it works. It also takes place in a different part of the world so you really don't need to play any others first.

The overarching story isn't really something you need to play all the games for. There are demons, you rape the world into following you to fight them. It's nice to see how the characters develop and reappear so play the older ones if you like jrpg. Quest I really liked and has grinding dungeon crawling that lets you replay whatever part of the game you want whenever you want; amazing in a VN instead of starting over to get different CGs.

>>14414027

He was talking about official releases i think.

>>14414119

>>14414048

I'd say Kichikuou and Sengoku Rance (7) are the most interesting games to start with in terms of being unique mechanically.

Otherwise, play them in sequential order. The early ones are pretty standard, grindy, and dated feeling dungeon crawls with limited strategy, with the only real plus being autocombat.

For Rance 1 and 2 they eventually both did remakes of, as well as releasing a digest version of them, which you may as well watch if you're not really interested in the gameplay. They are not particularly hard or long games though. just somewhat dull.

Then you can move on to 3 and go through there.

also here is a pastebin as of a year ago. I don't have the most recent version of it but most of it is still relevant.

https://pastebin.com/agSi5e63

>>14414414

Thank you

Played all day yesterday. All I managed to do was get one more ending and then waste 14 hours accomplishing nothing at all.

The two Rank +5 bonuses seem the best to take at the start since every 10 rank stats get a boost and cards all add this bonus to the leader of their area.

I tried doing a short quest in each area which put two Chaos swords there for a turn and helps slow take over. I tried killing the easiest of the 3 apparent bosses in each area then the next hardest. I tried doing only one area. One area gets conquered and end boss shows up to kill you in 2 hits every time. Except one which had me wait out in JAPAN for a bit first.

I had trouble killing a giant boss in Helman that gives game over suddenly at either low hp or after too many hits. I'm not sure but Rance LV45 which you get from moster girl H scene when you're picking at the castle seems to work on it. It's also lets you catch monster girls. I prefer using Sil LV43 which boosts Rance and having his other card with 0 cost attack; nice 2 ap combo. Rick lv 58 has two free attacks you can alternate and Aegis has a free ranged and a strong one use attack.

Also realized you can save someone from an area when it is just about to be taken over.

Going to try two areas and maybe saving the person from the others.

Kind of infuriating there isn't another person on earth to talk to about it.

>>14420845

probably because it isn't translated and you are asking about it on an english image board

>>14418747

You have a 5 turn time limit to beat Kay-chan to the punch or it's an automatic game over on turn 6, you have a 4 turn time limit before the traitor auto-fails one of your fronts (you should know who it is by now anyways) you out him by going on the red path on a specific quest in that area with the traitor in your party. You have to have Hornet and one other girl saved and safe on your side by turn 6, the Medusa scene has to happen.